November 17th - November 21st

"The more you give away the more happy you become. Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
-Dr. Suess

Upcoming Events:
There is a lot going on this week...

• Unit 4 Math assessment - Wednesday, November 20th
• House Games Day - Thursday, November 21st. Please ensure that your child is wearing a t-shirt in their house color.
• Book Character Parade - Thursday, November 21st. 
• Early Release Day: Students leave at 12:00 PM - Thursday, November 21st.

More Information on upcoming events:

This Thursday, MLS is hosting a Book Character Parade. In honor of this occasion, mothers of students (or female family members) are warmly welcome to attend the parade. In addition to their costume, all students are strongly encouraged to bring in the book that their character represents to share with their classmates. The parade will take place between  7:30 am - 8:00 am.

Students will also need to bring a change of clothing to wear following the parade. MLS students will be participating in House League Games, and should wear their MLS uniform or P.E. pants and a t-shirt in their house color. 

Please be aware that as per the MLS Academic Calendar, Thursday, November 21 will also be an Early Dismissal Day for all students.

**Please note that characters should not reinforce violence and no item resembling a weapon will be allowed at school.  

This week in class...

Writing Workshop

In writing workshop, students will continue to be making experiments and writing their lab reports for it. This week's experiments are EXTRA cool! Our experiments include making Lava Lamps and Underwater Fireworks. EXCITING!

Reading Workshop

In reading workshop, students will be introduced to informational text features. This week they will be introduced to the glossary, labels, captions, and diagrams, as well as the index. 

Math

In math, students will be reviewing unit 4 and practicing applying the concepts taught in this unit. On Wednesday, November 20th, students will be assessed on the unit. It would be helpful to practice the following math lessons at home with your:

• Adding two digit numbers with regrouping (remind them about carrying the '1' over to the next column.
• Ballpark Estimation. Please the video below for examples of Ballpark Estimation. 

STEM

In STEM, students will learn and understand the properties of rocks, including texture, color, size, streak.

Social Studies

In social studies, students will learn more definitions of landforms, including peninsula, coast, plateau and bay. Students will write the definition of each and draw a picture to go along with it.

November 10th to November 14th, 2019

Great things never come from comfort zones. 
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A big THANK YOU to all the Moms and Aunties that joined us last week for our writing celebration. We couldn't be prouder of these kiddos for working so hard on their writing pieces :)

This week in class...

Writing Workshop
In writing workshop, students are continuing to write lab reports. They will be doing a new experiment everyday. One experiment that we're doing this week is observing what happens to the shadows of an object when you use different colored flashlights at once. 

Reading Workshop
In reading workshop, students will be reading to identify the main idea of a paragraph by looking for the topic sentence, and key text features,  such as headings and captions.

Math
In math, students will be learning about estimation and more about temperature changes. 

STEM
In STEM, we are starting our new unit called Sand Silt, and Pebbles. This week, students will be learning about Geologists. They will also be learning about the properties of rocks, including texture, size, color, and streaks. 

Social Studies
In social studies, we are starting our new unit called Landforms. Students will be introduced to the definitions of mountains, hills, valleys, and plains. 

Reminders:

• Early release day: Students dismiss at 12:00 PM - Nov 21st.
• Read on razkids and do the quiz at the end
• Bring a jacket as it is cold in the morning

November 3rd - November 7th, 2019

Face Everything And Rise – True meaning of the word fear.

Upcoming Events:

Writing Celebration with Moms on Sunday, November 3rd, at 2:00 PM.

This week in class...

Writing
In writing students have been experimenting and writing lab reports. They will continue this form of writing. They will:

• Wonder or question
• Guess what will happen or write a hypothesis
• Figure out all the material required to conduct the experiment
• Actually do the experiment - write the procedure
• Observe the result - record the result
• Conclusion - infer what has happened and whether their hypothesis was correct

Reading
In reading workshop, we are starting our new unit; Becoming Experts. This is a nonfiction unit for reading. Students will learn to ask the 'Wh' questions and will find the answers. They will learn more about their topics by reading words and studying the pictures.

Math
In math, students will be working on solving number stories in which the starting quantity increases. They will also be exploring temperature, money, and shapes. Students will learn about Part-Part-Whole. Watch the video below to see what that is:

STEM

In STEM students will be assessed on the properties of liquid. 

Social Studies

We are continuing in our unit of Time, Change and Continuity by matching/placing pictures in either the past and present. 

Reminders:

• Writing Celebration: Sunday, Nov, 3rd.
• Early release day: Students dismiss at 12:00 PM - Nov 21st.
• Read on razkids and do the quiz at the end
• Bring a jacket as it is cold in the morning

Happy learning!

October 27th - October 31st

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20^th 

– Julie Andrews.

In writers workshop we are starting a brand new unit called Lab Reports. In this unit, students will learn “experiment write-up”. They will question, experiment, make a hypothesis (guess) and will actually do the experiment using materials and find results. Then they will compare their hypothesis and result to arrive at a conclusion about what they learned. This week, we're going to take a look at books of scientific writers and study the books that have been written and taking note of what the author has done in the book that we can do as well.

In reading workshop, we are doing reading assessments this week to wrap up our first unit. Questions that we may be asking students are:

• Who is the main character in the story?
• What is the problem in the story?
• How did the main character solve the problem?
• What is happening in this picture? How did the picture and the text help you understand the
• How did the picture and the text help you understand the setting?

In math, we are reviewing and finishing up unit 3 and will be having our unit 3 math assessment on Wednesday, October 30th. 

In our Social Studies unit of ‘Time, Continuity and Change’ students will continue to explore the differences between past, present and future artifacts.

In STEM, students will be exploring different liquids and understand the different properties in liquids. 

Reminders

• Please send a large bottle of water for your child
• A light jacket to be kept in class from Sunday to Thursday
• Photos of your child with family to keep in our class Grade 2B Family photo album
• Reading on razkids and completing the quiz at the end

October 20th - 24th, 2019

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Dear Mothers,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for attending the Parent Teacher Conference. It was wonderful getting to know little bit more about you and your child's life and school journey. I also want to thank you for your feedback, I greatly appreciate it from you.

This week in class...

In Writing Workshop, students are working on editing and drafting their celebratory pieces. They will be assessed on writing a small moment story on Wednesday 23rd, 2019.

In Reading workshop students will learn how to pay attention to the details in their text by noting not only what is written but also shown in the illustrations. The readers will learn to use the illustrations from the book to gain details about their characters.

In Math students will be work on:

• frames and arrows having two rules
• making change by counting up

In STEM students will be introduced to the following vocabulary words:

• transparent
• translucent
• viscous
• bubbly
• foamy

In our Social Studies unit of ‘Time, Continuity and Change’ students will explore their family events of past, present and future.

Up Coming Events:

• Students Day off: Sunday October 20th, 2019
• Narrative Writing Assessment: Wednesday 23rd, 2019

Reminders:

• Please send a large bottle of water for your child.
• A light jacket to be kept in class from Sunday to Thursday.
• Photos of your child with family to keep in our class family treasure box.
• Reading on Razkids and completing the quiz at the end.

October 13th - 17th, 2019

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” Colin Powel

In Writing Workshop, we are drawing towards the end of our first unit of study called 'personal narrative'. Students are working on editing and drafting their celebratory pieces. They are learning to use the checklist to complete their writing.

In Reading workshop students will learn about point of view – ‘who is telling the story’. In every story there is a storyteller, called the narrator. The narrator tells the actions, the characters and the setting of the story.

• In first person, the narrator is usually a main character and uses ‘I’ and ‘me’.
• In 3rd person narrations, the narrator is not the main character and uses ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’ or ‘it’.

In Math students will work on:

•  Reviewing place value with higher numbers
• Using coins to buy things
• Gathering and entering data in a table and drawing a bar graph

In STEM students will learn the properties of liquid.

In our Social Studies unit of ‘Time, Continuity and Change’ students will write about a family event. They will do activities related to the unit.

Up Coming Events

• Parent Teacher conference: Thursday October 17^th, 2019
• Students Day off: Thursday October 17^th, 2019 and Sunday October 20^th, 2019

Reminders

• Please send a large bottle of water for your child.
• A light jacket to be kept in class from Sunday to Thursday.
• Photos of your child with family to keep in our class family treasure box.
• Reading on razkids and completing the quiz at the end.

October 6th - October 10th

 “Respect is a two-way street, if you want to get it, you’ve got to give it.” – R.G. Risch

In Writing Workshop, we will continue with our first unit of study called 'personal narrative'. Students will learn to ‘show not tell’ the readers about how they are feeling. One way they do this is by describing in detail:

·     Every action 

·     Every emotion 

·     Every feeling 

In Reading workshop students will learn the following:

· How characters respond to an event or problem/ challenge?

· Compare 2 characters and how they react to the same event

· What would I do if I was in the character's place?

In Math students will be work on:

·     Pan balance

·     Subtraction word problems

·     Counting up strategies for subtraction

In STEM students build a tower using a variety of solid objects. They will draw and label the tower in their STEM journals. Students will be assessed on their understanding of solid and properties of solid.

In our Social Studies unit of ‘Time, Continuity and Change’ students will compare the present-day school to the ones in the old days.

Upcoming Events:

• Special school Assembly on Sunday 6^th October 2019. 

Reminders

• Please send a large bottle of water for your child
• A light jacket to be kept in class from Sunday to Thursday
• Photos of your child with family to keep in our class Grade 2B Family photo album
• Reading on razkids and completing the quiz at the end