Merry Christmas!

A huge Thank You to all of our fantastic parents, from skate tiers to our Brunch snack parents, to all of the very special gifts!  I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

PJ & Stuffie Day

Tomorrow is PJ & Stuffie Day...my only rule, your stuffie can't be larger than me!


Tomorrow is our last day of skating for the month of December.  We are skating at 11:15 am.  Skate tiers are welcome and please feel free to join us on the ice.  If your child is interested in playing hockey, he/she may bring his/her stick and must have a helmet with a cage.  The school has a couple of sticks to borrow as well!



Please have your child return his/her Home Reading bag.  The Christmas Holidays are a great time to spend time reading books around your home!

This afternoon we continued crafting, why not, right?  Our Reindeer Portraits are simply adorable!

The Count Down Continues....

Another hectic day in 2S......skating, putting the finishing touches on our Christmas gifts, music and Tasty Tuesday!  Phew!

In skating today, students rotated through 3 areas of the rink.

Thank you to our skate tiers and on ice volunteers:  Mrs. Eastman, Mrs. Hugh, Ms. Kulczycki, Mrs. Parie, Mrs. Sparrow and Mrs. Toogood!

Tomorrow we will be on the ice at 10:35 am!  See you there!

Thank you to Ms. Rowland for providing the ingredients for this month's Tasty Tuesday (including the HOMEMADE mini donuts....mmmmmm!)The kids loved eating the Snowmen on A Stick!

Some pretty fabulous Glitter and Glam in 2S today!

In Science today, we observed how heating materials can often change them.  Today we experimented with potatoes.   The tenderness, colour and taste all changed when we baked them.  They tasted even better with a dollop of sour cream on top!

Glitter & Glam Day tomorrow

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - Reading Skill:  Comprehension:  Strategy:  Predict What Will Happen; Use Text to Confirm
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Santa's Stuck & Elf on The Shelf Journalling

Math - Numbers to 100

• Cummulative Unit Project 
• Problem solving using "use objects" and "guess and check" strategies

Math - 2D shapes & 3D Objects

• Describe & identify 2-D shapes, including triangles, squares, rectangles and circles
• Compare & sort 2-D shapes, including triangles, squares, rectangles and circles

Science - Hot & Cold Temperatures

• Measuring temperatures in degrees Celsius
• Describe how heating and cooling materials can often change them

Family Movie Night is this Friday!  Tickets on sale in the front foyer.

This week's WWW...

junk

sisters

kicked

stop 

little

TRY THIS:   Scramble up this week's WWW and see if your child can unscramble them!

PD Day Tomorrow.....See you on Monday!

We began our next unit in Science today - Hot & Cold Temperatures.  Students were given several images to sort into 2 groups and then share their sorting rule.  They easily discovering the sorting rule:  hot and cold!

More fun during Daily 5 Word Work....

Thanks to Heaven's mom for 2 more batches of Play Dough....we are set!

Glitter & Glam Day is on Tuesday, December 9th!

 Thank you Mrs. deVos!  The students LOVED buiding their WWW during Daily 5 Word Work.

In Social Studies today, the students became the teachers.  They researched a part of the Ukrainian Culture and presented to the class.  K had fun modeling my Ukrainian Dance costume!

In writing today, we talked about our favorite Christmas Traditions and about what we would like for Christmas!  Our letters will be mailed tonight to the North Pole!

So excited....writing our letters to Santa!

Christmas Concert

What a great job last night, 2S!  With several students missing, students were still able to deliver a super performance!

In Math today, students rolled dice to build a 2-digit number.  They recorded this number and built it using base ten blocks.  Table groups were then asked to order themselves from smallest to largest.  We talked about how comparing the ten and/or ones in a number is important when comparing and ordering numbers.

Next Week.....

2S Christmas Concert - Monday, December 1st.  Doors open at 6:45 pm.  Concert will begin at 7:00 pm.

During assembly, students enjoyed listening to a story, Snowed in at Pokeweed Public School, read by Mrs. Kloschinsky and participating in some very entertaining group discussions.

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - Reading Skill:  Comprehension:  Strategy:  Predict What Will Happen; Use Text to Confirm
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Bold Beginnings

Math - Numbers to 100

• Describe and represent numbers to 100
• Demonstrate & Explain the meaning of equality and inequality
• Compare & Order numbers to 100
• Problem solving using "use objects" and "guess and check" strategies

Social Studies - Looking At People

• Saskatoon - The Ukrainian Culture: traditions, celebrations, foods, festivals & art

Science - Hot & Cold Temperatures

• Measuring temperatures in degrees Celsius
• Describe how heating and cooling materials can often change them

Hundreds Houses

In Math today, students built houses for our Even/Odd Neighborhood using paper rods and cubes (Thanks to Mrs. Rowland for preparing all of the rods and cubes).  During Math Workshops, students will meet with me to count their number of rods and cubes, record their house number and identify what side of the road it will be on (either even or odd).

Hot lunch orders are due on Sunday, November 30th.

Photo re-take orders are due on Friday, November 28th.

November 24 - 28 Curriculum Update (Oooops....forgot to publish....)

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - Reading Skill:  Fluency:  Strategy:  Voracious Readers
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Capitals, punctuation, complete sentences

Math - Numbers to 100

• Estimate quantities to 100
• Represent & Illustrate numbers pictorially and symbolically (Base Ten Blocks)
• Problem solving using "use objects" and "guess and check" strategies

Using Base Ten blocks to build 2- digit numbers

Students rotated through stations, recording the number they read on the Place Value Mats

Social Studies - Looking At People

• Meteghan - The Acadian Culture: traditions, celebrations, foods, festivals & art

Mission Impossible....

In gym this week, students are having a BLAST working their way through the Mission Impossible course!  Thanks, Mr. Henderson!

In Social Studies, students practiced writing their names in the Inuit language...Inuktitut!  Over the remainder of the week, we will be looking at Inuit food, clothing, games/music and celebrations/festivals!

Have you ever tried to catch a snowflake on your tongue!

Below is a copy of the poem Mrs. Stanksi sent home with your child.  Students will be reciting this as part of our Christmas Concert.  Please have your child practice.

It's winter in Canada
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty below.

Oh how I love Canada
When the snow is up to your butt.
You take breath of winter,
And your nose gets frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Canada
Cuz I'm frozen to the ground.

Spelling test - Due to the short week, we will continue with this week's sort, next week.  The test will be next Friday, November 21st.

Winter temperatures have arrived....

After our extended fall, winter weather has arrived.  Please be advised that on most days, students will be required to go outside during recess times, except on days when the wind chill exceeds  -20 degrees.  Please ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for outside recesses.

In gym today, 2S had a super time playing Dr. Dodgeball against 2MT!

In Science today, we explored turning a liquid into a solid by "freezing" it.  Students enjoyed the tasty Chocolate Ice Cream they made...

Operation Christmas Child

2S students will be participating in the "Operation Christmas Child" project this year. We would like to ask for your help in doing this.  We will be building two boxes; 1 for a 7 year old boy and 1 for a 7 year old girl.  The deadline to have items to the school is Thursday, November 20th as they will be taken to a drop off point that day.  Thank you to those families who have already put together a box!  Please refer to the note that went home or the following linke regarding suggested gifts.

http://www.samaritanspurse.ca/operation-christmas-child/#.VGPKrzCJOuY

Curriculum Update for this week:

LA

• Daily 5
• Setting reading goals
• Differentiated Working with Words spelling units
• Spelling City
• Spelling Test on Friday
• Reading Focus - Accuracy
• There are not any new WWW this week
• no Home Reading this week  

MATH - Numbers to 100

• Estimating & Counting using Tens Frames
• Math Workshops - Estimating and Counting Using Tens Frames

SOCIAL STUDIES - Unit 2:  Looking At People

• Explore the cultural characteristics of each community (Acadians, Ukrainians & Inuit)

SCIENCE - Exploring Liquids

• Recognize that water is a component of many materials and of living things

Happy Halloween!

Thank you to all of our parents who sent in treats for classmates...they were all thrilled with all they received. Special thanks to Mrs. Lesnik, Mrs. Rowland & Mrs. Kulczycki for spending the morning with our little ghouls, carving pumpkins!  To Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Bloomer, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Rowland & Mrs. de Vos for providing the delicious snacks! Congratulations to our 3 lucky students who won the Pumpkin Raffle!  Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

On a side note, students completed their first Word Sort test on Spelling City today.  Results of how they did on this test were sent home.  I encourage everyone to practise those words that they are experiencing difficulties with.  A new sort will be sent home on Monday.

Next Week....

MATH

• Estimating & Counting to 100
• Tens/Ones
• Place value
• Mathletics/Xtra Math

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Accuracy Strategies - Cross-Checking, Chunking, Beginning and Endings
• Spelling City - Word Sorts

SCIENCE 

• Liquid water can be changed to other states - The Water Cycle
• Water is a component of many materials & Living Things

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 2 - Looking At People
• Meteghan - The Acadians
• Saskatoon - The Ukrainians
• Iqaluit - The Inuit

Rumpelstiltskin is tomorrow!

We are all excited for our first field trip tomorrow to see Rumpelstiltskin!  Thank you to Mrs. Hugh & Mrs. Toogood for volunteering to keep an eye on our little ones.

In Science today, we had a demonstration where the students were able to observe that some liquids are heavier than others.  All students predicted that when vinegar (with red food coloring), corn syrup and oil were poured into a jar, they would mix and make one yucky color.  To their surprise, they observed that they didn't mix at all.  The heaviest (most dense) liquid, corn syrup, was on the bottom, and the lightest (least dense) liquid, oil, was on the top!  How cool!

Teacher Dawn is also back for yoga tomorrow!  We are thrilled!

Last Week's Update

Math 

• counting with money (skip counting with pennies, nickels or dimes)
• continuing to practise counting by 2s, 5s and 10s - forwards and backwards
• even and odd
• ordinal numbers

Language Arts

• Reading Strategy - Use Prior Knowledge to Connect To Text - Last week, students practiced making a "text to self" connection.  This comprehension strategy can help students connect their own experiences with the text to better understand and make sense of what they are reading.  A Parent Pipeline was sent home today, outlining how you can help your child with this strategy at home.
• Writing - It's fun to make believe and travel to places far away!  Last week, students were introduced to another writing format:  postcards.  Students imagined there were off vacationing and then wrote a postcard to someone at home, describing the awesome time they were having!
• Words Their Way - differentiated sorts

Science

• Exploring Liquids
• Experimented with different materials to see which were most suitable to contain liquids
• Tested different materials to see whether they absorbed or repel

Today was a building extravaganza!  Students predicted if they could "STOP THAT LEAK" by using paper. Students worked in partners in an attempt to line a container using various types of paper (tissue paper, paper towel, white paper, construction paper, wax paper, wall paper) so that it would hold water. 3 of the 10 partners were successful!!   

Our Class T-shirts have arrived!

• Return Home Reading
• Fruit/Cookie Orders due tomorrow
• Word Sort test tomorrow - some groups will be having a spelling test (all words in their sort are fair game), some groups will be asked to spell word beginnings (blends or digraphs)

Spider Pudding Pie

Creepy, crawly spiders!  Thank you to Heaven's mom for providing the ingredients for this month's Tasty Tuesday.  It was a 'spook-tacular' treat!

Today was yoga day in gym!  Teacher Dawn was here again....we relaxed, went surfing and practised some yoga poses!  Namaste!