4/26/2019 0 Comments Week of April 22-26Hello parents,
This week ended off with exciting Belfasty day activities designed to celebrate Earth Day! Our class in particular played a special role when they sang "This land is your land" during the school wide assembly that kicked off our days events. Also pictured above is some of the stones the students painted as gifts to be dropped off on doorsteps during our community walk. All in all is was awesome to see the students showing so much enthusiasm as they picked up litter in our field and from the streets in our surrounding neighborhood. Here are some other classroom highlights of note: -We have been looking at non-fiction book to find out what kind of features make them unique, such as; table of content, pictures with captions, maps etc. -In Math we continued to work with shapes and have also returned to practicing calculating higher sums using number lines. -To help the student's writing, we have taken the time to look at common spelling patterns, such as "ing","ang" and "ong". Furthermore, we have been testing the rule "Every syllable has a vowel" -In Science, we had our second design session for making tops. The students reflected on what materials work best and what design rules help their top to be successful. Next week: -Swimming forms come home -We are collecting yogurt container lids for more building in Science -We will begin looking at non-standard units of measurement in math -We will continue our work learning about Acadian culture and ways of life. Have a great weekend! -Mr. Ursenbach
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4/12/2019 0 Comments Week of April 8-12, 2019Hello parents,
Thank you everyone who came out for our school musical! Our students did such a great job! Also this week: -In Math we have been modelling 3d shapes in order to learn the vocabulary of "Face", "Edge" and "Corner" -For our building unit in Science we have been discussing the qualities of different building materials (soft, hard, flexible etc). -We have been working on using story plans to write short narrative stories for Language Arts. -In Social Studies we have started to learn about the Acadian culture Next Week: -Field Trip Tuesday morning -School dance Wednesday after school (check school website for details). -Student led conferences Thursday (registration is open) -Continue with narrative writing, reviewing our computation strategies and preparing the students for Student Led Conferences on Thursday! Have a good weekend -Dallin Hello parents!
We are happy to get back into the groove of learning after Spring Break. Here are some things we got up to this week: -In Math we are studying 2d and 3d shapes (pictured above) -In Language arts, the students continue to work on their reader's theatre scripts -In Social Studies we have just begun to talk about the Acadian culture and way of life -We also did a book study of Eric Carle and created some "Eric Carle paper" to use for cutting shapes in the coming week Next Week: -Of course a major feature of our coming week is the Div. 1 play! You can watch "Bugz" either Wednesday at 10:00 AM at the dress rehearsal or Thursday night at 6:30PM (kid come at 6:15) -In Science we are introducing some design challenges for our building unit -We will also continue studying the vocabulary of 3d and 2d shapes -By the end of the week some of our reader's theatre plays should be ready to present to other classes! Hope to see you all the play performance and have a great weekend! -Dallin |
-Mr. UrsenbachClassroom teacher of grade two past post
May 2019
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