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!