Grade 2 News

Christmas is coming very quickly. We have lots of fun activities planned for our classroom this week! Here is what you can expect:

Christmas Concerts: We will be having a our Christmas concerts on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 and Wednesday morning at 9:30. We have been working very hard and are looking forward to seeing you there.

Treasure Sale: Our class will be going to the treasure sale on Wednesday.  If you would like to help out at the treasure sale any extra help is welcome.

Raffle Draw: Thanks to everyone who helped contribute to the baskets for our school fundraiser. The tickets will be drawn on Thursday.

Caroling: We will be caroling in the gym on Thursday at 12:15 and Friday at 9:00 if you would like to come!

Crafts: In following with our Polar Express theme we will be making crafts with Mrs. Mackenzie and Mrs. Rogers class.  If anyone would like to come and help we would love to have you!

Polar Express Day: On Friday we will be having our Polar Express Day.  Your child can come to school dressed in their pajamas and we have some fun activities planned for the middle of the day. At the end of the day we will be sharing snacks and doing some Christmas activities.  If you would like to bring in a snack on this day that is fine.

Words: The words this week will be the same as last week. When we come back in January we will start with new words again.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. Merry Christmas!
Mrs. Ozerkevich

We have been learning all about The Polar Express in class. Last week we got to create and measure trains using LEGO! As much as we love The Polar Express we love LEGO just as much!!! This week we will be talking about cm and m. Ask us about these measuring tools at home.

Well with Christmas coming we have lots of exciting activities planned for the next little bit. Here is a list of some important dates:

November 28th: We will be having Zumba today. On a not so exciting note this will be Miss LaPlumes last day with our class. She will be finishing her schooling and on to another placement.  We will miss her very much.

November 29th: The principal awards will be being held at 9:00 today.

November 30th: Today we will be learning all about Ghana and Africa with a company called Big Village. They will be coming to our class and making bracelets with us using beads that were made in Ghana. We are very excited for this cool learning opportunity.  The cost for this workshop is $10.00.  Money can be sent in throughout the rest of the week.

December 2nd: Ho Down Day: Come dressed as a cowboy or cowgirl for the day. We are excited to learn a few new line dancing moves from our grade 8 friends.

December 13th: We will be having our school assembly.

December 20th: School Christmas concert in the afternoon.

December 21st: School Christmas concert in the morning.

These are just a few dates you might want to write on your calendar. We have been working very hard on our Christmas concert. Please remember to send in big boxes for our robots. If you have any questions about what your child needs to wear just send a quick note in the agenda.

Reading: We have been working on inferring when we read as well as making connections. Over the next couple weeks we are going to be focusing on visualizing and making pictures in our heads when we read.

Writing: We will be finishing up our poetry and moving on to How To writing.  We may even come up with some cool Christmas recipes to share. How to writing means we write step-by-step how to do something.

Math: Well we are almost done becoming secret agents. We have learned to break many secret codes and find patterns all around us. Soon we will be learning about all about measurement. We will keep you posted.

Word Wall Words: Our word wall words this week are: with, was, friend. These are words that seem to trick us in our writing every day. They are good to practice!

I hope this helps keep you up to date on what is going on in our class. We will keep you posted!

Today we had lots of fun in math. To start the day we sorted our leftover Halloween candy in groups and came up with a sorting rule. Later on in the day we created cool rocket ships with Miss LaPlume and then graphed the cubes we used in a pictogragh.  Who knew math could be so exciting? Check out the pictures of our cool creations.

Well we are in for a busy week, starting with Halloween!

Halloween: I hope everyone has a safe night of trick or treating. We have lots of fun activities planned for our class. We are carving pumpkins and graphing the results, doing art, a trip to the Sarah Vista, and of course lots of treats!

Star Student: Our star student this week is Ashley for adjusting so well to our class and making new friends in her very first week of school! We hope you had a great week Ashley.

Co-operation: This month we were focusing on Co-operation. Leah and Abby have been choosen for our awards this month as they are very co-operative, caring, kind and helpful to their friends in the class. Way to go girls!

Assemblay: There will be an assemblay on November 3rd on Co-operation. Feel free to join us if you like.

Word Wall Words:  Our word wall words this week are: running, played, places. They follow the special ending rules. Special endings are ing, es, s, and ed. I will try to update our word wall words each week and let you know what the rules are. So far we have talked about how ou says ow and the Magic, Sneaky or Silent e rule. 

Math: We will be finishing up learning about graphs.  We have done picture graphs, surveys, tallys and bar graphs.  Some math words we have been talking about our tally, surveys, graphs, data collection, data.

Reading: We have started to talk about making connections with what we are reading and our continuing to conference and set goals for our reading.

Writing: We will be finishing our flip books on animals. Miss LePlume will be in our class full time starting next week and she will be focusing on a poetry unit in writing.

We are still talking about ways to show we are responsibe and working as a team in class.

I hope everyone has  a great week.

Mrs. Ozerkevich

Here are some pictures of us working hard as we publish our reports. We love writing to Adele!  We have been talking about researching and notetaking in class and today we got extra computer time to start researching some new reports with information we learned from Fact Fragment Frenzy.  We look forward to publishing those reports next week and then we will be getting into some poetry!!

Here is a little update of what you can expect in our classroom this week.

Monday October 24th: P.A. Day

Wednesday October 25th: Picture Retake Day

Gym (Day 4): This coming Tuesday (18th)

Library (Day 5): This coming Wednesday (19th)

Word Works: Hopefully everyone is starting to get the hang of the Words homework each night. Last week I found a fun website on readwritethink.org called Alphabet Organizer which I added to our blog, under Student Links.  If you would like to spend one or two nights a week sorting your words into the Alphabet Organizer instead of doing a Sort and Say that is fine. Just print off your alphabet when you are done so I know you did it.  Word test will be on Wednesday this week.

Math: This week we will be moving into Sorting and Organizing objects based on their attributes or what they look like.  We will also be talking about cool questions we can come up with to help collect data and by the end of the week we will hopefully be making our own graphs.

Writing: We have complete our first piece of published writing on our reports. Now we will continue to explore different styles of report writing and create our own.  I will also be meeting to conference with students and set goals for different areas of their writing.

Reading: We are continuing to set goals for our reading as well. Ask your child what their reading goal is. Does it have to do with Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency or Expanding Vocabulary (CAFE)?

Problem Solving: We have been working very hard on solving problems in our classroom both math problems and other. For math problems we are focusing on making sure our problem has Pictures, Numbers, Math Words, and an Answer. We have also been talking about how important it is to pick a math tool before we start solving a math problem.  The math tools we have learned about so far are: 100′s Chart, Number Line, Linking Cubes.

Hope you have a good week,

Mrs. Ozerkevich

We have been learning to use the number line as a math tool to help us understand numbers.  We have also been working on problem solving.  Check out the pictures of us working hard on our jobs. We love math!         

Well we are back to a day 1 again with lots of exciting things to look forward to this week.

Assemblay: On Thursday at 11:25 we will be having an assemblay on Courage.  Congratulations to Greg and Chloe in our class who have been choosen by their peers for demonstrating courage! Way to go guys!!

Fall Fair: Fall fair will take place on Friday. We are very excited and will practice our marching one more time tomorrow. Please make sure that you pack a paper bagged lunch for your child and do not send agendas, school bags, or lunch bags to school that day unless your child is going home from school at 3:30. 

Food Drive: Thank-you to those who have participated in the food drive.  At the end of today we are at 56 food items in our class. We do have a goal of 100 and we have tomorrow to bring some in! Way to go grade 2!

Math:

In math we have been working on place value. We have also been practicing using some very helpful math tools like the 100″s chart, number line, base 10 blocks and linking cubes. This week we will be continuing to work on numbers to 50.  We have also been practicing our problem solving and talking about how important it is to use pictures, numbers, math words, and an answer when we are problem solving. We have some great math minds in grade 2.

Writing/Reading:

In our writing we are working on reports. We have been using the national geographic site for kids to do our research. We learned that it is very important to come up with good questions to help us find good information.  You can look forward to reading our reports in the next month or so. If you would like to check out student links on our class blog you will be able to click directly on this site.  During our shared reading time we have been talking about the different characteristics of reports after reading about cool animals on national geographic for kids.

Learning Skills: Today we introduced Collaboration and talked about how it is importan to listen to others ideas and be positive with each other when working as a group.  We will keep practicing this very important skill through the rest of the week. Next week we will be doing Responsibility.

Miss LePlume: We are very fortunate to have Miss LePlume in our class right now every Monday and Tuesday until November when she will be with us every day that month.

Volunteers: If you would like to volunteer in the class let me know days and times that work for you and we would love to have you. The best time for our class is from 9:00-1:00. 

Communication: The agenda is the best way to get a hold of me if you would like to send me a message. Agendas are checked every day.

Thank-you,

Mrs. Ozerkevich