Pond Walk

Just an FYI to families of students in Mrs. Cose's class :)

We are planning to take students on a walk to New Brighton Pond Monday and/or Tuesday next week. Mrs. Seymour's class will be at Ralph Klein Park.

Please send appropriate outdoor shoes and clothing (snowpants too!) for an enjoyable experience.

Happy HALF-WAY day!

Happy Half-Way Through Grade 2 Day!
We've been in school 90/180 days so far.

No school tomorrow - PD Day

Field trip on Monday/Tuesday for Mrs. Seymour's class: 
- bring a leak-proof water bottle that is filled and ready to go
- a litterless packed lunch and snacks
- dress in layers
- bring outdoor boots (we'll pack our indoor shoes in our backpacks)
- gloves and a warm hat (gloves will be better for sketching outside, but mittens will suffice if that's all you have :))
- warm winter jacket / snow pants

STEAM Club Update:
Steam club will be canceled on Feb 3^rd and 4^th due to the grade 2 Ralph Klein field trip. STEAM club will resume on Feb 10^th and 11^th and the Monday group will make up the day they missed on Feb 24^th and the Tuesday group on Feb 18^th.


We sketched artifacts and looked really closely at objects to make sure we were capturing all of the details using different kinds of strokes.

We learned about taking FLAB photographs:
- FOCUS on the target (Corbin)
- LIGHTING (Maddox)
- ANGLE (above/below, front) (Marek)
- BACKGROUND and foreground (Braeden)

We went on the computers to work on our math skills playing Prodigy (Jaxon).

Have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you on Monday!

Decade Day: Blast from the Past

Here we are celebrating Decade Day: 

Here is Mrs. Seymour's class doing different dances over the past few decades:

In math, we solved problems using many different strategies, including using the Hundreds Chart, base ten blocks, and making a list.

Highlights from our learning today:

• we started brainstorming/practicing techniques for our alliteration art (Chasity)
• we dressed up from the past, we watched some videos about culture changing in previous decades (Marek)
• we did some square dancing to learn about traditional dancing in the prairies from the past (Jaxon)
• in math, we worked on a problem about garbage left on tables and we had a "Level Up" challenge question (Drayden)

Square Dancing:

Tuesday, Tuesday

Highlights from our learning today:

• Some of us had choir at lunch today! (Aubrey)
• We wrote about a snowman that turned alive, and we learned how to write a paragraph (Myles & Braeden)
• in Social Studies, we learned how to write our names in Inuktitut! It was tricky because Inuktitut doesn't have all of the vowel or consonant sounds that we have (Alivia & Sawyer)

Reminder:

• go to prodigygame.com and use your login to play an awesome math game! (Drayden)
• tomorrow is DECADE DAY! Please dress up in a fun decade
• Fun Lunch on Thursday
• Friday is a PD Day - no school (Sofia)

Here's a fun math game you can play at home to practice your +1 and +100 facts! Ask your parents to give you a number and see how fast you can add 10 to it. Or use these random numbers to make it a game :) How many can you do in a minute?
- https://www.random.org/integers/?num=100&min=1&max=100&col=10&base=10&format=html&rnd=new

Some ideas for Decade Day:

Monday, Monday!

Highlights from today:
- Mrs. Seymour's class explored temperatures around the school. We predicted if the temperature would be the same or different and discovered ___________(Sawyer)
- In Music, we drummed and it was Awesome! (Drayden)
- Tomorrow is CHOIR :) (Sofia)
- We are working on solving problems using addition.
- In Mrs. Cose's class we measured the temperature of water using thermometers. (Kohde)
- STEAM club was today. We made stuff out of blocks, lego, etc. (Addison)
- We wrote about what we would do if our snowman came to life. What we would do with it and my title was: My Snow Girl(Avery)

Link to learn some words in Inuktitut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUSwXbz7CtE

Reminders:
- Mrs. Seymour's class goes to RKP on Monday and Tuesday next week
- Decade day is Wednesday
- Choir is tomorrow

Nature Walk to the Pond

Happy Birthday, Alexis!


Highlights from our learning today:

• we learned that there are letters in the alphabet that are made from different things like wood (Drayden)
• we went on a walk to the pond and we buddied up with the other class and we had letters that we had to look for and I found an I and an M (Zaeem)
• in math, we had math stations and I learned how to use a number line to add two-digit numbers (Sawyer)
• in literacy block, we had stations and at my station we rolled a dice and I had to read a card with alliterations on it (Rana)

Some compliments we received today were:

• Somebody told me "You're so kind to me" (Alivia)
• Emily said I have a nice smile (Evelyn)
• Avery told me that she likes how I make her laugh (Bria)
• Avery said the same thing to me! (Rana)
• Sawyer told me that I was a good dancer (Mrs. Seymour)

Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy the nice weather and do some outdoor activities! :) See you all on Monday!

Coming up:

January 29 - Favourite Decade Day!

January 30 - Fun Lunch

January 31 - PD Day (No School)

February 3/4 - Mrs. Seymour's Class on Field Trip

February 12 - Early Dismissal (11:45)

February 13/14 - Teachers' Convention (No School)

February 17 - Family Day (No School)

February 20 - Fun Lunch (Little Caesar's)

February 27 - Grade 2 Celebration of Learning 6:30-7:30

February 28 - PD Day (No School)

Measuring Temperature

Highlights from our learning today:

• Mrs. Seymour's class beat the standing record in Place Value I Have Who Has... the previous record was 1:51 by the Grade 4s, and it's now held by our class, at 1:38 (Ibrahim)

• in a science experiment we learned that a thermometer can go all the way up to 50 C when it's put in hot water (Myles)

• we read a book called The Invisible Boy (Mila)
• we played drums and went on the risers in music (Aubrey)
• we typed the best copy of our winter poem  (Ibrahim)
• in Phys. Ed we played Fitness Tag (Celina)

Tomorrow is Compliment Day! Here are some examples of compliments that "stick"

• You make me laugh! 
• You are the best teacher! 
• You are very kind! 
• You are so funny! 

A compliment that fades (doesn't stick) is: 

• I like your earrings/shirt/necklace/feet
• I like your haircut

Tomorrow we'll be trying to "catch" people saying compliments (that stick!) to each other. We're thankful for such a wonderful class!

CPAWS - Day 2, Water Rangers!

Happy half-birthday, Corbin!

Thanks to Sawyer for making connections at home to what we learned about yesterday in CPAWS and for showing us something else cool about the Earth.

What did we learn today from CPAWS:

• we need to keep our water clean (Drayden)
• most of our water comes from the Bow River and the Elbow River (Ibrahim)
• we can help by using less water (Alexis)
• we should keep wetlands! (Chase)
• to clean your car you should go to the car wash because if you clean it on the driveway, soap will go down the drain to the storm ponds (Jaxon)
• dispose of paint properly at hazardous waste facilities (Alivia)

Tomorrow is compliment day! We talked briefly about the types of compliments that are meaningful. We'll write more about this tomorrow.

We are planning a pond walk on Friday because the weather is so nice!

Coming up at NBS (reminder, the January News Video is here)...

Jan 23rd - Compliment day

Jan 29th - Decade Day

Jan 30th - Fun Lunch

Jan 31st - PD day (no school)

Feb 27th - Celebration of Learning

CPAWS

CPAWS visited our classes today. Some things we learned were:
- How the dire wolf went extinct and the grey wolf survived the ice age. (Addison)
- The planet is going through climate change and the grey wolf might die because the Earth is getting warmer because of fossil fuel and gasses. (Avery)
- We can carpool to not use so much fuel and gas. (Adam)
- We can stop using the clothes dryer and hang our clothes to dry. (Naomi)
- Working together can be hard, but it is easier if we communicate. (Abem)

Reminders: 
- Book orders due Wednesday
- Celebration of Learning now on February 27th
- January 31 is a PD day. No School
- Choir and STEAM clubs started this week