Our Math Block Today

**Here is another blog post written by our wonderful students! Here is a Retell of our Math block today. Enjoy! :)


Dear Parents,

      We did some math today and we used graphs and tally marks. First we chose a partner and we did our first assignment using a spinner. The spinner had two colours and when we spun the paperclip we made a tally mark for what colour it landed on. Then we made a graph of our results. We learned that on the spinner even though there was a small amount of blue it could still win but all of our green colour won. Green won because it had the most amount of space on the spinner.

  After the spinner activity we talked about likely and unlikely events and drew different spinners to show likely, unlikely, certain, and impossible events.

  Last we did some more math and what we did was we picked coloured tiles out of paper bags. Whenever we picked a colour out of the bag we put the colour on the graph and we stopped when one colour went to 10 and it was called "Race to 10." We learned that even though red had 10 and blue had 5 that blue could still win.

  From, Mrs. Miller's Grade 2 Class.

Important Updates: Poppy collection and First Eucharist

     This Friday is Remembrance Day and students at St. Francis will have an opportunity to purchase a poppy starting tomorrow and again on Thursday; please bring in a small donation to contribute in exchange for a poppy. Our goal is to have all of our students wearing a poppy to our Remembrance Day celebration on Friday. Our celebration will be starting at 10:30 on Friday morning.

   I would also like to remind our families of the special meeting tacking place at Divine Infant Parish tomorrow night (Wednesday, November 9th) at 6:30pm. Hopefully you can attend! I have posted all of the important dates that you need to know regarding your child's First Reconciliation and First Communion under a new tab "Sacramental Schedule."

  Have a great night!

  Mrs. Miller

Please check your mail bags

If you haven't already checked your child's mail bag tonight please do so, a couple pieces of important mail went home today. Thank you!

Mrs. Miller

What a fabulous Friday!

Students had an amazing and busy day today!

   In gym class today students were treated by a visit from the "Rocks and Rings" program. They learned some of the rules to curling and played a version of curling adapted to by played in our school gym. They did great!

  In Math we finished off the week by doing some more Math centers. Here are pictures of this weeks activity choices:

ABCya addition games on the Smart Board

Roll and make tally marks with Popsicle sticks. 

Roll and write (make a graph) with word wall words.

Addition sentence puzzles.

Make 10 with playing cards.

Math games on the IPad.

Addition and Subtraction game with playing cards.

Tic-Tac-Toe (Addition version)

   Students also had their first opportunity to paint in Art class today! We worked on different techniques to create texture in our painting, and prepared some art for next week's Remembrance Day Celebration. They turned out beautiful!

  Have a safe and happy weekend,

  Mrs. Miller 

Our new Daily 5 topic

** Today's update has been written by all of the students in our class! We worked together to tell you all about our new Daily 5 topic. Enjoy!

Dear Parents,

   I hope you have a great day and night :) We have a brand new topic in Daily 5 and it is called Read To Someone. We have been doing good so far on reading and focusing on the book. We have done 3 Daily Five's so far: Read to Someone, Read to Self, and Word work. We are trying to build up our stamina in reading and focusing on our book. We are still trying to work on staying quiet and reading in one spot.

Right now we are practicing our Read to Someone.

Yesterday we made this chart explaining how we should Read to Someone.

From,

     Mrs. Miller's Grade 2 Class

Pyjama Day

This Friday is Pyjama Day! Our school is holding a fundraiser for United Way and students are invited to wear their Pyjamas to school as well as bring in a toonie as a donation.

November Update and Calendar

     Wow, I can't believe it's already time for a November Update! It seems like just yesterday we were starting out our school year, and now we are well into our routines and curriculum.

     The November Calendar is posted under the Calendar section of the blog. Please check it out, and you are welcome to print if you would like! There are a few important events on the Calendar which will also be posted under the "important dates" section on the right hand side of the blog.

     Progress reports are being sent home on Thursday, November 3rd and there will be interviews taking place during the evening on Thursday, November 24th to discuss your child's progress; more information to come regarding interviews.

    I have noticed that more and more Mailbags are being forgotten/left at home these days and I am having fewer and fewer being returned on a daily basis; this makes it difficult to ensure that important notes and handouts get home to you, and leaves me without a communication book should I need to send a note home. Please ensure that your child is bringing the mail bags to school every day.

   Mme. Cote would also like me to remind all of the parents to please ensure that the green French Homework duo tang and reading program book are returned every Monday so that she may assign new homework for the week and a new book every Tuesday. She also wants to remind parents that she does have her own Blog set up for the French program which she updates on a weekly basis. The blog also contains links to many of the songs that your child sings in class. Her French Blog can be found here:  http://mmecote.blogspot.ca/ 

   Please continue checking out our blog on a regular basis for constant updates on what we are doing in class. Here is a brief outline of what are planning on working on during the month of November in the following subjects:

     Language Arts: This month we will add two more elements to our "Daily 5" by introducing "Read to Someone" and "Listen to Reading." Students will work on building stamina in these new areas of the Daily 5. We will wrap up our work on writing proper "Retells" and will move into Procedural Writing tasks.
     Math: We will continue working on our Data Management unit and will also start working on our unit on exploring addition and subtraction.
     Phys. Ed: We are currently working on specific throwing and catching skills related to volleyball, and will continue working on our cooperative play through games.
     The Arts: We are continuing to focus on elements of design, such as texture, by creating works of art using various materials. This month we will also make a colour wheel to reinforce knowledge of Primary vs. Secondary colours.
     Science and Technology: We are wrapping up our unit on "Growth and Change in Animals." Students will be writing a test to finish up the unit as well as completing a research project on an animal of their choice (more information to come home shortly). We will then begin our next unit: Properties of Liquids and Solids.

   Thank you again for all of the continued support I have received throughout the school year from everybody!


 Mrs. Miller