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 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 ...

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 chi...

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...