Happy Summer!

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for a fantastic year. It has been a great school year, which is largely in part to the role that parents and caregivers play at home. I am very grateful to have had such a wonderful group of students, as well as their parents who support them at home this year.
Thank you very much for the thoughtful gift from Cabela's. I am looking forward to picking out some new camping and fishing gear for the summer.
Have a safe and happy summer, and don't hesitate to drop by to say hello if you are in the school next fall!
Mme Katherine Ollerhead

I also wanted to share the link to another blog I will be keeping over the summer of my summer reading. Most of the books have been recommended by this year's students: www.mmessummerreading2013.blogspot.com
 

le 24-26 juin

Just a few reminders for this short last week of school:
-The Year End Barbeque is on Monday night at 5:30 pm, and the new mural will be unveiled at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there!
-Tuesday morning at 9am we will have our Farewell assembly
-Tuesday at 11am (after morning recess) we will walk over to Kinsmen park. We will return to school by bus at 2:30pm. Students will need a lunch, a towel, a swimsuit, sunscreen and a water bottle as well as a backpack to carry it all.
-Wednesday will be the last day of school. We will spend Wednesday morning cleaning up the last of our things in the classroom, and Wednesday afternoon after Phys. Ed. (1:35pm), we will have some free time. If you wish to send a healthy treat, you are more than welcome to do so.
-Progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday afternoon.

I will be collecting sacs bleus starting on Monday, so it will just be the agenda coming to and from school for this week. Thank you!

I will be at the school all day Thursday and Friday morning if for any reason you wish to contact me.

le 17-21 juin

Just a few reminders for this upcoming week:
-Monday afternoon will be playday, weather permitting. Please wear comfortable shoes, sunscreen, hat, etc.
-Order forms for the BBQ on June 24 went home last week. Please send back by Wednesday, June 19th.
-Friday is our school swim day at George Ward Pool. We will be leaving the school at 9:15am and returning at 2:30pm. Students need a bathing suit, towel, and a lunch for this day. Also, they should be wearing sunscreen and a hat. Parents are welcome to join us, but will need to provide their own transportation, as there will be no room on the buses.

Also, there are still some students who have not returned their Home Reading Books or library books. Please have a look around your home for any books that belong to the school. Thank you!

le 10-14 juin

Just a few reminders for this week:
-Mme away Monday morning for meetings
-Monday afternoon we are off to the Public library. Please bring your library card.
-Library on Tuesday - all books are due back this week. Please send back any school library books you may have at home.
-Home Reading Books are due on Thursday. This week will be the last week for Home Reading Books.
-Waste Free Lunch day on Thursday
-Playday on Thursday afternoon. Please wear comfortable shoes, sunscreen, a hat, etc, as we will be outside from 1-2:30
-Mme away Friday

I would also like to ask all families to have a look around at home for any books that may belong to the school, Home Reading Books, books on CD, class books, etc, and please send them back.

Pike Lake

We had an awesome day at Pike Lake! We left school first thing to drive out on the bus. When we got there we mini-golfed in teams of 4. Three students won a free round of golf! We went for a nature hike. We saw lots of caterpillars, some tadpoles, and even a snake! We had a delicious hot dog, watermelon and rice krispie square lunch, then we played on the playground before we went pond dipping. We caught a predaceous water beetle, some leeches, some minnows, a bunch of snails, and some freshwater shrimp.
Thank you to all the parents who came along and sent rice krispie treats!

Merci Alexa et Jody!

Yesterday's trip to the Children's Festival was arranged for by Alexa and Jody. Alexa is celebrating her 2nd anniversary of her stem cell transplant.

Merci pour la belle journee!

le 3 - 7 juin

Busy week ahead! Here are some reminders for the upcoming week:
-Children's Festival on Monday afternoon. Students should be prepared to walk there and back.
-Scholastic is due on Tuesday
-Library on Tuesday. This will be our last time to sign books out from the school library.
-Pike Lake on Wednesday. Students need to have comfortable walking shoes, be dressed for the weather (sweater, sunscreen, bug spray, etc), bring a waterbottle and/or other drinks they may want, as well as any snacks besides the 2 hot dogs, Rice Krispie square, and watermelon that will be provided for lunch.
-Mme is away on Thursday and Friday
-Crazy Hair Day on Thursday
-Assembly Thursday morning
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Final Band concert on Friday
-Raise a Reader picnic on Friday. Parents are encouraged to meet their students on the lawn to read together at 11:15am. A Subway lunch will be provided.

Please send back the note to let me know you are aware of the Pike Lake trip as soon as possible.
I will also be sending a note home on Monday about the public library trip. Please sign and return.

Ecriture persuasive

Over the past week or so, we have been discussing persuasive writing. As a class we have written a short paragraph in an attempt to persuade another class to read a book we all liked. I thought I would post it for you to enjoy.

Children's Festival

On Monday June 3rd we are going to the Childrens Festival. We will be walking over after lunch (12:45pm) and taking in a show (The Mat Velvet and Charlie Show - in French) at 1:45pm. We will walk back to school before the end of the day. Students will need comfortable walking shoes, and sunscreen. There is a note being sent home today that needs to be signed and returned to school.
I will need 2 parent volunteers who can come along on this outing. If you are able to come along, please let me know.
Merci!

Phys. Ed. in June

As the gym roof is undergoing upgrades, the gym will be off limits for the remainder of the year. Students are asked to be prepared for Phys. Ed. outside. (Good shoes, sunscreen, bug spray, etc). our class has gym at the end of the day on Mondays (50 min), right after lunch on Wednesdays (50 min), and first thing Friday mornings (25 min).

Upcoming class trips

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help out on our upcoming class trips. I have enough parents for Pike Lake, but I am still looking for 1 or 2 others for both the library and the Kinsmen Park outings.
I am also looking for a few other volunteers who can send a 9x13 tray of RiceKrispie treats for the Pike Lake trip.

Also, for the class trip to the library, I have forms available for students who do not have a library card and wish to get one. If you would like a copy, you can either visit : http://www.saskatoonlibrary.ca/sites/default/files/File/UsingTheLibrary/AllAboutBorrowing/LSCBorrowerRegistration04_13.pdf and print a copy and send it to the school, or email or write a note saying you would like a copy sent home. If you send them back to school I will fax them in so students will have a card ready and waiting when we get there. If your child already has a library card, please send it with him or her to school on that day.

le 27-31 mai

Here we are, the last week of May! Just a few reminders for this week:
-Mme is away at PD all day Monday
-Library Monday. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones
-Data sheets went home on Thursday last week. Please complete both sides and sign, and retrn as soon as possible. Mrs. Roach will have a prize for the first class to bring them all back!
-Booster Juice treat orders are due back on Wednesday. Please send exact change.
-Friday we will be going on a little walk along the trail between the Broadway and University bridges to celebrate Trails Day. We will go right after afternoon recess (2:40) and will return before the end of the day. Parents are more than welcome to join us.
-Home Reading Books are due on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. Again this week we will be working with a poem, and the test will be the poem with blanks to be filled in. Here is this week's poem. There will be a copy sent home on Monday, as well as a sheet that has the work to be done with it. Homework is due Friday morning at 9am.

Ma famille

Je suis une fille

Qui aime la vanille

Je suis un garçon

Qui aime le poisson

Je suis une maman

Qui aime les marrants

Je suis un papa

Qui aime le chocolat

Je suis une mamie

Qui aime le riz

Je suis un papy

Qui aime la vache qui rit

Celiane Ferrin

Notre derniere affiche de MIMI

We have just finished adding the words to our very last MIMI poster. Here it is:

le 21-24 mai

I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing long weekend. Here are some reminders for this week:

-Library today. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Spring Photo orders due back on Wednesday, May 22.
-Lockdown drill Thursday morning at 10:15am
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Dictee on Friday. There will only be 2 more dictees for the year. The last two dictees will follow the model for what dictees may look like in grade 3. Students will have a poem in their agendas this week. There will be a sheet that goes with it for activities that they may choose from to study. On Friday, they will receive a copy of the poem with some blanks. I will read the poem and they will fill in the blanks. Here is the poem:

Bleu

Bleu

Je veux !

Partout

dans le ciel,

dans la mer,

le matin

sur mon pain !

Demain je mangerai

de la confiture

BLEUE.

La vie en couleurs,

Danielle Bouchery

MIMI #5

This week we have been talking lots about the ocean, sea life and marine animals as an introduction to our last MIMI poster. Yesterday I brought a couple of artifacts for the students to look at and touch. I brought un oursin (a sea urchin), and un os de baleine (a whale bone).
Here they are:

L'oursin is about 6cm in diameter.

 

Now that we have read some books about the sea and ocean, today we will look at our poster and label it, giving us a new set of words to study.

Life cycles

We have been looking at various animals and how their life cycles are the same and different. We learned about animals that change dramatically through their life (caterpillar to butterfly), and we learned about animals that are ovipare (oviparous - hatched from eggs), and animals that are vivipare (vivparous - live birth). Yesterday we each got an animal and went on the computers to research its life cycle. We had to find the answers to two questions: Is it ovipare or vivipare? and Does it undergo la metamorphose or non?
When we came back to class we sorted our animals into the 4 groups. Here is our work:

StarLab

Yesterday morning we got to visit StarLab, which was very cool. We learned about some of the stars in the sky, as well as some of the stories that go with some of the constellations. What a great opportunity!

A la ferme!

We had a great day at the farm yesterday. We saw cows, chickens, sheep and pigs.

Slightly blurry 5 week old piglets.

Les poules et un coq

Un mouton et deux agneaux

Dancing Birds

When we had the chicks hatch, we learned a little bit about the parts of birds. We also learned how male and female birds are different. We discussed how the females' job is to keep the eggs in the nest safe, and how that affects how birds are different colours. We learned that male birds need bright colours and interesting tricks to attract female birds, but that female birds need to be camouflage to stay hidden in the nest. This morning we watched a little clip of some interesting dances that some birds do to attract a partner.

le 13 - 16 mai

Here are some reminders for this week:
-Library on Monday
-Field trip to the U of S farm on Monday. Please bring a lunch as we are leaving at 12:25pm.
-Hot lunch orders due on Tuesday at 9am
-StarLab presentation on Wednesday
-Hot lunch will be on Thursday
-Home Reading Books due Thursday
-No dictee this week. We will be busy starting our last MIMI poster
-No school on Friday, May 17 - Planning and PD for teachers
-No school Monday, May 20th - Fete de la Reine (Victoria Day)

Have a great long weekend!

Joyeuse Fete des Meres!

Happy Mothers' Day to all! I hope everyone enjoyed the gift from their student. We dicussed a lot last week about how great our mothers are. We compiled a large list of adjectives to describe our mothers to create our gifts. Some students requested that I put the website that we used to create them on the blog so they could play with it at home, so here it is: www.wordle.net

Joyeuse Fete des Meres!

le 6 - 10 mai

Here are a few reminders for this week:
-Library on Monday. Please bring back books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Scholastic due on Thursday, May 9th.
-StarPhoenix fundraiser is still going on. If you have not already done so, please ask family and friends if they wish to subscribe. Each subscription raises $20 for our school!
-Bluegrass presentation Thursday morning in the gym.
-Home Reading Books due Friday
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be looking at the difference between et and est. The dictee for this week will be different in that I will read sentences to students and they will have to write the correct et or est. Et is the French word for and, while est is the equivalent of is. We will practice with these words all week at school, so there will be no word list coming home to practice.
-There will be a note coming home on Monday with information about our next field trip which is on Monday, May 13th in the afternoon when we will be going to the U of S farm. Students will need to bring a lunch to eat at school that day, as we are leaving school at 12:25pm. I will also require 3 or 4 parents who are able and willing to accompany us on this trip. If you interested, please let me know by way of the agenda, email, or at the school. Please note that due to space on the bus, only 3 or 4 parents can come along. Thank you!

Chick hatching video link

Hello everyone,
I was informed that the first link I included was requesting a username and password. I am posting a different one below, with the hope that it will work for everyone.
Merci!
http://video.spsd.sk.ca/uploads/OllerheadK2013430181721.AVI

Les oeufs

Yesterday we were learning about eggs. We discussed that not all eggs become chicks, only ones that are layed when there is a rooster and a hen. We looked at an egg that we eat, and learned the vocabulary for some of the parts.

Les poussins - Jour 3

We checked on the chicks again this morning, and were met with a surprise! All 12 chicks had hatched! They are still in the incubator getting dry and fluffy. Tomorrow we will get to hold them. Here are a few pictures:

Les poussins - Jour 2

Today we went and visited the eggs again, only today we could hear peeping and could see the little cracks on the eggs where the chicks are starting to hatch from. After school this evening, I was in Mme Hada's classroom and got to see one hatch! Hopefully one will hatch during the day tomorrow and we will all get to see. Here is a photo and a short video of what happened.

The chick uses his beak to peck all around the egg and then pushes out. He is really, really tired after and just lays in the incubator while he dries off and gets his energy back.

http://video.spsd.sk.ca/secure/play.aspx?videoID=f666e4f2-fd57-4267-bcf9-760dbf7e5ffe&platform=win



Les poussins!

This week, Mme Hada's Grade 1 class is hatching eggs! They have un incubateur and une couveuse (brooder) set up in their classroom. Each day this week we will go and visit and hopefully get to see an egg hatch! Here are some pictures of what we saw yesterday, on Jour #1:

12 oeufs dans l'incubateur

Les semis (seedlings)

We have been continuing to take care of and observe our plants. When we came in on Monday, almost every pot had at least one semi! We have been enjoying sketching changes we see each day, and using our rulers to measure how many centimetres our plants have grown. Here are some photos:

Les soucis (marigolds)

Les tomates

Les haricots (beans)

le 29 avril - le 3 mai

Into May already! Here are a few reminders for this week:
-Library on Monday
-Mme away Tuesday morning for a meeting
-Sparkle and Shine Spirit day on Thursday
-Assembly on Thursday morning in the gym. Choir will be performing Oh Canada and No One Like You.
-Mme away all day Friday
-Picture Day on Friday
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Dictee on Friday. This week we are looking at the letter "ion", the words are as follows:

la récréation

l’espion

un avion

une question

un camion

The Lorax

Today we read the book The Lorax and had some discussion around it. Students each made a mustache that went home with them. We also wrote about what we would do if we were entrusted with the last seed of the Truffula tree. Here is a link to the original The Lorax cartoon (1972).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHar6X3Nnw

Jour de la Terre writing

Last week, we were discussing Earth Day and how we can and do take care of the planet. Here is our work:

http://video.spsd.sk.ca/uploads/OllerheadK2013421172818.wmv

le 22-26 avril

Here are the updates for the week:
-Library on Monday. Students are encouraged to bring back their books and exchange them for new ones.
-Monday is also Earth Day, or Jour de la Terre. We will be talking about the importance of this day and doing some Earth Day activities.
-Mme is away Thursday morning for a meeting.
-Home Reading Books due on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. This weeks words all pertain to Earth Day:

la Terre

l’eau

les arbres

l’air

les déchets

recycler

Les plantes

Last week we made some flower pots and planted some seeds. We will be keeping track each day of our seeds' growth, like scientists! Here are the photo directions for if you want to do some planting at home:

What you need: 1/2 sheet of newspaper, masking tape and a pop can.

Fold the 1/2 sheet of newspaper into thirds the long way.

Roll the newspaper around the popcan tightly. Leave a bit of paper hanging out the end.

Fold the paper around the bottom in.

Ask a friend to tape the bottom for you while you hold it.

Tape the seam on the side.

Remove the popcan et VOILA, a biodegradable flower pot! 

Here are our pots with plants. We planted marigolds (les soucis), beans (les haricots) and tomatoes (les tomates).

L'argent

For the past week or so, we have been learning about money. We have learned the values of the different coins and bills, and have been working on adding money and making sums of money using different coins. Working with money helps us to count by 1s, 5s, 10s and even 25s. It also helps build critical thinking skills, and is a valuable life skill to have. Today we played two little games on the SMARTBoard, and I promised students I would share the links so they could play at home.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/money-master.html

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi

Today we discussed the two differences between French and English in writing amounts of money. In English we use a "." to separate dollar from cents, where as in French, we use a ",". Also, in English, the $ goes before the amount of money, and in French, it comes after. For example, in English we would write  $5.32, but in French, we write 5,32$.

StarPhoenix Fundraiser

Last week, order forms and information sheets went home for the StarPhoenix fundraiser. For each subscription sold, EVS will get $20. For each subscription that a student sells, he or she will get an entry into a draw for a prize. This fundraiser will finish up in about a months time. Thanks for all of your support at home!

le 15-19 avril

Here are the reminders for the week:
-Library on Monday. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Scholastic orders due back on Tuesday. Cheques can be made payable to Scholastic Canada Ltd.
-Hot lunch orders are due back on Tuesday. The hot lunch will be on Thursday.
-Mme will be away for meeting on Friday afternoon.
-Home Reading Books due back on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. This week we are looking at the accents grave et circonflexe on the letter e. The words are as follows:
 

une fenêtre

la tête

mon père

une chèvre

un trèfle

Bonus : de la crème glacée

Puddles

It's that time of year again...
All of the snow is finally beginning to melt and the result is a wet school yard with lots of tempting puddles. Again this year we are asking that students stay out of the puddles during recess and lunch times. I have been reminding them to be wearing rubber boots and proper clothes outside to keep themselves warm and dry. I have also told all of the students that if they make the decision to play in or near the puddles that they may get wet, and that they will be cold an uncomfortable for the remainder of the day.  All that being said, I understand that sometimes accidents happen, so students are welcome to keep a dry change of clothes in their locker.

le 8 - 12 avril

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a fantastic break. Here are a few reminders for this week:

-Library on Monday. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Scholastic will be sent home today (Monday), and will be due back on Tuesday, April 16th.
-Wednesday, April 10th is Day of Pink. Students are encouraged to wear pink to show support against bullying.
-Thursday, April 11th is Colour Spirit Day. The Grade 2 colour is blue. We will also have an assembly on Thursday morning. Our newspaper fundraiser will start on this day (more information to follow).
-Friday, April 12th at 9:05am Persephone Theatre will be at the school performing "Bluenose"
-Friday, April 12th at 12:45 - 1:30 students will be attending the Spring Dance. Students are asked to bring $1 and a non perishable food item.
-Home Reading Books due on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be looking at another way to make the sound 'eh'. We have studied 'er', 'ai' and 'é' already, this week we will study 'ei'. The words are as follows:

la neige

une baleine

la reine

treize

le soleil

plein

une peinture  

Joyeuses Paques!

Thank you to all parents who came to three-way conferences this past week. I really enjoy touching base with everyone and chatting about how well everyone is doing. Your support at home is greatly appreciated. I hope everyone has a safe and fun Easter break, and I will see everyone back at school on Monday, April 8th! Joyeuses Paques!

Words

Today we were learning about different types of words, les noms/nouns, les verbes/verbs, les adjectifs/adjectives et les adverbes/adverbs. Here is our work, which includes the definition and an example of each:

We used what we knew of these words to do a silly Easter mad lib. Here is a link to a website that has loads of mad libs for students to do: http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
I have told students that if they do one at home and want to print it and bring it to school that they are more than welcome to do so. We will start a book of the stories that come in.

Lunch Hour Activities

Skipping Club is now finished. We enjoyed watching all students who participated this year show off their skills on Friday morning during a special assembly.
Math club is now finished. Due to the Book Fair this week and the nicer weather we are sure to get after Easter, students are encouraged to be spending their lunch hours outside.
Thanks to all students who participated in both clubs and I hope you join again next year!

le 25-27 mars

My apologies for all the posts at once this weekend, it has been quite busy getting progress reports written and prepared to be sent home. I hope you enjoy reading about what we have been working on here at school. Now for a few reminders for this upcoming three day week:

-Library on Monday. Please bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Book Fair - we will be browsing on Tuesday and buying on Wednesday. The Book Fair is also open during three-way conferences both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
-Me to We pennies - the last day for pennies to be brought in is Wednesday, so if you have some pennies that you wish to contribute and have not yet done so, please bring them in this week.
-PJ and movie party on Wednesday. Because students have put Mme and M. Patate back together by speaking in French, we will have a little celebration Wednesday afternoon. Students are welcome to wear their PJs and bring a stuffy to watch a French movie and have a popcorn snack with.
-Home Reading Books due Wednesday
-Dictee on Wednesday. This week we will be looking at Easter words, the dictee words are as follows:
 

du chocolat

un panier

cacher

chercher

un œuf

un lapin

Finally, please note that Wednesday, March 27th is the last day of school before the Easter Break. We resume on Monday, April 8th.

Telling time

For the past week in math, we have been learning to tell the time. We made handy little clocks that can help us to remember that the minutes count by 5 as we go around the clock.

We have learned some of the vocabulary that goes along with telling time.

Quelle heure est-il? Il est...  (What time is it? It is...)
et demi (and a half - half past)
et quart (and a quarter - quarter past)
moins quart (less a quarter - quarter to)

We have also practiced writing the time in French, which is slightly different than in English. In French, we write: hour h minutes, for example 12 h 30, and we say -Il est douze heures et demi.

We will continue to practice this skill at school, but students are encouraged to practice at home as well.

Bonnes nouvelles!

Good news! Mme et M. Patate have been put back together by the hard work of the grade 2s.

We have been speaking French in class with both Mme and our peers, and have earned a little party to celebrate. The grade 2s have decided that they wish to have a PJ and movie party with popcorn. So, on Wednesday afternoon from after recess til the end of the day we will be having a popcorn snack and watching a video (en francais, of course)! Students are welcome to wear their PJs and bring a stuffy to watch the movie with, if they wish.

Les papillons

To go along with our newest MIMI poster we have been learning all about les papillons. This past week we learned the parts of a butterfly.

On Friday, we were talking about the concept of symmetry, and how butterflies, as well as humans, are examples of symmetry. We designed our very own symmetrical butterflies. Here they are:

 

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is being celebrating tonight (Saturday, March 23rd) from 8:30-9:30pm. During this time, try to turn off all electronics and lights, and save some energy. At school on Friday between 2:30 and 3:30 we turned off all the lights and had our own mini Earth Hour.

Progress Reports

As report cards are going home this afternoon, I thought I would write a few things to consider as you review them over the weekend.

When looking at the reporting areas for Français:

Oral Negotiates meaning – understanding French discussion and instruction

Expresses oneself – speaking in French

Written Negotiates meaning – reading in French (including decoding, fluency and comprehension)

Expresses oneself – writing in French

An important point to note about term two report cards is that expectations are increasing as the year progresses. Though a student may have received a B in term one, and a second B in term two, it does not mean that there has been no progress. It simply means that the student is beginning to meet the expectations for this point in the year.

I look forward to discussing students’ progress further during Three-Way Conferences next week. If you have not yet scheduled a time to meet with me, I would encourage you to contact the main office.

Thank you, as always, for your support at home. 

Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair will be set up in the library on Tuesday, March 26th and Wednesday, March 27th. We will be going as a class to browse on Tuesday afternoon, and to buy on Wednesday morning. The book fair will also be open in the evenings while three-way conferences are going on. Thanks for supporting our school!

Science Fair

What a great success for the first science fair in a long time at Ecole Victoria School! Thank you to all the families who helped students to prepare projects to display for the day. Our class went and checked out the projects, and I think most students were inspired to enter a project next year. What a great opportunity to do some learning in an area of interest!

Story Starters

On Friday during writing time we decided that we would like to write some silly stories for a change. We used the Story Starter from Scholastic (and translated to French, of course). Students very much liked the silly topic, and I said I would share the link for the Story Starter so they could write silly stories at home as well. Happy writing!

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/

le 18-22 mars

Just a few reminders for this upcoming week:
-We are still collecting pennies for the Me to We campaign. If you have any lying around at home, please send them in.
-Science Fair is on Wednesday, March 20th from 1-3:25pm and 5:30-7pm.
-Multicultural Potluck is on Thursday from 6-8pm. Please bring your own cutlery and dish.
-Skipping assembly is at 9:05am on Friday, March 22nd.
-Progress Reports go home on Friday, March 22nd. Three-Way Conferences are on Tuesday, March 26th and Wednesday, March 27th. Please call the office to book a time, or contact me if those times are inconvenient for you.
-Home Reading Books are due back on Friday, March 22nd.
-Dictee on Friday. This weeks words are all words from our newest MIMI poster. I have chosen words that will help us to review the sounds we have already learned and practiced:

un seau

du carton

du métal

les papillons

les soucis

les roches

Bonus : les jacinthes des bois

 

Les formes et les solides geometriques

Today we learned that shapes and 3D objects are related. We learned that the faces of 3D objects are shapes. We made 3D objects from nets on paper to see the connection. I showed the students a website that has printable templates to make characters that are 3D objects. www.cubeecraft.com

Les solides geometriques/Les objets en 3D

We have been learning about shapes (les formes), and have now begun learning about 3D objects (les solides geometriques). On Friday we had some fun building different solides geometriques with marshmallows and spaghetti. We learned that the corners, where the marshmallows are, are called les sommets, edges, where the spaghettis are, are called les aretes, and the flat parts are called les faces.

Me to We Pennies

Each class was given a bag in which to collect pennies. This is part of the Free the Children/Me to We initiative (same as Water Rafiki Friend Chains). The class that collects the most pennies wins an ice cream party. We discussed that the reason we are collecting pennies is to help others, not to win a party (but it would be a cool bonus). So please send any pennies that you may have lying around and help us to help others.

le 11-15 mars

Just a few updates for this upcoming week:
-Library on Monday, bring back your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-Concours d'arts oratoire - Three students (chosen out of a hat), will be presenting their poems for the French classes on Tuesday afternoon in the auditorium.
-We will be having a perimeter lockdown drill on Thursday, March 14th at around 2:15pm
-Home Reading Books due back on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be learning a little bit about le Jour de la St-Patrick. The words are as follows:

le trèfle

vert

l’arc-en-ciel

le 17 mars

la chance

le farfadet

un pot d’or

Progress Reports and Three-way conferences

Progress reports will be sent home on Friday, March 22nd. Three-way conferences will be held on Tuesday, March 26th from 4-8pm and on Wednesday, March 27th from 4-7pm. Please call the office to schedule a time. As always, if these times are inconvenient for you, please don't hesitate to let me know and we can work to find a time that will. I would love to see each of my students and their parents so they can share their progress with you.
Looking forward to seeing you all!

le 4-8 mars

Into March already! Time flies when you are in Grade 2...

Lots of reminders for this week and for this month:
-Library on Monday
-Science Fair forms are due back on Wednesday. They are available at the office if students have not yet filled one in and wish to submit a project. The Science Fair will be on March 20th
-Pretzel forms are due back on Wednesday. This will take the place of a hot lunch for Thursday, March 7th
-School Spirit Day is Water Day on Thursday. Students are asked to wear their Water Rafiki Friend Chains and the colours blue and white
-Scholastic orders are due back on Friday, March 8th. Cheques can be made payable to Scholastic Canada Ltd.
-Home Reading Books are due on Friday, March 8th
-Dictee on Friday, March 8th. This week we are looking at the letters ill, as in the word une fille. The words are as follows:
une fille
un papillon
les coquilles
les nouilles
une grenouille  (I made a typo on the copies that are stapled in the agendas - my apologies)
brille
un tourbillon

Trions les formes

We have been working on learning about 2D shapes in math for the past few days. Today we were thinking of different ways we could sort shapes (by size, colour, number of corners, etc). As a fun introduction to sorting shapes, we played this fun game on the SmartBoard.

http://www.takatamuser.com/autres_jeux/jeu_tri_lent.html

Les microbes

Today we learned a little bit about germs. We talked about feeling sick, how it felt, and different ways we could be sick. We talked about staying home when we aren't feeling well so we don't spread germs. We tried a little experiment with germs. We had some hand sanitizer mixed with glitter, and Mme and two students put some on their hands. We pretended that the sparkles were germs. We then high fived, a student sharpened a pencil, a student put a book away, a student left the classroom. We then looked at where the glitter went - it was everywhere! On everyones hands, on our books, pencil sharpener, the doorknob... We learned about washing our hands and how important it is to do often.

Acceptance

For the next 6 weeks or so, our school will be looking at the character trait of acceptance. February is also Black History Month, so this morning we read The Story of Ruby Bridges. All of the Grade 2s were adamant that what happened to Ruby shouldn't have happened, that regardless of her skin colour she deserved to be treated with respect and be allowed to go to whichever school she wanted. One student summed up simply, "It's on the inside what counts".

Busy day!

Back into the swing of things today...

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Family Day and week off of school.

Some few updates for this week...
-I hope to have some new pictures from 100th Day and Valentine's Day up on the Photobucket site, I will email when I get them uploaded
-Home Reading Books- we didn't get them changed over today, we will do that tomorrow and send them home. They are due back on Friday.
-Dictee on Friday. This week we will be looking at the sound that e accent aigu makes (eh). The words are as follows:

février

un éléphant

une cheminée

l’écorce

les écailles

Bonus : les mathématiques

100e jour d'ecole

Here are some pictures of some of the fun activities we did for the 100th day of school today:

Variety of 100 day activities

Writing 100 words

Writing the numbers up to 100

Counting and adding up the objects.

100 things we have learned in Grade 2.

Mini Folk Fest

The Home and School Association will be hosting a Mini Folk Fest on Thursday, March 21st. There will be a potluck supper from 6-7pm and entertainment from 7-8pm. We are looking for students who would be interested in performing something related to their culture. If your child is interested, please let me know, or let the main office know. Thanks!

le 11-15 fevrier

A few updates for this week:
-Library on Monday. Please bring your books if you wish to exchange them for new ones.
-100th day of school Monday. Feel free to dress up like you are 100 years old.
-On Wednesday morning (before morning recess) we will be going for a little walk to distribute valentines that we made for the community.
-Valentine's Day is Thursday. We will be playing a few Valentine's related games for the afternoon, as well as passing out valentines (if students choose to). A class list was sent home last week.
-Home Reading Books due on Friday
-Dictee on Friday, the words are as follows:

un ami/une amie

un cœur

amour

rouge

St-Valentin

Je t’aime!

-February Break from Monday February 18-Friday February 22 (No school for students)