Well, it appears that winter has decided to arrive early!  And so, we've begun practicing our songs for the Christmas concert!  Our concert will be held during the morning of December 16.  More details and ticket information will be sent home as the day comes closer.  Here is one song that we've been practicing in preparation!

Quand le Pere Noel vient me visiter

As part of reading activities this week, student have also had the opportunity to listen to the interactive story about Poupouyaki.  Here is a link to this fun little story:

L'histoire du petit Poupouyaki

We ended the week with a fun science activity as we wrap up our unit on Solids and Liquids next week.  We tested a variety of object to see if they would float (flotte) or sink (coule). Have fun at home, testing a variety of object!

I also had several requests for our clean up song to be linked here for you!  It is amazing how fast we can clean up the room at the end of the day when the music starts!

Grade 2 Clean Up Song or The Mission Impossible Theme Song

Have a great weekend!

What a wonderful assembly we had in honour of Remembrance Day.  Students brought a number of fun activities home and I hope they enjoyed working on them.

In Art, we took a look at some fields of poppies and talked about perspective.  We noticed that the poppies closest to us were larger and that they got smaller as they moved farther away.  We used this knowledge to create our own poppy pictures.  We used both paints and oil pastels.  They are on display on the bulletin board in front of our classroom.

In Math, we are wrapping up our Data Management unit and have also been spending a little more time practicing our counting.  In Grade 2, students are expected to count forward to 200 by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's and 25's.  We have this fun little song to help us, though we enjoy it so much, we've been working on numbers a little higher than 200!

Juli Powers: 1 à 100000

Next week, we will begin our unit on Patterning, particularly focusing on attributes (colour, size, shape) and how they change to make patterns.  In Grade 2, students are expected to recognize and create repeating patterns with 2 different attributes.  Look around your house, how may different things can you find with repeating patterns?

Looking forward to celebrating your child's successes at school during Student-led conferences this week,

Michelle

Welcome to our class blog!

With links to songs we are learning, ideas for how you can support your child and glimpses into our classroom, I hope you will find this blog informative!

This week, we are focusing on Remembrance Day which is right around the corner.  Last year, we learned the song "Beau Coquelicot".  We enjoyed it so much that we are singing it this year again!  Check out the link on the bottom of this post.

In Math, we've been working on Data Management.  We are having a lot of fun creating survey questions, interviewing our classmates and representing our data in different ways!  At home, try creating a dinner survey question.  Think about the possible choices for dinner and ask family members to make a choice.  Have your child tell you about the results of the survey.

A new homework calendar was sent home for the month of November yesterday.  This is to replace the weekly homework we have been doing.  There are many choice of activities that you can do with your child.  Choose 2 or 3 each week and colour in the stars as you do them.  At the end of the month, students need to complete the "journal" on the back and return the page to be entered into the draw for a special prize!

In Science, we have been having so much fun exploring Solids and Liquids!  We are just finishing up our last few experiments before we move onto our exploration of air and water in the environment.  At home, try missing different liquids to see what is mixable (miscible) and what is not!  It makes for come interesting concoctions!

REMIND - many of you are signed up for Remind.  The program allows me to send you text and/or e-mail updates right to your phone!  If you are interested but need the login information, please write a note in the agenda.

Thanks so much for all your support of our learning.


Beau Coquelicot