Christmas Stories written and illustrated by the RMS Grade 6 classes!

Seussical! The Musical

Fantastic performance!

• return Home Reading tomorrow
• Hot Lunch tomorrow
• Library on Monday
• Words Their Way test 

Wear your 2S Class T-shirt tomorrow!

We will be departing RBES first thing in the am and returning at lunch!

Look who arrived at my house this morning!  

Yoga Day Tomorrow!

The magnetic force of a magnet can pass through many materials....even plastic and styrofoam!

In Math today, we learned a new mental math strategy: make ten.  Ask your child how they would use this strategy to answer the math sentence: 9 + 6 

• New WWW this week
• New WTW sort 
• Seussical! The Musical is this Thursday!

Thank you RBES' for your generous donations!

WOW!  The families of RBES are unbelievably giving!  Today we had the Devon Christmas Elves Presentation Assembly.  The Kinders collected just under 1000 food items and the 4H collected 305 toys! 

Hot Lunch Tomorrow

Such a cute bunch!

• Please send Home Reading to school with your child
• Word Sort Test is tomorrow - the Oddball word is put

In Math this week, we worked on Mystery Addition and Subtraction sentences.  Students used a number line to help figure out the mystery number.  We also learned that the order in addition does not matter and the order in subtraction does matter.  An example of Mystery math sentences look like this:

____ + 8 = 15

17 - ____ = 9

Below is a link to a fun game that we played to help strengthen basic fact skills.  We called it Magic 11!  

Magic 11

Early Dismissal Tomorrow

Christmas Concert is tomorrow!

1:15 pm - Dress Rehearsal

7:00 pm - Evening Performance

Students are asked to wear "what your mom tells you."  See you all tomorrow!

A Snowy, Blowy Kind-a Day!

• New WWW
• New Word Sort - long and short /u/
• 2S Newsletter went home today
• Home Reading went home

Elf Yourself

Today, we 'Elfed Ourselves' using our Chromebooks - you can too!  Open the following link, so fun!

Elf Yourself

Thank you to our skate tiers this morning; your support saved our fingers!

Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Huber,  Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. Cross & Grandma and Grandpa Manz 

Superstar Skaters!

• purple note (Seussical! The Musical)
• gold note - Hot Lunch (online)
• 4H is collecting new, unwrapped toys for the Toy Drive - toys brought in by each class will be tallied...the class who brings in the most toys wins and Ice Cream Movie party!

Board Member Visit!

Listening to The Snow Day read by Sandy Koroll

• Skating tomorrow - we should be at the rink around 9:15 am - please send a pocket snack for your child to eat at the rink before recess
• Hot Lunch
• Return Home Reading
• Word Sort Test - Long and short /o/

Yoga Day Tomorrow!

Thank you to our skate tiers this morning; your support saved our fingers!

Mr. Hill, Mrs. Eastman,  Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. Milson, Mr and Mrs. Manz & Mrs. Stewart!

Tomorrow is Yoga Day again at RBES - dress in your 'stretchy clothes'.

Skating will resume on Friday!

In Social Studies today, we learned  about the Early Days in Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon.  We read and took notes on a Google Doc answering the big question: Why did people settle in these communitites?

Tuesday, November 26

Thank you!

Thank you to our skate tiers this morning; your support saved our fingers!

Mr & Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Eastman,  Mrs. Bade, Mrs. Manz & Mrs. Stewart

In Math we used Dominoes to make addition sentences to 12.

Are all magnets the same strength?  Nope!

Thank you!

Thank you to our skate tiers this morning; your support saved our fingers!

Mrs. Huber, Mr & Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Eastman, Mrs. Milson, & Mrs. Bade

• New WWW
• New Word Sort (long/short o)
• Home Reading

Attract or Not Attract?

Let's Go Fishing

Snow Day

What do you like to do on a Snow Day?

• Home Reading due back tomorrow to record minutes and switch books.
• Hot Lunch
• Working With Words Sort test - long and short a sound
• Skating next week - if you are able to help with tying skates or would like to skate with your child, our time slot is from 9:25 am- 10:10 am - we will be at the rink by 9:15 am.  If possible, please send a pocket snack with your child (something they can eat quickly in the dressing room before recess that fits in their pocket). 
• Library on Monday!

Tasty Tuesday & Free Magnet Exploration!!

Thank you, Mrs. Hill, for the tastiest Polar Bear Cookies ever!

Exploring with Magnets......

Let it Snow!

*  New WWW today 

*  New Words Their Way sort - this week we are working on the short a (as in cat) and long a (as in cake) sounds.  The oddball word is what.

*  Home Reading folders went home today - please send back on Friday to record minutes.

*  Please return Skating permission slips - we are skating next week!

Happy Birthday, Elliot!

In Math today we learned a new game which can be played with either 2 or 3 people - it's called Greatest Number War.  It's fun to play and all you need is a deck of cards with the 10s and face cards removed.  The object of the game is to get all of your opponent's cards.  You play the game by flipping over 2 cards - the first card is the tens digit, the second card is the ones digit.  The player with the greatest number wins the cards!

Greatest Number War

One down...two to go!

Wow - what a short week!

In Language Arts, we are researching the Polar Bear.  We started the project off by filling in a K-W-L Chart - what we already knew about Polar Bears and what we want to know about Polar Bears.

In Math, we worked on our Chrome Books creating a document illustrating the meaning of equal, not equal, less than and greater than - I am so pleased with the ease at which students are completing these technology projects!

Due to the short week, I have not sent home new WWW, new Word Sort or Home Reading.  Please use this week to review.

'Let's Rock N' Roll'

November 7, 2013

• Hot Lunch tomorrow
• Return Home Reading bags to record minutes and exchange books

November 4th, 2013

A few important items went home with your child today:

• Yellow note - this is a confirmed schedule for Student-Led Conferences.  If I did not hear back from you, I assumed your scheduled time was ok.
• 2S November Newsletter 
• Word Sort # 8 - we are working on distinguishing between the long and short i vowel sound
• New WWW - see side bar
• Home Reading went home today - please return on Friday

Have A Safe and Happy Halloween...

Fabulous costumes, delicious snacks and fun activities filled our Halloween Day.  Thank you to all the parents who stopped by, dressed up, help dress up, took pictures and brought in snacks!!  You are all an assest to 2S!!

November 1 - No School PD Day

Congratulations to Keira & Alexis - they both won the Pumpkin Draw!

Yoga Tomorrow!

Spooky, Busy Week!

 1.  Weekly Sort and Home Reading  will come home tomorrow.

2.  Our assembly is on Wednesday, October 30th, right after O'Canada - if you can join us, great!

3.  We have a few witch hats trickling in - such adorable witches!

4.  For the black attire on Wednesday, I've decided to utilize our class t-shirts once again (Thank you to Mrs. Huber for re-ironing some pesky corners) with a dark pant.

5.  As your child is practicing their Witches Brew part - encourage them to use a scary, witch voice.

6.  New WWW!

7.  A white note went home today explaining activities planned this week:  Wednesday:  Yoga and Thursday:  Toonie Carnival

Library Monday!

* Continue practicing "Witches Brew" - the kids are sounding terrific!

*In Math today, we were introduced to the place value mat for Tens and Ones.  Students worked with manipulatives to create 2-digit numbers and then circled through centres to record numbers as tens and ones and then write the numbers.

Wicked Witch Feet....

Today in Math we built 2-digit numbers using Q-tips to fill Ten Frames!  Using Ten Frames we are able to show groups of 10s and 1s.

Please return your child's Home Reading Bag and books tomorrow.  We will be recording minutes on Fridays.

EEEEEkkkkk......Spiders!

Today we had our 2nd Tasty Tuesday.  Students had fun making Spider Pudding Pie - there were chocolate faces galore! A huge thank you to Mrs. Stewart for providing and sorting the supplies!

Tasty enough to eat!

• Continue with the Words Their Way Sort - Blind Sort
• Home Reading - 15 minutes
• Continue to practice "Witches Brew"

Monday!

1.  Words Their Way - the first sort came home today - please complete a sort with your child nightly.  

2.  Witches Brew - a copy of the poem "Witches Brew" came home with your child today - they are to only memorize (if possible), their assigned part (in red).  Our class, along with 1 MT will be performing at our General Assembly on October 30th!  Students are asked to wear all black that day - I will send home an email to remind parents closer to the date.

3.  purple note - 

4.  yellow note

5.  Home Reading came home today - I encourage students to read for a minimum of 15 minutes/evening.

6.  New WWW came home today - again, students will not be tested on these words, but are expected to be able to read them and write them correctly.

Estimating to 50!

Have a super weekend!

In Math, we completed our Math Worshops for this week.  Our focus was Counting with Coins.

HOME CONNECTION:

Place 6 pennies in a row.  Ask your child:  "How many pennies are there?"  Add a dime to the row and ask:  "How much money is there altogether?"  Continue using dimes to count until you reach 96 cents.

We also began our first unit in Social Studies:  Looking At Places.  We will be studying about what the land is like, and how each community began.  The three communities we are focusing on are:  Iqaluit, Nunavut; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Meteghan, Nova Scotia.

Short Week!

Due to the shortness of the school week, there will not be any new WWW, we will be reviewing past WWW.

Home Reading will begin next Monday, October 21st.

Both Hot Lunch and Photo Orders are due by Friday, October 18th.

In Social Studies today, we continued to work on our mapping skills.  Students followed directions and created their own town of Devon:

Hot Lunch tomorrow!

 Today we disguised a turkey, as a pigeon, so he won't be eaten on Thanksgiving!  We wrote to try and convince families to eat hot dogs rather than turkey on Thanksgiving.  Writing from the turkey's point of view, we wrote about why hot dogs are a better choice for their holiday meal!

Hot Lunch tomorrow!

We will begin our Home Reading Program next week, please ensure that your child's Home Reading bag, that they received last year, is at school.  If you did not receive a note in your child's agenda today, I have his/her bag.  If you need to replace your child's bag, they can be purchased in the office for $8.00.

Sometime a ginormous mess is required to create a masterpiece......

Xtra Math

You should have all received a flyer describing the web-based program that we are using to increase speed and accuracy in Math facts.  Here we are trying it out:

Early Dismissal on Wednesday (2:15 pm)

In Math today we began our second unit:  Numbers to 100!  This unit will focus on deepening your child's understanding of number relationships, counting and place value.

The Learning Goals for this unit are to

• Read numbers to 100 
• Build numbers to 100 (base ten blocks)
• Estimate the number of objects in groups up to 100
• Count forward and backward using different tools (number line, a 100-Chart, etc.)
• Show numbers to 100 as tens and ones
• Compare and order numbers to 100

Have a super weekend!!!

Getting cozy during Read To Self

School Pictures Tomorrow!

Congratulations, 2S!  We brought in $27 for The Terry Fox Run!

Congratulations to the 2S Cross Country Runners:  Austin, Madison Hill & Jada Locke!  You made our school proud!

Terry Fox Run

Tomorrow is the Terry Fox Run at RBES....don't forget your toonies for Terry!

Fresh Fruit and Cookie Dough orders due:  October 16th

Careful!! Be Safe!

This afternoon, we used our Chrome Books to produce a poster identifying safe practices for handling hot and cold materials!  Students typed in their rule, inserted a picture and played with background colour on their slide. So impressed!

In Math, students have been creating and solving problems using repeating and growing patterns.  

Home Connection:  Ask your child, "How many socks would we need for everyone in our family?" Then collect a pair of socks for everyone and count the socks.

Word Wall Words - I have posted this week and last week's WWW.  These are the Grade 2 High Frequency words which your child is expected to read and spell correctly in their writing.  Students will practice these words daily in our Rise and Shine Binder, however, will not be tested on them.

Chocolate Milk Slurpees

In Science today, students were asked whether a liquid would change or stay the same when cooled.  We poured chocolate milk and sweetened condensed milk into a freezer bag and super cooled it in ice.  It took longer than expected, but our liquid began to change into a solid! We put the remainder of the Chocolate Milk Slurpees into the "super cooler" (aka the freezer) overnight to see if it became MORE of a solid.  Not only did we begin to see a change in the state of chocolate milk, it also tasted delicious!

Discuss:  Do you think a solid would change when heated?

Shake it!!!

Terrific Tasty Tuesday

Well, it sure was a sticky, sweet kind of afternoon.  Today was our first Tasty Tuesday - the kids enjoyed making, tasting and writing a review on the Caramel Apple Dips.  Thank you to Mrs. Hill for coming in on short notice to help out with the prep work and clean up.  I will be sending home the Tasty Tuesday volunteer schedule later this week.

Hot Lunch Orders are due tomorrow!

Bus Safety with Lennie

Building Growing Patterns

A new learning experience

Working on our first project!

Measuring Temperature....THE THERMOMETER!

In Science today, we made a thermometer.  We tested our thermometer!.  Ask your child what happened to the liquid in the thermometer when it was placed in the ice cold water?  Hot Water?

Pretty intense scientists observing

Grade 2 Chrome Books have arrived!

2S students were thrilled at the surprise arrival of our Chrome Books.  Students will be using a personal Chrome Book throughout the year to enhance their learning!

Tour Of Alberta!!!!

What a spectacular experience for 2S!  Thank you to our amazing volunteer parents for helping me keep a close eye on your munchkins:  Mrs. Huber, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Manz, Mrs. Locke

The cyclists....

Cheese!

On the race route!