Happy Halloween

Even with a short morning, it was a busy and fun day in Grade 2.  

We wish everyone a safe and fun Halloween and will see you back at school on Monday!  

Science Building Materials
Thank you to the friends who already brought in some materials for our building activity next week.
We are needing some building materials for Science next week.  Cereal boxes, cracker boxes or empty (or full) Halloween candy boxes would be some excellent cardboard material.  We are also looking for tin foil, wax paper, and styrofoam trays.  Please make sure the materials are clean and do not have any food waste :)  

Photo orders are due Nov 5!

Funny Day

Here are some of the highlights from the day:
Today we worked on analyzing a piece of Ted Harrison's work for art - Muhammad
In Phys Ed we played Rodeo Round up and I got to be it, and we focused on our galloping skills - Grace D
In math we worked on a math ticket about the Zoo and we were drawing animals to match the number of legs that the zookeeper saw.  Some people picked their own number of legs between 13 - 20 - Zoie

Halloween Tomorrow!  Feel free to wear your costume or your pajamas.
It is a half day!  Don't forget

Photo Proofs are going home today!  So cute.  

We are also looking for and needing some building materials for Science next week.  Cereal boxes, cracker boxes or empty (or full) Halloween candy boxes would be some excellent cardboard material.  We are also looking for tin foil, wax paper, and styrofoam trays.  Please make sure the materials are clean and do not have any food waste :)  

Tuesday Oct 29

Highlights from our day:
Today we learned about the winters in the the Arctic.  We learned that the sun never sets in the summer and the sun never rises on the shortest day of winter - Muhammad
In Art we finished our Ted Harrison paintings - Cassia
In math we worked on a math ticket and there were 10 marbles and we had to solve which ones were yellow and which ones were green by reading the ordinal numbers (2nd, 3rd, 5th). - Zoie

In Phys Ed we played a game with jumping like frogs and jumping from lily pad to lily pad and the other class was throwing balls to try and hit us.   -Easton and Chase 

Check out our visual journals pages and the different geographical factors we learned about the Arctic.  

Ted Harrison Painting

This afternoon, we started painting our Ted Harrison inspired Landscapes.  We focused on creating bright and bold colours.  

Art Day

In Art, we learned about Ted Harrison again and we worked on recreating an art piece of our own based on his artistic painting style - Muhammad
In Phys Ed we had a guest teacher and we played Rodeo Roundup and Catch Me if You Can - Cayden
In writing we worked on our monster writing with our friend and I wrote about the red monster and it's nails - Grace D
In art I made a picture like Ted Harrison and I drew mountains and the ocean - Brooklyn 

Check out the video of the News Update for November.   

Next week is a very busy week, even though it will be a short one!  Enjoy your weekend.   

Us working with our partners on our descriptive monster writing and sharing our work with the class.  Ask your child about their monster and what it looked like.  

Fun Lunch Day!

Here are the highlights from Thursday:
In music we had boomwackers and we played a song with them - Thandi
In Art we learned about Ted Harrison and his art and what his art is about.  Ask your parents if they know who Ted Harrison is - Muhammad
We had Pizza fun lunch today - Cayden 
In math we worked on a math problem with ordinal numbers - Lauren 
We learned about the weather in Nunavut.  Ask your child, does it snow a lot in the Arctic?  (It actually doesn't snow as much as you might think, and part of the Arctic is actually an polar desert).

Here is a word problem that your child can work on to show their understanding of ordinal numbers.  
Math blog ticket problem:n
Ryder has 10 lollipops.  Some are purple and some are orange.  The 2nd, 5th, 9th, and 3rd lollipops are purple.  What lollipops are orange.   The rest are orange.  Are there more purple or orange lollipops.  



Some examples of using pictures, numbers, words and number sentences to explain our math thinking for our word problem today.

Some of our visual journals showing our learning about the weather in the Arctic.  

FunDAY Wednesday

Here are some of the highlights from Wednesday:
In our Visual Journals we divided a page into 4 squares and then we drew pictures about the water in the Arctic.  We then learned about the Vegetation in the Arctic and drew pictures about what makes it special in the Arctic - Cayden
In Phys Ed we played Catch Me if you Can again - Grace D
In math we learned a new math game for tomorrow called Contig - Lauren and Grace T

Blog Check:
Ask your child to explain to you what Permafrost is.  You can also talk about the tundra and what the tree line is!  

Please note that the Learning Commons will not be open for the rest of the week, so please enjoy the books that your child has a home for a few more days!

Tuesday Funday

Here's some of what we did today:
Today we got pictures and we discussed about what they looked like and they were pictures about the Arctic - Muhammad
We had Phys Ed and we played a game of passing a ball back and forth and when the whistle blew if you had the ball you had to chase the other person - Grace D
In math we worked on a math ticket about lockers and you had to figure out the order of the lockers, to work on our ordinal numbers (4th, 7th, 10th) - Cassia
We exchanged our books in our bins during Read to Self - Zoie
At snack time we had Ryan from the TASC room join us.  He is going to be joining us every week for a bit of time iin our class so he can learn how to sit with larger groups of people.  We are a special class to be chose to help with this - Vanessa 

Blog Ticket:
Ask your child to tell you about 3 different pictures that we discussed about the Arctic today.  Have them write down the 3 things they shared and talk to you about and bring back the ticket!  

Exciting MONday!

Here are some of the highlights from our Monday:
We went on computers today and we went on Epic! - Lauren
In Social Studies we learned more about Nunavut.  It has ice and snow.  We learned that is has the largest archipelago. - Muhammad and Grace D 
Blog Ticket! 
Ask your child what an archipelago is (and how to say that word!).  Have them write down the answer that they explain to you.  If your child brings in their answer, it's the blog ticket for the day!
In art, we worked on our Beautiful Oops (round 2) which started with a piece of paper of some sort on them.  Ask your child what they drew! - Zoie 
In math, we worked on numbers to help tell us the order of numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd).  Practise with ordering some things tonight at home!  

Fun Social Studies Exporing

Here are some of the things we learned and did today:
We had Phys Ed and we played a tag game called Line Tag and we played Scorpion to build our dodging skills - Hugo
Some of us were in Ozobot club and we got robots and they are shaped like half a circle and you got special markers and paper to draw patterns and lines for the ozobot to follow - Muhammad
We read more books and explored more about Nunavut.  We learned that it is the largest territory in Canada.  It also is part of the mainland but has many islands too! 

Tomorrow is a half day 

Some of our work from throughout the week, as we have been learning about Nunavut and the Arctic.
Ask your child to tell you one thing they have learned so far about the Arctic.  

Picture Day

Here are a few highlights from Picture Day today:
We went to the gym to have our pictures taken - Hanna
Today was our first time having Phys Ed outside in Grade 2 and we played a game with gold and you had to steal gold from the other teams - Cayden 
In math we worked on a math problem about turtles and finding out how many turtles Cassia had left after selling some turtles to her friends - Zoie

We also spent our afternoon talking and discussing why we think people might have decided to live in the Arctic.  This is a very complex questions and has left us with more questions like, what did people eat?  What did people wear for clothes?  What did people build their houses out of?  How did people live in the cold weather?  Feel free to keep the conversation going at home.

We watched a few videos of the Arctic, which gave us more ideas about what the land looks like.  We then worked on our Arctic flap in our visual journals and added words and pictures to describe the land.  

Ozobot Club starts tomorrow! 

Passage to the Arctic

Highlights from our Tuesday back after the long weekend:
Today in Social Studies we took a boat to Iqaluit.  We are now set to explore and learn more about this unique area of Canada, the land there and why people might have decided to live there.  We asked ourselves the question, Why Would People Live in the Arctic - Thandi and Ms. Gardner 
In art, we drew a picture of the Arctic tundra in our Visual Journals - Cayden 
In Phys Ed we played a game with a group and one person the scorpion in the middle and we had to try to tag them on the back and if they got tagged 5 times, you had to switch.  The game was called Scorpion tag.  

Picture Day tomorrow!  Don't Forget

We are outside for Phys Ed in the morning, and you need to dress warmly for being outside.  

Happy Long Weekend!

Highlights from the day:
We had Phys Ed and we played Fish and Frogs - Hugo
We had music and we did some music notes - Aiden T
Today we worked Art and we finished up our Beautiful Oops with a splash of paint - Muhammad
In writing, we were fixing up and adding sensory words to our writing about fall - Cayden
We had Social Studies and we made a flip book in our Visual Journals with 3 sections.  We will continue next week - Grace D
We listened to Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and listened for all sensory words.  Ask me to tell you what happened from the beginning, middle and end of the story - Zoie 

Enjoy the movie this evening if you are attending! 

Book orders are going home.  Please return by Oct 28th.

Have a wonderful long weekend.  

Friends of 10

Highlights from our day:

In Phys Ed we played Fish and Frogs - Lauren

In Art we made a Beautiful Oops with the start of a splatter of paint - Cayden

In math we used a new tool called Shakers and we used the shaker to find the Friends of 10. (You can check out the picture of the game and shaker below!)  We also worked on a word problem about towers - Zoie

Today in math we were worked on a math ticket(problem) about a tower.  We had to draw the towers to figure out who had the tallest one - Muhammad 

I can apply mental math strategies for basic addition facts to 18

For math, we continue to practise our Friends of 10.  Friends of 10 are the 2 "friendly numbers" that when added together make 10.  For example: 8 +2, 6 + 4, 7 + 3 

This is one of our mental math strategies that we need to continue to develop and practise.  You can easily practise at home as well, and can just use a single dice or a deck of cards!  

Blog ticket! - Bring in a paper that shows that you practised your "Friends of 10" addition at home

Exploring the Land in Canada

Highlights from our Tuesday:
We played a new game in Phys Ed called Jump, Leap, Hop, Creep and we played a game called Fish Vs. Kangaroos - Zoie
Before we had Phys Ed we were solving math questions with money - Cayden
Today, we continued to look at the picture of the land from the East Coast, the Prairies and the North and brainstormed what makes the land unique in each of these places.  

Math Check:
Tonight, practise skip counting the coin money in your mom and dad's wallet tonight - count the nickels and dimes - How much is in their wallets? 
Bring in one total from a wallet for a teacher check!
We continue to practise skip counting by 5s and 10s.  Your child should be able to start at different starting numbers other than 10 and 5.  For example:  Counting by 5s starting at 35 - 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60....
For 5s the number should still end with a 0 or 5.
For counting by 10s, they should be able to start at any number between 0 - 100, and we try to NOT practise with numbers that end with 0.  For example:  Counting by 10s starting at 27 - 27, 37, 47, 57, 67, 77... 
These are good counting skills to practise at home or in the call on a daily basis and help your child's growing understanding of numbers and number sense to 100.  

3 Regions of Canada Exploring!

Here are some of the highlights from our Monday:

We started a discussion about 3 areas of Canada and we were each given a photograph and looked at where we think they belong in Canada:  The North, The East Coast or The Prairies - Grace T

We had computers and we went on Raz-kids and onto the website Epic Books! - Aykut

In Social Studies we had to sort and discuss each of our pictures as a group and had to see if it belonged in the North, The East Coast or the Prairies- Vanessa

At the end of the day we had Music.  Ask me what happened in Music today - Cayden

We had math and we looked at number sentences and talked about strategies to quickly and efficiently solve them and shared our strategies - Aiden R

Check out our photo sorts of the land from our Social Studies this afternoon:

I can discover where Inuit, Acadian and prairie communities are located in Canada

I can recognize what geographic factors determined the establishment of each community - soil, water and climate 

An important notice about the playground is going home with oldest siblings this afternoon.  

Fun Day Paint Day

Highlights from Friday:

Today we did our Roxaboxen art.  First we drew a sketch, then we coloured it with wax crayons and then painted over top to create the ground and sky - Muhammad

We had Phys Ed and we played Ninja School and we needed to be quiet and if Ms. Nanavaty turned around and caught us we had to restart - Aiden R

In math we practised using the beaded number lines and we had a question we had to solve and write down the counting patterns on a whiteboard - Cayden

We did our art first thing in the morning and painted our pictures at the end of the day - Vanessa

Those in Ozobot club have a slip of paper going home with them today and telling your child what days the club will be on!