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  Special Events for December.  ⛄❄ December 1st La journée des animaux To celebrate all our hard work, the children can dress as their favorite animal. They are welcome to bring a small stuffy as well. The stuffy should be the same animal as they are dressed up as.   For example a costume can be as straightforward as wearing all brown to be a deer and having a small deer stuffy. Have fun creating the costumes!   December 6 th  Concert   This is our class’ concert day. You have the option of attending the concert at 12:30 or 6:30 pm. Please see the school email for more detail about costumes.     Decmeber 8 th - Blue, White and Flashlight day   December 15 th -  Santa, Elf,  or  Reindeer hat day.   🌲🌲🌲🌲   December 22 nd  –  Pyjama, Stuffy and Hot Chocolate day  

 Forest Animals of Canada One of our forest centres We have been talking about the forest and the animals found here on the island. We have been practicing the names of the animals and describing their attributes. We have read a booklet to friends describing the animals. We have been playing with a variety of centres to encourage French oral play and discussion about these animals. The focus on the forest was an introduction to the habitat of our local salmon. We will be learning about salmon on our field trip to Goldstream. Before going to Goldstream all the grade 1/ 2 and 2 classes have been creating a salmon ecosystem. We visited the ecosystem, talked about the source of the water in the river and how it becomes brackish in the estuary. We made salmon out of plasticine and added them to the other salmon waiting to swim up river. It is getting very crowded! We will continue to work on the ecosystem adding eggs, alevin etc. over the next several months. More immediately we will be tal

 Farming and more  In connection to talking about healthy food and the Canada Food Guide, we have been reading and talking about farming. After reading A Prairie Alphabet, the students spent some time using the materials in class to build things that are found on the prairie such as grain elevators, farms, tipis and homes.  Here are some examples of their work.  La ferme Un train Une maison/ un cabane As we were talking about grain elevators and trains, we watched some CN freight trains on YouTube at lunch as they are not a sight ECH students see here on the island.  We are fortunate to have Corrine Chow presenting at the school this week about the Métis culture which originates and continues on the prairies. It will be a timely tie in to our unit. We will continue to explore in class, talking about tipis and bison and their importance to the Indigenous Peoples. Vocabulary building We are building our knowledge of the French vocabulary about farms, farm animals etc. We played an oral g

Art Cards We have started out Art Cards! Social Studies and Health One of the Big Ideas, a focus, for grade 2 is the diverse regions of Canada. As a beginning  to this unit we made a map of the school grounds. We then looked at Canada using google maps and zoomed in to our school. We were able to compare our map with what we saw on the screen.  Over the school year we will be looking in more detail at different regions of Canada. Over the next few weeks we will be talking about the food we grow on the Island. This will lead to conversations and comparisons with the prairies, what grows on the prairies, the animals and geography of that region of Canada.  As we are talking about food, we will be reading and retelling the story of La petite poule rousse. (The Little Red Hen). We will also be talking about healthy foods vs snack and treat food.   As we approach Halloween could you please limit candy to 1 item per day if that is your practice to include candy in your child's lunch. As

Building Foundations Math This year we are focusing on Number Sense most days. Number Sense is promoting understanding of how numbers relate and connect. We are working with numbers to 20, gradually building to larger numbers. We are using French to play Go Fish with number cards to 20. We have been playing Snap in class to reinforce place value and create understanding of the relationship of the numbers 11-20 to 10. We are using number lines and cuisinaire rods to make connections between numbers. When we build 13 with cuisinaire rods, we can see that it is bigger than 10 and less that 15, but closer to 15 than 20. We have also started to work with 10 frames.  On Fridays we are practicing building patterns, naming them following the naming conventions (ABC, ABB, ABCD etc.) We will be identifying the core (le coeur) of a pattern, the repeating core. We will be looking at ways to make patterns with all one material or all one colour.  Literacy We have started many routines that we will

  Literacy We have started our class learning routines and activities this week. The children are practicing reading on our own. They find a spot to sit in class and put a mat down. The children pick 2-3 books that they practice reading several times.  To practice reading the children are: getting their mouth ready to say the letter sound rereading new words to blend the letter sounds together e.g. R-o-s-ie becomes Ro-sie then Rosie checking that the words that they say make sense in the story. If there are more than 2 words on a page that they do not know, then they should change their book for something that is easier and still provides a challenge.  The blue bins, pictured on the bottom shelf, are activities that support oral language, sight word recognition and spelling. Each table gets a bin after snack and works at the activity. Each day they have a different activity.  Out literacy centres Math We have been using Cuisinaire Rods to create number trains. The children started the

  Our grade 2 class We have a straight grade 2 class. It is a busy class and everyone is eager to learn and start our time together.I enjoyed meeting the students today and noticed many established friendships and some new budding ones as well.  We will spend the first few weeks talking about our school community and establishing routines for our time together.  School supplies Please send in the school supplies as soon as you have them. We do use all 4 journal books right away as they are for different subjects.  I have included pictures of the outside and inside of the journals to help you when purchasing the supplies.  Inside of the journals  The covers of the journals needed Information for parents about our class: Here are copies of the Welcome Letter and Parent Handbook that will becoming home in the first few days of school. Please read both documents as they give you an overview of our class routines for the year.  Link to  Parent Handbook  Link to  Welcome Letter Every year th

Welcome to our classroom home! Our classroom So often parents do not get to pop into the class as often as they would like. Also when asking young children what they did at school, most parents say that they hear about recess and play but not as much detail about the day to day classroom activities.  I use this website as a way to share what we are exploring in class. I will share the themes that we are working on as well as pictures of materials we are using in class. I use play as the predominant way to facilitate learning, build understanding and show competence in class rather than paper work. This website will allow you to see what we are doing as a class as a whole.  My intention is to update the website at least once a month. I will send an email with a link to the new content when I update the blog. Feel free to visit and use the resources at the top of the page at anytime.  Often with a post, I will include a section for you titled "Things you can do". This will

Some Learning Tools  As we finish the wonderful year together, I want to connect you with some tools and activities to support your child throughout the summer.  Please do not feel that these activities need to be part of a daily routine, as I well know summer can get busy and routines change from week to week.  If you choose, explore the site, see what interests your child and what they gravitate to. It is all there as resources for you as wanted or needed. Library First of all the local library 📚 has started its summer reading club for kids. Having the reading club was always a great incentive for my kids and me to drop in weekly and get new books.  Also if you contact Susan Wade (our librarian) swade@sd79.bc.ca she is willing to arrange for books to come home over the summer. Of course there isn't a chance to exchange them until fall.😁 Website As I said have an explore of the site and see what resource will work for you. Here is a quick synopsis of the pages, if you would like