Winter Break

Classes will resume on January 9, 2020.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Winter Break!

Learning Update

Wow, fall went by quickly!

Grade 2s spent the last two weeks finishing up various projects:

• Our pictorial chart about eye color
• More hamburger math fact practice; Ms. McGill's class focused on the words, "hamburger is for horizontal"
• Quest performance last Thursday! 

Writing/Art

We read a book entitled "Snowmen at Night".  As a class we brainstormed what we think our snowmen do at night.  Students turned their creative thinking switch on and brainstormed ideas, created a rough copy, and lastly, wrote a piece of writing to go with the art pictured below!  Each student used ripped paper to create a side profile of their snowman.  

Learning Update

Hello Grade 2 Families,

Last week we started Quest Theatre (pictures to come).  The students had bundles of fun creating and practicing our Christmas scene for the school concert this Thursday, December 12th.  Room 7 and Room 8 are both full of reindeer and elves.  We are excited for you to see it!

Math

Last week, Ms. McGill and Mrs. Rahal's class completed a survey on eye colour as a class.  Then individually, each student created a picture graph.  In Room 7, 14 students have brown eyes, 4 have blue eyes, 2 have hazel eyes and 2 have greeen eyes.  Mrs. Rahal's class asked and answered some questions where they had to analyze their data.  Ms. McGill's class will be doing that this week.

We have also been working on horizontal math facts (otherwise known as hamburger math facts), where students have to remind themselves of their ones and tens place value relationships while adding and subtracting.

Social Studies

Ms. McGill and Mrs. Rahal's classes both finished up a research project on the prairies.  Students were placed in groups and using the pictures and text, had to gather and record important information on life in the past, landscapes, resources, and animals!

Physical Education

Ms. McGill's class had a special guest!  The area physiotherapist taught us all about various activities that we can do when we are feeling wiggly.  We are so excited to share what we learned with Mrs. Rahal's class.

Learning Update

Writing

In Ms. Rahal's class, students were introduced to some more words they can use to connect two sentences together (conjunction words).  Some of these words include or and yet.

In Ms. McGill's class, students have been working on their spelling through the use of Words Their Way and word rings based on their decodable books.

Students have also been working to add more detail to their writing tasks and have been making sure to use proper capitalization and punctuation.


Math 

The Grade 2 students have been introduced to graphing and data analysis.  They surveyed peers to gather information, make estimations, answer questions, and then used the information gathered to create a bar graph.  Survey questions have included: “What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?".

Science 

Students have been learning about what a compass is, it's relationship to magnetism, and how it is used in our environment. They had to answer two questions last week: What is a compass? (What does it do?) and How does a compass work?

Social Studies 

Mrs. Horder, our Indigenous Education Learning Leader, has been working with the Grade 2 classes on the importance of oral history in relation to the indigenous cultures of the prairies.  Looking through this lens, we have been comparing our life to that of indigenous peoples.

Quest Residency

Quest Theatre is doing a residency at Keeler from Dec. 2-Dec. 12.  Quest Theatre is an organization that comes into schools and assists students in a theatrical production from start to finish.  The instructors will teach Music/Drama during the school day, culminating in Christmas themed performances on December 12th.  The performances will be at 1:30 and 6:30.