Silly Snowflake!

Our Elf Snowflake was caught having a sack race with our Jungalympic friends! Leo was in the lead!

Sports Fans!

Today in Math class we tallied our favourite sports! Soccer was the winner!

Cultures in Our Classroom!

In Social Studies today we spoke about our cultures and nationalities! The children thought it was amazing that we all come from different countries and backgrounds. They could not believe that all of these cultures were in one classroom! Students loved hearing about the places that their classmates grandparents or parents came from. Some of us can even speak different languages! It was a great exploration day for all of us today! Below there is a picture of flags which represent all of the cultures in our classroom. Each student in the class today made a self-portrait with their nationality depicted as a flag on their t-shirt. Students were so amazed to see that all of these different cultures work together to create an amazing classroom community!

Our New Friend!

This morning in my school bag I found a special surprise! It was an Elf!! I received strict instructions to bring her to school so that I could share her with my class! Since we have been learning about bar graphs, we decided to do a survey of Elf Names! As a class we voted on which name we thought was the best, …. and the winner is……. SNOWFLAKE! After finishing our tally chart we made a bar graph displaying the information we gathered! We are so excited that Snowflake is here with us to spend the holidays! We are on our extra best behaviour because we know she reports back to both Santa, and Jesus!

Eat Right, Be Bright!

Here are some of the posters that we made in class about healthy eating!

Venturing into Advent

This past Sunday marked the beginning of the first week of Advent. Students learned that the first purple candle was lit on Sunday and it signifies Hope. Each week another candle will be lit until December 25, the day of Jesus' birth. Candles symbolize Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.

Crazy About Christmas!

With the Christmas season upon us, the students have completed their Santa letters. It was very important that we not only included things that we wanted from Santa, but also things that we wished for other boys and girls around the world that are less fortunate than we are. Wishes included things like clean food and water, a healthy family and an education.

Going Bananas for Bar Graphs!

In our Data Management Unit we have moved on to bar graphs. We have graphed our favourite foods, shirts and names so far! Students are getting a hang of making their own graphs as well as filling in graphs as a class!

Math: Terrific Tallying!

In our new Data Management unit we have been discussing how to collect and organize information. So far we have learned how to properly create a tally chart. We have tallied fruit loops, hair colours, eye colours,smarties, colours and shapes.

Healthy Eating

In health class we have been focusing on healthy eating. We have done many activities which have outlined the four food groups. We have categorized food that we eat every day within their respected food group. We also collected grocery store flyers and made our own healthy food posters. Here are some of our slogans!

Diwali

The first international celebration we have learned about is Diwali! Diwali is celebrated in India and is also known as the Festival of Lights. We created our own fireworks as a symbol of Diwali. We also watched a short video which illustrated the colourful festivities that happen within Indian culture.

Social Studies

In Social Studies we are learning about Traditions and Celebrations in Canada and the World. So far we have learned about special celebrations in our lives. Students have written about their favourite celebrations, and interviewed a friend about their favourite celebration. We have also played a fun matching game with celebrations and their definitions, the students LOVED it!

Letter Writing

So far with my Grade 2 class we have been working on letter writing. This is done during our Writer's Workshop. We have written both friendly and persuasive letters based on the books "I Wanna Iguana", "Yours Truly Goldilocks". We have also written letters to Mrs.Beswick and our Jungalympic friends. We are currently writing our Santa letters. In our Santa letters students will be not only asking for things they would like but making a wish to better someone else's life in our world.

Philosophy on Tech-Enhanced Lessons!

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

The My Canada game is also a TVO Kids Game which regards labelling the Provinces within Canada. It focuses on memorization and patterning, and allows children to recognize the shape of the province with the name. It is a fun way for children to learn about their country and their culture!

The game is inline with the Ontario Curriculum Guidelines because the Grade 2 Social Studies expectations provide opportunities for students to explore a number of concepts connected to the citizenship education framework which includes community, identity, relationships, respect and stewardship.
Visit the game here : My Canada

 http://map-canada.blogspot.ca/2012/04/canada-map-political-city.html

TVO kids is an amazing website and they have many educational games for us to use!
The Amazing Spelling Fleas game helps children through five different games

1. Catch a Falling Star - children will be able to pick out verbs
2. Flea Flippin- students will learn new vocabulary and match a photo to a word
3. The Amazing Flea-vil- students will chose the right letter to complete a word
4. Bubble Blast- allows students to see misspelled words and choose the right ones
5. What did you Flea?- students match certain pictures to sentences

Visit the website here : Spelling Fleas

Students will reinforce their spelling and vocabulary practices which parallels the Ontario Curriculum through Section 3.1 which states that students at a Grade 2 Level will learn to automatically read and understand many high frequency words, words with common spelling patterns and words of personal interest or significance in a variety of different reading contexts.

Three Wonderful Websites!

Parents,

It is often hard to get your child to use their iPad or Computer for educational purposes!
Here are some websites that can help you kick-start educational learning with technology!


National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids is a website which includes games, videos, craft, recipes and so much more! If your children are interested about animals and their origins this is a great site to visit!

Funbrain

Funbrain is a fantastic website where children can work on their math and language skills through activities and games! There are also many useful links for parents as well!

Spatulatta

Does your child enjoy being creative and getting messy?! Spattulata is an amazing website geared to culinary arts. Parents can also take advantage of the recipe box to make your dinner time more fun and inclusive to your children!! They will LOVE it!


BONUS! All of these websites are free!!

Amazing resource!

KidRex is an amazing website made by kids, for kids!!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Click below to be redirected to the KidRex Website, feel free to view the parental information!  
   KidRex

*KidRex may not be 100% foolproof! But it blocks all of the websites seen as offensive to children! Researchers check KidRex daily to insure that children have the most amazing Web experience possible!!! http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/think3/post/kidrex_-_safe_internet_for_children

Welcome Grade 2 Families!

Welcome Grade 2's and Families!!

Grade 2's

I am so excited to see all of you bright eyed and bushy tailed in class every morning! You are all so excited to learn with me! We have made great progress already and I cannot wait to see what is to come!!!

Parents

Parents, I am ecstatic to have your son/daughter in my class! So far they have all been engaged and focused on our topics at hand! We have started our Science Unit on Solids, Liquids and Gasses, and we have also started our Words of the Week! Stay tuned to stay informed about what our class is doing in the upcoming months!