Greetings Parents and Students,
We are wrapping up our Grade 2 Math Unit; facts to 18. Please practice +/- facts to 18 over the holidays with your child. Many of the photos are of math strategies we have been working on over the past week or so. Have your child explain the DOUBLES STRATEGY, NEAR DOUBLES STRATEGY, MAGIC 9 STRATEGY and TENS STRATEGY (photos 1 to 3). Use the photos to help your child explain. You can easily make ten frames at home using paper/pencil or an egg carton with 2 parts of the egg carton cut off.
The children used TEN FRAMES as a visual to SEE ten in numbers.
EXAMPLE: 7+6 = (7 + 3) + 3 = 13 EXAMPLE: 5 + 9 = 4 + (1 +9) = 14
Photos 22 to 26 are based on a math lesson reinforcing minus 1 and minus 2 math facts (NEAR DOUBLES). Try some of these questions at home with your child.
The Grade 2s had a lot of fun working on their Diwali dija candles and coasters last Friday afternoon, while the Grade 3s made their sugar cube houses. Kichu and Sonakshi were able to share about their own personal Diwali celebrations. Following this, we painted the dijas on Monday and hopefully they were able to transport them home in one piece. Be sure to watch the following Diwali sites with your child:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp59n0So-XE cartoon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrrW3rO51ak non-fiction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK4ztMNKcjI bilingual song and history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkUj6H0G3A song
The children learned about Hanukkah over the past few school days. New vocabulary included: menorah (8 oil lit candles), latkes (potato pancakes), dreidel (top). We read: My Two Holidays; A Hanukkah and Christmas Story by Danielle Novack. We watched some short videos from Hanukkah websites (one was from Sesame Street). We sang the Dreidel song. We created a web of words on the whiteboard. Our culminating activity on Tuesday was to make our OWN dreidels and to play the dreidel (top) game. Here are the Hanukkah sites for you as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VfChLAADS8 Sesame Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G40SlkmZkqU Dreidel cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tws_uMAEOs Story of Hanukkah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKreDYVWark Awesome dreidel song
Our French focus (photos 27 to 29) this week continued with Christmas vocabulary through LOTO/ BINGO, French story about a lonely Christmas tree and the song: Notre Arbre de Noel; www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81AK0-s7xM
Our adorable STAR OF THE WEEK was Ramiha, who was born in Toronto. Ramiha has a younger brother and a pet fish. She enjoys spending time with her mom, dad, and baby brother and knows how to speak Bangla. She enjoys bike riding in the summer and playing in the snow in the winter. Her favourite food is pasta and her favourite colour is pink.
On Wednesday morning we read and sang the story, A Wart Snake in a Fig Tree. We had a lot of fun presenting the story/song to Mrs. Evan’s Grade 1 class, as part of our Reader’s Theatre. In the afternoon, we had 2 guest speakers from the Board of Education, Doug and Wayne, who shared their knowledge of Bears of the World.
REMINDERS:
1. Please send your child’s GINGERBREAD HOUSE MATERIAL to school on Thursday or Friday. Next Tuesday will be the class MULTICULTURAL BREAKFAST in the morning and the afternoon/evening concert (dress your child in red & green) later that day.
2. I will be collecting READING LOGS on Thursday, December 18th. We will be going bowling that morning.
3. Friday is the last day of school before the break with a 2:30 dismissal. Classes resume on January 5, 2015th.
The boys and girls have been enjoying the wonderful weather this week! They are enjoying the snow, the sunshine and playing together on the playground.
Ms. Selimos
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
December 1st week with Ms. Selimos
Dear Parents and Students,
We have a lot of fun activities
occurring over the month of December!
1. The Grade 2/3 MULTICULTURAL
BREAKFAST will be on TUES.DEC. 16TH with ALL Gr. 2 & 3 classes
at 9 a.m. Please send your child to
school with a food sample of a dish (small portion), if possible, from your
cultural background. No nuts please.
EXAMPLES: 6 to 12 portions of
something: 6 yogurt cups, 6 cheese
strings, 6 spring rolls, 6 samosas, 6 tiropites (Greek cheese pies), small bag
of crackers or tortilla chips. Each
child will be asked to bring something and to present their items.
2. On Tuesday, December 16th your child is participating in
the Grant Road concert held at Campbell. The afternoon performance is at Campbell
Collegiate High School at 1:15 p.m. The
evening performance is at Campbell Collegiate High School (102 Massey Road) at
6:30 p.m. Please have your child at
Campbell by 6 to 6:10 p.m. You are responsible for transporting your child to
and from this venue. The Gr. 2 classes costuming is simple… They are elves, so
we ask that your child be dressed in RED & GREEN CLOTHES if possible.
3. You may send GINGERBREAD
HOUSE MATERIALS to school NEXT Wed. 10th or Thurs. 11th.
4. RAMIHA is our STAR OF THE WEEK on MON. DEC. 8TH.
It was wonderful to meet
with you last Thursday evening and Friday at the 3 Way Conferences to celebrate
your child’s academic successes and achievements! This week’s photos feature some our final
copies of our farm animal research. They
are all on display in the hallway.
Photos 5 and 6 are
samples of math problems using the following vocabulary: difference, subtract, how many more. Addition and subtraction of 1 and 2 was
another target area. The children played
the ONE LESS, TWO LESS GAME (photos 27 to 29).
Best wishes to Miss
Kezama and Miss Lechler, our 2 University of Regina student teachers, who
completed their semester with us on Tuesday.
Good luck with finals girls!
Please come back and visit us in the New Year! Thank you for the cookies!
Thank you George
Bothwell Librarian, Marilyn, for your visit on Monday afternoon. We always enjoy your reading sessions!
We began our new Core French unit; Christmas
vocabulary, this week. One of the videos we enjoyed was: Quand
le Père Noël.wmv - YouTube
Through Santa
puppetry and song, the children learned their prepositions in French: sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de. See photos 30 to
33.
Merci beaucoup, Imogen,
for bringing the book, Counting to Christmas. We have been counting down the days using a
red piece of yarn and making knots.
Hunter and Corbin are
featured in their winter gear! PLEASE
make sure you LABEL your child’s ski pants, boots and other winter attire. We have many similar boots and ski pants this
year.
Photos 17 to 24 are
from a story the children read in pairs.
They read I Can See Christmas by David Booth in pairs. The
activity involved reading comprehension (cloze procedure, questioning at
different levels), which is one of our reading goals, as discussed at the
interviews. The children did a
comparison/contrast page of climates; winter/Christmas in Canada vs
Hawaii/Mexico/Philippines.
Lukas did a fabulous job as Star of the
Week! Lukas is a middle child, with an
older and younger sister. He loves spending family time with his mom,
dad and his sisters. He enjoys baseball,
water polo, water sliding and hockey. He exercises in the summer on his
trampoline. He has visited Lego land.
Earlier in the week, the
children learned about Kwanzaa. We made
Kwanzaa place mats with kinaras on them, which we will use during our Multicultural
breakfast on the 16th. We
discussed the 7 principles of Kwanzaa (see photo 16). Ask your child to tell you about some of the
principles and the significance of the colours of the candles on the kinara. We
also made paper dolls and coloured them.
Check out the following Kwanzaa videos:
The last few photos
“show of”’ some of our PRINTING BOOK samples. We wrote a poem about Peppermint
Candy and today’s printing was a joke.
This afternoon we
will begin to learn about Diwali. On
Friday afternoon, the Grade 2s will be making clay dijas, which they will paint
later on next week and place on a decorative coaster they will design. While Gr. 2s are making dijas, the Grade 3s
will be making their sugar cube houses with the other Gr. 3 classes.
Tumblebooks website has CHANGED!
THE OLD LINK NO LONGER WORKS.
To access Tumble books NOW go to
the RPL website; http://www.reginalibrary.ca/databases/db_ebooks.html
From
here, scroll down and choose Tumblebooks.
Have a great rest of
the week one and all! Stay warm!
Ms Selimos
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
November 26th, 2014 Agribition and Canine Presentation
Greetings
Parents and Students,
We ended last
Friday with Readers’ Theatre presentations, where the boys and girls performed
their stories to various classrooms from Kindergarten to Grade 4. They enjoyed practicing their stories and
working on reading fluently and expressively.
See photos 1 to 15 (email).
We completed
our farm animal research study on Friday and this week, following Agribition,
our two writing projects entail Agribition brochures (will be shared later this
week at interviews and by email) and farm animal paragraph writing. See photo 8
for initial lesson on “Strong paragraph starter”.
Thank you,
Create Artist, Mrs. Beckel, for our 3 Visual Arts sessions with you. The final project entailed creating maps of
the school and using water colour pencil crayons and brushes to paint with. Feel free to have your child show you his/her
“masterpiece” at the interview.
Photos 27
onward are of Agribition highlights and special moments. Thank you VERY much to
the 7 parents who were able to join us for the day. We could not have done the trip without you! Your children were in excellent hands, in
small groups of 3 and the day was educational, relaxing and a lot of fun for
everyone. There was so much to do and to
see in the barns, at the rodeo, at the Family Pavilion, the Farm Machinery Mall
and more. Have your child explain the
photos TO YOU. One of my personal
highlights was the Hoop Dance, as the performer, Terrence Littletent, was one
of my students, 24 years ago, at Thomson School. He invited Roan and myself, to perform with
him.
Feel free to email me additional photos if
you have any on your cell phones, parents who volunteered.
This
afternoon, Constable Jess, Constable Neil and canine, Eko, joined us in the
classroom for a canine presentation/demonstration. After discussing and reviewing DOG SAFETY and
the role of the police dog Constable Jess works with, we were invited outside
to the playground to see the three police members IN ACTION! Thank you to Gr. 3 student Anika and her mom,
Constable Jennifer, who were able to arrange
this visit for our classroom. It was
Constable Jess’s VERY FIRST classroom presentation ever!
Finally, we
welcome another Grade 2 student to the classroom, from the Philippines,
tomorrow morning. His name is
Brylle.
See you later
this week for INTERVIEWS students and parents.
Remember to send your bowling permission forms and method of payment to
school this week.
Cheers,
Ms. Selimos
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Hello Parents and Students,
Brrrrrrr! It’s getting cold out there! Please make sure that your child comes to
school with ski pants and warm winter clothing.
With the wind chill today earlier this week, we began with an indoor
recess.
On Monday we welcomed new
student, Sauravi, to our Grade 3 class and today, Zaid (photo 41), to our Grade
2 class. We now have 24 students in the
class.
We continue to work on NUMBER
FAMILIES in math. We have done many
Number Family activities this week using ten frames, dice, 2 sided counters and
dice. Our math focus this week was about MISSING addends. New math vocabulary
included: equal and unequal. We did some
MATH DRAMA, where I was trying to reinforce the “missing number” within an
equation. For example: 8 + ___ =
14. We continue to explore +/- and the
missing elements: __ + 5 = 13 or 2+__ =
11 or __-6=5. The children used a math
number line and a hundred chart as a tool.
This afternoon’s math lesson and next week’s focus is using a NUMBER
LINE.
Our Star of the Week was Sonakshi. Sonakshi enjoys ballet. She has traveled to Banff and the Rocky Mountains. She is an only child, who was born in Kolkata,
India. She enjoys swimming and dressing up.
Her favourite food is pasta.
On Tuesday, our 2 awesome
University of Regina students, Miss Lechler and Miss Kezama, taught the children
a little bit about beekeeping. They
showed a short Magic School House bee video, followed by a discussion about bee
keeping. Miss Lechler modeled a
beekeeper uniform and the children even sampled some delicious honey from Miss
Lechler’s farm.
Our science focus this week has
been to explore and to create jot notes, working in small groups about the
students’ specific farm animals of study.
This afternoon’s lesson will be about organization of jot notes (photos
38 to 40) and order. Friday and next
week for science, each child will create a paragraph(s).
For health on Wednesday, Mrs.
Beckel showed the video www.poison.org/prevent/Elementary.asp The video dealt with poisonous substances in
the home. It is well worth viewing again
and discussing with your child.
We received some wonderful mail
this week from the Humane Society with a Certificate of Appreciation for the
cat toys we made and donated using the socks you sent to school. Thank you once again for your support!
We engaged in 2 PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model) lessons
this week. The new poster features the
fall and pumpkin patches. One of the PWIM
lessons focused on sorting the words based on suffixes. Another lesson focused
on alphabetization (photo 1). When
reading WITH your child at home, ask him/her to point out words with suffixes
(ed, s, es, ing) words. Take 3 or 4 of
your child’s spelling words and see if your child is able to put them in
alphabetical order. Our Writing Traits
lesson this morning focused on organization and putting things in the right
order.
Report cards go out for all Grant Road students on Friday, 21st. All report card envelope papers are YOURS TO
KEEP. I look forward to meeting with
each of you and your children next Thursday after school or Friday morning, at
your designated time for the 3 – Way Conference.
On Tuesday, our guest speaker, Louise, from the Board of
Education, presented a very interesting Arctic Animals lesson to Grade 2
classrooms. We learned about polar bears, seals, musk ox, caribou, tundra wolf
and more. The children will share their journal paragraphs with you at the
interviews. See photos 14 to 23, 29 to
34.
During
French, he boys and girls are having a lot of fun learning the farm animal
vocabulary and the sounds the animals make.
We have read “Old Macdonald” in French this week, also “Petit Poussin,
Que-Dis Tu?” and have listened to the farm song www.youtube.com/watch?v=oczhw6ikmSE We also created favourite
farm animal drawings in individual barns and on Wednesday, we wrote Garfield
cartoons. See photos 24 to 28, 35 to 37. They LOVE French class and all the
interactive activities and games.
The countdown to Agribition has been ongoing this week! We
have been learning barnyard dances such as:
The Alley Cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fFf0ClVLao, The
Bunny Hop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajWqQaq5dE. We did a circle/partner dance to the song
B-I-N-G-O, as well. Watch the videos and
have your child show you the moves.
Please send a healthy
lunch for your child with a bottle of water for the Monday Agribition trip. Please
make sure your child is wearing BOOTS, as we will be in the barns. Dress in
layers. No ski pants, as we will be
doing a lot of walking and will get warm.
Do NOT send the AGENDAS to school in the backpacks.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO
THE PARENTS JOINING US. PARENT
VOLUNTEERS: It is
important to attend the ON SITE workshop on SUNDAY, November
23rd at 10:30 a.m. The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize you
with an appropriate, safe route to take on that day. Please
meet at the Co-operators Centre Foyer at 10:30 a.m. at EVRAZ PLACE. The workshop will last approximately one
and a half hours and is well worth attending.
The Showcase exhibitors will also be on hand to explain their displays
and answer any questions. Remember to
dress for barn conditions and to bring a pen/pencil. Maps will be made available.
We
will be leaving at 9 a.m. sharp, after attendance is taken.
REMINDERS: 1. Reading logs with NOVEMBER minutes due
next Thurs. 27th.
2. Return TERM I STUDENT WORK SAMPLES IN BLUE FILE FOLDER if you have not already
done so.
3. Grant Road book fair is
on Thursday. BOOK FAIR preview time for Gr. 2/3
is from 10 to 10:30 a.m. in the library.
If you would like your child to purchase a book, please send the money
in a labeled zip lock bag and I will place change in bag from your child’s
purchase.
4. Lukas is * STAR OF THE WEEK * the week of Dec. 1st.
Have a wonderful rest
of the week everyone!
Ms. Selimos
Friday, November 14, 2014
November 12, 2014 week with Ms. Selimos
Hello Parents and Students,
It has been a short week, but a busy one. Thank you to birthday boy, Brodie, for the delicious chocolate chip birthday cookies last week. We really enjoyed them.
We read many Remembrance Day books last week, including “Who’s That Man?” by Marny Duncan Cary, one of my favourites. We joined our Grade 4 Learning Buddies on Friday, 7th at 11 a.m. for a beautiful Remembrance Day assembly. The slide show was very effective and the Gr. 2/3 proudly and peacefully shared their “Peace” paragraphs. At the Term I interviews, your child will share his/her “masterpiece” with you. The children wrote a poem in their printing booklets about poppies, as well. They are encouraged to use an erasable pen when writing in their printing booklets. See photo 17 from email.
Artist, Mrs. Belcher, joined us last Friday afternoon for a Visual Arts lesson, exploring mapping skills with us. We discussed imagery. The children practiced sketching our classroom with a literacy/numeracy focus on spatial and 2-dimensional representation. We made "shorts" books. Ask your child to explain this book making process and the "bone" tool we used to help us to crease the paper. See email photos 3 to 9.
Please reinforce +/- to 18 at home using flashcards, math sheets and on line games from my website. One goal is to learn facts using automatic response. Begin with adding one or two more (ex: 5+1, 8+2). Next reinforce doubles (5+5, 8+8). We can discuss more strategies and tips at the 3 way conference. Number families continue to be reinforced. In and Out of the Toy Box was a math book which I used this week to reinforce +/- strategies.
The Sub Lunch last Friday was a huge success. Thank you to the parents who helped in the classroom. All went smoothly.
Our science focus this week has been to explore and to create jot notes, working in small groups about their specific farm animals of study. Next week each child will create a paragraph.
Our phonics letter of the week was Ff.
SONAKSHI is * STAR OF THE WEEK * the week of Nov. 17th.
Report cards go out for all Grant Road students on Friday, Nov. 21st. On MONDAY the 17th, I will be sending a FILE FOLDER for you to sign of your child’s Term I work samples. Please look at the work WITH your child and discuss.
Stay warm this weekend and GO RIDERS!
It has been a short week, but a busy one. Thank you to birthday boy, Brodie, for the delicious chocolate chip birthday cookies last week. We really enjoyed them.
We read many Remembrance Day books last week, including “Who’s That Man?” by Marny Duncan Cary, one of my favourites. We joined our Grade 4 Learning Buddies on Friday, 7th at 11 a.m. for a beautiful Remembrance Day assembly. The slide show was very effective and the Gr. 2/3 proudly and peacefully shared their “Peace” paragraphs. At the Term I interviews, your child will share his/her “masterpiece” with you. The children wrote a poem in their printing booklets about poppies, as well. They are encouraged to use an erasable pen when writing in their printing booklets. See photo 17 from email.
Artist, Mrs. Belcher, joined us last Friday afternoon for a Visual Arts lesson, exploring mapping skills with us. We discussed imagery. The children practiced sketching our classroom with a literacy/numeracy focus on spatial and 2-dimensional representation. We made "shorts" books. Ask your child to explain this book making process and the "bone" tool we used to help us to crease the paper. See email photos 3 to 9.
Please reinforce +/- to 18 at home using flashcards, math sheets and on line games from my website. One goal is to learn facts using automatic response. Begin with adding one or two more (ex: 5+1, 8+2). Next reinforce doubles (5+5, 8+8). We can discuss more strategies and tips at the 3 way conference. Number families continue to be reinforced. In and Out of the Toy Box was a math book which I used this week to reinforce +/- strategies.
The Sub Lunch last Friday was a huge success. Thank you to the parents who helped in the classroom. All went smoothly.
Our science focus this week has been to explore and to create jot notes, working in small groups about their specific farm animals of study. Next week each child will create a paragraph.
Our phonics letter of the week was Ff.
SONAKSHI is * STAR OF THE WEEK * the week of Nov. 17th.
Report cards go out for all Grant Road students on Friday, Nov. 21st. On MONDAY the 17th, I will be sending a FILE FOLDER for you to sign of your child’s Term I work samples. Please look at the work WITH your child and discuss.
Stay warm this weekend and GO RIDERS!
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Nov 3 2014 with Selimos PEACE
Hello Parents and Students,
I hope everyone is keeping dry with the rain… No snow,
yet!
The first photo is of Mr. Chernoff,
our Vice Principal and Phys. Ed. teacher. Thank you to last week’s, Star of the
Week, Hunter, for the birthday cupcakes on Thursday. Yummy! On Halloween Friday, we enjoyed dressing in
orange and black and were excited to have Veterinarian, Dr. Sally, join us
after lunch to teach us about Dog Bite Prevention Safety. The children practiced “STANDING LIKE A TREE”
if a dog approaches them. They practiced
“TUCKING IN” like a rock, if they are already on the ground. Have your child
share the ABCs of petting a dog: A = ask
owner permission, B= be sniffed and C= cootchie coo. Check out some of the journal writing samples
from the children. Also, be sure to view websites: www.doggonesafe.com
and www.be-a-tree.com
Our Vertebrate party on Friday afternoon was a big
success. Thank you for sending
nutritious items with your child. We
enjoyed healthy snacks, watched a video and danced to: Monster Shuffle song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFxo-IkCNQ Have your child show you the dance (photos
21 to 27) at home and try it with him/her.
Reinforced Gr. 2 math vocabulary this week: greatest, least and ordering numbers from
least to greatest and greatest to least.
The children played a GREATER THAN game (thousands, hundreds, tens and ones)
in pairs. Each needs a set of 0 to 9
cards. Write the words: Hundreds, Tens, Ones on a piece of
paper. Each player draws a card and
strategically placing it under Th, H, T or O.
The person with the highest number wins. You can also play this game trying to create
the LOWEST NUMBER. It is an easy game for you to create and to try at home with
your child. It is an excellent game for reinforcing place value. See photos 2
to 7.
Grade 2 Math Binders (Unit 2) went home on Monday. Please
sign UNIT 2 and return the binder with the first 2 units to school. Our NEW UNIT 3 for Grade 2 math is: +/- to 18.
I hinted to the children to ask for flashcards for Christmas or for a
birthday, as it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for them to know their facts to 18 automatically
by the end of the year, in preparation for Grade 3.
On Monday afternoon, University of Regina SUNTEP student,
Mr. Austin McCabe, joined us for the afternoon.
He shadowed me in the classroom and enjoyed helping me to teach a Core
French lesson introducing “Le Jour de Souvenir” vocabulary; Remembrance Day
(see photo 34), a vertebrate lesson and a health lesson at the end of the day
with Mrs. Beckel. We completed our
Vertebrate study, after researching amphibians last week and wrote a “pop
quiz”.
We began a new PWIM poster (Picture Word Inductive Model) on
Monday. Review the words on the poster
with your child. Clap out
syllables. Choose 5 words and do a mini
lesson on alphabetical order. Can your
child make some sentences for you using a few of the words? Can he/she write a sentence using quotation
marks in the right spots?
Brodie was our fabulous Star of the Week. He has an older brother in Grade 5. He enjoys spending time with his mom, dad,
brother, grandparents and cat named, Willy.
He has been to Douglas Provincial Park for camping, fishing and
tubing. He had his picture taken with a
real monkey in Mexico! He LOVES football
and cheers the Riders on. He plays
hockey for the Colts and his favourite NHL team is the Oilers. He LOVES to read and his favourite subject is
math.
On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of having Professor Mark
Brigham, from the U of R Biology Department, join us in the morning. His slide show presentation was
EXCELLENT! We discussed bats of Canada
and bats of the world. Some cool facts: The bumblebee bat is the smallest bat of the
world. We discussed bat anatomy and
roosting. Canadian bats are
insectivores. Saskatchewan bats DO NOT
live in caves, but can be found in hollow trees, buildings, attics. One of the highlights was the LIVE bat he
brought to share with us. See photos 71 to 74 of bat journal writing. I hope
the visual arts clay bats and writing pieces made it home to you on Tuesday,
after school.
This week, we studied some books about peace and war in
Canada, as part of our Remembrance Day study.
A Bear in War by Innes and Endrulat brought tears to a few eyes,
including mine. The children and I
brainstormed about peace at home, in the classroom and on the playground. They will be creating paragraphs about PEACE,
which will be featured on the bulletin
board outside our classroom for you to read in a few weeks when you are here
for the 3 Way Conference.
Please return the 3
Way Conference note sent home today in your child’s agenda. I will be running interviews AFTER SCHOOL on Thursday,
November 27th (3:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. or so) and on MONDAY, November 28th
in the morning. Please select your preference and I will try my best to
accommodate your requested time.
Agribition is a few weeks away. Thank you for sending the $1.50 bus fee and
for signing the permission/helper note.
I still need a few more to come in.
Here is a cool bat video for you to enjoy with your
child. Please take the time. It is only a few minutes long: http://www.motivious.com/orphaned-bat/
Next week is a short week.
No school on Monday and Tuesday.
Enjoy the long weekend with your families.
Happy Wednesday and peace to one and all!
Ms. Selimos
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
October 27, 2014 SPOOK-TACULAR WEEK
Greetings on this “Spook-tacular” Day, Parents and Students,
I cannot BELIEVE it is the END of October! Time flies when we are having fun in Grade
2/3! We worked on a visual arts/writing
project this past week. We molded our
clay bats last Friday and painted our bat creations on Monday. Each child created a paragraph about his/her
Canadian bat (hoary bat, silver haired bat, little brown bat, big brown bat,
silver haired bat, eastern long eared bat, eastern red bat, etc.). They will be taking them home NEXT week,
after University of Regina Biology Professor, Dr. Mark Brigham views them.
Hunter was our incredible Star of the Week and did a
fabulous job presenting. He enjoys his
trampoline and downhill skiing. He has
traveled to the ocean, The Grand Canyon, Montana and Lake Diefenbaker. His family owned Bonburger. He enjoys spending time with his older
sister, parents and cat, Molly.
This week the kids explored reptiles and amphibians. The word reptile is a Greek word which means
“to creep”. We created jot notes and supported our notes
with illustrations. A few new videos/songs we enjoyed this week include: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqKSSea9As and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMHUq9djPA4.
Miss Kezama and Miss Lechler helped us with COMPUTER
STATIONS on Tuesday morning. The focus
was raz_kids and abcya.com money bingo.
French fun this week entailed creating Halloween puppets and
performing short dialogues in French in pairs using the puppet theatre. The children LOVED this activity. They were very motivated and excellent
participants, having fun and encouraging each other. See photos 51 to 61.
Mr. Cross and Miss Saunders, ECS 100 students from Mrs.
Pankewich’s Grade 2 class, assisted us on Tuesday afternoon, helping us to
create over 200 catnip toys out of recycled socks for the Humane Society! On Wednesday afternoon, Kristin Folk joined
us from the Humane Society, entertaining us with a story (A Friend in Need) about
a puppy, needing a home. Then the
children participated in her “Pet suitcase” activity, where they discussed
items such as leashes, collars, dishes, pet toothbrushes, nail clippers and
more. Kristin even brought an adorable
kitten for us to enjoy and to love. This
was a big hit! Parents, thank you again
for your catnip contributions and socks!
Photos 72 to 77 include money games we played on Wednesday
after our lesson on new vocabulary:
least to greatest and greatest to least.
We read a silly, spooky story called The Ghost of the One
Black Eye to support our reading and writing. After reading this story, we acted out parts
of it, using some of our class finger puppets.
The focus with the puppets was to introduce DIALOGUE and QUOTATION
MARKS. I refer to the quotation marks as
“sixes and nines”. Have your child show
you what this means at home. Write some
fun sentences with your child using dialogue and see if he/she can place the
quotation marks in the right spots. When
you are reading with your child, look for dialogue in the stories and
discuss.
The boys and girls briefly met my mom at lunch time
today. She made some yummy Greek orange
cookies for them to try. What a
wonderful surprise for the kids. Thanks
mama! J
Parents, please send your child to school tomorrow with
his/her READING LOG and MINUTES TOTALED for OCTOBER.
HERE IS A BIT OF PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK:
BRODIE is * STAR OF THE
WEEK * the week of Nov. 3rd.
MON., NOV. 3rd
(Day 3) Austin McCabe, student from Faculty of Education, Gabriel
Dumont Institute - SUNTEP Faculty, will be “Job Shadowing” Ms. Selimos in the
afternoon.
Tues. 4th
(Day 4) University of Regina ECS 100 students,
Miss Kezama and Miss Lechler will be
working with us in our Grade 2/3 classroom, every Tuesday morning until
December! J
LIBRARY EXCHANGE
Professor Mark Brigham visits in the a.m. TOPIC: BATS J
Wed. 5th (Day 5) Welcome: CREATE artist, Joyce Belcher for Visual Arts Session #1 of 3
in p.m.
Spelling Test # 8 Parents sign test page
Thurs. 6th (Day 1) See NEW SPELLING LIST in your child’s
agenda.
George
Bothwell, Librarian Marilyn visits in p.m.
Fri. 7th (Day 2) Remembrance Day Ceremony in individual classrooms at 10:50 a.m. Parents
welcome to join us.
SPECIAL SUB LUNCH for those who ordered, today.
SONAKSHI is * STAR OF THE WEEK
* the week of Nov. 17th
On Monday, November 24th,
the Grade 2/3 class will be attending the Western Canadian Agribition. In preparation for the Agribition, we will be
learning about agriculture and farm life through Science, Language Arts,
French, Visual Arts and Dance. We will be leaving the school at approximately
9 a.m. and will return in time for the 3:37
p.m. dismissal.
I will require 5 parent
volunteers, so that our students are well supervised. This involves a
commitment to supervise 3 to 4 students
on the field trip (Pre-schoolers are NOT
able to attend). It is important to attend the ON SITE workshop on SUNDAY, November 23rd at 10:30 a.m. The purpose
of the workshop is to familiarize you with an appropriate, safe route to take
on that day. Please meet at the Co-operators Centre Foyer at 10:30 a.m. at EVRAZ
PLACE. The workshop will last
approximately one and a half hours and is well worth attending. The Showcase exhibitors will also be on hand
to explain their displays and answer any questions. Remember to dress for barn conditions and to
bring a pen/pencil. Maps will be made
available.
____ I am sending $1.50 cash for bus cost.
______ I am paying $1.50 bus cost on PARENT PORTAL.
______ NO, unfortunately I am UNABLE to assist with this class
trip.
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