Terry Fox Run, Artifact Sharing, Reading Strategies and more!

Reminder: Friday is the Terry Fox Run at our School. It will start promptly at 11 pm. If you would like to come and run with your child please meet us on the field around 10:50 pm. 

http://www.terryfox.org/terrys-story/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QOtPDAAeY

Reminder: Book Orders are due Friday September 14th, 2018. 

Yesterday your child brought home this letter. Please read it with them and brainstorm something that they can bring in to share with us next week. If you have any further questions about this please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca

September 11, 2018

Dear Families,

Our inquiry this year focuses on the question, “How do our stories connect?”. Through this question we will be looking closely at ourselves, our families, our heritage, cultures and traditions, other distinct communities in Canada and the natural world around us.  To begin our investigation, we are exploring families; their culture, heritage and artifacts that they pass from generation to generation. What stories do these artifacts tell?  Why have they been saved.  What is the significance to your families’ stories?  Why is this artifact special?

To explore this topic, I am asking every student to share a special family artifact or a photograph of an artifact with the class. Please support your child in finding something to bring into the class and completing the questions below. Hopefully this will be a wonderful learning opportunity for your child to learn more about your family and what’s special to you. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Today I am sharing something that is special to my family.

I am sharing ____________________________________

This is special to my family because (please include where this artifact is from, who it was handed down to, where it came from, what meaning does it carry for your family and why it was saved) 

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Thank you,

Mrs. Lagrana and Ms. Quesnel

Next week, after we have collected all of the artifacts, student's will begin sharing. Today we brainstormed a checklist of specifications for their presentation. This will be your child's first public speaking engagement of grade 2. They can practice at home in order to feel more comfortable and prepared for talking in front of their peers. 

Learning Commons
Today we had Learning Commons orientation. We got to learn about signing out new books and preview all of the different books our Royal Oak Learning Commons has to offer. I will be bringing home 2 new books today. They can be returned anytime next week. We will go weekly to the Learning Commons. 

Literacy

This week we have been reviewing some reading strategies for helping us to sound out tricky words. We have been practicing these strategies as we build our independent reading stamina. 

You can practice these strategies at home with your child when they are reading and come to a word that they are having trouble sounding out.