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NOVEMBER NEWS - Ms. Cox’s Grade 2 classTo all parents… Thank you for your support and participation during our two days of student-led activity based conferences. It was so pleasing to seethe children happily demonstrating each activity and us all setting meaningful goals together. This givessuch a good focus to the next Quarter of learning, and until we will meet inthe Spring to see how we have achieved these goals and to set new goals for the remainder of the year.Thanks also to the parents whose help made our Halloween party such a fun afternoon! Look for more photos on the next page. The schedule for the monthis also on the last page again, and of course includes our Thanksgiving break this month – so I would like to wish all families a “Happy Thanksgiving.”Claire Cox coxc@tas.edu.tw

November dates to remember:22nd and 23rd:Thanksgiving School Holiday.

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Curriculum Corner:I hope you found it informative hearing your child talk to you about Writers’ Workshop on conference day. Everyone is working enthusiastically and showing great development in writing skills. Being able to almost always choose what they write about is one of the aspects that is very motivating. In Math we will soon have completed Unit 3 and this month will begin working in Unit 4 which concentrates on addition and subtraction through exploring different types of number stories, estimating costs, more strategies and partial sums addition, with some measurement learning happening also.In Science the children will be enjoying learning more about Solids and Liquids as we carry out a variety of experiments to learn about the special properties of solids and liquids that separate them as two states of matter.The routines of our Spelling program are beginning to become established now as the children learn to independently make their new spelling lists. It is really helpful if we allow the children to make some mistakes as they write, so it can be easily seen which words they are needing to concentrate on learning to spell if they are at an appropriate level for them. Thank you for helping with this.

A Friday author’s share

Finding out how solids might change if we heat or cool them.

Exciting to find out what some solids look likewhen they aremagnified!!

A Friday author’s share

Halloween activities made more fun because of the great help thank you!!

Calendar for 2A41

Day 1 Music & IT (computer lab)

Day 2 Mandarin & PE & Library

Day 3 Art

Day 4 Mandarin, PE

Day 5 Music & IT (computer lab)

Day 6 Mandarin & PE

Day 7 Music & Library

Day 8 Mandarin & PE

Day 9 Art & Guidance

Day 10 Mandarin & PE

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Day 3

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Day 4

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Day 5

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Day 6

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Day 7

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Day 8

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Day 9

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Day 10

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Day 1

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Day 2

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Thanks-giving

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10 Day Cycle

November 2007

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Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7

Thanks for the treats!!!!