May 25th, 2015 week with Ms. Selimos and Police Showcase Trip

Bonjour Parents and Students,

Where DID the month of May go?  This week, we enjoyed presenting our dialogues using the puppet theatre in small groups.  The children enjoyed practising fluency and expression, as they re-enacted the cafeteria scene with Vincenzo and his classmates, based on the story, The Sandwich.

On Monday morning, we attended a special assembly in the gym, where we listened to the Junior Band play for us.  Emaan was one of the lucky students, chosen from the audience, to help conduct one of the songs.

With this beautiful weather, we have been eating lunch outside on the front lawn.  The children have loved the green space; playing soccer, Frisbee, tag, and other games.  The new benches at the front look great!

On Thursday, we will be finished GRADE 2, Math Makes Sense and we will be doing some review work and I will be introducing multiplication.  See photos from BrainpopJuniour.com about multiplication.   The MATH BINDERS will go home on Thursday.   You may keep them.  DO NOT RETURN THEM TO SCHOOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoGDE5hLjw  Multiplication song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BchpGkLvTy8

Alex was our adorable, outgoing STAR OF THE WEEK.  She did a SPECTACULAR job presenting about her family.  She loves spending time at the reserve with her family and her dog.  Saskatoon born, Alex, proudly showed us her first pair of baby shoes, moccasins. She enjoys swimming, being outdoors and doing things with her siblings and cousins. 

On Wednesday afternoon, we went to the Brandt Center for the Regina Police Service Showcase. We enjoyed the “mock” robbery drama, canine presentation, SWAT team, Sheldon the robot, relay race and much more.  We definitely needed more time to visit the exhibits.  Thank you to the parents of Keithan, Lukas, and Imogen for joining us and taking care of us.

Please remember to send your child to school on FRIDAY with his/her READING LOG MINUTES FOR MAY.

NEXT THURSDAY IS OUR BROWNS COULEE TRIP:

BROWN’S COULEE with Outdoor Ed. Teacher (Lori Milligan) on THURS. JUNE 4^TH.We will be leaving by bus at approximately 10:30 a.m. We will be back by 3:30. 

Healthy bagged lunch: sandwich, 2 bottles of water (partly frozen), fruit and veggies, crackers, snacks. 

Clothing requirements:  jeans (no shorts), t-shirt, hoodie or jacket, runners (NO rubber boots) and an EXTRA pair of socks, as we might get wet during pond dipping lesson.

Remember:  mosquito repellant, sun screen, sun glasses, hat, etc.

 Bathroom:  toilet paper and a plastic ziplock bag. 

Have a wonderful weekend one and all!  

May 19, 2015 week with Ms. Selimos and Weather Specialist Guest

Greetings Parents and Students,

Thank you to the SAC for the yummy ice cream treats we ate last week during 10:30 recess. We really enjoyed the cones!!!

I hope everyone had a FABULOUS long weekend!  This week we have been busy working on puppetry, dialogue and drama based on the story The Sandwich by Ian Wallace. The children will perform their dialogues on Friday using the puppet theatre.  As well, George Bothwell librarian, Marilyn, shared fractured Red Riding Hood fairy tales with us on Tuesday afternoon.  We are busy creating “thank you cards” to present her with.

Grade 2 math emphasis continues to be collecting data; using tallies and check marks, and creating lists/charts.  The children have had a blast asking friends about sports activities, ice cream treats and more and then interpreting and presenting their results to the class using the data projector.  

Our handsome STAR OF THE WEEK was Nate, who shared, with excitement, about his new family member, Tucker, an 8 week old Chocolate Lab puppy.  Nate is an only child who enjoys traveling with his parents and spending time with them at the cabin.  He likes to downhill ski and to ride his quad.  He has 2 cats and another dog.  He enjoys playing soccer and collecting Lego.  

For French we played some transportation sorting games and categorized based on water, land, and air.  We will wrap up this unit and move onto zoo animals in June.

On Thursday morning, Weather Specialist, Tiffany Lizée, of Global News,  visited our classroom, talking with the children and sharing a very informative power point presentation with the class.  Ask your child which colour NOT to wear if filming at Global News and why.  Tiffany’s wardrobe is her own.  She does her own hair and make-up.  The crew works as a TEAM and their workspace is windowless.  She talked about the editing process of writing news pieces and how editing may occur over 6 times per article.  Some of the cameras cost $20 000.00 each.   The Morning Crew is at work at 3 a.m. to deliver the 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. news.  

Tiffany grew up on a farm in southern Saskatchewan and was constantly exposed to the ways and wonders of the weather.   She loved watching Saskatchewan storms and studied in Edmonton after high school, becoming a weather specialist!  She is presently studying to become a meteorologist, via correspondence through Mississippi State University.  

Tiffany did an EXCELLENT job keeping the children engaged and excited to learn about her workplace and job!  Thanks again!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

«ALEX IS STAR OF WEEK MAY 25^th «

Mon. 25^th (Day 5)             Spelling Test

Tues. 26^th (Day 1)             See Spelling List 

Wed. 27^th (Day 2)        Regina Police Service Showcase trip in p.m. by bus, at 12:30.

Thurs. 28^th (Day 3)            PIE the SAC on Thurs. 28^th at noon in bowl.

 Tickets = $0.50 each

Fri. 29^th (Day 4)          READING LOGS DUE

Library Exchange

                          

                     «CORBIN IS STAR OF WEEK JUNE 1^ST«

May 11th, 2015 week with Ms. Selimos

Hello Parents and Students,

In Health, Mrs. Beckel and the students have been focusing on diversity. Last Tuesday, Mrs. Beckel started the class by intentionally excluding, first one half of the class, and then the other from a game, and then led a discussion about how it felt to be excluded. She followed up by reading Dr. Seuss’ THE SNEETCHES, in which the “Sneetches” learn an important lesson about including others. They talked about terrible instances when groups have been excluded and mistreated just for being who they are (the Jews, black people, First Nations people, etc.) Please take some time to discuss this topic with your child. We are trying to establish how important every person is and how unfair it is for one person or group to mistreat another. 

On Friday morning, the children had the opportunity to explore the Agrium Seed Survivor Trailer and to plant a seed. In the afternoon, they participated in the school dance in the gym.  Great dance moves!!!!

On Monday afternoon, Outdoor Ed. Teacher, Lori Milligan, joined us for an hour to discuss our June field trip to Brown’s Coulee.  The children have been asked to wear pants, tucked into long socks to “keep away the wood ticks.”  No shorts!  We will be collecting wood ticks.  We discussed how to tell the male ticks apart from the females. Each child must be wearing a hat, sunglasses (if possible) and to be dressed in layers of light coloured clothing.  Sun screen your child before coming to school.  Please send mosquito repellant, which will be applied once we arrive to Brown’s Coulee.  A healthy, bagged lunch will be encouraged with fruit, veggies, sandwich and WATER.  Please freeze half a bottle of water and fill the remaining with cold water.  Place a sock over the bottle to keep it dry.   We will be doing a pond dipping study and a worm watch.  Check out the following link with your child:

https://www.naturewatch.ca/  Worm watch for Brown’s Coulee trip

For one math activity, Grade TWO math students created a pictograph of FAVOURITE ICE CREAM FLAVOURS.  Each child is to survey family members at home or on the phone and to return their pictograph to school before the long weekend, if possible.

Lunch hour has been a lot of fun this week.  The children are exploring globes and working on various puzzles… flags of the world, pandas, castles and more.

Try the attached SCIENCE EXPERIMENT at home with your child at the sink.  

TOPIC:  Air pressure and water.   We had a blast in class trying it!  Ask your child to explain WHY the paper stays on the cup filled with water when turned upside down.

 

Jack was our fabulous STAR OF THE WEEK.  He is the youngest of 4 children in his family.  He was born in Saskatoon. His favourite colour is orange.  He LOVES to eat long noodles and perogies.  His hobbies include:  hockey, baseball, building with Lego and computers. He is looking forward to a family trip to Disneyland this fall.

REMINDERS:  

No school this Friday and next Monday.

1.      Nate is our STAR OF THE WEEK on May 19^th. 

2.    Global News Weather Specialist, Tiffany Lizee visits our class on Thurs. a.m.

3.    Please send permission slips and $11.00 in cash or on Parent Portal for MacKenzie Art Gallery and Golden Mile bowling if you have not already done so.

    Enjoy the May long weekend!    :)

     Ms. Selimos 

May 4 2015 week with Ms. Selimos

HELLO PARENTS AND STUDENTS,

Our writing trait review this week was using exact nouns.  Our new focus is using stronger verbs in our writing. We enjoyed working on a few pieces of writing about MOTHER’S DAY.  We know that you will LOVE the writing masterpieces written about our lovely moms. 

The Grade 2s began the final math unit with me; Data Analysis.  We have been learning about CONCRETE GRAPHS and PICTOGRAPHS.  The children have enjoyed surveying classmates about pets, hobbies, favourite colours and more.  We used real crayons, 2 sided counters and pennies to create CONCRETE GRAPHS. We created a list of questions incorporating vocabulary such as:  favourite, most popular, least popular, tie, more than, less than, put in order from least to greatest, put in order from greatest to least.  EXAMPLES:  Which colour was the most popular?  How many more kids liked green than red?  Etc.

Aazan was our handsome STAR OF THE WEEK.  He was born in Pakistan and is the middle child.  He has a younger sister and an older brother.  He speaks Urdu at home.  He has traveled to Banff, Lake Louise,  and Drumheller in Alberta.  He enjoyed the Children’s Museum in Winnipeg.  He loves to ride his bike and to go on picnics.

Our new French theme is transportation.  We learned the song:  Wheels on the Bus, played some drama games and read Comment Voyager?  The children also created a beautiful card for moms. Here is the link for the bus song: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90tU5m5hHG0 

We focused on the water cycle this week for science and created “wheels” of evaporation, condensation and precipitation.  We read an AWESOME book called Flash, Crash Rumble and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley, which explained thunder, lightning and provided us with SAFETY TIPS.  We have discussed cirrus (feather clouds), stratus (raindrop clouds)and  cumulus (fat, puffy, cotton clouds) through games, songs and writing activities. Here are some links to explore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05djitkEFI   Water cycle song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vtsn Great water cycle rap song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9HG8zUgOE  EAL water cycle process video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3NeMVBcXXU Water cycle rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U80LVjVX75k  Drawings, video of water cycle

The boys and girls are looking forward to the school dance tomorrow afternoon.  We will dance for half an hour in the p.m. in the gym.  We are also looking forward to our one hour session re:  Agrim Seed Survivor Mobile Classroom on Friday morning.

REMINDERS:

1.     Go to Parent Portal and/or check your child’s agenda on MONDAY, May 11^th.  I will be sending a note re:  MacKenzie Art Gallery ($3.25 cost) and Bowling/bus ($7.75 cost).  

2.    Jack is STAR OF THE WEEK on Monday, May 11^th.

Happy Mother’s Day weekend, to all of our wonderful moms and grandmas!

Ms. Selimos