Grade 2 News

I hope everyone had a great holiday and Happy New Year! We have lots of exciting things to look forward to and keep us busy in the new year.

January 10th: Creative Maddness: We will be having a lady named Lisa come to our class to do some special painting projects with us tomorrow. Please make sure that your child is wearing something that can get messy!

Math: In math we are still working on Measurement. We have learned many math goals and are working on perimeter and area this week. We learned that perimeter is the distance around an object. 

Writing: In writing we are creating some healthy recipes and learning about how to writing.  Everyone is doing an excellent job and working very hard. We are focusing on making sure we add a title, ingredients, and steps to our work. We are also focusing on writing full sentences, commas, colons, and periods.

Reading: We are continuing to set reading goals in Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanding Vocabulary.

Movement Breaks: These are very important to our learning in the classroom. Each day we try to do some quick movements to keep our bodies and our brains working. Today we learned: Land, Sea, Air, Concentration, and I Spy! If you have any cool ideas for us we’d love to hear about them.

Words: We all have new words this week. They should be in our agendas.  Keep praciticng those words at home each night.

Have a good week,

Mrs. Ozerkevich

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!