Ms. McGill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1SJ1zMj1uE&feature=youtu.be
Mrs. Rahal
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
April 5th, 2020
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April 5, 2020
Hello Parents and Students!
Welcome back Grade 2’s. Ms. McGill and I look forward to connecting will everyone over the next few days and very excited to hear about all of the cool things you’ve been doing!
Ms. McGill and I will be working hard on a Google Classroom site for all students. More information including a link and how to access Google Classroom will come later this week. Parents can also continue to contact us through e-mail (samcgilll@cbe.ab.ca, mlrahall@cbe.ab.ca).
Keep healthy and safe!
Ms. McGill and Ms. Rahal
April 3rd, 2020 Welcome back message
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Dear Keeler families,
Please click on the link below for a quick welcome back message for Monday April 6th. Staff will be contacting families on Monday. Please continue to check school messenger emails, class blogs and school website for updates. Please do not hestiate to contact me if you have any questions.
We know that it has been a strange and difficult time for your families and we appreciate the understanding and support we have recieved from our school community.
Sincerely,
Kenny Yeung
Principal
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Learning Resources
In order to provide continuity of delivery of educational programming across Alberta, we (CBE) as a system is working on long term delivery of programming. We will be providing system wide messaging for families prior to the break. In the meantime, here is a list of sites that can help your student continue practicing what we have been learning in class.
Please message us on class dojo or email with any questions.
- Ms. McGill: samcgill@cbe.ab.ca
- Ms. Rahal: mlrahal@cbe.ab.ca
problem solving, place value, and measurement in a variety of different ways. Some may require the creation of an account.
- https://www.mathplayground.com/,
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/addition-and-subtraction,
- https://www.education.com/games/second-grade/math/
- https://www.coolmathgames.com/
2. Reading websites:
- To work on letter sounds: https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
- To work on comprehension through understanding of story element relationships:
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnBdzaRy-Ky9Vh54XJlFz1Q
- Individuals in the videos read aloud to students. Often at the end of the story, the individual self-reflects on what the story was about. I often use this as a jumping point for discussion to gage student’s understanding of the story, as well as an opportunity for him or her to construct meaning.
- https://www.k12reader.com/subject/reading-skills/reading-comprehension/2nd-grade-reading-comprehension-worksheets/
- These worksheets ask questions about what was included in the story.
- Explore the Calgary Public Library Website!
3. Writing: It is important that students continue to write! Here are some writing prompts to help them get started. As they write, students should focus on using descriptive words in their sentences.
- https://www.journalbuddies.com/journal_prompts__journal_topics/second-grade-writing-prompts/
- https://www.thoughtco.com/second-grade-writing-prompts-4173832
4. Arthub: Fun, guided drawing videos for kids.
6. Gym: GoNoodle- A good website for kids to get their jitters out.
7. Mindfulness: Cosmic Kids Yoga- Students can practice mindfulness and yoga moves to help them calm down.
Learning Update
As busy as the last few days have been, we wanted to make sure that you were still informed regarding last week's learning! Tools and resources to use for the rest of the week and moving into spring break will be provided this afternoon.
Literacy
Ms. Rahal's class continued to work on using contractions in both writing and speaking! Both classes worked in their literacy groups and guided reading multiple times last week. Ms. McGill's class specifically used guided reading in their literacy groups, to target letter or word work based on student needs. The letter and word work was driven by recent letter assessments that I completed with individual students.
Math
Both classes continued their understanding of place value by practicing their computational skills utilizing both horizontal and stacking strategies. Additionally, students continued to explore 2-D shapes in the world around them by identifying circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles in magazines and flyers. This hands on activity allowed students to cut out shapes and glue them to a poster of that shape.
Science
As a class, we completed an experiment where Ms. Rahal and Ms. McGill used foam to build an invention that can insulate an ice cube. We placed one ice cube inside the foam and left one sitting on a paper towel. Students asked the question, "which one will melt first?", made a hypothesis, drew and labelled two sets of observations and lastly, decided on a conclusion.
Social Studies
Ms. McGill's class travelled to Meteghan using last week's passports! This allowed us a chance to review landscape and begin talking about what Acadian culture looked like in the past.
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Announcement:
The following message was sent out on school messenger:
"March 16th, 2020 UPDATE- 7:00pm
Please refer to letter in the previous post regarding pick-up of student belongings.
Reminder to continue to check your emails as regular school messenger updates will be sent out.
In addition, please go to individual grade team blogs for resources heading into spring break:
http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/keeler/about-us/contact/staff/pages/default.aspx "
Resources heading into spring break will be posted on Class Dojo and the class blog by the end of the day.
"March 16th, 2020 UPDATE- 7:00pm
Please refer to letter in the previous post regarding pick-up of student belongings.
Reminder to continue to check your emails as regular school messenger updates will be sent out.
In addition, please go to individual grade team blogs for resources heading into spring break:
http://school.cbe.ab.ca/school/keeler/about-us/contact/staff/pages/default.aspx "
Resources heading into spring break will be posted on Class Dojo and the class blog by the end of the day.
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