Wednesday October 21 2020

Happy Wednesday October 21, 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.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Starting Friday our pick up and drop off spot will be moved!

With the changing weather and for safety reasons we are no longer up on the field. We are now right next to Mr Beecheys class just outside the grade 2 doors. Please the map for the new spot. Send your child to the new spot from the fence and I will send them back to you from the same new spot! I will be outside helping parents find their children each day :)

Today in room 5:

We began our day with our usual catch up and reading time. As I see students interests in books grow, so do I see their ability to read for extended periods. This is a perfect time for me to do some one to one reading with students!

After morning catch and reading we moved into our morning routine. We did the usual calendar and calendar number hunts, days of the week, months of the year, weather, number of the day/days in school with student involvement.

Mr Weins then joined us after calendar for music class.

After snack we had a special guest today! Our Librarian came to our room have a short ten minute dance party before heading out for recess. Students loved being to have a dance break before heading out for time on the playground. Ms P. has promised to return and read us a story next time :)

After recess, students worked on creating finished copies of their "When I think about home" writing. I went through their writing yesterday and edited their work for spelling and periods. They then had to rewrite their work on finished copy paper. This editing process helps students to understand that work can always be improved. We do not simply write something and then we are done. We must write,  edit, then rewrite! The writing will be displayed with their art they created for "When I think about home" writing.

Im the afternoon students did a quick check using blank hundreds charts. This helps me to see if there understanding of the numbers from 1-100 has grown! After gym and our 1.7 km walk for Chanie we used filled in hundreds charts to practice skip counting using 2, 5, and 10. Students first colored the 10's, then the 5's. We looked at patterns within these two columns and discussed it a as a class. We finished off the math lesson by coloring in the 2's!

We finished off our with some work for our DL board. Students were busy coloring their art and making name tags to display for the school. We enjoyed listening to music and having quiet chats while doing so. Twas a chilly but wonderful day!

Keep up the great work grade 2's!

Mr Lancee