Gr. 2 News Claire Cox

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Dear Parents, The weeks seem to be flying by
since 2008 began! and I look forward to a lovely
uninterrupted six weeks of teaching and learning
before Spring break in March. Thank you all for
your help, and for the contributions of food for
our Chinese New Year grade 2 celebration. What a
wonderful shared lunch we all enjoyed! We are
all feeling so saddened that the C.N.Y. holiday
became such a sad time for the Wittry family and
I know everyone will want to give what support
we can this semester. I hope to see many of you
at some of the events listed below. Regards,
Claire Cox. coxc_at_tas.edu.tw Feb/Mar dates to
remember Feb 18th Authors visit. Feb 28h Field
Day 1155-215 Mar 03-08th Jim Valley at
T.A.S. Mar 06th Kite making morning Mar
20-21st Student-Led Portfolio
Conferences. Mar26-Apl 07th PD Days and
Spring Break

• Curriculum News
• MATH At present we are completing Unit 6
  Whole-Number Operations and Number Stories and
  working towards being able to answer these
  questions
• Can I - add three one digit numbers in my head?
  -add and subtract two digit numbers? -use
  addition or subtraction number models to answer a
  story problem?
• Soon we will be beginning Journal 2 and studying
  Unit 7 Patterns and Rules - with these
  questions
• Can I- measure to the nearest inch or
  centimeter? add and subtract groups of twos,
  fives, and tens in patterns? find the missing
  number, no matter where it is, in a number model?
  make and read a bar graph?

Gr. 2 News Claire Cox

• SCIENCE
• Our current study is Air and Weather covering
  these four investigations
• Exploring Air
• Observing Weather
• Wind Explorations
• Looking for Change
• The Foss Kit we use provides many opportunities
  for hands on experiments, and a kite making
  morning!! will be part of this study. Many
  helpers will be needed!! details will follow
  nearer the time.

Writers and Readers Workshop We are writing
and reading a mixture of non-fiction and fiction
and particularly looking at the features of
non-fiction. It is wonderful to see writing being
the favorite time of the day for the children,
and also to see the children reading avidly and
usually independently choosing a variety of just
right reading material now.
OCTOBER 2007
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Chinese New Year Celebrations!
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February Calendar 2008
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

11 Day 1 12 Day 2 13 Day 3 14 Day 4 15 Day 5
18 Day 6 19 Day 7 20 Day 8 21 Day 9 22 Day 10
25 Day 1 26 Day 2 27 Day 3 28 Day 4 29 Day 5
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
10 Day Cycle
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March Calendar 2008
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
3 Day 6 4 Day 7 5 Day 8 6 Day 9 7 Day 10
10 Day 1 11 Day 2 12 Day 3 13 Day 4 14 Day 5
17 Day 6 18 Day 7 19 Day 8 20 Conferences 21 Conferences
24 Day 9 25 Day 10 26 PD Day 27 PD Day 28 PD Day