It was a pretty good start to a new year and almost second half in Grade 2. It sure was nice to see everyone again and I hope you all enjoyed every bit of your holiday!
We got right down to work today by kicking off the day with a morning meeting. We went through our calendar and made all the appropriate changes and discovered today was the 72nd day of school! Where has the time gone. Ask me how many days until it is the 100th day of school..
Before Phys. Ed. we had a talking circle about our holiday. Mrs. G has a white, glass owl that we passed around from person to person, in a circle. When one person was holding the owl it was their turn to talk and everyone else was respectfully listening. We each had about 2 minutes to talk about their holiday. Ask me what I told everyone!
Following Phys. Ed. we went right into spelling. After reviewing the words with Ms. Cokar, we then wrote out the words and used them in sentences in our Language Arts books. Tomorrow we will have time to complete them and get it corrected by Mrs. G. For practice tonight, lets work together to find the similarities and differences between the words. We could even make lists of the family words.. We forgot to write down our words to bring home, so they are listed below!
Group A: hill, bell, fell, ball, fall, mall, tell, will, still, doll
Group B: less, tell, well, will, still, off, letter, little, silly, happy
After recess we had library. It has been a while since we actually had library time, so it was nice to look around again. Mr. G really likes how some of us are asking for certain books to read and seeing that we are making appropriate choices when choosing books (choosing books that are a little bit challenging but we are still able to read). To end our time there, Mrs. G even picked out a book and read it to us. It was called Jungle Bullies. The book had a good message that helped remind us how we can care for others and care for self.
Before lunch we had some time to do journal writing about our holiday. However we did not get much time so we were given more time after lunch to complete it. Some of us did not complete the work in the time allocated so it has come home for homework tonight. Make sure you check with me to see if I have it because it needs to come back to school tomorrow.
To end the day we continued with our novel study, The One and Only Ivan. We had a short discussion on everything we could remember about the book so far. Then we read a few more chapters. Ivan is really getting deep into his project to protect and save Ruby. Tomorrow we will be completing an activity around what Ivan is doing for Ruby.
Reminders:
-Home reading will start going home tomorrow again. Reminder that it is to be completed every night, log filled out, and sent back to school every day to receive a new book. You may see some books repeat this week and next week as we warm back up to the work.
-Music recorder form coming home today. If you wish your child to participate and receive one, please return the form by Monday, January 11th, at the latest.
-Parents, if you wish to volunteer in the classroom please send me an email at algrunert@cbe.ab.ca and we can work out a schedule or other times for you to come. I would love to have you in!
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