Week 6!

This week our Star Student was Dara.

Read In Week 2013 was a great success!  We kicked off our read In Week with a Monday morning school wide buddy read.

We read in the boot room!

We read in the hallway!

We read everywhere!

Each day we had a Mystery Reader.

 Mrs. Reardon was our Monday Mystery Reader.

Mrs.  Morgan was our Tuesday Mystery Reader.

Mrs. DeChamplain was our Wednesday Mystery Reader.

Mrs.  Morin was our Thursday Mystery Reader.

We celebrated earning our first classroom reward for awesome grade two behaviour choices with a PJ Day!

We created totem families with our grade four friends.

First, all the students had to identify which animal they were, based on the animal's characteristics.

Then the students found a picture of their animal.

All the grade 2H and 4M students put their animals together on one totem to create our totem family, named Citlali, which means star.

Sandwiched in between all this reading, totem building and pjs was a bit of math.

We identified all the odd and even numbers on our interactive 100 splat board.

We then transferred all the "Even Steven and Odd Todd" numbers into our math journal.

We managed to squeeze in some social and finished up our mapping lap books.

As the week came to a close we created turkeys and decided what we were thankful for.

And finally, we celebrated a beautiful Thanksgiving mass at Our Lady of the Angels church on Friday morning.  

Grade 2H have earned their first classroom reward for positive behaviour choices.  As a result we will celebrate by having Pajama Day tomorrow.  Students can wear their jammies, slippers and bring a stuffy to school for the day.  

Great job grade two!

Week 5!

This week our Star Student was Victoria!  Victoria is new to our school this year and is a great addition to our grade two family.

The Listening Centre opened this week.  The students got to read and listen to Pumpkin Town.

We celebrated our second early out Wednesday with Storybook Day.  The students were encouraged to dress up as a storybook character.  The idea came from a picture book called The Incredible Storybook.

 Can you pick out some of the storybook characters that came to school on Wednesday?

We listened and watched "Winnie the Witch" this week and  we identified the events that took place in the beginning, middle and end of the story.  

Click here for the official website of Winnie the Witch 

We explored globes this week as we start we wrap up our mapping activities in social.

In math this week we started to take what we know about patterns and find number patterns.  

Counting by 2s

Counting by 10s

In Art this week we collected leaves to make a leaf catcher.  

The weather turned a bit chilly this week so please ensure that your child is coming to school dressed appropriately for the colder, sometimes wet,  weather.  

Just a reminder that we are a "Nut Aware" classroom and school and Tim Bits are not guaranteed to be nut-free.  Therefore we cannot share these tasty treats in the classroom.

Week 4

It's been another busy week of growing our brains in grade 2H!

We celebrated our second star student, Owen.

In religion we continued to build community and develop friendships in our classroom.

We explored a few new centres this week.  The students are getting more independent and after we practice for one more week, we hope to start full centres that will include guided reading.

Chopstick Reading Big Books

Magnetic Mountain

Sorting Vowels

For our Daily Physical Activity we are trying to enjoy as much of the beautiful fall weather each afternoon before the winter weather sets in.

In Language Arts we read the story The Kissing Hand and worked on retelling the beginning, middle and end.

In art we created repeating and increasing patterns.

In social we continued to work on mapping to add to our lap books.

We started to explore Touchmath this week for Fun Fact Friday.

In science with Miss Adams, the students loved their bubble gum experiments.

I had help on supervision this week.  One of the prizes the students can buy with the money they earn is an opportunity to accompany me on supervision in a very official supervision vest.

In beautiful fall sunshine we did the Terry Fox run on Friday afternoon.  Mrs.  Moore wore her Terry Fox shirt in support of this worthy cause.  Thank you to everyone who generously donated to this worthy cause.

To end off the week we got to watch a drum presentation to celebrate the many cultures in Fort Saskatchewan.

A few reminders:

Library is Thursday

Reading duotangs and reading books must come to school each day so that we can silent read after lunch for a short period of time.

Spelling duotangs must also come to school each day as we work on our spelling words each day in the classroom.

Signing the agenda each day is a great way to let me know that you see our daily agenda message.

A huge thank you to Mrs. Ballentyne who has offered to attend the Parent School Council Evening Meetings to represent 2H.

Our October Calendar is posted on the school website.

It's hard to believe we're almost at the start of October!