Gr. 2 News Claire Co OCTOBER 2007 NOVEMBER NEWS - Ms. Cox’s Grade 2 class To all parents… Thank you for your support and participation during our two days of student-led activity based conferences. It was so pleasing to see the children happily demonstrating each activity and us all setting meaningful goals together. This gives such a good focus to the next Quarter of learning, and until we will meet in the Spring to see how we have achieved these goals and to set new goals for the remainder of the year. Thanks also to the parents whose help made our Halloween party such a fun afternoon! Look for more photos on the next page. The schedule for the month is also on the last page again, and of course includes our Thanksgiving break this month – so I would like to wish all families a “Happy Thanksgiving.” Claire Cox November dates to remember: 22 nd and 23 rd : Thanksgiving School Holiday.

Gr. 2 News Claire Cox OCTOBER 2007 Curriculum Corner: I hope you found it informative hearing your child talk to you about Writers’ Workshop on conference day. Everyone is working enthusiastically and showing great development in writing skills. Being able to almost always choose what they write about is one of the aspects that is very motivating. In Math we will soon have completed Unit 3 and this month will begin working in Unit 4 which concentrates on addition and subtraction through exploring different types of number stories, estimating costs, more strategies and partial sums addition, with some measurement learning happening also. In Science the children will be enjoying learning more about Solids and Liquids as we carry out a variety of experiments to learn about the special properties of solids and liquids that separate them as two states of matter. The routines of our Spelling program are beginning to become established now as the children learn to independently make their new spelling lists. It is really helpful if we allow the children to make some mistakes as they write, so it can be easily seen which words they are needing to concentrate on learning to spell if they are at an appropriate level for them. Thank you for helping with this. A Friday author’s share Finding out how solids might change if we heat or cool them. Exciting to find out what some solids look like when they are magnified!!

A Friday author’s share Halloween activities made more fun because of the great help thank you!!

Calendar for 2A41 Day 1 Music & IT (computer lab) Day 2 Mandarin & PE & Library Day 3 Art Day 4 Mandarin, PE Day 5 Music & IT (computer lab) Day 6 Mandarin & PE Day 7 Music & Library Day 8 Mandarin & PE Day 9 Art & Guidance Day 10 Mandarin & PE MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday 1 Day 8 2 Day 9 5 Day 10 6 Day 1 7 Day 2 8 Day 3 9 Day 4 12 Day 5 13 Day 6 14 Day 7 15 Day 8 16 Day 9 19 Day Day 1 21 Day 2 22 Thanks- giving 23 Thanks- giving 10 Day Cycle November Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Thanks for the treats!!!!