Dear Grade 2SB Parents,
Well, this is not how we expected our entry into the last few weeks to go. I hope that you are all well and that you and your families are all safe from the recent storm. It’s been quite a shock to see all the damage around Sohar and beyond.
Your child has been provided with several online tasks using our Seesaw platform, as well, as a packet of maths with work on telling time. I have been regularly checking in on Seesaw to approve your child’s work or to ask them to have another look. Please also support your child in completing these tasks and also by listening to the read from either a real book or from one of our online platforms.
Please note that swimming will begin this week on Monday. Ms Dorothy has sent an email to you with regards to the importance of this unit of learning and the required items needed for swimming lessons.
Your child has been posting some of their poetry writing on Seesaw, so please do have a look and ask your child to recite their poem to you. It’s been a lovely unit of writing and has linked well with our most recent UOI.
Please see attached the information for our new unit of inquiry: How we express ourselves.
For our next maths unit, we will be working on addition within 100 strategies. The big idea for this unit is: Numbers can be combined by thinking about the values of their digits, combining tens with tens and ones with ones, and sometimes composing 10 ones into 1 ten.
And the unit objectives are:
- Students build their understanding of addition with place value, working toward end-of-year fluency with paper-and-pencil addition within 100.
- They use base-10 blocks, hundred charts, and open number lines to support their reasoning and development of a variety of strategies for addition.
- They solve Add To–Result Unknown and Put Together–Total Unknown problems in a variety of contexts, including money and length measurement.
- They start to extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds.
Family Letter for addition to 100
Our writing will focus on narratives. We will begin with personal narratives; your child has been asked to write on on Seesaw with the prompt of a time when they were hurt. Using a personal narrative, we will build our writing skills using this genre to include more descriptive writing which includes the use of adjectives and more exciting verbs.
Finally, please have your child pack their bags on Saturday evening with their maths booklet and their iPads. They should also return any reading books they have in the correct folder and please have them bring their library books back. We will try to visit the library early in the week to change our books for some new ones.
Once again, I hope that you and your family are well and have not endured any hardships either during or after the storm.