Happy Holidays! Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Dear Parents,

Wow! I am overcome with gratitude of the grade two students!  I thank each and every one of you for the generous and thoughtful gifts.  I loved the personal notes and artistic drawings :). Thank you! Thank you!

FYI
-Report cards and IPP's have been sent home. If your child was away today, you can pick your report cards up tomorrow between 8:30-1:30 pm- or wait until school resumes.
-No school Friday December 20th (PD Day)
-school resumes January 6th
-Poetry Party and the spelling test will be Friday January 10th


Warm wishes and happy holidays to all of you!  Stay safe, warm and enjoy time with your families!


 

Wednesday December 18th, 2019

Dear Parents,

Whoops!  No School Friday (PD Day), so our Poetry Party & Spelling test will be on the Friday of our first week back.

Thanks to everyone who brought in yummy snacks!  We loved our classroom party and got to watch Sing!


FYI
Last day of school tomorrow before winter break
Report Cards come home


Our Learning:
Today we had literacy, an assembly and did some fun art with our buddies!  In the afternoon we had music, and then watched Sing! and enjoyed snacks for our classroom party.


For Homework:
Enjoy quality time with your family! what do you appreciate the most about one another?

Monday December 16th, 2019

Dear Parents,
Wow! We are only 1 marble away from earning our classroom party! Yay! We will most likely be having it on Wednesday in the afternoon.  *Students are welcome to bring snacks and/or drinks as long as they are peanut free.
Students may also wear PJ's, or seasonal hat/sweaters, and are able to bring stuffed animals.

*Ms. Heagy is away tomorrow (Tuesday) for medical appointments so there will not be a blog tomorrow.


FYI
Fun lunch was today
Wednesday is crazy hat, sweater or pj day
Spelling Test is Friday
Poetry Party Friday

Our Learning:
"I am so excited for our last marble to have a class party and have snacks!"-Jacob
"I liked watching about dolphins and drawing our thermometer."-Amara
"I liked Guided reading in Daily 5."-Charlotte
"I liked reading the Acrobats book."-Ibraheem
"I liked recess, Daily 5 and learning about the thermometer."-James




For Homework:
Review your spelling words

Spelling Words December 15-20

Activities recommended: 
1. make flash cards and sort according to different rules
-long and short vowels
-consonant blends, vowel teams
2. make a short couplet using rhyming words
The giant liked to eat
in the scorching summer heat.
3. use a highlighter for the blends and vowel teams
4. make two sets of flashcards and try to match pairs

Green :   
1. Spelling pattern sort rule:
 C/VVC short sound (heat)  & long sound (need)
odd ball word: read  which can be pronounced with short /e/ as in 'red' "I read a good book." or with the long /e/ sound, "What books do you like to read?"
2. consonant blends:
 initial  gr-, bl-, sl-, sm-, dr-  
 endings -ll, -ss, st
3. homophones: been and bean
 two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. (example: bear, bare)

eat	bled
heat	sled
read	well
bean	smell
been	less
need	dress
keep	west
green	rest

Yellow 
1. Pattern sort: short vowel sound (chest) and long vowel (wheat)
Oddball: read is an oddball word. It can be considered both (Short (as in 'red') "I read a good book." vs long "What do you like to read?") great imitates the 'ate' sound,  sweat has a short /e/ vowel sound, typically 'ea' vowel teams have a long /e/ vowel as in treat.
2. " Y "as a vowel /e/ sound added to the end of words.
Can you find a small word in the words that have a 'y' added?  When you add a Y to a smaller word, does the meaning of that word necessarily change or does the meaning stay the same?
3. Consonant digraphs & blends and vowel teams
initial blends: wh-, pl-, sw-, gr-, sl-, dr, ch- , also qu-
end blends: -ll, -ss, -st,
vowel teams: ee, ea
4. a sneaky compound word has been thrown in: upset 
compound words are two separate words with different meanings brought together to make a new word with a new meaning.  (i.e. snow & man = snowman, bell & boy = bellboy)

read	sleep
east	belly
wheat	jelly
plead	messy
great	dressy
sweat	quest
greed	chest
sweet	upset

Purple 
1.Short vowel sounds (letter) and long vowel sounds (teacher)
compare long /e/  ee and  short /e/ with ea
oddball: scene which has a long /e/ sound, but does not fit with ea and ee words.
2. root words:
in compound words: restroom, sunset
in other words like: teach/teacher, great/greater, preach/preacher, west/western, quest/question
vs. words like sweater (sweat is not a root word of sweater) and weather
3. word endings -tion and -er
4. consonant blends:
tt, ss, th,  ch, st, sc

sunset	restroom
greater	question
teacher	western
preacher	scene
sweater	dresser
weather	mention
letter	queen
better	teenager

Friday December 13th, 2019

Dear Parents,
Another fabulous bunch of performances during Poetry Party! I was so impressed with students who worked on memorization, good volume, props, body language and eye contact!  Bravo!
Great job to students who brought in homework to show some of the math we have been working on.

FYI
Poetry Party folders coming home.  Please return Monday.

Our Learning:
"I liked Wonder."-Charlotte., Kolby
"I really liked doing our Poetry Party.'-Beckett, Michelle
"I really liked working on my spelling."-Ibraheem
"I liked doing our spelling test."-Amara
"I liked doing Calendar this morning."-Wyatt
"I liked Poetry Party."-Debbie
"I liked making the plastercine pictures."-Jacob
"I liked doing my design this morning."-Joey
"The spelling test was nice, I misspelled three words."-Emmett
"I liked doing Poetry Party and spelling test."-Sydney
"I am going to have a great time at home this weekend. I liked doing our Poetry and our Center."-Aengus
"I liked reading Wonder."-Nora & Gabriella
"I liked Poetry Party!"-Hope & Aahana
"I liked learning about temperature, it's minus 13."-Malik

For Homework:
Write or take a picture of your poem. Set a goal with your parents, and write it on your Storytelling target.
Remember to bring it back Monday!

Thursday December 12, 2019

Dear Parents,


Dear Parents, 
Fabulous Day in Grade 2!


FYI
Poetry Party tomorrow
Spelling Test


Our Learning:
"I liked Daily 5!"-Gabriella
"I liked learning how to do designs with plastercine and tools."-Beckett
"I like making our pictures and also Music in our class."-Amara
"I liked doing our art pictures."-Maha
"I liked Social! I liked doing research."-Charlotte
"I liked doing Music in our classroom."-Jaxon
"I liked doing our plastercine art."-Hope
"I liked doing the Christmas Carols in Music."-Aengus
"I liked doing the math problems."-Ibraheem



For Homework:
"Practice for Spelling test" - Joey

Show your parents how to solve the following problems using an equation, a math picture (number line) and words:

1. Ms.Heagy has 24 students in her class. 7 are away.  How many students are here today?

2. Today is December 12th. The last day of school is Friday December 20th. How many more days until Winter Break begins?

3. Make your own word problem that relates to either calendar or our classroom!

Wednesday December 11, 2019

Dear Parents 
Shout out to Kolby and Hope who have shown tremendous growth in reading!  Woohoo!  And a Happy Birthday to Debbie! Thanks for the cake Debbie, it was delicious!

FYI
Poetry Party Friday
Spelling Test Friday


Our Learning 

I learned new things in gym with batons. -Debbie
I really liked doing gym. -Wyatt


Well.... we decided to play silent soccer so thats where our comments end!
Today we worked on our good copies of our poem, starting working with our Social Studies textbook and are learning more about how to research and find information.  In math we worked on representing addition equations in multiple ways, as well as practicing using an open number line. Sydney donated a beautiful book to our classroom, "My Heart Fills With Happiness" by Monique Gray Smith, and said she loves how it teaches her a bit about Indigenous culture. Jaxon noticed that it was written in English and Blackfoot.

Have a good night!

Tuesday December 10th, 2019

Dear Parents,
Students who brought in their invented 'anger' character to join our Unthinkables Team from Superflex did an amazing job!  Wow!  Check out the pics at the bottom of blog.

FYI
Poetry Party Friday
Spelling Test Friday


Our Learning:
We worked on syllables in words, practiced our spelling words in Daily 5 and worked on our prairie writing.  Students selected the pictures they would like to use for the art activity.  In math we worked on problem solving.  In Social we worked on peer editing and our Prairie poems.  Lastly we learned about 'anger' and began our drawings in our Visual Journals. We will continue tomorrow.

For Discussion:
What sorts of things make you angry?
What happens to your body and voice when you get angry?
What tools do you use to help calm down?

Spelling List Dec. 9-13

Pattern this week:  
-k,     -ck,     -ke


Green:
book, look, took, like, bike, hike, lake, wake, wink, sink, such, kick, pack, sock

Yellow:
shake, spike, broke, spoke, snake, blink, crook, shook, trick, brick, stick, truck, stuck

Purple:
shrink, shrank, flank, shaken, blinking, crooked, strike, brake, quake, quick, knack, knock 


Games to try at home: 

-hangman
-write out 2 copies of each word and play memory
-write a sentence and circle nouns red, verbs green and adverbs blue. Example:
The slinky snake hissed to scare the predator.

Monday December 9th, 2019

Dear Parents, 
Ms. Heagy is busy, busy with getting report cards done! Make sure you connect with me if you have any questions prior to the report cards being sent home next week.


FYI
Superflex character for homework due tomorrow
If you ordered Mixing Spoon, it has arrived!
Poetry Party this Friday
Spelling Test this Friday

Our Learning:

"I liked doing math."-Amara
"I liked Daily 5."-Gabby
"I liked the "what oiled it be" in social."-Aengus
"I liked doing card games in math."-Beckett
"I liked working with partners for the writing."-Ibraheem
"I liked choice time and music."-Syney
"I loved everything especially Music and our homework!"-Debbie
"I liked morning work and lunch and math."-James

For Homework:
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
We need YOU to come up with a new Unthinkable Character from the Superflex cast (and by YOU I mean students with help from family).  
The character needed is MAD, the character struggles with some anger!  

1. draw and color your character (google searches are fine!  Just make sure it is 'inspired' and not copied).
2. give your character a name (other character names: Mean Jean/Gene, Rockbrain, Space Invader)
3. list 3-4 'unexpected' thoughts, actions/behaviors and words 

Hand in your ideas tomorrow morning and we as a class will be choosing our new official Unthinkable character!

Thursday December 5th, 2019

Dear Parents,

This morning we worked hard on writing our letters to Santa!  Ms. Heagy will be mailing off our class envelop tonight, and we excitedly await Santa's response!   In math, we had fun playing card games.  This afternoon we worked on some more writing, had gym and then did some winter wonderland work and watched a bit of Happy Feet 2.

There is no school tomorrow, so have a great long weekend!

Wednesday December 4th, 2019

 Dear Parents, 

Our Grade 2 class had a blast at Fort Calgary, and it turned out to be a wonderful field trip- in large part due to the help of our amazing parent volunteers! Thank you kindly!

FYI

-No School Friday (PD)

-Fun Lunch was today, we got ours when we got back to the school.

Our Learning: 

“I liked learning about the First Nations on our field trip.  I learned they used bison for meat.”-Beckett

“I learned settlers brought farm animals and made farms.”-Ibraheem

“I liked going on the bus and going on the field trip.”-Jacob

“I learned that settlers made farms.”-Jaxon

“I learned that the First Nations used all parts of a buffalo to survive.”-Debbie

“I learned that they hides to make the tipi, and carried it around.”-Sydney

“I learned about the animals that lived in the prairies like moose and deer.
“-Alex

"I learned that you can carry tipi’s around." –Kolby

"I learned the back leg bone of the buffalo was used to scrape the fur from the hide."-Gab

"They used the bones for tools and could make traps." – Maha 

"I learned horses helped carry the tipi."-Hope

For Discussion:

What was the best part of your field trip?

Tuesday December 3rd, 2019

Dear Parents,

We are excited for our field trip tomorrow to Fort Calgary!

Remember:
-extra food because we are super hungry on field trips
-full water bottle
-we will be bringing our indoor shoes!



Our Learning:
"I liked Daily 5!"-Kolby
"I am excited for the field trip."-Charlotte
"I am looking forward to Fort Calgary!"-Leina
"I liked doing my snowman for my snow globe."-Jaxon
"I liked so much watching the video."-Aengus
"I am so excited for Amara's birthday tomorrow!"-Debbie
"I  liked making ornaments for my teacher!"-Joey
"I loved doing our Santa letters!"-Beckett
"I am looking forward to finishing my letter to Santa!"-Maha

For Discussion:
What questions do you have about Fort Calgary?

SPELLING WORDS DEC 2-5

Green 
ill, will, Jill, spill, silly, shine, spine, shin, spin, win, wine, wind, fin, fine, find
CVC example: ill, will
CVCe example: fine 
The Oddball words don't follow the CVCe rule where the /e/ makes the vowel say it's own name! 
Yellow
spill, silly, chill, find, blind, sing, sting, swing, shine, stink, spin, spine, twin, twine, think


Purple
smiling, thinking, stinking, stinging, swinging, finding, blinding, singing, filling, willing, filled, silly, quill, I'll

Monday December 2nd, 2019

Dear Parents,
Keep up the good work with the practice of our spelling words at home! A reminder to go on Raz Kids to practice our reading.

FYI
Fort Calgary Dec. 4
PD Day Friday -No School


Our Learning: 
"I liked making snowmen."-Jacob
"I liked doing music.  I liked inline skating."-Amara
"I liked doing inline skating and gym."-Malik
"I liked learning about juicy words!"-Beckett

For Homework:
Write down your spelling words and sort your words:

Green- sort CVC and CVCe, also sort according to -ill and -in
Yellow- sort CVC and CVCe, also, underline the consonant blends in your words (i.e.  spin, blind)
Purple-  write the root words for all -ing and -ed words.    What is something you notice after writing all the words with the exception of 'silly' and 'I'll'