November 7

It's great to be back at school with the class this week- it's tough to be away but I was glad to hear from Ms. Patkau and Mrs. Shrattner that things went really well!

Some important information that is coming up:
Learning Commons book exchange is tomorrow!!

Picture orders are due tomorrow- you can either send them in with students or order online. Retakes will be on November 15th but you need to send the original proof sheet back to school with that box checked so that I know you would like retakes. If your child was missing on the original day they can also get their pictures done Nov. 15

Remembrance Day Assembly- all the grade 2's will be singing a song about Peace for the Remembrance Day assembly this Friday, November 10th. Parents are welcome to attend. It begins at 10:30 and will go until about 11:15. If your child is in Beavers/Cubs or Brownies/Girl Guides it would be great if they could wear their uniform to school on Friday and they will have an additional role to play in our ceremony. We will be confirming names of students on Thursday who are in these clubs and who will be able to participate in the assembly on Friday so that they can practice in the dress rehearsal Thursday afternoon. Please remind your child if they will be one of these students and if you wouldn't mind sending me a note or an email so I can pass the information on to our music teacher Mrs. Buonomo.

We spent some time today discussing what Remembrance Day is and why Poppies are an important symbol. Students worked on making poppies that we will create a wreath with to show our respect and contribute to our Remembrance Day service. We will continue to discuss the importance of remembering the World War's as well as more recent battles and to ongoing Canadian contributions to ensuring the rights of others. Peace will be a central theme in our learning for the next 2 weeks. Please talk to your children about these ideas. There were many many questions today and we couldn't get to all of them.

In Math, we are looking at even and odd numbers up to 100. We read about Even Steven and Odd Todd and ways to help us know if a number is even or odd. Students practiced finding numbers that have a 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 in the ones place value to determine it is even. However, more importantly students need to understand that even numbers are numbers that can be split into 2 equal groups with no left overs. If there is an odd "extra"- then the number would be odd. If you are looking for ways to help them practice this concept, have them count a group of objects and then they can try to split the group into 2 equal piles.