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Archive for April 2016
28 April 2016
Agendas:
-Popcorn/cotton candy orders
-See yellow letter from the office re: Catholic Education Week events
-RSVP for our play performance on Wednesday, May 4th!
Today, we were excited to get our hands on our newest addition to our class: Osmo! This game system attaches to our class iPad, which we can use to supplement and assess our French and Math learning. Here is a quick overview of the games we played today. You will see more at our upcoming Math Night in May!
This is the Numéros/Numbers game, where we can use dice tiles or numerical digit tiles to represent number totals in addition/subtraction/counting games. We use the dice tiles to create the number shown, and you can see what it looks like up on our big screen!
Finally here is the most popular game in our class: Newton! This is a problem solving skill game where we can use drawings on a white board, or our hands (as seen on the big screen below) to create pathways for objects aiming for a target. This gets our minds thinking quickly! 
We look forward to showing you in the future how we use these and other tools to enhance our learning. Stay tuned!
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27 April 2016
Agendas:
-popcorn and cotton candy order forms
-pizza orders due tomorrow
-Please let Mme Wilson know how many adults from your family will be coming to our play performance next Wednesday, May 4th!
Today we began our math unit working with relative location and movement. We began with a quick game to recall our prepositions...and you can see that we got a little competitive! Next we made a game of creating a hidden picture with shapes (or you can use any objects at home), and then using mathematical language in French to describe our image, and our friends on the other side of the barrier had to create the same image, with only our verbal instructions to help!
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26 April 2016
-Jump Rope for Heart pledge forms came home today. We are working as a school to raise money for the Heart and Stroke foundation. Students can collect donations online, or collect cash donations with the envelope. We reviewed safe procedures, and that we can only canvas under the supervision of an adult.
-Popcorn and cotton candy orders are due May 6th. Please note that no late orders will be accepted, and there will be no opportunity to buy treats the day of.
-Please let us know how many adults will be attending our May 4th play presentations by returning the white letter from Mme Holmes, or with a note in the agenda
Today we were hard at work on our visual prayers. We are creating a wall display for our hallway to show all the people/things that need our prayers. This will help us when we create our own prayer intentions for our upcoming First Communion Mass.
Check out just a few of our amazing prayers!
Today we also worked on our Second Steps social skills program. We discussed different techniques to calm ourselves and to recognize the physical signs of stress and anger. We are working on a case study about how to come back from a negative situation after an argument to restore a positive relationship. Finally, we ended with a little lesson on the first section of our Apostles Creed with a video you can find {HERE}!
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25 April 2016
Agendas:
-Invitations for our plays with Mme Holmes came home today. Please let us know the number of adults attending
-Student of the Month assembly Wednesday at 11:00- Congratulations to our winners: C & C!
-Pizza orders due April 28th
Today we continued our First Communion preparations with Mrs. S. from St. Francis parish. Please be sure to contact her if you have any questions about our First Communion celebrations next month!
We reviewed our Apostle's Creed prayer, and learned about the different parts of a Mass and the order in which they happen. This week, we will be using a video that you can find {HERE} to help us rehearse.
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19 April 2016
Agendas:
-May pizza orders went home today and are due on April 28th
Today we were excited to get right down to work with our fairy tale writing! We began by brainstorming as a class the types of characters and settings that we expect to see in a fairy tale. We also discussed the patterns of things coming in 3's and 7's in fairy tales (three little pigs, goldilocks and the three bears, seven dwarves, etc.). Check out our planning work below! Tomorrow we will examine the concept of good versus evil in fairy tales, and will create our inciting incident, story events and story solution!
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18 April 2016
Agendas:
-Aquarium permission forms and $20 (cash only, please) is due this Friday, April 22nd
-Hot dog order form deadline has been extended to Wednesday, April 20th!
Today, we were excited to get to work on the next chapter of our Grade 2 journey with our preparations for our upcoming First Communion! We met with Mrs. S. from St. Francis parish, and we had a great time learning about the importance of the Eucharist and how to properly treat it, and we even got to see it up close! We also played a little game to test our knowledge of items that we see around the church during Mass...
Today we also began our planning maps for our upcoming writing unit: Fairy Tales! Here are some examples of our amazing work, and we will update you tomorrow about how we are planning the perfect fairy tale!
We also read the stories, Henry Holt Takes The Ice and Super Red Riding Hood with Mme. K. in the library today for our Blue Spruce voting, and we will be casting our final votes next Wednesday!
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14 April 2016
*PLEASE NOTE THAT TOMORROW, Friday, April 15th is a PA Day, and there is no school for students! :)
-Aquarium trip forms + $20 due Friday, April 22nd
-Hot Dog orders due Monday, April 18th
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| Reading with a pirate telescope |
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| Pirate treasure chests full of addition and subtraction problems! |
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| And then a sword fight broke out over a math game race! |
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| Arranging under-the-sea puzzles, using our math concepts of size relations and proportions |
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13 April 2016
Agendas:
-Tomorrow is our class Pirate Day! Dress in your best pirate wear (stripes, bandanas, hats, etc.). Please be advised that swords are to stay at home, and students are responsible for all items that they may bring
-Our class has won a Games Day with Mme Holmes tomorrow, where we may bring board games/toys/stuffed animals, etc., however we will not bring electronics. Students will also be responsible for any items, so our valuables are best left at home.
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11 April 2016
Agendas:
-Thank you to all who have returned Ripley's Aquarium trip forms! We now have enough parent volunteers to come on the bus with us, and any additional parents are welcome to join if you meet us at the aquarium (at the general admission cost)
-Please return Hot Dog day order forms (Hot Dog Days are Friday April 22nd, and Friday April 29th)
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8 April 2016
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6 April 2016
Agendas:
-Hat Day tomorrow
-$2.00 Share Life donations are greatly appreciated!
Today we continued our work with our pirate themed writing! We brainstormed how to develop a problem/inciting incident, course of events and solution for our story, based on our choice of our setting and characters. Tomorrow, we will develop outs ideas into a 'beginning, middle and end' format in a booklet. Stay tuned for more of our awesome work! 
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4 April 2016
Agendas:
-Wacky Hair Day tomorrow
-Lunch Lady orders (can be completed online)
Today we began our Write On writing unit, based on the book, How I Became A Pirate, by Melinda Long (Comment je suis devenu pirate). We are using this (and other pirate-themed fictional stories) as a mentor text for our fictional writing about, what else? PIRATES!
We discussed how the story used creative imagery and has a clear beginning, middle and ending. Today we began our story planning by defining our characters and setting. Tomorrow, we will work on our inciting action (problem), and how the solution of the problem will develop. We met with our writing conference partners, to make sure that we were on the right track, and to offer our helpful ideas and insights. What a great way to kick off our week! We will conclude our unit next Thursday with a pirate themed day...Stay tuned!
We discussed how the story used creative imagery and has a clear beginning, middle and ending. Today we began our story planning by defining our characters and setting. Tomorrow, we will work on our inciting action (problem), and how the solution of the problem will develop. We met with our writing conference partners, to make sure that we were on the right track, and to offer our helpful ideas and insights. What a great way to kick off our week! We will conclude our unit next Thursday with a pirate themed day...Stay tuned!
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