June 3rd - June 7th

We had a fabulous time during our school Suessical week!  We read lots of Dr. Suess books and made our own character and setting with the "thinks" that we thought.  We got to see the school production on Thursday and it was amazing!

Upcoming Dates:
Thursday June 13th: LAST FREEZIE FRIDAY
Friday June 14th: No School - PD DAY
Monday June 17th: Whole School Photo at 9:45; Swimming at Massey Pool from 1-2
Tuesday June 18th: Playday in the morning
Thursday June 20th: Splash Park Presentation at 11:00 am; Swimming at Massey Pool from 1-2.
Wednesday June 26th: Splash Park Field Trip; 2:30 Dismissal

May 27th -31st

This week we finished swimming lessons.  Thank you to all of our parent volunteers.

 We are getting ready for Seussical Week at our school.  Mr. Clarke came in and read us a story.

Our SCC put on a fabulous pancake breakfast.   The proceeds went towards our grade 2 splash park project!  We made $250 with the pancake sales!

We had some students come out from the university to teach us some science.  We made all different colours of flubber.

Next week:
Monday: Polka Dot/Stripe Day
Tuesday: Who Hair Day/ Bake Sale $1.00
Wednesday: Crazy Colour Day
Thursday:  Favourite Character Day/ We will be attending the musical in the afternoon
Friday: Freezie Friday

May 14th - May 24th

We have been having lots of fun with swimming lessons.  Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers.  In the classroom we have been busy writing about our swimming experiences. 

In math we have completed our unit on Data Analysis.  We will be working on a Measurement unit and a Geometry unit to complete our year.  In addition to this, we are still working on Addition and Subtraction to 100.   You can keep working on addition and subtraction facts at home with your child.  Knowing their facts from 1-18 is important.

Our Freezie sales are going really well.  Proceeds from the May 16th Fun in the Sun dance canteen will also go towards our splash park project.  We will be presenting our cheque to the community at the future home of the splash park on June 20th at 11:00.   The grade 2 classes from W.F. Ready School and W.S. Hawrylak will also be there.  You are welcome to come if you would like!

We are finalizing a few dates for June and I will send home a note regarding our June activities.  We have a Suessical Musical, outdoor swimming, playday and splash park fun coming up!  Plus we have all of our other learning too!  We will continue to work on our Nutrition unit for theme. June will be a fun filled busy month for us!

Upcoming Dates:
Monday May 27th - Swimming Lessons
Wednesday May 29th - LAST Swimming Lesson
Friday May 31st -
Pancake Breakfast (7:30 am - 8:30 am)
Flubber Making with some university students
Freezie Friday

May 6th - May 10th

I hope that you enjoy your Mother's Day weekend!   We were busy this week working on Mother's Day things. 

We had our first swimming lesson and fun was had by all.  Everyone was on their best behaviour.  I can see so much growth in all of our students.   These grade 2's will be heading to grade 3 soon!  Where has the time gone?

The SCC is hosting a pancake breakfast on May 31st.  All proceeds will be going towards the grade 2's splash park project.  If you would like to help out on this day please contact the SCC.  We would like to have a grade 2 student and parent set up at a few donation stations.  Please contact me if you would be willing to hang out with your child for a bit that morning at the station.  The breakfast will be from 7:30-8:30 so we would like someone there from 7:30 - 8:00 and then someone from 8:00 - 8:30.  

Freezie sales are doing awesome.  The grade 2's are so proud to be in charge.  They do a great job setting up and cleaning up.  I am so proud of them!

Upcoming Dates:
Monday May 13th - Swimming lessons
Wednesday May 15th - Swimming lessons
Thursday May 16th - School Dance
Friday May 17th - No School/PD Day

April 29th - May 2nd

Our class did an amazing job with the Read-A-Thon.  The grade 1 and 2 classes raised around $2800!  What an accomplishment.  We have moved onto Freezie Friday and this is proving to already be a success!

This week we got a new PWIM poster and we are working with a sorting app on the IPAD.  Ask your child about our poster and the app.

Next week we will be starting swimming on Wednesday.  Please email me or write a note in the agenda if you have your criminal record check completed and are able to help out at the pool.  We go every Monday and Wednesday afternoon for the next month.

Upcoming Dates
Monday May 6th:
Author Visit at 9:00am
Music Monday Assembly at 10:00am

Wednesday May 8th:
Swimming Lessons

Friday May 10th:
Freezie Friday

April 22nd - April 25th

We have been studying contractions.  We have been busy making a contraction booklet that your child will share with you next week.  Point out contractions when you are reading with your child at home!

This week we did can experiment called the Shaving Cream Debate.  We tried to figure out if shaving cream is a liquid, solid, or gas. Here were some thoughts:

"It is a solid because a liquid drips from your hand.  Solids don't."
"It's a liquids because it takes the shape of a container."
"I think it is a solid because if you leave it over night it hardens"

Upcoming Dates:
Monday April 29th: RETURN YOUR READ-A-THON forms today!
Friday May 3rd: Read -a-thon celebration and Freezie Friday.

The grade 2s will be selling freezies every Friday to raise money for the splash park.  Freezies will be $1.00 each.  If you would like to help with this project you can send a box of jumbo freezies to school.  We will be selling freezies on May 3rd, 10th, 24th, 31st, June 7th and 13th.

There will be a pancake breakfast on May 31st and all money raised will go towards the splash park!

April 15th - April 19th

This week we have started a unit on Data Analysis (graphing).  We will be working on this unit while we continue to work on an Addition and Subtraction unit to 100.  Here is a website that you can use to print off drill and practice worksheets if you are interested. http://www.math-drills.com/

We are going to be working on a our Liquids and Solids unit for the next 2 weeks and then we will start a unit on Nutrition.  With our nutrition unit comes some cooking which ties in nicely with Liquids and Solids! 

Everyone has been sharing many wonderful stories about all of the reading they have been doing at home!  Keep it up grade 2! Please return reading logs and money on April 29th. We can't wait to see what our total will be!!  Stay tuned for details for our May fundraising idea!

We had the chance to see Fred Penner on Friday.  It was a great performance and the kids had a blast.  Most enjoyed the song Sandwiches the best.

The tragedy in Boston has left some kids asking questions and talking in our classroom.  Here is a link to an article that discusses talking about the situation. 

http://globalnews.ca/news/484913/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-the-boston-marathon-bombings/

Enjoy your weekend and give extra hugs to your loved ones!

Upcoming Dates
NO SCHOOL on Friday April 26th (PD DAY)

April 8th - April 12th

This week we were lucky to have two anti-bullying presentations.  The first was done by two of our senior students, Kayla and Erica.  They read us a story and we had a great class discussion.

The next presentation was on Friday.  Keith Shologan from the Riders came out to do a presentation for us.

Our READ-A-THON has started!  Keep reading and don't forget to return your forms on April 29th.  All money raised will go to the splash park in our community. Check out how we are doing here:
http://aecgrade2communityproject.wordpress.com/

Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday April 16th:
- Cookie Order Pick up
Thursday April 18th:
- WINTER FUN DAY: Outdoor winter afternoon activities
Friday April 19:
- Fred Penner Concert- Please make sure to bring two small lunches on this day.
- Book Orders due.

April

The blog will be updated on Monday April 15th!  Thanks for checking!

March 18th - March 22

We started the week with by graphing Lucky Charms.  We worked on this project with many other primary classes.  Check out the results page here.   http://www.projectsbyjen.com/Projects/LC13/LC13_results.html   It is so nice to see that other students far away learn the same skills that we do.

Our gift basket raffle is a hit!  We are excited to find out the total.  Mr. MacKenzie even bought some tickets.  Mr. MacKenzie also gave us $1000 for our project!  Check out the video here at the splash park website!
 

It was so nice to see you all at the Celebration of Learning.  I know your child was happy to show you their learning!

Next Week:

No School March 29th - April 5th (school resumes April 8th)

March 11th - 15th

This week we have been working on some community art and writing.   We can't wait to share them with you on our Celebration of Learning Day!  Here are a few snap shots!

We are getting ready for our next fundraising activity.  We will be selling raffle tickets for gift baskets next week!  Some of the grade 2's helped make these baskets and they did a great job!

Next Week
March 18th -22 : We will be selling raffle tickets for the baskets.  Tickets are 50 cents each!

March 19th - Winter Fun Day (dress for an outdoor afternoon!)

March 21st  - Mrs. Sanchuck away at a math conference.

March 22nd - Celebration of Learning Day (No school for students)

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING CONFERENCE 

Dear Parents,

On March 22, 2013 the Grade Two classes will be holding a Celebration of Learning.  You may visit our classroom anytime on this day from 8:30AM to 12:00PM or 1:00PM – 4:00PM. 

The Celebration of Learning is a demonstration conference where students have the opportunity to share their expertise in several subject areas with their parents.  Our classroom will be set up with various stations that both the students and parents work through together. 

Your child will lead their conference and direct you through each station.  Parents will have the opportunity to see firsthand the areas of study that we are working on and the strengths of their child.

Throughout this demonstration conference time I will be available to answer any questions that you may have. 

I hope you enjoy our Celebration of Learning!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Sanchuck

February 25th - March 1st

Our week started off with a Cool Kids Who care presentation.  The presenter did some magic tricks while explaining that cool kids care and don't bully.  

We have been working on our community project this week.  We learned about what a community is and we went for a walk around our community.  We stopped to take a picture at the home of the future splash park!

We have started working on our next fundraising idea.  A note was sent home this week.  Please let me know if you did not receive it.   We are also building our own 3D community.  Please send any small boxes you have at home.

We are wrapping up our unit on addition and subtraction to 18.  You can help your child by practicing basic math facts at home.  

Next Week:
March 6th - 
Book Orders Due
Outdoor Integration Afternoon (students are put into groups and work through different stations)
March  7th - No School
March 8th - No School
March 15th - Report Cards go home
March 22nd - Three Way Conferences
FYI: We have swimming lessons scheduled for May.  I will send home the note in April. 

Feb 19 - Feb 22

This week we worked on addition and subtraction mysteries in math.  For example, ___+ 3 = 10 and 15 - ___ =7.  You can continue to work on these at home with your child.  Some use numberlines and counters to help them, others have their own mental math strategies that they use.

Our community project is still a hot topic in our room.  There has been talk about making some gift baskets to raffle.  Stay tuned for details.  We created a collection jug for students at the school to add some spare change.  Thank you to the Price family for donating the jug!

We started to make a community book that shows us our community, city, province and country.  I put a few pictures of the school on the data projector and they drew their own.  Everyone did an amazing job!  Here are a few examples.

Here are some pictures of our toothpick art from last week.

February 11th - 15th

We have had a very exciting week in our class.  The highlight has been our candy guess.  Everyone worked two recesses and it was a fabulous learning experience. The candy guess raised $296.70.  We are not sure how we got this total since every guess was 50 cents! Kayen has donated $20, Matthew has donated $40 and Mr. MacKenzie gave us $20 for this project.  In total we have raised $376.70 for the splash park in our community.  We have learned so much from this project...everything from advertising to counting coins!  Thank you to everyone that sent candy and thank you to the Price family who sent some money for supplies for future fundraisers!  Stay tuned for our next great idea!  Today there was talk of pizza sales, burger sales, lemonade sales, Easter baskets, jellybean candy guess, freezie sales, TCBY sales, and of course the talent show! Your children are full of ideas! They think big and that is awesome! 

It was the 100th day of school on February 12th.  Stay tuned for pictures of our toothpick art!

There is no school on Monday February 18th.  Have a memorable family weekend and I look forward to hearing about it on Tuesday!

Feb 4th - Feb 8th

I just wanted to thank all of the families that sent candy for our candy guess next week.  Everyone is very excited about our first fundraiser.  Here we are making signs to advertise our sale!

Our trip to Boggy Creek was an adventure indeed!  There was a ton of snow to hike through.  Our guide did a science experiment with us using pretend mice.  We gathered wood and built a fire for lunch.  We played a game called "Chuck the Chicken".  We attempted to climb and large snow hill too.  Thank you to our parent helpers for coming on the field trip! 

Next week we will be celebrating the 100th day of school.  Please return your 100 day homework bottle by February 11th.
February 12th: 100th Day of School and book orders are due. 
Valentines Day is on February 14th: A list of names was sent home with your child.
No School on February 18th: Family Day