Mrs. Sherwood's Grade 2 (Division 5) Overviews - Term 3(June, 2016)
TERM 3
Reading
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1 and 2
*Read just-right texts independently for 15-20 minutes daily
*View and demonstrate comprehension of text using the 5W's.
Guided Reading
-Respond to selections read by expressing an opinion with reasons and making connections
-Read and review to expand knowledge, by comparing and inferring and enquiring and generalizing
-Recognize and derive meaning from the structures of texts including: 'text features,' vocabulary associated with texts (pictures, headings, table of contents, key facts)
Poetry
-Read and discuss poems and then write poetry using descriptive language and rhyming
Writing
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1 and 2
*Write Traits - learning to use voice, editing and adding details
*In Journal - Learn and write using topic sentences, paragraphs and different end punctuation
-Use non-fiction text to share information in report form
-Rewrite endings to stories
*Practice using adjectives, adverbs, nouns and verbs in sentences
*Practice writing using the 5 W's - providing details, captions and headings
*Learn to edit and revise written work
*Use past tense correctly when writing
Math
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1 and 2
*Add and subtract 2 digit numbers with and without regrouping, using place value, tens frames and in vertical form
*Create stories and equations for addition and subtraction problems
*Solve problems involving missing addend and subtrahend
*Sort, construct, compare and describe 2-D and 3-D shapes
*Gather and record data about self and others, then construct and interpret pictographs
*Use non-standard units to measure and compare mass
*Demonstrate understanding of multiplications up to the 5 times using manipulatives and arrays
Speaking & Listening
In addition to reinforcing skills from term 1 and 2
*Present rehearsed speech on Canadian symbol and and personal cultural heritage
*Listen attentively to presentations and share what they learned or answer questions
*Present Reader's Theatre to class
*Use speaking and listening by listening and presenting a first nation story from oral tradition
Social Studies
*Research family heritage and traditions
*Identify cultural characteristics of Canadian society and different languages spoken
*Identify and research meaning of Canadian symbols and Canadian celebrations
*Identify ways of showing respect for their own cultural identity
*Individuals have rights and responsibilities as global citizens
*Describe how technology has changed in the classroom
*Introduction to local government
Science
*Experimentation with different types of magnets
*Identifying and understanding how forces (push, pull, gravity) influence the motion of an object
*Continuation of questioning, predicting and analyzing and comparing observations with others during discussions
Health & Career
*Continuation of Virtues Project
*Safety and Injury prevention on personal safety and bicycles
*Substance Misuse Protection - Identifying and describing potential harm associated with various unknown substances (poisons, medications, liquids)
*Character development- Responding to stories involving moral dilemmas such as stealing, lying and bullying
PE - with Mrs. Jumaga
*listening to and following instructions, staying on task
*demonstrate safe behaviours, follow gym rules, sportsmanship, active participation, and effort
*demonstrate proper technique for performing manipulative movement skills: floor hockey; ready position, passing, *receiving, shooting, basic stickhandling, games, dribbling a soccer ball with control, trap the ball, side foot passing, *instep kicking at a target, throw-ins, soccer relays, and soccer games, badminton; backhand short serve, overhand hit, *rallying, basic rules and lead up games
*fitness stations: hurdles, bench step-ups, wall push-ups, shuttle run, jumping jacks, mountain climbers
*non-locomotor movement skills: rock and sway, step turn, swing
*cooperative games and relays, fair play, respecting others
*identify the importance of food, water, and sleep as fuel for physical activity
*identify physical abilities they would like to develop
*participated in two TRU Sport Camp sessions
Fine Arts
*Participate in skits, drama games and Reader's Theatre to reinforce skills on concepts learned in other subject areas. For example: safety and language arts
*Take on the thoughts, feelings and/or role modeling via drama
*Create images using visual elements including, shape, line, pattern and symmetrical balance
*Observe and practice how artists use different processes and techniques to create art
*Listen and respond to a variety of classical music - listening to beat, rhythm, tempo and mood
*Participate in music activities from a variety of historical and cultural contexts
*Participate in creative movements from various sources
Mrs. Sherwood's Grade 2 (Division 5) Overviews - Term 2 (March, 2016)
TERM 2
Reading
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of appropriate texts
*Use strategies before and after reading
*Reading responses to selections read - inferring, summarizing - novel study and short stories
*Elements of stories - character, setting, problem and solution from Charlotte's Web
*Use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning - including asking questions, making a prediction, recalling main ideas and focusing on speaker
*Demonstrating enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage
*Comparing and contrasting animals and characters from fiction and non-fiction text
Writing
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Create imaginative and informational writing and representations, sometimes based on models they have read, heard or viewed
*Develop a clear, central idea when writing which includes many sentences on one topic, including the use of relevant details that connect a topic, sentence fluency, word choice and various end punctuation - spider story
*Strategies before, during and after writing (brainstorming, editing writing and conventions)
*Past and present tense using suffixes - ed, ier, est, endings
*Organization and fluency that includes a strong beginning, main idea and organization - Write Traits
*Participate in class-generated criteria
*Printing practice
Math
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Place value to 100
*Adding and subtracting strategies and adding and subtracting without regrouping
*Mental math automaticity
*Number sense concepts - mental math and addition and subtraction strategies
*Problem solving with addition and subtraction and weekly word problem solving with Mrs. Schell - math numeracy teacher
*Measurement using non-standard units
Speaking and Listening
*Use speaking and listening to interact with others for the purposes of contributing to a class goal, exchanging ideas on a topic, making connections, completing tasks and engaging in play
*Use speaking to explore, express and represent ideas, information and feeling by: - staying on topic in a focused discussion; - recounting experiences in a logical sequence; - retelling stories
*Listen attentively for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension by: - retelling or paraphrasing information shared orally; - following three and four step instructions; - asking for clarification and explanation
Science
*Life Science - Animals- Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences, habitat, life cycles
*Describe some changes that affect animals (e.g. hibernation)
*Describe how animals are important in the lives of Aboriginal peoples in BC
*Describe ways in which animals are important to other living things and the environment
*Demonstrating understanding and illustrating water cycle
Social Studies
*Interpret simple maps using cardinal directions, symbols and simple legends
*Use simple graphic organizers to record relevant information
*Present information using oral, written, or visual representations
*Describe work done at school
*Describe the purpose of money
*Locate on a map of BC and Canada major landforms and bodies of water
*Create a model or other representation of landforms and bodies of water
*Describe and demonstrate awareness of local environment
Health and Career Education
*Describe ways of categorizing jobs (research jobs)
*Identify healthy eating practices as described in Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
*Identify opportunities to make decisions - including School Wide Virtues Program
Fine Arts
*Participate in a variety of musical experiences - xmas concert
*Sing simple songs - Canadian
*Share cooperative effort in drama work - Reader's Theatre
*Use a variety of image sources to create images, including feelings, imagination, memory and observation (button blanket, book creator
*Experiment with materials to create particular effects
*Demonstrate safe and environmentally responsible use of materials
*Describe a variety of reason people make and use visual arts - First Nations Art
Physical Education with Mrs. Jumaga
*Listening to and following instructions, staying on task
*Demonstrate safe behaviours, follow gym rules, sportsmanship, active participation, and effort
*Demonstrate proper technique for performing manipulative movement skills: one-handed throw underhand, two-*Handed catch without trapping against body, ball handling, dribbling, chest and bounce pass, pivoting, and basic shooting
*Cooperative games and relays, fair play, respecting others
*Move through space incorporating directional changes
*Describe physical responses that take place in the body during physical activity
*Attended four gymnastics sessions at Kamloops Gymnastics & Trampoline Center
*Participated in one session of “Rock & Rings” curling program
*Attended two skating sessions at McArthur Park skating rink
Mrs. Sherwood's Grade 2 (Division 5) Overviews - Term 1 (December, 2015)
Language Arts
*Letter-sound awareness (phonemic and phonological awareness)
*Letter formation
*Word patterns, word families
*Concepts of print
*Reading strategies to make sense of what they read and view
*Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning - reading responses
*Metacognitive strategies
*Recognize elements of a story/text - Freckle Juice novel study
*Create stories - with main idea and details- Write Traits and journals
*Communicate and print, using letters and words and applying basic conventions of English spelling, grammar ad punctuation
*Engage actively as listeners, views and readers as appropriate to develop understanding of self, identity and community
Math
*Number concepts to 100- counting forward and backward by 2's, 5's, and 10's to and from 100
*Repeating, increasing and decreasing patterns
*Addition and subtraction fact to 20 - introduction of strategies (making 10)
*Demonstrating knowledge of place value using different representations
*Change in quantity using pictorial and symbolic representation
*Symbolic representation of equality and inequality, odd and even
Science
*Matter - physical and chemical ways of changing materials
*Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
*Ask questions, make and record predictions about familiar objects and events
*Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language or drawing
*Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions
Social Studies
*Describe their roles, rights and responsibilities at home and at school
*Explain the purpose of classroom and school expectations
*Distinguish their roles, rights and responsibilities within the classroom and school
*Create simple maps representing familiar locations
*Select a solution to a classroom or school problem
Health & Career
*Describe practices that contribute to physical and emotional health
*Describe appropriate strategies for communicating effectively with others (e.g. active listening, willingness to express feelings)
*
Arts Education
*Elements in the arts - visual arts- shape, texture; principles of design: pattern, repetition
*Drama - role playing, skits, guided acting, demonstrations
*Music - beat/pulse, rhythm, notation to represent sounds, ideas and movement
*Dance - body, space
*Personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing and performing in a safe learning environment
Physical Education Overview with Mrs. Jumaga
-listening to and following instructions, staying on task
-demonstrate safe behaviours, follow gym rules, sportsmanship, active participation, and effort
-cooperative games, fair play, partnering up, positive behaviours
-locomotor skills: jogging, running, sprinting, starting and stopping positions, dodging, skipping, gallop, jumping, hopping, spatial awareness, directional changes (forwards, backwards, sideways, straight, zigzag, curved, figure 8, etc), proper landing and how to fall safely
-describe the personal benefits of regular participation in physical activity
TERM 2
Reading
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of appropriate texts
*Use strategies before and after reading
*Reading responses to selections read - inferring, summarizing - novel study and short stories
*Elements of stories - character, setting, problem and solution from Charlotte's Web
*Use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning - including asking questions, making a prediction, recalling main ideas and focusing on speaker
*Demonstrating enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage
*Comparing and contrasting animals and characters from fiction and non-fiction text
Writing
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Create imaginative and informational writing and representations, sometimes based on models they have read, heard or viewed
*Develop a clear, central idea when writing which includes many sentences on one topic, including the use of relevant details that connect a topic, sentence fluency, word choice and various end punctuation - spider story
*Strategies before, during and after writing (brainstorming, editing writing and conventions)
*Past and present tense using suffixes - ed, ier, est, endings
*Organization and fluency that includes a strong beginning, main idea and organization - Write Traits
*Participate in class-generated criteria
*Printing practice
Math
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Place value to 100
*Adding and subtracting strategies and adding and subtracting without regrouping
*Mental math automaticity
*Number sense concepts - mental math and addition and subtraction strategies
*Problem solving with addition and subtraction and weekly word problem solving with Mrs. Schell - math numeracy teacher
*Measurement using non-standard units
Speaking and Listening
*Use speaking and listening to interact with others for the purposes of contributing to a class goal, exchanging ideas on a topic, making connections, completing tasks and engaging in play
*Use speaking to explore, express and represent ideas, information and feeling by: - staying on topic in a focused discussion; - recounting experiences in a logical sequence; - retelling stories
*Listen attentively for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension by: - retelling or paraphrasing information shared orally; - following three and four step instructions; - asking for clarification and explanation
Science
*Life Science - Animals- Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences, habitat, life cycles
*Describe some changes that affect animals (e.g. hibernation)
*Describe how animals are important in the lives of Aboriginal peoples in BC
*Describe ways in which animals are important to other living things and the environment
*Demonstrating understanding and illustrating water cycle
Social Studies
*Interpret simple maps using cardinal directions, symbols and simple legends
*Use simple graphic organizers to record relevant information
*Present information using oral, written, or visual representations
*Describe work done at school
*Describe the purpose of money
*Locate on a map of BC and Canada major landforms and bodies of water
*Create a model or other representation of landforms and bodies of water
*Describe and demonstrate awareness of local environment
Health and Career Education
*Describe ways of categorizing jobs (research jobs)
*Identify healthy eating practices as described in Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
*Identify opportunities to make decisions - including School Wide Virtues Program
Fine Arts
*Participate in a variety of musical experiences - xmas concert
*Sing simple songs - Canadian
*Share cooperative effort in drama work - Reader's Theatre
*Use a variety of image sources to create images, including feelings, imagination, memory and observation (button blanket, book creator
*Experiment with materials to create particular effects
*Demonstrate safe and environmentally responsible use of materials
*Describe a variety of reason people make and use visual arts - First Nations Art
Physical Education with Mrs. Jumaga
*Listening to and following instructions, staying on task
*Demonstrate safe behaviours, follow gym rules, sportsmanship, active participation, and effort
*Demonstrate proper technique for performing manipulative movement skills: one-handed throw underhand, two-*Handed catch without trapping against body, ball handling, dribbling, chest and bounce pass, pivoting, and basic shooting
*Cooperative games and relays, fair play, respecting others
*Move through space incorporating directional changes
*Describe physical responses that take place in the body during physical activity
*Attended four gymnastics sessions at Kamloops Gymnastics & Trampoline Center
*Participated in one session of “Rock & Rings” curling program
*Attended two skating sessions at McArthur Park skating rink
Mrs. Sherwood's Grade 2 (Division 5) Overviews - Term 1 (December, 2015)
Language Arts
*Letter-sound awareness (phonemic and phonological awareness)
*Letter formation
*Word patterns, word families
*Concepts of print
*Reading strategies to make sense of what they read and view
*Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning - reading responses
*Metacognitive strategies
*Recognize elements of a story/text - Freckle Juice novel study
*Create stories - with main idea and details- Write Traits and journals
*Communicate and print, using letters and words and applying basic conventions of English spelling, grammar ad punctuation
*Engage actively as listeners, views and readers as appropriate to develop understanding of self, identity and community
Math
*Number concepts to 100- counting forward and backward by 2's, 5's, and 10's to and from 100
*Repeating, increasing and decreasing patterns
*Addition and subtraction fact to 20 - introduction of strategies (making 10)
*Demonstrating knowledge of place value using different representations
*Change in quantity using pictorial and symbolic representation
*Symbolic representation of equality and inequality, odd and even
Science
*Matter - physical and chemical ways of changing materials
*Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
*Ask questions, make and record predictions about familiar objects and events
*Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language or drawing
*Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions
Social Studies
*Describe their roles, rights and responsibilities at home and at school
*Explain the purpose of classroom and school expectations
*Distinguish their roles, rights and responsibilities within the classroom and school
*Create simple maps representing familiar locations
*Select a solution to a classroom or school problem
Health & Career
*Describe practices that contribute to physical and emotional health
*Describe appropriate strategies for communicating effectively with others (e.g. active listening, willingness to express feelings)
*
Arts Education
*Elements in the arts - visual arts- shape, texture; principles of design: pattern, repetition
*Drama - role playing, skits, guided acting, demonstrations
*Music - beat/pulse, rhythm, notation to represent sounds, ideas and movement
*Dance - body, space
*Personal and collective responsibility associated with creating, experiencing and performing in a safe learning environment
Physical Education Overview with Mrs. Jumaga
-listening to and following instructions, staying on task
-demonstrate safe behaviours, follow gym rules, sportsmanship, active participation, and effort
-cooperative games, fair play, partnering up, positive behaviours
-locomotor skills: jogging, running, sprinting, starting and stopping positions, dodging, skipping, gallop, jumping, hopping, spatial awareness, directional changes (forwards, backwards, sideways, straight, zigzag, curved, figure 8, etc), proper landing and how to fall safely
-describe the personal benefits of regular participation in physical activity
Mrs. Sherwood's Grade 2 (Division 5) Overviews - Term 2 (March, 2016)
TERM 2
Reading
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of appropriate texts
*Use strategies before and after reading
*Reading responses to selections read - inferring, summarizing
*Elements of stories - character, setting, problem and solution from fables and fairy tales
*Use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning - including asking questions, making a prediction, recalling main ideas and focusing on speaker
*Demonstrating enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage
*Comparing and contrasting animals and characters from fiction and non-fiction text
Writing
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Create imaginative and informational writing and representations, sometimes based on models they have read, heard or viewed
*Develop a clear, central idea when writing which includes many sentences on one topic, including the use of relevant details that connect a topic, sentence fluency, word choice and various end punctuation
*Strategies before, during and after writing (brainstorming, editing writing and conventions)
*Past and present tense using suffixes - ed endings
*Organization and fluency that includes a strong beginning, main idea and organization
*Participate in class-generated criteria
*Printing practice
Math
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Place value to 100
*Adding and subtracting strategies and adding and subtracting without regrouping
*Mental math automaticity
*Number sense concepts - mental math and addition and subtraction strategies
*Problem solving with addition and subtraction
*Measurement using non-standard units
Speaking and Listening
*Use speaking and listening to interact with others for the purposes of contributing to a class goal, exchanging ideas on a topic, making connections, completing tasks and engaging in play
*Use speaking to explore, express and represent ideas, information and feeling by: - staying on topic in a focused discussion; - recounting experiences in a logical sequence; - retelling stories
*Listen attentively for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension by: - retelling or paraphrasing information shared orally; - following three and four step instructions; - asking for clarification and explanation
Science
*Life Science - Animals- Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences, habitat, life cycles
*Describe some changes that affect animals (e.g. hibernation)
*Describe how animals are important in the lives of Aboriginal peoples in BC
*Describe ways in which animals are important to other living things and the environment
Social Studies
*Interpret simple maps using cardinal directions, symbols and simple legends
*Use simple graphic organizers to record relevant information
*Present information using oral, written, or visual representations
*Describe work done at school
*Describe the purpose of money
*Describe how technology affects individuals and school
*Locate on a map of BC and Canada major landforms and bodies of water
*Create a model or other representation of landforms and bodies of water
*Describe and demonstrate awareness of local environment
*Describe how technology affects individuals and school
Health and Career Education
*Describe ways of categorizing jobs (research jobs)
*Identify healthy eating practices as described in Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
*Describe the potential harm associated with various unsafe substances (Roots of Empathy)
*Identify opportunities to make decisions
Fine Arts
*Participate in a variety of musical experiences - xmas concert, assembly
*Sing simple songs - Canadian
*Share cooperative effort in drama work - Reader's Theatre
*Use a variety of image sources to create images, including feelings, imagination, memory and observation (button blanket, book creator
*Experiment with materials to create particular effects
*Demonstrate safe and environmentally responsible use of materials
*Describe a variety of reason people make and use visual arts
Physical Education with Mrs. Capostinsky
* In addition, the students participated and demonstrated good effort and skill in skating and gymnastics
TERM 2
Reading
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Read fluently and demonstrate comprehension of appropriate texts
*Use strategies before and after reading
*Reading responses to selections read - inferring, summarizing
*Elements of stories - character, setting, problem and solution from fables and fairy tales
*Use strategies when listening to make and clarify meaning - including asking questions, making a prediction, recalling main ideas and focusing on speaker
*Demonstrating enhanced vocabulary knowledge and usage
*Comparing and contrasting animals and characters from fiction and non-fiction text
Writing
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Create imaginative and informational writing and representations, sometimes based on models they have read, heard or viewed
*Develop a clear, central idea when writing which includes many sentences on one topic, including the use of relevant details that connect a topic, sentence fluency, word choice and various end punctuation
*Strategies before, during and after writing (brainstorming, editing writing and conventions)
*Past and present tense using suffixes - ed endings
*Organization and fluency that includes a strong beginning, main idea and organization
*Participate in class-generated criteria
*Printing practice
Math
In addition to skills developed all year from term 1
*Place value to 100
*Adding and subtracting strategies and adding and subtracting without regrouping
*Mental math automaticity
*Number sense concepts - mental math and addition and subtraction strategies
*Problem solving with addition and subtraction
*Measurement using non-standard units
Speaking and Listening
*Use speaking and listening to interact with others for the purposes of contributing to a class goal, exchanging ideas on a topic, making connections, completing tasks and engaging in play
*Use speaking to explore, express and represent ideas, information and feeling by: - staying on topic in a focused discussion; - recounting experiences in a logical sequence; - retelling stories
*Listen attentively for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension by: - retelling or paraphrasing information shared orally; - following three and four step instructions; - asking for clarification and explanation
Science
*Life Science - Animals- Classify familiar animals according to similarities and differences, habitat, life cycles
*Describe some changes that affect animals (e.g. hibernation)
*Describe how animals are important in the lives of Aboriginal peoples in BC
*Describe ways in which animals are important to other living things and the environment
Social Studies
*Interpret simple maps using cardinal directions, symbols and simple legends
*Use simple graphic organizers to record relevant information
*Present information using oral, written, or visual representations
*Describe work done at school
*Describe the purpose of money
*Describe how technology affects individuals and school
*Locate on a map of BC and Canada major landforms and bodies of water
*Create a model or other representation of landforms and bodies of water
*Describe and demonstrate awareness of local environment
*Describe how technology affects individuals and school
Health and Career Education
*Describe ways of categorizing jobs (research jobs)
*Identify healthy eating practices as described in Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
*Describe the potential harm associated with various unsafe substances (Roots of Empathy)
*Identify opportunities to make decisions
Fine Arts
*Participate in a variety of musical experiences - xmas concert, assembly
*Sing simple songs - Canadian
*Share cooperative effort in drama work - Reader's Theatre
*Use a variety of image sources to create images, including feelings, imagination, memory and observation (button blanket, book creator
*Experiment with materials to create particular effects
*Demonstrate safe and environmentally responsible use of materials
*Describe a variety of reason people make and use visual arts
Physical Education with Mrs. Capostinsky
* In addition, the students participated and demonstrated good effort and skill in skating and gymnastics