June Learning Goals

It's almost the end of the the school year! Check out what we will be focusing our learning in our classroom this month.

April Learning Goals!

April Learning Goals

Language:

• read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning

• identify and order main ideas and supporting details, using graphic organizers (e.g., characters, setting, problem, solution; a sequential chart: first, then, next, finally) and organizational patterns (e.g., orientation, complication and resolution)
• spell unfamiliar words using a variety of strategies that involve understanding sound-symbol relationships, word structures, word meanings, and generalizations about spelling
• use some appropriate elements of effective presentation in the finished product, including print, different fonts, graphics, and layout)

Math:

• solve problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers to 18, using a variety of mental strategies (e.g.,“To add 6 + 8, I could double 6 and get 12 and then add 2 more to get 14.”)
• represent and explain, through investigation using concrete materials and drawings, division as the sharing of a quantity equally (e.g.,“I can share 12 carrot sticks equally among 4 friends by giving each person 3 carrot sticks.”)
• describe probability as a measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, using mathematical language (i.e., impossible, unlikely, less likely, equally likely, more likely, certain)
• describe the probability that an event will occur (e.g., getting heads when tossing a coin, landing on red when spinning a spinner), through investigation with simple games and probability experiments and using mathematical language

Social Studies:

• compare selected communities from around the world, including their own community, in terms of the lifestyles of people in those communities and some ways in which the people meet their needs (e.g., in northern Europe, people have homes that are heated and insulated, while in the Caribbean, houses do not need to be insulated and may have rooms that are open to the outdoors)
• describe some of the ways in which two or more distinct communities have adapted to their location, climate, and physical features (e.g., in Arctic Canada, where it is cold, people wear warm clothes made with fur and hide or insulated with down or fleece)

Dance:

• apply the creative process to the composition of simple dance phrases, using elements of dance to communicate feelings and ideas
• demonstrate an understanding of a variety of dance forms and styles from the past present, and their social and/or community contexts

Physical Education:

• using rolling and passing to send balls of different shapes and sizes to partners and to aim at different targets

March Learning Goals

March is already here! Click the link below to find out what we will be focusing our learning on in Room 109 this month.

February Learning Goals

We have an exciting month up ahead in our classroom! 

January Learning Goals

January Learning Goals

Language:

• identify several reading comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and after reading to understand texts (e.g., activate prior knowledge to ask questions or make predictions about the topic or story)
• sort ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways, with support and direction (e.g., by using simple graphic organizers such as webs or a Venn diagram)
• sort ideas and information for their writing in a variety of ways, with support and direction
• gather information to support ideas for writing in a variety of ways and/or from a variety of sources
• write short texts using a few simple forms

Please click below to read the rest of our learning goals this month!

This Week's Learning Goals

Grade 2 Learning Goals

(Week of Nov 28th-Dec 2nd)

Language:

• proofread and correct their writing using a simple checklist or a few guiding questions developed with the teacher and posted for reference
• Identifying parts of a letter (heading, greeting, body, closing, signature)
• Writing friendly letters to specific audiences
• establish a personal voice in their writing, with a focus on using familiar words that convey their attitude or feeling towards the subject or audience

Math:

• represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 100 (e.g., ten frames, base ten material, hundreds chart, number line)
• compose and decompose two-digit numbers in a variety of ways, using concrete materials (e.g., place 42 counters on ten frames to show 4 tens and 2 ones)

Social Studies:

• identify continents, significant bodies of water, the equator, poles, and hemispheres, using a globe
• identify cardinal directions on a map (i.e., N, S, E, W), and use these directions when locating selected countries
• demonstrate an understanding that there are a variety of countries, continents, physical features, and bodies of water around the world and that their locations can be represented in different ways (map, digital/interactive maps, globes)

Upcoming assessments:

Language:  

Looking at friendly letters and using editing skills to check their own personal letters and letters of their peers

Math:

Making groups of ten using classroom items, adding groups of ten onto numbers and looking for number patterns when adding by 10s.

Social Studies:

Labeling a world map with continents, major bodies of water, hemispheres and cardinal directions.