Greetings Parents and Students,
We discussed the BOGGY CREEK VALLEY TRIP on Wednesday. See your child’s agenda for the details
re: clothing and food requirements. Please join us for this wonderful experience on
FEBRUARY 25th if you can! I already have a few parents joining
us. THANK YOU! Send $3 cash or pay on-line for the bus
cost. I need permission trips returned immediately. As well, I would like you to send 1 cup of
the “assigned” ingredient before February 13th, as we will make
the trail mix in class next week, before Spring Break.
On Monday, we took off our socks and did some “Foot
Art”. The children had many giggles and
enjoyed this crazy, fun Ramona art lesson!
Thanks parents, for participating in this activity, at home, with your
children. They could hardly wait to
share YOUR creations with us. The class
photos are priceless! TOMORROW, the Ramona grocery shopping meal assignment is
due. Feel free to go on-line to various
groceries store to find prices with your child.
We surfed: Superstore, Safeway,
Sobeys in class.
We welcomed Urdu teacher, Miss Hina Momin to our classroom
on Tuesday. She will be joining us one
hour per week for the next month or so, to teach us about her language and
culture. The Urdu alphabet has 36
letters and the alphabet is similar to the Arabic language when writing
it. The oral language (spoken language)
is similar to the Hindi language. It is
the official language of Pakistan. Proud Urdu speakers in our classroom this
year are: Zeeshan, Emaan and Danish. When you write in Urdu, you write from the
right side of your page, moving left; the opposite direction of English! We studied the first 6 letters: alif (A), bay (B), pay (P), tay (T), thay (Tt), say (S) and practiced writing them
and saying them. Please have your child
recite them to you at home. See photos 1
to 5.
We began our new GRADE 2 math unit this week. Can your child skip count by 10s starting at
a “different” number? EX: 6 + 50 or
17+80 See photo “Adding
Tens” and try this activity at home with your child using DIMES. Continue to
drill basic addition and subtraction facts. As well, we worked on expanding to
add. Your child will be able to show you
his/her work at home.
EXAMPLES: 43+9 =
40 +3+9=
40+12=
Our cursive letter of the week was Kk. Please practice letters e, l, h and k (under
curve loop) at home with your child.
They are excited to learn how to hand write their names, as well.
This week, Mrs. Pankewich’s class joined us for our new unit
of study in February: Treaty
Education. Our lessons will cover: “A Treaty is a Promise”, Respectful
Relationships, Harmony Bracelets, Sharing the Land and Its Resources, Ceremony
and Dance, Flags, Louis Riel and Bannock Making. On Tuesday we read “A Promise is a Promise”
by Robert Munsch and discussed how we feel if we keep a promise or break
one. We related it to personal
experiences at home, in the classroom and on the playground. On Tuesday and Wednesday we created Treaty
Posters: As long as the sun shines, grasses
grow and rivers flow. Each child wrote
a “personal” promise on his/her poster. On Wednesday and Thursday, respect was
our “theme”, where child created a cartoon using speech bubbles about problems
he/she has encountered on the playground and how to solve them. We read the book: Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? and
discussed some of the new vocabulary, as well.
For French, we continue with our Valentines vocabulary for
this week. I have also introduced a
“Body Parts” theme. On Tuesday and
Wednesday, we played HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, a game show, to reinforce new body
words such as: eyebrows, knee, neck,
elbow, etc. Check out the following
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ5zj3YQ0Tg Bonjour Monsieur Comment Ca Va; Body parts
song.
Imogen was our adorable STAR OF THE WEEK. She loves to spend time with her older
brother, her mom and dad and her grandparents.
She enjoys her beach days at the cottage on Hornby Island in British
Colombia. She has traveled to Hawaii and
to Costa Rica with her family. She is allergic
to bananas. She enjoys swimming,
building sandcastles and riding her bike.
We are looking forward to Imogen’s Costa Rica presentation with her mom
Friday afternoon.
Cheers,
Ms. Selimos
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