Happy Hump Day!

We have made it over the hump of the week; soon, the weekend will be here!

Our word wall quiz is on Friday. As practice today, each group did something different! One group had to unscramble their words and draw pictures of a couple of words, another group did fill in the blanks and created their own stories, and the last group created a story using their words. We will continue this work tomorrow.

Today was pink shirt day! We finished watching Horton Hears a Who with the Grade 1s. After brainstorming what pink shirt day is all about and discussing ways to be kind and respectful towards other, we put these ideas on a pink shirt of our own. These will get put up around the classroom to remind us daily of our actions and how we can stand up to bullies. Three girls from the GRade 3/4 classes came to us today and performed a number of skits on what bullying is and we can do in different situations.

This afternoon we continued graphing. Following a quick review of what we learned yesterday, we joined a partner and created our own graphs. They were a little different today though, we are graphing things from around our classroom.

To end off the day, we started our science unit. We joined the other Grade 2 classes and started filling in a KWL chart. So far, we can only fill in the K and the W because there isn't a lot we have learned yet. Our science unit now is Hot and Cold. Some things we already know about hot and cold are:
-hot can melt things
-cold can freeze things
-fever comes from a body being very, very hot
-heat can reflect off things
Some questions we have for the unit are:
-what makes hot, hot and cold, cold?
-why/how does air get hot and/or cold?
-what is the sun made up of? is there real fire on the sun?
Tomorrow we will add a few more questions to the W section and watch an introduction video!

Tomorrow is our field trip. Please return forms first thing in the morning if you haven't already.

Reminders:
-Music on Friday, bring recorders - Due to students often forgetting their recorder, Mr. Rattan has requested that they stay at school full time. This will allow students to be able to fully participate in music every day.
-Early dismissal on Friday at 11:00am
-Fun lunch is Monday NOT tomorrow