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.