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April Showers Bring May Flowers!

Thank you for attending Student Led Conferences and all of your support. We worked hard to prepare work for you and students enjoyed presenting it to you.

Literacy
In writing, we will be continuing to focus on fictional story writing using the writing process prewriting/brainstorming page, draft copy, edit and revise using a checklist! and finally publish a good copy. We always lo"e to read their stories they ha"e such great i#aginations. In reading students are continuing to work on learning co#prehension strategies and #aking inferences as they read. We will be focusing on learning and practicing strategies to help students with #ultiple choice style co#prehension passages. We do this in order to prepare for the $rade Two %ro"incial &ssess#ent in 'ay.

Math
- .ouble digit subtraction * +nce students ha"e a solid understanding of double digit addition we

will begin to learn about efficient ways to sol"e double digit subtraction proble#s. We will be ,thinking addition- and using nu#ber lines to help us with this skill. ./0 1or 23*)456 Think )4 7 6 5 23. 789 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78

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)4 :4 :; :< := 29 28 2) 2: 22 23 Start by writing the s#allest nu#ber at the beginning of the nu#ber line )4!. Then write the largest nu#ber at the end of the nu#ber line 23!. Its ok if this nu#ber ends up too far down the line you can always #o"e it once you #ake your ju#ps. Think before you ju#p and record 789 or 78, 7) or 73 as you ju#p. >ont forget to record what that would e?ual on the nu#ber line. Stop ju#ping by tens when you reali@e you will go past then nu#ber at the end of the nu#ber line. Think )47895:4 but :4789524 so I should only ju#p by ten once. Then ju#p by 8s, )s or 3s. (ow, add up your ju#ps 897=58=! The total nu#ber of ju#ps fro# )4 to 23 is 8=, which #eans that the difference between )4 and 23 is 8= or 23A)458=.

,ry this at home!

While we ha"e been writing using the procedural for#, we ha"e written and read different recipes. Cere is a recipe for ho#eA#ade ice crea#. Ma2ing )ce 3ream Ca"e you e"er wanted to #ake ice crea# at ho#e6 If you answered yes, follow this si#ple recipe to #ake it happenD 'aterials0 8)3 #L of crea# 83 #L of sugar 3 #L of "anilla S#all and large Eiploc bags ;39 #L of ice =9 #L of coarse salt Steps0 Co#bine crea# and sugar in a #easuring cup. &dd "anilla. %our #i/ture in the s#all Eiploc bag. 'ake sure its @ipped tightD %ut the s#all bag into the big bag. &dd ice and salt into the big bag. Eip the bag tightD Foll the bag o"er and o"er for fi"e #inutes. Its cold so you #ay want to put on so#e #ittensD +pen the big bag and take out the little bag.

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