Mountie Artifacts

Monday's VIPs: Chasity & Drew

VIP in action today:


Reminders:
- Please bring in clean styrofoam and clean plastic bottles because we only have one more week to revise our plans before our final boat build!
- Scholastic Book orders for December are due on next Thursday, December 5th
- Fun Lunch Next Thursday (order by tomorrow on Healthy Hunger)
- Warm Feet for the Street is on December 5th (6-8pm)

Attendance Reminders:
If your child will be absent, please call the attendance line 403 817 3516, option “1”
Please remember to include your child’s teacher or homeroom # and spell your child’s name

Highlights from today:

• we reviewed the Buoyancy video about sinking and floating (Corbin)
• if you change something's shape it changes how it sinks or floats (Avery)
• we learned that air balloons float in air, not in water (Chasity)
•  rocks sink (negative buoyancy) and wood floats (positive buoyancy) (Marek)
• in Social Studies, we learned about different artifacts that the Mounties used (Drayden)
• Mrs. Seymour's class got to meet our Kindergarten buddies from Mrs. Johnston's class (Mila)

You can see more photos of our buddies on Mrs. Johnston's blog post here!

Have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you in December!

Third blue day in a row!

VIPs tomorrow: Drew & Celina

VIPs in action today:
  

The students were buzzing today as we had our third indoor day in a row. Tomorrow morning is forecasting -22 but we're hopeful for warmer temperatures next week!

Highlights from today:

• in math we got to ask questions to students in our classes and collect data about them using tally marks
• we talked some more about mounties - tomorrow will be the last day that we get to use the kit from Fort Calgary
• we worked on finishing some of our prairie line art
• we played a science/social studies vocabulary BINGO game

Reminders: 

- We are seeking donations for Warm Feet for the Street
- Fun Lunch orders can be made online through Healthy Hunger
- Materials for building are needed. Please send in empty plastic bottles and styrofoam
- If you haven't sent in $2.00 for the Mountie Kit please do so ASAP
- Scholastic orders for December are due next Thursday, December 5th, in order to get them in time for Christmas (if you'd like to order secretly/online, we're happy to keep them a secret for you until conferences :) Just let us know in an email that you'd like us not to send them home with your child)

We had another busy day in Grade 2!

Today we had a chance to work on some writing and share what we wrote. There are definitely some creative writers in our class as there were several different types of writing happening today including personal narratives(writing about self), stories, and even a few songs! This leads in perfectly to some work we will start next week looking at and writing some poetry.

In math, we answered some basic addition and subtraction facts questions to get us warmed up and then worked on a word problem related to what we have learned about the NWMP. Did you know that each Mountie received a rationed amount of meat, grains, and potatoes and that to supplement their meals they sometimes went hunting? What do you think they were hunting for here on the prairies???

We have been working on some research using PebbleGo and some of us were wanting to explore some of the other amazing things within this site. To access this and other resources from home you  just need to visit LearnAlberta Online Reference Centre and use  username:  LA06 password: 4105
From this link, you can also access great resources like BookFlix and the Nat Geo Kids Virtual Library :)

In Science, we watched Bill Nye's Buoyancy video which we will review tomorrow.

Reminders:
- We are seeking donations for Warm Feet for the Street
- Fun Lunch orders can be made online through Healthy Hunger
- Materials for building are needed. Please send in empty plastic bottles and styrofoam
- If you haven't sent in $2.00 for the Mountie Kit please do so ASAP

Fact Families!

Happy birthday, Alivia!


VIPs in action today:
 
VIP tomorrow: Jaxon

Reminders:

• we will be doing a research project on the computers this week. Please send in a (cheap) pair of headphones (earbuds are perfect) for your child to use/keep at school
• please bring in donations for Warm Feet for the Street all week this week

Highlights from what we learned today:

• we compared some differences in the land from the East Coast to the Prairies (Corbin)
• we sketched pictures for some prairie line art (Maddox)
• Mrs. Seymour's class started word work (Chasity)
• we learned about fact families... one of them is 17-14=3, 17-3=14, 14+3=17 and 3+14=17 (Jaxon)
• we started preparing for our first research project about Citizenship

Tomorrow is Jersey Day & Fun Lunch
Reminder: No School on Friday

VIPs for tomorrow:
Rana & Maddox

Today's VIPs in action:

Please continue to send in:
- items for Warm Feet for the Street (alcohol-free toiletries) & $5 if you're coming for the night
- clean plastic bottles & styrofoam
- $2 for Fort Calgary (or pay online)
- headphones for using reading activities on the computer at school

Highlights from today:
- We went on the computers and read on Raz Kids to practice our reading(Anna)
- In PE we played Catch Me If You Can, and we practiced overhand throws(Aaron)
- In eye opener we decided if number statements were True or false. 7 < 2  is false(Kohde)
- Reminder that toys stay at home. Our teachers are going to start keeping them!! (Stone)
- In Math we worked on making the core of a pattern using 2 yellow, 1 red and 1 blue block

In Science, we experimented with making floaters sink... we predicted how to make a piece of tinfoil sink.

Here were our predictions:

CRUMPLE:

HOLES:

CRUMPLE & HOLES:

Ask me what happened! Can you make it sink?

Lighthouse postcards are coming home today or tomorrow. Please review the blog posts from October 26th and October 28th for writing criteria that we've been using. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to email us.