Mr. Tufford
Important Info
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We have a regularly scheduled library book exchange time. It will happen every Day 1 right after lunch.
Raz-Kids is updated. If you follow the directions on the Raz-kids tab you will find your childs name.
Read daily. Practice using expression.
Agenda's need to be return and signed each night.
Check website frequently for classroom information.
Gym is on Days 2, 3 and 4. Please come to school ready for physical education. No dresses please.
November, December, January, February and March calendars are on-line.
Area's of Study for April
Social Studies - Mapping
Science - Liquids and Solids (May)
Math - Number Sense - Addition and Subtraction with regrouping / Geometry - 2D and3d Solids
Reading - Guided Reading - Poetry
Writing - Legend Writing
Assignments
How to do a great current event! (Starts in october see calendar for your day.)
How to do the weather! (When on weather you are incharge of doing it for the whole week.)
Book Share (Starts in the new year.)
Mapping Assignment - Due May 10th.
Raz-Kids
Dear Parent or Guardian,
CONGRATULATIONS! Your child has access to a wonderful world of books through www.raz-kids.com because your school has subscribed to the online library of exciting reading materials. Raz-Kids helps students improve their reading skills as they listen to a book read for modeled fluency. Then, if the computer has a built-in record function, they can record themselves reading the same book. Or, students can read the book to themselves or aloud for practice. Interactive quizzes are available at the end of each book to check for understanding..
Here is how to access the website and your child’s reading assignment from any computer connected to the Internet:
1. Go to http://www.raz-kids.com/ from your Internet browser.
2. Type in the teacher’s username (stufford)
3. Find your name or symbol on the chart and click on that symbol.
4. Enter a picture password if prompted or text password:
5. The books in your child’s assignment and stars earned appear on a personal assignment page. Your child can choose to listen, read, or take a quiz by clicking on the symbols below each book. Student use of this program will be monitored at school by the teacher.
Remember, the more your child reads, the better reader he or she will become!
Sincerely,
Mr. S. Tufford
Educational Games
Knowledge Ontario - research site for primary students
Typing Games - Become a faster typer!!
Search Engines for Kids - (Kids Click, Sweet Search, Google, etc) Click and use!
Easy Who Is? - find out who wrote the website you are looking at.
Math
Math
Math
Math for the Left and Right Brain - (Canadian) - Games for all strands and concepts in Math.
Math Websites 1,2,3,X - Games for all strands of Math
Virtual Manipulatives - Hands on activities for all strands of Math.
Games - Second grade Math games
Money
Chess
Great websites for kids and adults to learn chess.
Chess Rules - Learn the basics of chess!
Chess Colouring Pages - Colouring
Chess for Kids - Learn to play chess!!!
Counting
Fruit Shooting - Skip counting by 2's, 3s, etc.
Skip Counting - Hundreds of Games at all levels for counting and estimating.
Measurement
Cooking for Kids - Recipes that kids can make.
Thermometer - Interactive Thermometer
Mass
Probability
Dice Rolls and Coin Flips - Outcomes
Games - Spinners, coins, marbles, guessing
Virtual Probability Games - Dice, spinners, outcomes, coins, etc.
Probability Bag - Certain, unlikely, equal chance, etc.
Activity Village - Dice games for kids.
Fact Families
Family Tubs -Addition and subtraction fact family practice.
Telling Time
Telling Time - Telling time practice.
Analog Clock - Reading analog clocks
Addition and Subtraction
Flashcards - Addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication.
Grade 2 Number Sense - Addition, subtraction, money, ordering,, place value, and much more.
Addition and Subtraction Worksheets - Create your own worksheets just like the teacher.
Math Ideas - Ideas to help struggling students with addition and subtraction.
Addition Games - Have fun with addition.
2D Shapes and 3D solids
Fling the Teacher - 3D Solids and 2D Shapes Quiz
What are 3D solids and 2D shapes? - Background information
Shadow Show (Sid the Science Kid - PBS Website) - 2D Shape Game
Games - Games to learn about shapes and solids.
Fling the Teacher - Shape Quiz
Shapes - Shape Facts
2D Shapes - Shape Properties
Nets - Video
Net Matching - Enrichment Quiz
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry for kids - Welcome to Kenn Nesbitt's poetry playground, Poetry4kids.com, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, games, contests, lessons, discussion forums, and journals, plus a rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcast, school visit information and lots more.Giggle Poetry - Funny poems for kids.
Acrostic Poetry - Helps students make their own acrostic poems with a template.
Story it! - Classic children's poems.Fizzy Funny Poems - Poems for children from the United Kingdom.
Diamante Poetry - Diamante poetry examples and template.
BBC Kids - Word Work
Magnet Board - Make your own poems using magnetic words
Poetry Splash - Finish rhyming poems
Kids' Poetry Archive - Listen to various poems from different authors.
Poetry Centres
Listening to Poetry - Students pick a theme and listen to various poems
Science
Science
Grade 2 Science Topics - Links to the Curriculum
Websites for all the strands of science.
Interactive Science Activities - Simple Machines, Human Body, Cell Phones
Edheads - Identify simple mahines in the world around us
Properies of Matter - Games and quizzes·
Water
Water Cycle Story - Shows how the water cycle works.
Water Cycle Links- List of many different water websites.
Hardcourt Schools - Three states of matter
Interactive Water Cycle Diagram
Water - topics; What is Water? Solid, Liquid Gas Water in the Air (written for a grade 3 American curriculum)
Solids and Liquids - click on "Change It!"
Strange Matter: Properties (from the Ontario Science Center)
Chem4Kids - Solids Liquids (reading level is above grade 2)
States of Matter - an animated illustration
Cool Cosmos - How animals use heat.
The Life of Birds - Interesting Bird Facts
Animal Land - Read interesting and heart-warming stories, explore animal jobs, learn how to properly care for pets, and more.
Kids Planet - Check out fact sheets on all kinds of animals, play wild games, and learn about world wide wolves! Find out also what you can do to help save endangered species such as the shy giant panda or the rhino.
Animal Sites for Kids - List of 15 or more great animal sites for children to look at.
Social Studies
Thanksgiving
The kidz Page- Thanksgiving Games and Activities - USA
Mapping
National Geographic Kids - Mapping Skills Games
World Map - Try to locate countries of the world.
Mapping Skills - US based website
Map of the World - National Geographic map of the world
Reading
Sheppards Software - Great website for all subject areas
Durham District School Board Library Learning Commons
Starfall - Online storybooks and word work.
Into the Book - Making connections, Inferring, Questioning, Summarizing, etc.
Sequencing - How to do things around the house.
Calendars
Each month's calendar contains who is on current event, weather, and bookshare. Current event is represented on the calendar with (cv) and weather is (w). Current event and weather will start in October whiler book shares will start in November.Information about how to do a current event, the weather, and book·share are contained in the section of the web page called assignments. Students can look up the daily weather by using the web page tab called weather.
Information about book share will come in November.
September Calendar (No Calendar this month)
October Calendar (Current Event and Weather starts this month)
Weather
Check calendar to see when it is your week to do the weather!!!
Weather can be found at http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAON0747.
The Weather Game - Learn about temperature.