January 27th-January 30th

Fundraiser!!!

Your child came home today with a box of cards for our school fundraiser. Please read the info. sheet that also came home and which explains how the fundraiser works. The money raised supports our school for things such as Phys.Ed equipment, special residency programs and other needed materials. Thank you for your support of this fundraiser and for the wonderful group of parents who organized this!


Spelling Words:

blew, grew, drew, new, chew, stew, few, threw, flew, knew


Mental Math Strategies:

This past week our math lessons focused on developing our mental math skills.

From our student's perspective Mental Math is:

• Math done in your head
• Math that is done in the mind, quickly and efficiently
• Math that you understand so well that you don’t need to write anything down to do calculations/find the answer

Mental math improves computational fluency by developing efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility. 

Please see your child's Feedback Friday folder that went home today for additional information on Mental Math including grade 2  curricular expectations. The folder also includes games which are a great tool to use to practice mental math and develop fluency in computation. 

Please see the info. below regarding the different Mental Math strategies:

Curriculum Newsletter

January 20th-January 24th

Report Cards 
Report cards were sent home with students today. Please sign and return the white envelope.

Scholastic Orders:
The Scholastic orders went home in the envelopes today. They are due back January 30th, 2020 if you would like to order.

Spelling Words: 

ring, ding, wing, king, sing, bring, sting, swing, thing, spring

Skip Counting Belts
As an incentive for students to learn and develop their skip counting skills we are using a belt system. Each coloured belt is linked to a skill. Games and songs are two of the tools that students used to support them with learning this foundational math skill.

January 13th - January 17th

Next weeks spelling list:

Dear Families,

We will be focusing on word families as part of our spelling program:

Word families are important because they help students recognize and analyze word patterns. Word families help students understand these patterns and that certain words have the same letter combinations and sounds.

This week's word family is /ay/

bay
day
hay
lay
may
clay
gray
stay
tray
sway

Additional Information:

Yearbook Orders

2019-20 Yearbooks can be ordered online for $20 from now through January 31st. Please visit https://ybpay.lifetouch.ca/ and enter yearbook ID 13802520 to order your book. Books will be delivered to students in the fall. We will forward books to new schools for students who change schools within the CBE. Students who are moving outside of the CBE can provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the office so we can mail the yearbook on.

2019-2020 Ron Southern Yearbook Cover Design Contest!

This year, students will have the opportunity to submit original designs for our yearbook cover.

All Designs must:

• be on 8.5 x 11 paper, in portrait (vertical) format

• be related to empathy and kindness

• include our school's name, "Ron Southern"

• include the year "2019-2020"

• have the student-artist's name on the back

Entries are due to Ms. Gavan by Friday, February 7th. Leadership students will select the top 3 choices using the criteria above, and then all students will vote to determine the winner from those 3.

School Council Bottle Drive

Thank you to our Ron Southern Community for your support of our Bottle Drive. With your generosity we raised nearly $900 which will directly support our Ron Southern students.

January 6th- January 10th

Happy New Year Grade 2 Families!


Next week's spelling words:
away, but, find, eat, help, good, play, read, very, well



Feedback Friday and HOMEWORK!

As you are all aware, we use Fridays to review concepts and skills that we focused on throughout the week. This work is then sent home to provide families with feedback around how their child is doing. From now on, any work that is not completed at school during this time will be sent home for homework. We strongly encourage all families to take some time to go through the work with their child to review and complete any unfinished work. Feedback Friday provides families with insight into what your child is learning and how well he/she is understanding.

Skip Counting Practice at home:

Skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's is an area that students in the class need a little more practice. A great way to practice this skill is through songs/videos. Please see the attached links for songs to help students practice these skills. Students can also practice by using the Math Prodigy website.

Counting by 5's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemjeA2Djjw

Counting by 2's

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

Counting by 10's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs&list=PL0WiadqKtDlaUXg8WM9Co5CHq0t2gtEFl

Extra Challenge!

Counting by 3's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_cn87hOCDM

Yearbook Cover Design Contest!