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Today we celebrated our first Advent liturgy together as a school, and we are getting prepared for the Advent season in our class as well! 

We created beautiful Advent wreaths with Mme Holmes...

We will be adding to our Nativity scene daily!

We have also changed our Prayer Centre cloth to purple, and are reading passages daily from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Hello parents!

Today, we had the pleasure of meeting with Father Gervais in our classroom! We had a great time discussing how we say our prayers at home, and how we can prepare for the season of Advent coming up next week!

Starting on Tuesday, December 1st, students will be able to bring money for our Christmas Store, which will raise funds to benefit families in our school community this holiday season. Items range from one to five dollars, so have your shopping money ready!

You can find your copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}. Have a great weekend!

Agendas:

Hello parents,

Agendas:
-December pizza orders are due tomorrow (Cash only)
-Movie night RSVP ($5.00) due ASAP

This week, we will be working with Biblio-Enfants, an online resource for free online French books with audio recordings. This is offered through the Ajax library, but so far a library card is not necessary.

Instructions:

Click {HERE} to visit the Ajax Public Library website and under Digital Resources, click on "e-books & e-audiobooks"

Your selected reading with will appear with both French and English prompts to help you navigate the website. Please be sure to let me know if you are able (or unable) to access the site from home! Happy reading!

Agendas:

Hello and happy Thursday! Remember that tomorrow is a PA day!

You can find your copy of our newsletter {HERE}!

We finished our work with Isabelle Iguane today, and concluded with our "craftivity", which we will post on Monday! Today, we also started learning about the Ten Commandments, and we have found a great poster to hang in our class with "God's Top Ten":

Agendas:

Hi parents!

Today we began our multiplication and division unit. Please note that we do not focus on multiplication facts (times tables) in Grade 2, rather on building the concept that multiplication is the combining of equal groups to make one large group, and division is splitting up one large group into smaller, equal groups. We also use the idea that multiplication is really repeated addition (4 x 3 = 12 is also 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 or 4 + 4 + 4). Be sure to use these ideas in your conversations at home- shopping and using money is a great place to start! We completed the Krispy Kreme donut math problem to get us thinking about equal groups, and you can see the link {HERE}!

Finally, we brainstormed all the things that are created by God, and will use these lists further throughout the week.

Happy Friday!

Today, we were working hard at representing addition and subtraction equations with pictures and symbols. We used our interactive notebooks to make a flip book of examples. Take a look at some of our excellent work!

Today we also read the story, The Name Jar. We will use this as part of our Fully Alive religion work next week. Our focus will be on sensitivity of feelings, and acceptance of diversity. You can find the video of the book on YouTube {HERE}

You can find a copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}

This week, on Remembrance day, we learned about the history of Winnie the Pooh, and how this bear is related to Canada's military history.

You can see a CTV News video about the history of Winnie the Pooh {HERE}

You can also see an additional reading {HERE}

Hello parents!

We enjoyed a beautiful Remembrance Day assembly today with prayers, songs and symbolic gifts brought up to the altar. Our class made a lovely cross decorated with poppies with Mme Holmes. We also continued our liturgy experience in class by having our first official liturgy. We learned about how families can be very diverse, and we learned that a family is made up of people who love and support one another, and who enjoy spending time together. Our job for tonight was to promise one thing that we would do to show our love and appreciation for everyone at home. Look out for our acts of kindness!

Agendas:
-Our youngest/only students received a dark green letter outlining our class' responsibilities for our Christmas grocery drive. Our class will bring in rice, pasta, canned vegetables, paper towels, and ketchup. Donations will be greatly appreciated to help those in need this holiday season!
-Pizza day tomorrow; please remember to bring extra snacks!

Hello parents!

Today we were back as secret agent spies, and putting our spy skills to work with our descriptive writing! We secretly observed one classmate throughout the day, and recorded our observations in full sentences. We then had fun guessing at who was spying on us, with some surprising results! Tomorrow we will be reading L'agent Secret story in class, and a copy will come home for your child to share with you! 

Secret Agent Math!

Today we were sneaky spies on the case of the trickiest math problems, in an attempt to save the world from the terrible word problem! We understood that solving a case requires us to use pictures and words in addition to calculations when showing our work. We made sure to explain our thinking, because that is more important than simply a correct answer! We used our Top Secret spy portfolios as well as our cool soy gadgets to solve our problems. We will be using our spy skills tomorrow with our SCOOT! math, and some spying for our descriptive writing! 

Happy Friday!

You can find a copy of our weekly newsletter {HERE}.

Agendas:
-Wear all black on Monday for "Spy Day"
-Complete Extreme Pita orders online

I look forward to meeting with all of you next week for our Parent-Teacher interviews!

SCOOT!

Hi parents!

Thank you to everyone who submitted their purple Parent Questionnaire forms today! They will be very helpful to prepare for our interviews next week!

We were putting our creative minds to work today with our Writer's Workshop! We mapped out our story of The Paper Bag Princess (La princesse à la robe de papier) by Robert Munsch. We then took on the task of writing the same story, but from another character's perspective. We wrote some amazing stories from the point of view of the dragon, Prince Ronald, and even some creative new characters! We also read the story, Un histoire à quatre voix (Voices in the Park), to discuss how characters in a story can explain the same situation with very different views and opinions.

You can find the link to the YouTube video of La princesse à la robe de papier {HERE}!

Agendas:
-Parent conference questionnaires
-Pita orders due next Thursday, November 12th

Bonjour!

Agendas:
-Please complete the purple parent questionnaire in your child's agenda, to let me know if there are any specific points you wish to discuss at our upcoming parent conferences. You can find an extra copy of the page {HERE}!



We had a very busy day today! We began the day with a Three-Act math problem. We looked at the video, which you can find {HERE}. We then worked in groups to use our knowledge from the clue video to find a creative solution to the problem. We had some very creative results! We maintained our focus of communicating our thinking and showing evidence of our problem solving steps, rather than simply achieving a correct answer.

Here are some examples of our awesome group work: