September 24th-28th

This week we had Elder Byrd come in and talk with us about Mother Earth.   Ask your child to tell you about his visit!

Our school counsellor Mrs. Renwick came in and gave us a refresher on the 5 point scale. She ended her presentation with an exciting volcano!  We talked about ways to calm ourselves down when we are angry.

We learned about Terry Fox this week and watched this video in class.  On Thursday we went for a Terry Fox walk around the lake. 

A big THANK YOU to Mrs. Lueken who came in last week to help get all of our computers set up for our classroom.  We will start doing RAZ kids at school next week.   

Many of your children have been doing RAZ kids at home and that is fantastic!! Hopefully this excitement for reading will last all year long!

Upcoming Dates

October 2^nd: Come celebrate Mr. MacKenzie’s 85^th birthday with us. Pancake breakfast from 8:15-9:00.  Celebration assembly at 9:05. 

October 3rd : QSP magazine assembly

October 5^th: No School: Professional Development Day

October 8th - No School - Thanksgiving Monday

Here are some Fun Friday pictures.  Many of the students used their free time to colour rainbow roads. 

This weeks word to write in the agenda is MONDAY!

September 17th - 21st

This week we have been busy building our reading and writing stamina!  For Read to Self we are at 15 minutes and we are at 7 minutes for Work On Writing.  We have been brainstorming many things to write about in grade 2.  Talk with your child about some ideas at home!

On Tuesday we went on a animal hunt.  We walked around the lake with our clipboards and we recorded all of the animals we saw.  Many students counted over 80 birds!

On Thursday we went on another walk to collect leaves and we made some unique animal creations.  Check out these pictures!

In math we are still working on patterns. Check out our name patterns!

Upcoming dates:
September 24th: Our Elder Dick Byrd will be visiting our classroom
September 27th: We will be going on a Terry Fox walk today
SAVE THE DATE!  On October 2nd we will be celebrating Mr.MacKenzie's 85th birthday.  The SCC is going to put on a pancake breakfast and we will be having a school assembly at 9:05.  More info to come!

Please write the word orange in the agenda so that I know you have read this!!

Here are a few pictures from our walk!  The kids are very excited to "star" in a PWIM picture!

September 10th - September 14th

It was so nice to see so many of you at the Open House on Thursday night.  I hope that you took the time to read through the handout.  Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns with the information provided.

This class has surprised me with their reading stamina this year!  They have worked extremely hard  this week and they are all reading at 15 minutes during Read to Self!  This is quite an accomplishment for the second week of school!  Next week I will introduce the cycle called Work on Writing.  This is separate from our weekly journal writing.

We have shaken all of our PWIM words out and came up with a title called Nature.  Next week we will start studying and sorting the words. 

We have been working on a Pattern unit in math.  Some of the vocabulary we are using has been core, element, attribute, repeat, and extend.  You can help your child at home by making patterns with everyday objects (coins, fruitloops etc).  Remember that the pattern core must repeat three times in order for it to be a pattern.  Ask your child what an attribute is and see if they can explain it to you!  We worked on making a train today with one changing attribute.

This week we have been talking about kindness in the classroom.  We have a few new students in our classroom and it is kind to make them feel welcome.  

We are going to be starting an animal study next week.  We will be researching and writing about many different types of animals.

Mrs. Renwick came for a visit this week.  She is our new school counsellor this year.

Important Dates:
Tuesday September 18th : Book Orders Due
Wednesday September 19th: Picture Day

Please write to word MONKEY in your child's agenda once you have read this blog!  

We have officially finished week one of grade 2!  We have a very sweet and hardworking class!

Mr. MacKenzie came for a visit today and sang a few songs to us!  What a treat!

Upcoming Events:
September 13th is our School BBQ and Open House.  I look forward to seeing you there!

I'm looking forward to seeing all of my new grade 2 students on Tuesday September 4th at 9:00am! 

We are going to have a fabulous year!