October 28th, Oct 31st-GR 21 October 4th-9th-GR22

	Language Arts and Mathematics Homework This week in Grade 2...
Homework for this week   Don’t forget Your costumeJ Friday  Nov. 1st is a PED DayJ	Language Arts: No new spelling words this week. Read Coral Reefs. Write a summary/book report on one of the four books assigned: Baby whales drink milk An Octopus is amazing Coral reefs Is That a fish? -Sign Spelling Test. Please correct spelling mistakes. Read Halloween poems Mathematics: No Math drills this weekJ Review the math concepts taught this term: Odd and even numbers Skip counting Fact families T-charts Tally marks Problem solving: organized charts Highlighting key words Basic addition and subtraction facts Patterns Pattern core Attributes in a pattern (outline is on my blog) Students will have an end of unit test this week. (Wednesday ) Grade Two Teachers HALLOWEEN WEBSITES: http://pbskids.org/halloween/ http://www.thekidzpage.com/halloween_games/ http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/halloween/games.php Math Outline
	This month we covered: -Patterns. Creating a pattern -Growing and shrinking pattern. (Increasing or decreasing) Example: complete the following patterns  2, 4, 6, 8 ___ 10, 13, 16, 19, ___ 20, 25, 30, ____ -Attributes in a pattern.  (How the pattern is changing:  size, shape, colour etc…) -Pattern core: which part of the pattern repeats? counting by 10’s, 2’s, 3’s and 5’s Digits: 0, 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, -Recognizing one digit and two digit numbers. recognize even and odd numbers-Fact families: Example 2 ,3 , 5 2+3= 5 3+2= 5 5-3= 2 5-2= 3 Addition and Subtraction: Example: 7 +7 =                  8+2 =                  50+1= Problem Solving: -Using T-charts to solve complex problems Example: If I am making 7 toy tricycles, how many wheels will I need? Complete the T-chart. Tricycles                Wheels 1                       (000) =3 2                       (000)  (000)=6     3                  (000)  (000)  (000)=9