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: