Merry Christmas!

Decorating Christmas Cookies

So excited about our letters from Santa's Elves

A great day!

Magnet car races....Mrs. Suter triumped over Ms. Murtha!

Pajama Day made us sleepy!

Pajama, Cookies and Milk Day tomorrow!

Tomorrow is Pajama, Cookies and Milk Day.  If you are baking cookies for the school, send them with your child to our classroom.  We will keep a few for us to share in the afternoon and then send the rest for sharing around our community! 

Library tomorrow! 

Grade Six Christmas Picture Books!

Today we enjoyed listening to many Christmas stories that the Grade 6 classes from Riverview wrote.  Some comments from 2S:

"They were good - no they were great," Mitchell said.

"The kids' reading skills were incredible," Eyvind said.

"There were great pictures," Delaney said.

"The stories were creative," said Zack.

"The pictures were rocking and rolling," said Cole Haniak.

Thank you to our skate tiers today!

A huge thank you to Mrs. Forchuk, Mr. Klassen, Mrs. Hugh (and her troop), Mrs. Haniak and Mrs. Peace for coming to the rink today to help with tying skates!

We are skating all this week from 10:50 - 11:50.  You are more than welcome to join us on the ice or with tying skates.

There are not any new Word Wall Words this week.  Feel free to use this week to review any words that your child may be struggling with.

Thank you to our fabulous crafty volunteers!

We are all next week from 10:50 am to 11:50 am.  Please ensure your child has skates and helmet. 

In health, we will be creating an Eating Rainbow.  Please send any/all grocery flyers to school on Monday.

Have a super weekend!

Happy Birthday, Dylan

Welcome to 2S, Kale!

Kale!

In Science, we had fun testing different magnets to see which one was the strongest!

The cow magnet was the strongest!



Horshoe Magnet

 In Math, we played a game to help us understand that the order of numbers in a subtraction sentence matters!

Likes Repel and Opposites Attract

In math we solved subtraction mysteries. Students used the knowledge they gained working through addition mysteries to solve subtraction mysteries like: 16 - __ = 8

In science today we learned that magnets have two poles:  a north pole (not the place where Santa lives) and a south pole.  When we put like poles of a magnet are put together (south and south OR north and north), we could feel them pushing away from each other (repel).  When we put opposite poles of a magnet together (north and south OR south and north), we could feel them pull together (attract)!

Let's Go Fishing!

In Science, we asked the question:  Does a magnet attract all materials? 

Students had fun using a "fishing rod" lined with a magnet to find items which were "attracted" or "not attracted" to the magnet.  Students had a blast...

Congratulations on a job well done last night, 2S!



What a great looking group!  Poor Jorja!



Happy belated Birthday, Deleani!

2S Parents,



We are actively seeking volunteers for the following:


Art – Friday, December 16th 1:00pm-2:00pm – Students will be making a special Christmas gift for their parents. If there are any grandparents who would be willing to come in, it would be appreciated. Alternatively, if your child would be alright with you coming in, we would appreciate all the hands we can get!


Skating – December 19th - December 23rd 10:50am-11:50am – We are actively seeking any volunteers who are willing to come in and tie skates on the 5 days that we are skating. The reward: sore fingers and tons of smiles from darling little 7 year olds!!


THANK YOU!!!

An extremely strong magnet!

We began our next Science Unit - Magnetism.  Equipped with a magnet in hand, students explored our classroom looking for things that "stuck to" and "didn't stick to" their magnet.  They had to define "magnets" in their own words...my favourite: "they're metal grabbers" by Arianwen.

Christmas Concert Tomorrow

Christmas concert information:


2S will be performing on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 @7:00pm

Please ensure your child is in our classroom by 6:45.

Students are asked to wear formal concert attire (pants, skirts, dresses, etc).


Our letters to Santa are complete and have been sent to the North Pole...we sure look forward to receiving our letters back from Santa!

Christmas Concert this week!

• 2S will be preforming on the evening of December 7th.  Please have your child at school for 6:45 pm.  Christmas Concert attire is preferred (dresses, pants and shirts, etc.)  There will be a box for donations to the Devon Christmas Elves
• Early dismissal on Wednesday

In Language Arts today, we wrote letters to Santa!  We are eagerly anticipating our replies!

Good luck at your game tonight, Eyvind!

Andrew and Logan ready for the pass!

Zack going for the puck!


 

Mitchell and Jorja at the Face Off!

The biggest fans!



Happy Birthday, Cole!

In Math today, we shared Number Stories and wrote related number sentences.  As we wrote number sentences, we noticed that all of the numbers were in each number sentence! 

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Cole received 8 Happy Birthday wishes from his friends.  After recess, he received 5 more Happy Birthday wishes.  How many Happy Birthday wishes did did Cole receive today?

8 + 5 = 13
5 + 8 = 13
13 - 8 = 5
13 - 5 = 8

In Language Arts, I tripped over Deleani Forchuk!  I dropped the picture book I was carrying - the pages were all out of order!  I gathered up the pages and read it anyways.  We found it VERY difficult to understand.  This unorganized story reminded us that we need to make sure that our stories are organized with a beginning, middle and end in order for our readers to make sense of what we are trying to say!

We completed the 250 piece Canada Puzzle!

2S absolutely LOVES building puzzles!! If you have any old puzzles at home that you are not using (about 250 pieces?), we would love to build them!  We can return them when we are finished!

We have completed our Photo Reel assignments for the three communities that we are studying in Social Studies....well done, 2S!  They look amazing!


Meteghan



Iqaluit

Saskatoon

• New WWW/POW went home today
• Social Studies - Photo Reel Assignment is to be here for tomorrow

Peter Pan!

Today all of the grade 2, 3 and 4s from Robina Baker travelled to St. Albert and watched the St. Albert Children's Theatre's (http://sact.ca/index.php) presentation of Peter Pan. It was an amazing performance! The hi-lights for 2S students were:


Flying Peter Pan

The gigantic crocodile

The sword fight between Peter Pan and Captain Hook.

Thank you to Mrs. Forchuk and Mrs. Peace who accompanied our class.

Off to see Peter Pan tomorrow!

Don't forget to wear your class t-shirts for tomorrow's field trip to see Peter Pan!

Today we continued with the concept of "visualization". Students listened to the story, "This Little Light of Mine" and imagined what the story was about. They then brainstormed in groups to create an illustration and short paragraph which they shared with the class. When we re-read the story and looked at the illustrations, students were shocked to see that the story had nothing to do with "light" as they perceived it (flashlights, lanterns, candles, fireflies) and instead it was about a boy whose actions create expressions of joyful radiance on the faces of the other characters in the story.

In Math today, we began Unit 3:  Addition and Subraction to 18.  In this unit, your child will be developing strategies for adding and subtracting 1-digit numbers.  We used the Frayer's Model (Image below) to think about and describe the meaning of addition.

Frayer Model - Graphic Organizer

Operation Christmas Child!

Thank you to all of our incredible 2S students and families!!  We exceeded our goal of filling 2 boxes for Operation Christmas Child.  We filled 3 boxes and still had stuff that didn't fit!  WoW!!

See you on Friday!

I will be attending a conference for the next two days at Barnett House.  Ms. Moravec will be in for me.

In Math today, we continued our focus of putting numbers in order.  Once students finished their assignment, they played a game with dice.  They had to roll four 2-digit numbers using two dice.  Next, they had to put these numbers in order from least to greatest OR greatest to least. 

We began our second rotation of Learning Centres;  Math, Making Words, Poetry, Squiggle Writing and Write Around The School!

Our Social Studies take home assignment went home today. 

Reading Give It A Shot!

Students in 2S are doing an amazing job with their Home Reading!

2S is participating in the Oilers "Reading Give it a Shot" program. Students have only one job in this quest for an Oilers prize: READ!!!! Well, I'm proud to say, we've submitted our entry!  Students from 2S have read for a total of 5656 minutes since our Home Reading Program began! WOW!

Enjoy the long weekend!

No school tomorrow

A green note was sent home today in regards to our class filling two Operation Christmas Children boxes. This is optional, but I would love to see 2S fill a boy an a girl box. Items must be sent to school next week as the boxes need to be completed by November 21. Thanks for helping us make another child's Christmas special.

In Math, students worked with partners to solve a problem using "use objects" and "guess and check" strategies.  Ask your chld to solve the problem:  You have 5 coins that equal 31 cents.  What could the coins be?  Have them draw a picture of their solution.  Have them explain the situation to the problem.  Ask: "How do you know the coins show 31 cents?"

In Writing today, we completed our Squiggle writing.  I am very impressed with the creative drawings and writings that resulted from this project.  This work will become Squiggle Book Number 1!  Coming soon!

Kiwano Fruit....

In class today, Mitchell brought an extremely different type of fruit.  It is called Kiwano Fruit.  Most students sampled it.  Some described it as "gross", "kind of like a grape", and kind of like a kiwi". 

Kiwano Fruit

In Math today, we used Base Ten Materials to illustrate the meaning of place value for numbers.  Students rotated through six stations, placing Base Ten Materials on a Place Value Mat.  Each student had to record the number of rods (Tens) and unit cubes (Ones) to make a number. 

Happy Halloween!

Costume Design Centre



Halloween Smartboard Activity






Delicious Cake Pops!




Our Class Jack-O-Lantern




Word Search Centre




Craft Centre




Snack Centre




  

Happy Birthday, Jorja!

Mmmmm...Candy Corn!

In Science today, the question was:  Will a pototoe change when we bake it?  So, in order to answer this question, we had to bake pototoes, and yes, we found out, they do change.  One thing we know for sure, is that they taste WAY better baked and topped with butter and sour cream!

Library tomorrow!

We were so busy planning our Monsters In A Jar story, we're ready to start writing our stories tomorrow.  We can't wait to share them at the Student-Led Conferences!

If you have not confirmed your scheduled time, or re-scheduled, please send me a quick e-mail or note in your child's agenda.

Picture Re-takes Tomorrow!

A few reminders:

• Picture re-takes tomorrow.  You must have your old pictures in order to have re-takes taken.
• Halloween Party information was sent home today.
• Student-Led Conference PROPOSED schedule was sent home.  Please confirm/re-schedule.

Estimating and making 10

Making groups of 10

How close was your estimate?

Their actual number of counters was over 100!

More sorting into groups of 10!

Who had the closest estimate?