Monday October 26, 2020

Happy Monday October 26, 2020 

Reminders:

Friday October 30th No school (PD day)

Thursday October 29th dress up in costumes day. (This is optional for all students) Students can also just wear black and orange if they do not have a costume.

Just a reminder, Google classroom is now live for the grade 2's! I sent out the emails for the students log ins yesterday afternoon. If you are having trouble logging in please email me :) My blog will be updates on what we do in class and reminders of what is happening in the month. If you are sick you can log onto the google classroom to keep yourself up to date on work!

Today in room 5:

We began our day with some catch up time and silent reading while I read with students! This carried us up to gym time, in which the students went off to the gym with Mr Sadowsky. Mr Sadowsky is doing cricket style kickball all week in the gym while teachers are leading soccer.

Upon returning to class we had our morning calendar and counted the number of days we have been in October and the days until Halloween! We practiced days of the week, months of the year and looked at how many days we have been in school. Students were given their new wow words for the week:

we

in

like

it 

up

Each day we will look at these words, practice sounding them out and learn some language rules that go along with them.

Everyone in room 5 banded together and brainstormed a new page for the book the school is creating. This book takes inspiration from the "If you give a mouse a cookie" series. 

If you give a mouse a cookie

The book the school is creating is called, If you Give a Beluga Some Bacon".

It was our task to create the page for our book today. Students were each given a sheet of paper to create the art for the page. We will vote on the drawing we want to use later this week.

After LA students had lunch before returning to class for science.

In Science we began learning about a new small crawling flying creature. 

This creature is...... Spiders! Today we watched a video on spiders and did a realistic drawing of a black widow. We will label the spiders body parts tomorrow! A link to the video we use to do the drawing can be found below :)

Spider Video

Today's math block was a short one but we focused on representing the number 7 and numbers with 7 such as 27! 

How can you represent the number 27??

After recess we finished up our afternoon by looking at a map of Calgary. I taught the students how to use a compass rose to help us work with maps. 

We then used the compass rose to navigate our way around a map of Beddington Heights! Students used different colored markers to label the map with the school, field, roads, and the path we walked for our Walk for Wenjack! Using google maps we explored Beddington Heights, Calgary, and followed highway 2 all the way to Edmonton! Tomorrow we will look at landmarks and how they can help find our way in Calgary!

Thats all for today!

Have a great day everyone :)

Mr Lancee