Monday February 25

Students have been hard at work on projects that will be sharing this THURSDAY at our Grade 2 Celebration of Learning. We are really looking forward to seeing everyone there. Doors will open at 6:15 for a 6:30 start.

Today we had a very busy getting ready for our Celebration of Learning. We worked on completing good copies of our writing and some of our art pieces.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Friday February 21

Today we had buddies and we showed the kindergarten students how we read to someone. We did a fantastic job!

In art we began our charcoal sketched of an animal skull.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Wednesday February 19th

Today in math we recorded our increasing patterns and explaining our work.

In writing we worked on the good copies of our acrostic poems.

We also had a very special presentation from our eco leaders club. We thought about what we are going to learn about water and why we need to share what we learn with the people at the Mayor's expo in June.

In art we continued to work on our skull sketches then choose our best one.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Tuesday February 18

In math we continued to work on increasing patterns and began think about how we could figure out what the 10th spot might be based on the pattern we noticed.

Today in writing we worked at completing good copies of either The important thing about Ralph Klein Park or a brief write up about their Ton Schulten art.

In art we where very busy completing our landscape art and started working on larger scale sketching of skulls. We worked extremely hard at sketching with our eyes and identifying where we should include shading.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Tuesday February 11th

Important Reminder:

Early dismissal tomorrow at 11:45

Valentines:

We will be having a small celebration for Valentine's Day tomorrow.  It is your child's and family's choice if you wish to participate or not.  We ask that if your child chooses to give out cards, that they include everyone in their class, to avoid hurt feelings. Mrs. McDougall's class has 24 students and Ms. MacDonald's class has 24 students. 
Also, as a reminder, we ask that you not include any food items with your Valentine's.

What did we do in Grade 2 today?
- we look at the relationship between 2D and 3D shapes - See if you can find cylinders, cubes and rectangular prisms in your house

 - we worked on solving increasing pattern problems

 

- we continued to work on the wetland animal problem

- we learned more about the daily life of people on the east coast - music, food and festivals
- we learned that the Mi'kmaq first nations used the land for food and tools
- we organized our ideas in an idea web and then cut and glued it in the order we liked

- we saw and tried some of the games Inuit played and learned that they used games like this to get strong for when they were hunting and surviving

Muskox Push

- we continued to work on our landscape art from yesterday

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 12 - early dismissal at 11:45am

- Feb. 13 and 14  Teacher's Convention

- Feb. 17 Family Day - No School

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Monday February 10th

Today in social studies we began learning about the different Traditions, Celebrations, and Food associated with each region. Today we focused on the Arctic. We took notes and will use our ideas to write an article about one of the regions.

In math we started a new problem.  Ask me about whether I found the problem challenging or easy and what strategy I used to solve the problem or what strategy I could use to solve the problem.

In art we started a watercolor pencil landscape piece of Ralph Klein park.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 12 - early dismissal at 11:45am

- Feb. 13 and 14  Teacher's Convention

- Feb. 17 Family Day - No School

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Thursday February 6th

Valentines:
We will be having a small celebration for Valentine's Day on February 12.  It is your child's and family's choice if you wish to participate or not.  We ask that if your child chooses to give out cards, that they include everyone in their class, to avoid hurt feelings. Mrs. McDougal's class has 24 students and Ms. MacDonald's class has 24 students. 
Also, as a reminder, we ask that you not include any food items with your Valentine's.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

We had an amazing assembly this afternoon as the Grade 1 students shared some of their work for their Celebration of Learning.

Today in math we continued to work on solving word problems and selecting strategies to help us work through different problems. Feel free to take sometime to work on the problem below.

In art we worked on drawing different animals from the wetlands. Ask me about which animals I tried to draw.

Important dates for this month:

- Gr.1 Celebration of Learning 

- Feb. 12 - early dismissal at 11:45am

- Feb. 13 and 14  Teacher's Convention

- Feb. 17 Family Day - No School

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Wednesday February 5th

Today in writing we learned about what a newsletter is and thought it would be a great idea to create an M & M newsletter. Over the next several weeks we will be learning about how to write a newsletter with a beginning sentence, details in the middle and an ending sentence. Today we wrote our first article and will be given feedback based on the following feedback form and rubric to make improvements.

Important dates for this month:

- Gr.1 Celebration of Learning 

- Feb. 12 - early dismissal at 11:45am

- Feb. 13 and 14  Teacher's Convention

- Feb. 17 Family Day - No School

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Tuesday February 4th

 Tomorrow is Winter Walk to School Day. 

We want to encourage as many students as possible to walk to school tomorrow to promote healthy lifestyles.  Here are some links to fun, quick media soundbites that you might like to use in your classrooms:

-          Winter Walk Day: tips from other kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjJe1ONk8o&feature=youtu.be&list=PLp_wTsOWU70TvVdf8APCP29YlscLI334E

-          Why I Love Walking to School in Winter: motivational video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczoVQL7www&feature=youtu.be&list=PLp_wTsOWU70TvVdf8APCP29YlscLI334E

The McDougall's worked on a Ralph Klein Park inspired perspective art piece showing the special motion detection lights inside the building.  We also worked on a counting problem called P Bear's New Year's Party.

We had a chance to walk to the pond in the afternoon to make some observations of the pond.  It was a very quiet day out there.

The MacDonald students had another great day at Ralph Klein Park. We can't wait to hear about their adventure tomorrow.

Important dates for this month:

- Feb. 5 - Winter walk Day

- Gr.1 Celebration of Learning 

- Feb. 12 - early dismissal at 11:45am

- Feb. 13 and 14  Teacher's Convention

- Feb. 17 Family Day - No School

- Feb. 20 Fun Lunch

- Feb. 26 Pink Shirt Day

- Feb. 27 Gr. 2 Celebration of Learning

- Feb. 28 PD day No School

Monday February 3rd

Today Ms. MacDonald's class had a wonderful day on their field trip to Ralph Klein Park. We learned about different animals in the wetlands and had an awesome demonstration about what happens to the water when it washes all of the chemicals and litter into water sources such as rivers, streams and lakes. We noticed that if there is a wetlands and we are more thoughtful about how we treat our world then the water is a lot cleaner. Ask me about what we can do to make the water cleaner.