I love to read month!

February is my favourite month to be a teacher!  There are so many things to celebrate.  This year we are doing a full month of I Love to Read activities.  We will also have a week to celebrate Festival du Voyageur.  We have Valentine's and Louis Riel Day to look forward to as well.

February Calendar

For the month of February each student has a calendar with all of the special events listed. Some days just list the theme of our studies for the day, while other days have a task assigned to them. 

Spelling

During the month of February each student is challenged to complete spelling BINGO.  The BINGO card is dark pink. It contains various boxes with spelling homework ideas. Students should colour in the boxes for the activities that they complete. The BINGO card is due on February 27th. Each row that is complete will be rewarded with a special prize!

Reading

Each student is asked to keep track of their reading during the month of February. Each day that a student reads 20 minutes or more, outside of school, they can fill in a ticket on their tracking sheet. These tracking sheets are due on February 27th.  Reading awards will be presented that day.

This past week:

Science - We have begun a new unit about Position and Motion.  Here are a few pictures of us exploring different ways to put things into Motion.  We have had a lot of fun learning the cha cha slide dance, and playing a version of Simon Says.  These two activities are helping us learn our left and right.

Math - Grade 2s are working at measurement with non-standard units.  This week we practiced measuring with just one unit, rather than multiple units.  Take a look.

Math - Grade 3s are working on double digit addition and regrouping.  Their favourite way to solve these problems is with the iPad app mentioned in a previous post.

Religion/ELA - The story of Joseph is familiar to most of the class, but still very interesting.  Since the class showed such an interest in this story we decided to use it to practice summarizing and re-telling skills.  We are working on writing and illustrating our own versions of the story.   

Artist in the School - We had so much FUN learning the positions of a camera crew and practicing being part of the crew, and the actors.  We can't wait to see the finished product in the near future!

Request - If you are able to send in cardboard paper tubes we would appreciate it.  We will need some before Valentine's Day.  Thank you!

A number of forms have gone home recently. If you require additional copies of any of these please let me know. 

- Artist in the social Photo/Social Media Release (due ASAP)

- chess club- starts this week Thursday

- reading club - starts this week Tuesday

- field trip to MTYP - due Thursday - still in need of drivers

- hot lunches for February 

- book orders due Thursday 

Reminders this week:
Wednesday - Boston Pizza Fundraiser
Thursday - Wear Words on your clothing
No School Friday - spelling test on Thursday