Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a great weekend and a relaxing March break. I apologize for not connecting before the weekend. On Thursday, my daughter came home extremely sick  and then I got sick too. 

I need volunteers for our trip to watch the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Parent volunteers have to pay $7.50.

Our next Character Ed. Assembly is on Friday, March 28 at 2:20 pm. Students will be receiving awards for Honesty.

This month we'll be focusing on Poetry writing and comprehension. We've looked at some EQAO comprehension questions and discussed how we could extend our responses by making connections to the text and adding more details.

Our first Model School Inner Cities (MSIC) unit on Conflict Resolution and Change was a huge success so now we'll be working on another MSIC unit based on the concept of stewardship.

In math, we'll be working on addition and subtraction with regrouping. Grade 3's will focus on 3 digit where as the Grade 2's will work on 2 digit. Please practise addition and subtraction questions with your children at home to reinforce the concept of regrouping. 

In S.Studies, the grade 2s are learning about diverse families and communities around us. We're also comparing and contrasting various celebrations and traditions that people have around the globe. The grade 3 students have been learning about Urban, Suburban and Rural communities. We are looking at the similarities and differences and thinking of which one we'd like to live  in and why.

Here are some math links on Area:

Grade 2 & 3:
Area 1
Area 2

Grade 3 only:
Counting Square Units
Moving on a grid

Regards,
Mrs. Aziz

Dance-a-thon : 70's

This was my first Dance-a-thon and I truly enjoyed it. The students had a blast dressing up and showing off their moves! Thank you to Home & School for all the efforts.

Dear Parents,

I apologize for connecting with you last Friday as I was sick. There has been a lot of learning taking place in our classroom. We have just completed a unit on working towards the "common good" by exploring various character traits.We read two texts, Bird Child and Thank you, Mr. Falker to deepen our meaning of Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Change. Here are some pictures of our work.

As our culminating activity, the students represented their understanding in form of posters, drama, song and rap. Please ask your children about their learning.

In math we've working on 2D geometry. The students have learned and compared various 2D shapes. We've also been working on line of symmetry. After March Break, we will focus on finiding area, 2-and 3-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division.

Here are some links on 2D Geometry.

Grade 2
Identify 2D Shapes
Compare sides and Vertices
Symmetry
More Symmetry

Grade 3
Congruent Shapes
Line of Symmetry
Communicating about Symmetry
Sorting 2D Shapes

Have a wonderful March Break. I hope you all have a chance to relax and spend lots of time with friends and family. I'll see you all after the break

Almas

Winter Olympic Posters and Math Questions

Thank you to all the parents for reading the persuasive letters and responding to them. The students have also written letters to Mr. P. regarding changes or improvement they'd like in the school. Hopefully, we'll get a response soon.

Our next Character Trait Assembly is on Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. Students will be receiving awards on Fairness.

The students worked extremely hard to prepare posters on various Olympics sports. They worked with a partner to do research and to present  their poster to the class.

We are very close to reading 100 books in the classroom!

Math Online

Temperature

Reading a Calendar

Have great weekend everyone!

Olympic Games and Valentine's Day Party

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Today was full of excitement and fun. We had Olympic games in the morning and Valentine's Day celebration in the afternoon.

Our Olympics Day went quite well. After the games, we made a bar graph to show our favourite game. As you can see, our favourite game was Bobsleigh.

Our Valentine's Day party was a lot of fun too. Thank you to all the parents for the sending delicious treats. I hope you all have received your Valentine cards from your children. We worked hard on them yesterday.

 

I hope you all have an amazing long weekend with your family and loved ones. Here are some Math Questions for the weekend.

Grade 2
Time Patterns
Match clocks and times

Grade 3
Telling Digital Time
Measuring How Time Passes

In the Style of Vincent Van Gogh (Starry Night)

We've been learning about Vincent Van Gogh and Impressionism. Here is our version of the Starry Night.