Joyeuse Halloween!

What a fun day! We finished up our toiles d'araignee that we started with Mme Brown this morning. We continued with our centres de litteratie, and Mme Bazin came in to our room to write with us today.
After lunch we were in the costume parade, and we went to the gym to do some dancing. After that, we came back to the classroom and played some Halloween games. We had a lovely snack after recess and we finished our Halloween novel.
I hope everyone stays safe while trick or treating tonight! Joyeuse Halloween!

Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

I can't believe I just typed Nov in the title of this post... Time flies when we are having so much fun in Grade 2.
Just a few notes about next week:
-Picture orders are due back on Monday. Please send in the forms if you wish to order pictures.
-Library on Monday. Bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Picture retakes are on Tuesday afternoon. If you want your child to get retakes, please send me a note or email to let me know. In the past I have had students who weren't sure and it was a bit confusing. I would like to have a list of who to send to the library to get their picture taken. Thanks for your help with this.
-Halloween on Wednesday. We talked briefly in class about costumes for this day. As in previous years at EVS, we will wear our costumes for the afternoon only. Please do not send students in costumes that depict violence (no weapons), or are too gruesome. Thanks again for your support with this. Look for a note home from me on Monday for our plans for that afternoon.
-Thursday is Hot Lunch and Spirit Day. Students are invited to wear glasses, moustaches and ties to school.
-Dictee on Friday. Next week we will be looking at the 2 different sounds that c can make. Hard c, like k when it is followed by a, o or u, and soft c, like s, when it is followed by e or i. The bonus words are special cases. When we want c to say the same as s, but it is followed by a, o or u, we have to give it a cedille.

l’écorce

le ciel

les escaliers

une sorcière

un costume

Bonus : un garçon

Bonus : le français

As with this week, I am looking for students to have the letters in bold correct when spelling these words.

Have a great weekend!

Les squelettes et les os

Today we learned a few interesting facts while we made our Q-tip squelettes. We learned that there are 206 os in our body, that we have 27 os in each hand, that our femur is our longest os, that our smallest os is in our ears and that our os grow as we grow. We noticed that when there is more than one os, we still spell the word os the same as when there is only one (un os et des os) and we don't have to add an s at the end like with most words. Here are some pictures of our spooky Halloween squelettes.

 

Nos phrases de MIMI

Last week we wrote sentences about our MIMI poster. I hope you enjoy our work!

http://video.spsd.sk.ca/uploads/OllerheadK20121022154057.wmv

Les feux follets

Today we started learning some new vocabulary for Halloween. To help decorate our windows, we made les feux follets. Here are some pictures.

Crayons et croissants

Thanks to all the families who came out this morning for the second annual Crayons et croissants breakfast. It was great to see families sharing writing while having a yummy breakfast. What a fun way to start a Friday!

le 22-26 octobre

Just a few reminders for next week:

-Library on Monday. Please bring back your library books if you wish to return them for new ones.
-Home Reading Books will be going home again on Monday, please return on Friday.
-We will be having a Fall Dance on Friday after lunch from 12:45-2pm. The SLC is asking for $1 from each child to help with the costs. This can be sent in any time this week.
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be learning some Halloween vocabulary. The words for dictee are as follows:

• un monstre
• un chat noir
• un chaudron
• une bougie
• une citrouille
• Bonus : Joyeuse Halloween

Have a great weekend!

Photos

Photo proofs came home today. If you wish to order photos, please complete the forms and return them by October 29. Picture retakes will be the afternoon of October 30.

Water, water everywhere...

In science, we have been talking about water and its importance to life on Earth. Today we learned about how water can be a gas, liquid or solid, and how it can change between being liquid, gas and solid. We did an experiment with ice cubes, water and salt. Below are some pictures of our experiment:

In the first glass, we had ice cubes and a thermometre. We wrote or drew what we thought would happen to the ice cubes and what the thermometre would look like before and after it was in with the ice cubes.

In the second glass we had ice cubes and water and a thermometre. We wrote or drew what we thought would happen.



 

In the third glass we had ice cubes and salt and the thermometre. We wrote or drew what we thought would happen.
 

Today we learned that there is water in the air around us, and that when it gets cold, it turns into liquid water or solid water, which is why our cold glasses got wet on the outside and why the glass with salt got frost on the outside. We also learned that when ice gets put in a warm place (like our classroom) that it melts into liquid water.

Another fun math game

Today in math we were talking about how we can use our doubles to solve problems that are close to doubles, such as 4+3. We can do the double of 4, and then take one away. We practiced our doubles some more, and then played this fun game on the SmartBoard to practice doubles minus 1.

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurDentist/index.html

lundi, le 15 octobre

To celebrate Education Week, we are doing WOTS up! (Write on the spot) twice each day. When the music plays over the PA system, we drop whatever we are doing and write for 10 minutes. Each student has a notebook that they can use to write lists, stories, dictee or MIMI words, or whatever else they like.

This week in math we will be practicing our double facts to 20. Below are the links to some games that students can play at home to practice.
Monkey Drive
Robin Hood Doubles
Robin Hood Doubles Harder

October 15 - 19

Just a few reminders for next week:
-Library on Monday, please bring back books if you want to change them for new ones. I will be watching more closely to see that students are taking out one English and one French book (or two French books). It is important to be reading in both languages.
-Home Reading Books will be going home again on Monday and are to be returned on Friday
-Dictee on Friday. We will be working on the letters ou, which say oo (like in food), words are as follows:

1. un loup
2. rouge
3. les souliers
4. un mouton
5. la bouche

Bon weekend!

C'est l'automne!

Here is a video that we made all about how we know that fall is here. Enjoy!

http://video.spsd.sk.ca/uploads/OllerheadK20121012154250.wmv

One other note for next week

Since we will miss our regularly scheduled library period on Monday, we will visit the library on Tuesday next week. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.

le 9 octobre - le 12 octobre

Just a few notes for this upcoming week:

• Picture Day is on Wednesday, October 10. Please send back the pose selection form.
• Scholastic is due on Thursday, October 11. Cheques payable to Scholastic Canada.
• Home Reading Books will be sent home on Tuesday and are to be brought back on Friday.
• Dictee on Friday, October 12. The words for this week are:

un chien
un chapeau
un chat
un cochon
chuchote

Tuesday, October 2nd

Coming home today in your child's homework folder are the October Scholastic order and the photo pose selection form.

• Scholastic is due on Thursday, October 11.
• Picture Day is Wednesday, October 10, so please have forms back by this day.

Have a great night!

Glog

I have set up a Glog online. It is like a virtual poster that you can add video, images and audio to. I have made one of our first MIMI poster, adding my voice saying the words to help students practice reading the words correctly at home. Check it out at  http://www.glogster.com/mlleollerhead/our-first-mimi-poster/g-6l8hujclphba2bn7hidjoa0.