About Mme. Kovach's grade 2's

October Newsletter Bonjour les parents, The first month flew by and it’s been really great!   We’ve had lots of fun! This month, our themes will be spiders and les monstres!   Spiders will be done mostly in English but it will also be integrated with science, art and math. Les monstres will be done in French but will also be integrated with art and math.   Of course, it also goes very well with Halloween!   Here’s what’s in store for the month: Mathématiques : We will be concentrating on graphing (concrete graphs, pictographs and bar graphs with legends).   We will continue with identifying characteristics and rules of sorted groups with patterning and shapes.   We will continue working with tens (les dizaines) and ones (les unités) by doing a variety of activities.   There will be a strong emphasis on this last part to allow better understanding of number sense and internalizing more complex concepts as the year continues. ...

  September Newsletter Bonjour et bienvenue à la deuxième année!   Hello and welcome to grade two! I would like to welcome everybody back to school.   I hope that everyone enjoyed their summer!   There will be lots of great activities and units which we will be learning about throughout the course of the year.   My name is Christine Kovach and I’ve been teaching at VW for 15 years!   This year I am back to full time, after teaching half time for five years while my twins were younger. Mme Sarah Baxter will be the Teacher Resource Link for the grade two F.I. classes and working as the IL2 teacher for French reading intervention. There will be a monthly newsletter coming out at the beginning of each month that will outline what we will be learning about in class.   The newsletters along with other important information will be posted on our classroom blog.   The class address is https:/...