Finally we can breathe outside!

Happy (belated) half-birthday, Sawyer!


Today we had a wonderful day... we got to go outside! For lunch recess AND for our own class recess. Very exciting! Please remember to dress for the weather every day.

We started new literacy centres. Mrs. Cose's class gets to work on the Alliteration Stations that Mrs. Seymour's class did last week while they were at RKP, and Mrs. Seymour's class is working on some non-fiction reading and writing skills, goal-setting, and reading!

We got to work on a math problem where a teacher had 50 pieces of art  spread all over 4 walls. We'll be sending it home next week so you can see what we've been working on.

Coming up at NBS...

Jan 23rd - Compliment day

Jan 29th - Decade Day

Jan 30th - Fun Lunch

Jan 31st - PD day (no school)

Feb 27th - Celebration of Learning

The coldest week in Grade 2 ends!

Highlights from the coldest week in Grade 2!

- Mrs. Cose's Class taught Mrs. Seymour's class a math game called Loose Caboose. (Myles)
- We did a math activity where we had to sort different 2-D shapes (diamond, square, rectangle, etc) and we had to write about our sorting rule. (Avery)
- In PE, Ms. Nanavaty was away and we got to visit almost all of the circus stations. (Drayden)
- We wrote acrostic poems to describe ourselves.(Jaxon)

Reminders:
- Choir forms are due
- STEAM club starts next week.
- Fun lunch on January 30 is A&W
- We will be playing outside when it gets warmer (hopefully by Monday). Please dress for the weather.

Highlights from today:
- We used boiling water and threw it outside. It was amazing and made a cloud!(Chasity) **If you try this at home PLEASE be careful as boiling water can cause severe burns**
- We went to Music and learned new patterns with the drums. Choir forms are coming home! (Zaeem)
-  We did a workout in our outdoor clothes, snow pants, and everything to learn about body temperature. I got up to a temperature of 38.6 degrees Celcius. (Avery)
- In PE we had stations and I went to the Spinning Plate station and I did somersaults and cartwheels on the mat, and I did hula-hoops, and hackey sack. (Drew)


Reminders:
- STEAM and Choir forms need to be returned ASAP
- Tomorrow is a half day
- Grade 2 Celebration of Learning date change now: Thursday, February 27 6:30-7:30
- Mrs. Seymour is looking for volunteers for the upcoming trip to RKP. Please email her if you are able to join us.
- Next fun lunch is January 30th, A&W. It can be ordered through Healthy Hunger

Special Note:
Myles would like to invite families to join a Friendship Round Dance. See photo for details. 

Colby's last day

Dear Parents/Guardians of Grade 2 students,

As a result of the postponed field trip to Ralph Klein Park, the grade 2 team has decided to change the date of our Celebration of Learning evening from January 30^th to February 27^th. This will allow our students who have not attended the field trip the opportunity to attend on February 3^rd and 4^th and still be able share their learning from this unique experience. The trip was always intended to play a big role in our sharing during this evening and we want to ensure that every student has that opportunity.

We apologize if this has caused any inconvenience and look for to seeing you all from 6:30-7:30 on February 27^th.

The Grade 2 Team

Highlights from today:

• we finished our RKP art (Zoey S.)
• we learned about digraphs, which are two letters that make ONE sound (Chasity), such as ph makes a "F" sound like in phone (Avery)
• Mrs. Cose's class spent the day with Mrs. McDougall's room. We used charcoal for some RKP sketching (Zaeem)
• Mrs. Cose's class did the science experiment (see photos from Mrs. Seymour's class from other day)

Bye Colby, we will miss you and wish you all the best at your new school! 

See you all tomorrow!

Highlights from our 2 days at Ralph Klein Park!

It was extremely cold outside, but inside the beautiful building at Ralph Klein Park we were cozy and did lots of learning! Some highlights from our two days spent there were:

- seeing how pollutants make their way to the rivers with a modeled community
- learning about wetlands and how they help clean polluted, dirty water
- exploring, sketching and learning about animals through biofacts
- working as photographers to capture unique aspects of RKP and thinking like photojournalists
- writing poetry inspired by our learning
& so much more!

RKP Field Trip Cancelled tomorrow & Thursday

Ralph Klein Trip Cancelled

Due to the forecasted temperatures dropping into the minus 40 degree range for the next two days we will need to postpone the grade 2 Field Trip to Ralph Klein Park tomorrow and Thursday. Although the students can remain indoors at the site we do not want to risk any potential mechanical failures with the bus that would put our students at risk of exposure to the weather for a prolonged period. We are in the process of trying to reschedule our trip and will advise parents as soon as we have new dates. Sorry for the inconvenience. The Grade 2 Team

Well done, Rm 128 for having perfect attendance on the last two days! I know it's cold, but we've been able to have a ton of fun and learning experiences with EVERYONE considering our perfect attendance in this cold snap! Thank you for making an effort to come to school, even when it's been cold!

Highlights from today:

• we had music and phys. ed back-to-back 
• we learned how to make tints and shades .... a tint is when you add white to a colour and a shade is when you add black to a colour (Drayden)
• we did a math problem with the story P. Bear's New Year's Eve Party (Maddox)
• we got a new student today! Welcome, Bailey!
• we did art based on the artist Ton Schulten's work (Zoey S.)

A note from Mr. Murphy:

Family Travel Survey: Please fill out this quick survey in Survey Monkey so that we can help to understand how the majority of families currently travel to-and-from school: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6TYN3B . The survey will be open for the rest of the month of January.

  

Blog from Mrs. Seymour's Class

Wow, what a great day today! Our students were amazingly on task, especially considering the long day inside with the extreme cold temperatures, and a different schedule, and 6 guests in our classroom from Ms. Gardner's class.


Today in science we predicted whether snow would take up more or less space when it melts. Here were our predictions:


Collecting our snow sample (don't worry... they were super bundled and were outside for less than 2 minutes!)

  

Here are our highlights from our learning today:

• When you have snow in a bottle and it's full to 500mL, after one hour it melted down to 75mL (Drayden)
  
• In art, we practiced using a viewfinder (our fingers!) to look at nature. We learned from a Robert Bateman video that we should spend 90% of our time looking at the subject/object in the sketch, and 10% looking at your actual drawing. We tried this for a bit by looking out of our window.

• In math we learned three strategies on how to organize our work for problem-solving:
• make a list
• make a model with materials
• draw a diagram

 

• We also learned all about ALLITERATION... where one sound repeats many times (Jaxon)
• An example of an alliteration is:
• Peppa Pig pranced to get peppermint poppers.
• Pikachu, Panda and Pup polluted Pluto.
• Poor Pikachu didn't get to play Pokemon because Penguin was picking poppies.
• Sweecon went snowboarding on a snowy hill.

Reminders coming home today:
* field trip reminders (peachy-orange paper)
* if your child is interested in choir, they have a form coming home today as well... forms are due back no later than January 21st

It's not too late to volunteer for the field trip on Wednesday or Thursday! Please let us know if you can make it :)

Mrs. Seymour