March Break

Good Morning Friends!

You are now on March break. Enjoy your time with your families and enjoy the sunshine. Play some games, read a book, do a gonoodle, do some art and relax! You have worked so hard and deserve a break! I am very proud of all of you and the growth you have made this year!

Please feel free to share your Story Jumper Stories with your family. Remember to click:

You parents have your ______@educbe.ca email and password in an email I sent them. 

Story Jumper

You can also tell them about our rubric we used to mark ourselves.

Two weeks ago we learned about acrostic poems in class. Here is a printable template so you can create a Spring poem at home. Challenge your family members to create a poem as well! Poems are a great way to work on your rhyming skills. Spring Template

Yesterday I posted a read aloud all about Spring, here is one about Winter. Use the following Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two seasons. Venn Diagram

Spring & Winter Assignment:

1. Look at the Venn Diagram document 
2. Listen to the explanation Video (Found below)
3. Listen to Spring and Winter Stories
4. Fill in the Venn Diagram 

CBE Learning from home:

https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/default.aspx

CBE Mental Health Information

https://www.cbe.ab.ca/about-us/school-culture-and-environment/health-and-wellness-in-school/Pages/Positive-Mental-Health.aspx

Spring Read by Mrs Johnson

HAPPY SPRING!


It doesn't really look like Spring with the snow today but soon we will see the melting snow and new buds on trees. See if you can make a list of all the things that change when Spring arrives.

Missing you guys!

Hi Families,

Just wanted to send you guys a little video! Missing all the kids so much and hope everyone is healthy and staying safe! Feel free to email me a video message to say hi! lkjohnson@cbe.ab.ca

*When I say "We are happy and healthy" I mean we are doing our best to keep our spirits up in this challenging time and we are happy our students are safe!*

Please enjoy a much needed March break. At the CBE level we are working hard to see what the remainder of Grade Two will look like. All of you have worked so hard and have learned so much! Be kind and keep up the hard work. Enjoy some books and math games. 

Websites

I hope everyone is safe and well! We are still waiting on direction from CBE and Alberta Government on what the future will look like. We have no new info.

Please see my last blog post

I have set up free accounts for my students. Please email me for your child's login info.

IXL (Math and Language Arts) https://ca.ixl.com/signin

Raz-Kids A-Z (Literacy and Science)  https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login/reset/student

Prodigy (Math) https://play.prodigygame.com/



GetEpic Books - Free virtual library  - https://www.getepic.com/sign-in

COVID-19

Hello Families,

At this time we do not have anymore information than you do. I will add a link below to a quick booklet/worksheet for a bit of work to do at home. Please stay tuned as I will update the blog when we know more.

I have login information for all my students for Prodigy (Email me for the login info as each child is different) and have set up a 14 day trial for Raz-Kids (Hopefully the company extends this resource for free).

All the students have the same password for Raz-Kids a-z:

www.kidsa-z.com
.

Grade Two Learning Packet

Scholastic has also released a free resource for families:
Scholastic - Learn at home

March 9th, 2020

Hello Families,

Same Words of the Week as last week!

Parent Teacher Interviews next week 

(These will be student centered interviews please ensure your child joins you)

Fun Lunch Wednesday March 18 

In Science, we have continued our exploration of magnets. Stay tuned to hear about our magnet games we are building.

In Math, we will be moving into some subtraction. Students need to be able to add and subtract with 2 digit numbers up to 100 by the end of grade two.

Monday March 2nd

Hello Families,

New Words Of The Week

We will spend two weeks on this list.

Math

Last week we used our math skills to try to solve a tricky math problem.

We have also been learning how to do Stacking / Traditional Addition.

Please Remember to Read Every night!

*MATH GAMES*

MATH GAMES

Please check out some of these awesome Math games we have started to play in our classroom to practice our addition and subtraction skills! The kids have really enjoyed The Pyramid and Addition War so far. We quickly looked at the Spiral Game today. All you need is a deck of cards and dice. Happy Mathing!!!

Basic Facts (+X-) War

Pyramid Basic Facts

Spiral Addition

Race To 31 

Monday February 24, 2020

Hello Families,

English Language Arts:
Looking for ways to practice writing at home? Check out Scholastic's great story starter website. Often students find it challenging to generate ideas for a writing topic when left open ended. This website will help provide some silly writing topics. 
Story Starters


Words of the Week:
We will be continuing to practice the word list from last week as there are a couple longer trickier words on it. 

Students have access to their personal dictionaries and word lists during writing activities here at school to support them when spelling many of these words. However knowing these words from memory really helps during writing so students can focus on writing their ideas and not spending as much time looking these words up. Some students can become discouraged during the writing process when they feel they need to stop and search for words frequently. 

Math:
Math Thinking Routines: Guess my Number?
A great way to practice number at home is to play Guess My Number?

Using a number-line or one hundreds chart found here Interactive Hundreds Chart, 

1. Either parent or child chooses a secret number (1 - 100) and writes it down on a sticky note or piece of paper and covers it. 
2. Student/parent take turns asking questions about the number
3. Use the interactive hundreds chart to record the questions/numbers that have been asked (ex: cross out all the even numbers if the question "Is it an even number? is asked and it is in fact an odd number)
4. Finally the number is identified - Try to solve with the least amount of questions

Purpose: 

• Place value
• Algebraic thinking
• Ordering numbers

Sample Questions:

• Is the number odd or even?
• Is the number a one-digit or a two-digit number?
• Is the number greater than 50?
• Is the number less that 20?
• Does the number have ___tens or ____ ones?

Here is another online variation or the guess my number game.

Guess My Number

Science:
Check out some of our Magnet exploration today. School wide scavenger hunt for the most unique magnetic object and photo. 

💥House Keeping💥
Pink Shirt Day February 26th (Wednesday)
Parent Teacher interviews March 19th  and 20th
Half Day Thursday March 19th for students  
No School for Students March 20th
Spring Break March 21st - 29th

P.S. You can click on the photos and they should open larger. 

Lion King - Supplies Needed

Please have a look at the following document. We need your support to help us make our set for our play!

Lion King - Set Supplies

Pink Shirt Day February 26th, 2020

Please wear your Pink shirts on Feb 26th for Anti-Bullying Day.

We will be singing "You've Got a Friend in me" here is the youtube link if you would like to practice at home!

You've Got a Friend In Me!