Polar Bear, Polar Bear, Where Are You?

Today is National Polar Bear Awareness Day and we had the opportunity to watch a live webcast on Polar Bears! This global event draws attention to the challenges polar bears face in a warming Arctic—and how we each can help. Students are excited to show their support for greenhouse gas reductions by bundling up for polar bears and taking the Thermostat Challenge!

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - 
• Reading Skill:  Accuracy
• Strategy:  Skip the word and come back
• Words Their Way - no new sort this week - Spell-A-Thon 
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 
• Focus Traits:  organization & word choice

Math - Addition to 100

• Adding 10 and multiples of 10 to 1 and 2-digit numbers
• Adding 1 and 2-digit numbers
• Using Base Ten Blocks and Open Number Lines
• Create and solve addition and subtraction problems

Science - Magnetism

• Recognize that magnets have polarity
• Demonstrate that most materials are transparent to the effects of a magnet

Reminders

• Spell-a-thon fundraiser begins (test on March 19) 
• Family dance tickets are on sale in the morning and lunch for $5/family
• Family dance is March 5, 6-8pm
• PD Day on March 6, there is no school

No skating tomorrow!

FAMILY DANCE - The Family Dance will be on March 5 from 6 - 8 pm.  Tickets are on sale for $5/family.  Join us for a fun night!

If you haven't had a chance, take a peek at last week's RBES News: Weekly Update and calendar.

Thank you again to our skate tiers over the past couple of days.  Also, thank you to Mrs. Benson & Mr. Sparrow for joining us on the ice!  Skating resumes on Friday from 11:15 - 11:55.

Looking At Next Week....

We are skating next week!  Parent volunteers, to tie skates or be on the ice are welcomed and appreciated.  Our schedule is as follows:

• Monday 9:25 - 10:05
• Tuesday - 8:40 - 9:25
• Wednesday - 10:35 - 11:15
• Thursday - No Skating
• Friday - 11:15 - 11:55

Students learned a fun game during Calendar Math this week - Making Ten. This game can easily be played at home. Each player needs a set of cards numbered 0 - 9 (you can use a deck of cards). A number from 1 - 10 is called (by an adult/sibling).  Players must raise the card that would be needed to Make Ten. For example:  The number 2 is called.  Students choose the 8 card and raise it in the air.  The faster the better!

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - 
• Reading Skill:  Accuracy
• Strategy:  Skip the word and come back
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 
• Focus Traits:  organization & word choice

Math - Addition to 100

• Adding 10 and multiples of 10 to 1 and 2-digit numbers
• Using Base Ten Blocks and Open Number Lines
• Create and solve addition and subtraction problems

Science - Magnetism

• Compare and measure the strength of magnet
• Recognize that magnets have polarity
• Demonstrate that most materials are transparent to the effects of a magnet

A Little Birdie Told Me....

In Art today, we completed a project about self-esteem.  We read the book, I'm Gonna Like Me by Jamie Lee Curtis.  Using the Chromebooks, students then wrote positive statements about themselves.  They turned out super cool....

• Return Home Reading
• Last day to get entries in for the Baby Photo Contest Fundraiser
• Hot Lunch order forms due online by tomorrow
• Hot lunch tomorrow
• Spelling test tomorrow 

Library tomorrow!

Just a couple of reminders....

• Hot lunch forms are due online by Friday, February 20th
• We have Library tomorrow.
• Skating next week:
• Monday 9:25 - 10:05
• Tuesday - 8:40 - 9:25
• Wednesday - 10:35 - 11:15
• Thursday - No Skating
• Friday - 11:15 - 11:55
• Book Orders are due on Friday, February 27th

In Math today, we used Base Ten Blocks to add multiples of 10 to 2-digit numbers.  We used dominoes to build our 2-digit numbers and rolled dice to make a multiple of 10.

26 + 40 = 66

In Language Arts today, students began writing Bold Beginnings for their Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (CWACOM) Story.  We used prepositions and landforms from the Canadian communities we are studying to describe where our town, which was named, is located.  Here is an example:

Across the sandy beaches, over the frozen ice and around the mountains there lay the tiny town of SlurpandBurp.

Happy 100th Day of School!

We are 100 Days Smarter...

To celebrate our 100th Day of School, we made a 100th Day Stew, wrote about what it would be like When We are 100 Years Old and used the digits in 100 to design an art project.

Today was also Tasty Tuesday!!  Thank you Mrs. Benson, for spending the afternoon with us and supplying the ingredients for Cereal Sushi!

Show your school spirit tomorrow and dress in all of the colors of the rainbow tomorrow!

Curriculum Update for this week:

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Language Arts

• Daily 5 - 
• Reading Skill:  Accuracy
• Strategy:  Skip the word and come back
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• Writing - Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 
• Focus Traits:  organization & word choice

Math - Addition to 100

• Adding 10 and multiples of 10 to 1 and 2-digit numbers
• Using Base Ten Blocks and Open Number Lines
• Create and solve addition and subtraction problems

Science - Magnetism

• Compare and measure the strength of magnet
•  Recognize that magnets have polarity

Valentine's Day Party Fun!

Delivering Valentine's, Bingo, and Jump Rope For Heart!

2S raised $996 for the Heart & Stroke Foundation! WOW!

 Thank you to the parents of Marissa, Heaven, Gavin, Joslynn & Damien for providing our delicious snacks for our Valentine's Day Party!

WORD SUMS - making words mean more than one.

Moving with Coach Chris!

This Week's Curriculum Update

Language Arts

• Daily 5 - 
• Reading Skill:  Vocabulary:  
• Strategy:  Word Matrix & Word Sum (ie. skate + s = skates)
• Working with Words - Differentiated Spelling Units (Spelling City Assessment on Friday)
• Home Reading 
• New WWW - use, phone, sale, write, skate
• Writing - Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 
• Focus Traits:  organization & word choice

Math - Mental Math Strategies

• Doubles/Doubles Plus 1
• Make Ten
• Problem Solving - Addition & Subtraction Mysteries

Social Studies - Looking At Work

• Jobs Helping People - Chromebook Assignment
• Tourism 

Science - Magnetism

• Free exploration of Magnets
• Identify where and why magnets are used in our environment
• Distinguish materials that are attracted by a magnet from those that are not

Friday:  - Valentine's Day Party 

Early dismissal tomorrow @ 2:15 pm!

Curriculum update for this short week:

Math - we are continuing to work on Mental Math strategies during Math Workshops.  Rotations this week focus on DOUBLES.

Daily 5- Comprehension Strategy:  Make A Mental Image - We have read the story, A Bad Case of The Stripes - without showing the pictures.  This story is perfect to use in teaching visualization.  Tomorrow students will illustrate the illustrations they visualized.

Social Studies - Goods & Taking Care of our Environment

No WWW or Word Sort due to the short week.

Home Reading was sent home.  Please return all Home Reading bags tomorrow to exchange books for the long weekend!