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