Happy Tuesday!
This morning, after Daily 5, we continues the 5 different tasks with our word wall words. There were a lot of words work through, so it was nice to have 2 days to try all the tasks. Among doing all our work, we went and got our pictures taken.
We also had library today. We still need to work on remembering to return our library books each week so that we can sign out a new one. Library is every Tuesday morning.
Following library, we finally had another chance to read some more of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The last time Mrs G read to us, Violet ate a piece of gum that wasn't ready yet and turned into a blueberry! Ask me what happened in the book today.
All afternoon we had science with the other two classes, to finish up our magnetic machines for Mr Willy Wonka. First, we were given one last half hour to completely finish building our machine with our partners. Then, we started writing a letter to Mr Willy Wonka. We had to write about who we are, a description of our machine, and why he should chose each of our machines specifically. While some groups were testing their machines, the rest of us started writing our letters. Tomorrow we will switch duties.
Reminders:
-Home reading tonight. Please complete and return to school tomorrow.
-Practice word wall words
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Monday, 19 October 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Welcome back to another beautiful and busy Fall day.
This morning we started reviewing all 50 word wall words. There were 5 different ways we could practice them: rainbow write, pyramid write, across and down, vowels blue, and fancy writing. Ask me how to do each and I will show you. Mrs. G typed up the words for each of us to bring home so that we can practice in the evenings too.
Today was the last day with our Artist, Mrs. Stables. We split into smaller groups and met with her in the learning commons to put together our big, final project, using a variety of numeration strategies. We can't wait for all you to see the final project at the Winter celebration!
While half of us were working with Mrs. Stables, the rest of us did some "ketchups"
Home reading is coming home today. Each student has their own labeled bag. Inside the bag is a book, that your child chose to read to you, as well as 3 papers - one is the cover page, page 2 is a list of comprehension questions that you can ask following reading the book (you do not have to ask all the questions every night, however 2 or 3 would be good), and a log to fill in. Please return all items, in the bag, to school the following day, completed. I will check the log to see if it was completed, if so, I will put a sticker or stamp next to the parent signature and a new book will be chosen; if not, the book will be sent home again, as I will assume it did not get read the first evening.
This program is intended to help your child build reading fluency, comprehension, and develop a joy of reading. It will also help to keep you on track as to how your child is doing. Some of the books might be a little too easy or a little too hard, this is a good variation for the students to be challenged but still have confidence. However if you are noticing a trend that is not working, please let me know and I will adjust the program accordingly.
Reminders:
-Library tomorrow, please return books!
-Tomorrow is Picture Day
-Fun lunch forms are due back tomorrow
This morning we started reviewing all 50 word wall words. There were 5 different ways we could practice them: rainbow write, pyramid write, across and down, vowels blue, and fancy writing. Ask me how to do each and I will show you. Mrs. G typed up the words for each of us to bring home so that we can practice in the evenings too.
Today was the last day with our Artist, Mrs. Stables. We split into smaller groups and met with her in the learning commons to put together our big, final project, using a variety of numeration strategies. We can't wait for all you to see the final project at the Winter celebration!
While half of us were working with Mrs. Stables, the rest of us did some "ketchups"
Home reading is coming home today. Each student has their own labeled bag. Inside the bag is a book, that your child chose to read to you, as well as 3 papers - one is the cover page, page 2 is a list of comprehension questions that you can ask following reading the book (you do not have to ask all the questions every night, however 2 or 3 would be good), and a log to fill in. Please return all items, in the bag, to school the following day, completed. I will check the log to see if it was completed, if so, I will put a sticker or stamp next to the parent signature and a new book will be chosen; if not, the book will be sent home again, as I will assume it did not get read the first evening.
This program is intended to help your child build reading fluency, comprehension, and develop a joy of reading. It will also help to keep you on track as to how your child is doing. Some of the books might be a little too easy or a little too hard, this is a good variation for the students to be challenged but still have confidence. However if you are noticing a trend that is not working, please let me know and I will adjust the program accordingly.
Reminders:
-Library tomorrow, please return books!
-Tomorrow is Picture Day
-Fun lunch forms are due back tomorrow
Friday, 16 October 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
Happy Friday!
Today was a very busy day with getting work completed.
Following Daily 5 we had our word wall quiz. Did you know that we now know how to spell and read 50 words!? They are all on our word wall, below the white board. We will be practicing all 50 words all next week, then on Friday, we will be having a big quiz of all the words. This will help to us to remember how to spell the words so far, before they get even more difficult.
After recess we had some time to continue working on our measurement booklet. Today is the last day for this opportunity. If it does not get done in class, it will have to come home to be completed, as we have been given more then 2 hours to get this work done. However, we did work pretty good with our partners today.
This afternoon we started by reading to ourselves for 10 minutes. It was a nice time to look at the books in our classroom library and cool down from lunch.
Then we went into a writing activity for health. A few weeks ago we did some work around the pillars of care, and everyday we are reminded of them. So today, we did some reflecting. We wrote about what we have been doing well and how, and what we need to improve and how we will do that.
Reminders:
-Home reading will start going home on Monday
-Library on Tuesday, please return library books
-Picture Day is Tuesday
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
This week sure is flying by!
We were very busy this morning practicing our word wall words for tomorrows quiz and finishing up our Thanksgiving Recounts. To practice our word wall words, we wrote them using rainbow writing. Ask me how we did it and I'll show you as practice tonight at home!
The Thanksgiving Recount is a summary of our long weekend in the form of a booklet. We had to write 5 sentences, giving each one a detailed picture.
After recess the artist, Mrs. Stables, was with us again. Today, we finished drawing our machines, then using a marker to trace the inside of every line we drew, and finishing it off by using water to spread the marker color around. The final product looks like water color paint and very cool. Next week we will be putting all of these pictures together to make one big mural.
This afternoon, we started with music. Mr. Rattan says we are doing very well with learning and understanding musical notes.
Following music we had Math. We continued working through our measurement booklets that we started last week. Just to remind you we are learning how to measure objects using both non-standard (objects) and standard (ruler) units of measurement.
We also had to finish writing out our math goals for the year. After choosing one, last week, we wrote one sentence stating what we are good at and what we could improve on for that specific goal. Mrs G will use these sentences to develop our learning plans for the year and come up with strategies to help us achieve these goals my the end of Grade 2.
Reminders:
-Picture day is Tuesday, October 20th - note coming home today
-Bring a large ziploc bag for home reading books
-Raz-Kids is available to all students now - letter and login information coming home today
-Fun lunch forms are due back next week
We were very busy this morning practicing our word wall words for tomorrows quiz and finishing up our Thanksgiving Recounts. To practice our word wall words, we wrote them using rainbow writing. Ask me how we did it and I'll show you as practice tonight at home!
The Thanksgiving Recount is a summary of our long weekend in the form of a booklet. We had to write 5 sentences, giving each one a detailed picture.
After recess the artist, Mrs. Stables, was with us again. Today, we finished drawing our machines, then using a marker to trace the inside of every line we drew, and finishing it off by using water to spread the marker color around. The final product looks like water color paint and very cool. Next week we will be putting all of these pictures together to make one big mural.
This afternoon, we started with music. Mr. Rattan says we are doing very well with learning and understanding musical notes.
Following music we had Math. We continued working through our measurement booklets that we started last week. Just to remind you we are learning how to measure objects using both non-standard (objects) and standard (ruler) units of measurement.
We also had to finish writing out our math goals for the year. After choosing one, last week, we wrote one sentence stating what we are good at and what we could improve on for that specific goal. Mrs G will use these sentences to develop our learning plans for the year and come up with strategies to help us achieve these goals my the end of Grade 2.
Reminders:
-Picture day is Tuesday, October 20th - note coming home today
-Bring a large ziploc bag for home reading books
-Raz-Kids is available to all students now - letter and login information coming home today
-Fun lunch forms are due back next week
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Welcome back! Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather.
We got a new list of word wall words today, and we noticed a number of different word families and that we have already become experts with some of the words from already studying them. Our 2 lists this week are as follows:
-can -add
-pan -ask
-man -came
-cat -name
-sat -ride
-as -bone
-had -save
-sit -kite
-six -cute
-ran -mine
In the first list, we noticed the 'an' family with the words can, pan, man, and ran. There is also the 'at' family with words cat and sat. In the second word list there is the 'ame' family with words came and name, we also came up with fame, tame, shame, and game. We also took note that the second list has 8 words with a bossy e at the end that makes all the vowel letters say their name instead of sound. Keeping these little tricks in mind help us when sounding out and writing new words.
After Phys Ed we did a writing activity about our Thanksgiving weekend. It consisted of 3 papers folder over each other to make a little flip book. We had to write 5 sentences and and draw a picture for each sentence.
Following recess we had our first time block with the artist, Mrs. Stables. Ask me what we did with her today, because we started a pretty cool project!
We finally finished our oompa loompa art! They all look so good and unique.
Reminders:
-Please return library books so a new one can be signed out
-Please bring a large ziploc bag for home reading books
We got a new list of word wall words today, and we noticed a number of different word families and that we have already become experts with some of the words from already studying them. Our 2 lists this week are as follows:
-can -add
-pan -ask
-man -came
-cat -name
-sat -ride
-as -bone
-had -save
-sit -kite
-six -cute
-ran -mine
In the first list, we noticed the 'an' family with the words can, pan, man, and ran. There is also the 'at' family with words cat and sat. In the second word list there is the 'ame' family with words came and name, we also came up with fame, tame, shame, and game. We also took note that the second list has 8 words with a bossy e at the end that makes all the vowel letters say their name instead of sound. Keeping these little tricks in mind help us when sounding out and writing new words.
After Phys Ed we did a writing activity about our Thanksgiving weekend. It consisted of 3 papers folder over each other to make a little flip book. We had to write 5 sentences and and draw a picture for each sentence.
Following recess we had our first time block with the artist, Mrs. Stables. Ask me what we did with her today, because we started a pretty cool project!
We finally finished our oompa loompa art! They all look so good and unique.
Reminders:
-Please return library books so a new one can be signed out
-Please bring a large ziploc bag for home reading books
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Happy Long weekend!
We started off the morning with our word wall quiz. Once again, we did pretty good. Next week the words start to get a little more difficult.
After our quiz, we did some goal setting in math. As a class, we brainstormed 9 different goals of areas in math that we could continue to work on and improve on all year long. A few of the goals we came up with are:
-not writing numbers backwards
-explain our thinking
-skip counting (by 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, etc.) through writing and speaking
-use different ways and more then one way to show answers to questions
Once we complied our list of goals, we came up with strategies, that we will actually use, as ways we can work towards each goal. Finally, we each chose one of those goals and wrote it on a sticky note for Mrs. G to add to our personal learning plans.
This afternoon we did some more math, but a continuation in measurement. With a partner, we worked our way through a booklet that had a variety of measuring activities in it. We had to use both non-standard and standard units of measurement.
To end off the day, we were given another chance to build our magnetic machine with the Grade 2s from the other classes. They are really coming together and we can't wait to test them out.
Reminders:
-Fun lunch form went home today.
-Library on Tuesday, please return books.
-Home reading will be starting mid next week, please bring a large ziploc bag
Happy Thanksgiving!
We started off the morning with our word wall quiz. Once again, we did pretty good. Next week the words start to get a little more difficult.
After our quiz, we did some goal setting in math. As a class, we brainstormed 9 different goals of areas in math that we could continue to work on and improve on all year long. A few of the goals we came up with are:
-not writing numbers backwards
-explain our thinking
-skip counting (by 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, etc.) through writing and speaking
-use different ways and more then one way to show answers to questions
Once we complied our list of goals, we came up with strategies, that we will actually use, as ways we can work towards each goal. Finally, we each chose one of those goals and wrote it on a sticky note for Mrs. G to add to our personal learning plans.
This afternoon we did some more math, but a continuation in measurement. With a partner, we worked our way through a booklet that had a variety of measuring activities in it. We had to use both non-standard and standard units of measurement.
To end off the day, we were given another chance to build our magnetic machine with the Grade 2s from the other classes. They are really coming together and we can't wait to test them out.
Reminders:
-Fun lunch form went home today.
-Library on Tuesday, please return books.
-Home reading will be starting mid next week, please bring a large ziploc bag
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Tomorrow is our word wall words quiz! Today we practiced our words by playing Bingo, Mrs. G even played the game with us. In the end we all won by getting a black out.
This afternoon, we focused on math. We reviewed what non-standard units of measurement were, what kinds of objects we could use to measure things, and how using different objects have different results.
Then, we moved on to standard units of measure. At school, we will mostly use a 30cm long ruler. We learned that there are a few rulers when using a ruler;
-measure bumper to bumper (not having spaces between each progression with the ruler)
-measure in a straight line
-don't overlap the ruler
Everyone did very well with measure a variety of item around the classroom. Help me to practice measuring at home too, using both units of measure (standard and non-standard).
Reminders:
-Tomorrow is the last day of swimming
-October book orders are due tomorrow
-No school for students on Friday or Monday
This afternoon, we focused on math. We reviewed what non-standard units of measurement were, what kinds of objects we could use to measure things, and how using different objects have different results.
Then, we moved on to standard units of measure. At school, we will mostly use a 30cm long ruler. We learned that there are a few rulers when using a ruler;
-measure bumper to bumper (not having spaces between each progression with the ruler)
-measure in a straight line
-don't overlap the ruler
Everyone did very well with measure a variety of item around the classroom. Help me to practice measuring at home too, using both units of measure (standard and non-standard).
Reminders:
-Tomorrow is the last day of swimming
-October book orders are due tomorrow
-No school for students on Friday or Monday
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