Friday, December 15th, 2023
4 + 5 = 9
9 - 4 = 5
9 - 5 = 4
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- Grade2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Socials - Moon Shot Conundrum.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Prayer - Hosted by Mrs. Gray - story of the Birth of Jesus Christ.
- Science - Black Holes and the True Scale of Our Known Universe (youtube videos for young children).
- Math - Fact Families:
4 + 5 = 9
9 - 4 = 5
9 - 5 = 4
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Cleaning up and 10 minutes of Coding/Dojo Islands.
- Dismissal.
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci
- Science - Biology - how knees work (students asked and I explained).
- Lunch/Conundrum Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Prayer: Hosted over the PA.
- Math - Elf tens and ones - students had 10 rods (10 cubes in a single row) and one cubes (each one separate), and students had to make the body, and fingers out of the 10s and 1s, and glue them to picture.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math/Coding - Students who were not finished after an hour of cutting, colouring, and gluing, had to finish, clean up their area, and only THEN could they get an iPad. Most students who were done went to our Dojo Island (mix of minecraft and animal crossing focusing on building a vibrant and diverse community.
- Dismissal.
Monday, December 11th, 2023
7 + 3 = 10 + 2 = 12
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Science/Math - How the Earth Orbits the Sun - real model - Not in perfect circle but a corkscrew spiral.
- Lunch/Conundrum - The Masterpiece Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Prayer - Hosted by Mrs. Snider over the PA.
- Math - making ten and adding on: Example: Students have 3 numbers and two of them make ten. They were to chose the right pair, and then add the 'extra 2' that didn't fit in the 10 to making adding more efficient.
7 + 3 = 10 + 2 = 12
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Cleaning and Coding.
- Dismissal.
Friday, December 8th, 2023
- Grade 2: AM - Mr. Fedus - Skating at the CGC.
- Grade 2 PM - Mr. Colaci:
- Lunch/Conunudrum
- Field trip to the Nutcracker performance at the Arts Centre - chaperoned by Mr. Fedus.
- Coding.
- Dismissal.
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus - on stage practice.
- Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Social Studies - ClassDojo Conundrum - the light conundrum.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Prayer - hosted by Mrs. Gray.
- Math - Tens and Ones - Students learned that the '1' in 13 is not 1, but stands for (or represents) 1 group of 10, and the 3 stands for three 1s. The reason we do this is to make it easier when understanding why we have to regroup (or borrow) when subtracting.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus - outdoor play.
- Clean up.
- Coding - Lego bits and bricks; open processing; puppet pals.
- Dismissal.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Social Studies - Talk about different cultures, different landscapes, and celebrating differences (talk and book: Little Humans - by Brandon Stanton).
- Lunch + the Arctic Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Prayer - First Week of Advent Prayer.
- P.E. (Mr. Fedus).
- Math - Taking Ten: after yesterday's lesson about Making Ten (finding the pair that makes ten - e.g. 6 + 4 = 10); today we worked backwards and subtracted ten from numbers (17 - 10 = 7 ones left over).
- Clean up.
- Coding - Students practiced coding for about 15 minutes before the end of the day.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Advent/Posadas Talk.
- Social Studies - ClassDojo Conundrum: Who should be paid more, doctors or firefighters (and why), and then the twist...who should be paid more, doctors, firefighters, or teachers...and why.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Prayer - hosted by Mrs. Gray.
- Math - Make 10. After a mini lesson, we did three pages of work. The concept was to make 10 out of the number they were given - e.g. 4 + __ = 10 (6).
- P.E. - Outside play.
- Clean up, planners, permission slips and home reading folders were handed out if they were brought back this morning.
- Coding - Students had a few minutes to play with Coding via Lego.com bits and bricks, abcya.com.
- Dismissal.
Monday, December 4th, 2023
- Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
- LA - Students finished up their work that Mr. Fedus left with them. After that, we talked about why I was away, what new things they learned, etc..
- Lunch - Class Dojo Conundrum (the Island Conundrum).
- Recess.
- Prayer: Hosted by Mrs. Oxford over the PA.
- Math - Games - making ten - students had cards that had 7 + ___ = 10; and the students had to turn over one other card over to see if their number works (7 + 3 = 10).
- P.E.
- Coding: After students cleaned up and put everything away, I gave them 20 minutes of coding time on the iPad - most students chose to do Bits and Bricks on Lego.com or LightBot (free app for the iPad that teaches the basics of block coding). Some students also decided to try Scratch Jr.
- Dismissal.
Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA - Students finished the work Mr. Fedus left with them. We then discussed the steps needed to get our Minecraft coding lessons started (permission from parents, forms sent in to Dept. of Ed, then I create the accounts).
- GoNoodle - Body Break.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Prayer - Hosted by Mrs. Gray - The story of Jesus and the Fishermen.
- Social Studies - Ethics - ClassDojo Conundrum - The Lake, and the Lake Returns. Today we did two ClassDojo Conundrums that were connected. There was a lot of debate and discussion about the reasons they chose their answer. It was a very good conundrum. Ask your child about it if you're interested.
- Free Play - 10 minutes before P.E.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Clean up - Talk about planners being handed out tomorrow.
- Dismissal.
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA - Students finished their Meet Terry Fox write, and added a coloured picture to their writing.
- Lunch - Class Dojo Conundrum - The Light Conundrum. Ask your child about it if you're interested.
- Recess.
- Prayer - Mrs. Gray hosted over the intercom.
- Math - Patterns - Review from yesterday (vocabulary like 'term', and 'core'). Today we added 'attributes' (as in what attribute (or thing) changes in the pattern). Students did some work on the interactive board with patterns then did their work.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Free Play - Students had some free play time as we had both a lockdown drill yesterday and an earthquake drill today which ate into a lot of their down time. Some students chose to do coding on the iPads, other did PuppetPals (story telling with the iPad), GarageBand (creating music), or just building with Lego and blocks.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Grade 2 AM + PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM + PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Soft Start/Free Play (quiet).
- Music - xylophones.
- Reading Workshop - Students read their books to themselves.
- Snack - Alien Conundrum/Recess.
- Meet Terry Fox - Teacher read the first seventeen pages of the story of Terry Fox. Students then synthesized the information to come up with 3 really good sentences. Tomorrow we will write two more sentences.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Prayer - hosted by Mrs. Gray over the intercom.
- Math - Patterns - students were introduced to the words 'term' and 'core' in relation to patterns. Students then completed two pages of pattern work.
- P.E.
- Science - Brainstorming Metamorphic life forms versus Non-metamorphic life forms.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus - LA, Writing, Fundations (decoding).
Grade 2 PM:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus - LA, Writing, Fundations (decoding).
Grade 2 PM:
- Finish LA assignment - interviewing a table partner on what their favourite thing to do is, to eat is, etc...Students had to write about their partner's interests and write them down as best they could.
- Lunch: After eating for 20 minutes, in the last 5 minutes, we watched a ClassDojo conundrum on a flying bicycle company and what research team should be given more resources to...engineering, marketing, manufacturing, or something else?
- Recess.
- Prayer: Hosted by Mrs. Gray over the intercom.
- Math - Math Mystery Workbook - students started on Friday a Math Mystery workbook where they had to answer questions and decipher codes to find out which Super Hero was really the villain...
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Math - Students asked to finish their Math Mystery books. So they finished them and had a bit of free time.
- Dismissal.
Friday, September 8th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus - LA + Fundations (decoding).
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus - LA + Fundations (decoding).
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA - Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers - Story.
- Lunch - ClassDojo Conundrum - The Blue Fox Conundrum - done after we ate most of our lunch so children could focus on eating all of the lunch first.
- Prayer - Mrs. Gray hosted prayer over the intercom.
- Library - Eddie Gets Ready For School - A Checklist - book. Students who brought books back could then sign out new ones.
- Math - Mathletics - iPads - 5 minutes free time.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Clean up.
- Computer Lesson - how to open a browser and type in the search bar to find information or a site. Today we explored for a few minutes abcya.com (games with reading, spelling, and numeracy, as well as other skills and strategy games.
- Dismissal.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA: Finishing up this morning's work on "If You Knew Me, You'd Know that I am...".
- Lunch/Recess.
- Prayer: Mrs. Gray hosted prayer over the intercom. Today's prayer was the Prayer of St. Francis.
- Math - Understanding that the first one '1' in '11' means 1 group of 10 + 1, and that the '2' in twenty means two groups of ten. Students then completed four pages of work reinforcing this concept (e.g. 13 = 10 + ?).
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Math - Coding - Students were shown a brief intro to computer coding via lego.com's bits and bricks.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Friday, September 1st, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA: Story - Jory Johns - The Sour Grape - about a sweet grape who decided they've been wronged by friends and hold grudges; realizing that its a waste of time and doesn't feel great not forgiving people. And makes for less friends.
- Lunch: Class Dojo Conundrum - The Weather Conundrum - Ask your children if you're interested in how the voted and what they thought about it.
- Prayer: Mrs. Gray hosted prayer over the intercom - Grade 2 students attended Intermediate Prayer today in the Gym - hosted by me. Students heard the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory Be.
- Math - Students did a little of Mathletics on the iPad. Students were tasked with putting numbers in order from 1 to 30 (e.g. 11...20), and were able to change their avatar (character).
- Library - Students went to their first Grade 2 library session. Mme. Reid talked about expectations and how to take care of your library books. Students were given a chance to sign out books.
- Math - Mathletics - Students finished up their assignment on the iPad and then were given 10 minutes of free time to play around on the educational apps on the iPad.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Monday, August 28th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- LA: Story: The Book is Red - A book to Drive Kids Crazy. Ask you child what happened in the book if interested.
- Lunch: Class Dojo Conundrum - the Chocolate Conundrum and the Pizza Conundrum. Ask you child what happened in these conundrum if you're interested. Your children were very engaged and debated well their points.
- Prayer. Mrs. Gray led prayer over the intercom. Today, Grade 2 practiced the Our Father/Lord's Prayer for the first time. I discussed what the line 'forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" - meaning to forgive people, as Jesus would want us to do.
- Math - Students were engaged with some interactive math games on the smart board. Once our math brains were engaged, then we started our Math sheets. We are working on subtracting single digit numbers (e.g. 7 - 4 = 3; 7 - 7 = 0, etc). Students completed all their worksheets and then had 5 minutes of free time.
- P.E. - Outside P.E. - Beautiful weather today, so we took advantage of it.
- Math/Clean up: Students did some tangram puzzles (shapes that can be made into other things like animals, vehicles, using polygons). Students then cleaned up.
August 25th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Time given to finish morning writing.
- Lunch - Class Dojo Conundrum - The Airport Conundrum. If you're interested, ask you child what the conundrum was about and how they voted to solve it.
- Recess.
- Prayer - Mrs. Grey hosted prayer over the intercom.
- Math - Openprocessing.org Coding intro. Students were shown a generative art stem on the smart board and I showed them how they can access the code, go in, and play around to start to see what the numbers do (change colour, size, speed, etc...).
- Buddies - Grade 2s went and read with their Grade 7 buddies. Students were paired up and the Grade 7s read to the Grade 2s for 30 minutes.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Math - Finishing up intro to coding.
- Dismissal - Outside 5 minutes early.
August 24th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
It makes more sense to start at 6, and only count up 2 spaces (6, 7. 8), rather than starting at 2 and counting up 6 spaces (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
Students completed two pages after the lesson.
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Prayer - Mrs. Grey hosted prayer of the PA.
- Body Break - Students danced to the GoNoodle version of Kriss Kross' Jump.
- Math - Adding. Students learned to take the bigger number and count up mentally or manually to the next number:
It makes more sense to start at 6, and only count up 2 spaces (6, 7. 8), rather than starting at 2 and counting up 6 spaces (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
Students completed two pages after the lesson.
- P.E. - With Mr. Fedus.
- Clean up.
- Story - The Bad Seed by Jory John - about a seed who thinks he's bad because he's been labeled that way and sometimes makes bad choices, but discovers that making bad choices don't define you...you can make it right and try harder to be kinder, more helpful, etc...
- Dismissal.
August 23th, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- Prayer - Mrs. Grey hosted prayer over the PA.
- DEAR - Drop Everything and Read (10 minutes).
- Art - Google Quick Draw AI.
- Math - Students completed their Math sheets today. Today we focused on matching the words of the number with the symbol of the number. E.G. 8 Eight.
- P.E. - Mr. Fedus.
- Bus Tags hand-out - I handed out bus tags according to my list. Then we did some quiet, relaxing free draw.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 22nd, 2023
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
Grade 2 AM: Mr. Fedus.
Grade 2 PM: Mr. Colaci:
- DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) (10 minutes)
- P.E. (Mr. Fedus)
- Math - introduction to Grade 2 Math and Numeracy. Today we assessed where the children are at to create a plan for moving forward.
- Science - Trees and Tree Life Cycles - Introduction.
- Outside (10 minutes early).
June 16th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading.
- Morning Work - LA + Math - just kidding! I had the students work for a bit then I had them rip up their pages as a celebration of the last day of school.
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Celebration of Learning - Students went to the gym to celebrate their year at Holy Family.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Hickory Park walk and play.
- Clean up.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Blooket games. Ask your child if you're interested.
- Dismissal.
June 15th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (well, I was silently reading...or trying to).
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus and the Good Shepard, and Jesus Teaches His Disciples How to Pray (the Our Father).
- Clean desk and pack up the student's desks.
- Free Time.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Blooket play - ask your students about this cool educational game if you're interested.
- Walk - As an end-of-year treat, we walked two kilometres (1 there and 1 back) to get slushies. Each student got a small slushie of their choice.
- Dismissal.
June 14th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play - quiet time.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Reading (15 minutes).
- Math - Calendar work. Students were given two calendars and students had to answer questions (e.g. "what DATE is the 3rd Saturday of the month?).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding, Chemistry, and building.
- Clean up.
- Prayer + Bible Story - Our Father and The Good Samaritan story.
- Dismissal.
June 13th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading - 15 minutes.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Quiet free play - board games/art/reading.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Science/Socials - Magic Tree House - Polar Bears Past Bedtime - final two chapters, where Jack and Annie become Master Librarians with the help of Morgan La Fey.
- Math - Days of the Week, Months of the Year.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft - 30 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library - The Curious Garden story.
- Dismissal.
June 10th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading - 15 minutes.
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Names Peter As The Rock (not the actor Dwayne Johnson).
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play.
- LA - Sentence Fixers - Students were given six sentences where they had to correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation (e.g. pablo and i went to The store).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Capture the Flag - Outside.
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry - 35 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Art - Google Quick Draw site (https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/).
- Early Dismissal - 10 minutes outside in the rain.
June 9th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Saves Peter from Drowning.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside Play.
- Science/Socials/LA - Magic Tree House - Polar Bears Past Bedtime - two more chapters.
- Math - Area vs. Perimeter - Students were given graph paper, and asked to find three objects, trace them, colour the inside with a pencil crayon and then count the squares inside (area) and the squares around the outside (perimeter).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding and Building (20 minutes).
- Science - Heart Rate and Blood Circulation (it takes about 60 seconds for our blood to circulate through our body). We also thought about the question: what falls faster...100 lbs. of bricks, or 100 lbs. of feathers? (Answer? They fall the same rate because they are the same weight - regardless of what the weight is made up of.)
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 8th, 2022
- Attendance.
- 'Silent' Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Walks on Water.
- Guidance - Discussion about expectations and behaviours.
- Free play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Science/Socials/LA - Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime - Chapter 6 - Flying Bears - Students learned how bears traverse thin ice (by gliding their body weight across the ice).
- Math - Probability - Students were given a coin and asked to track how many times they landed on heads and how many times they landed on tails 30 times in a row to see if their prediction was correct.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft - 30 minutes.
- Science - HeartSmart Kids Booklet - Students were given an HeartSmart Kids book to work through that relates to Science. Today we filled in the first page and tomorrow, hopefully, we will work on the second and third pages.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal - 10 minutes play outside before the bell rang.
June 7th, 2022
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Clean Desks/Classroom.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Science/Socials/LA - Magic Tree House Chapter 4 - Where Jack and Annie played with polar bear cubs...until they found the mom...or rather, the mom found them!
- Math - Area + Prodigy - Students learned about area and then got to play a bit of Prodigy.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building - 25 minutes.
- Clean up classroom.
- Art - Cute Griffin drawing.
- Dismissal.
June 6th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Heals a Little Girl.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- LA - The Pros and Cons of Video Games - Students had to come up with one reason why video games are good, and one why they are not so good. Students then had to write about their opinion.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House - Chapter 4.
- Math - likely vs. unlikely/impossible (e.g. the chance of a whale falling from the sky and landing directly outside of our window is pretty much impossible).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft - 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
June 3rd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Calms the Storm - about having faith no matter what.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Hand Back Work + Binders.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime. Chapter 3.
- Math - Bar graphs. Students had to use two different bar graphs to answer some questions.
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry - 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
June 2nd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Heals the Centurion's Slave (where the line "I am not worthy that you should enter my roof, only say the word and my slave shall be healed; where we get in our Catholic Mass the line "I am not I am not worthy that you should enter my roof, only say the word and my SOUL shall be healed" comes from).
- LA - Guidance - Core Competencies - Personal/Social - Students filled out a self-assessment on how they see themselves as a learner (if they think they use their work time wisely? Or do they talk a lot and waste time?). The teacher will fill out where he sees each learner. This will be included in the final report card, but DOES NOT influence their final marks.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Forest Walk.
- LA/Socials/Science - Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime - Chapter 2 - students learned about sealskin clothing and why they were vital to the First Nations in the arctic.
- Math - Bar Graphs. Students filled out a bar graph as an example then worked on their own bar graph where they asked 10 people what their favourite colour was. Tomorrow we will ask some questions about their results.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding - 25 minutes.
- Art - Summer Penguin Drawing.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 1st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (12 minutes).
- Spelling Bee - 9 - 10.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Bar Graph Analysis - Students were given four bar graphs and had to answer questions about the information (e.g. how many more rainy days were than sunny days in March? Rainy = 11, Sunny = 8, so 11 - 8 = 3 more rainy days than sunny days).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Art - Dragon Silhouette .
- Dismissal.
May 31st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Our Father + Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Softball/Baseball.
- Science - Bear Aware talk - Students learned about how to deal with bears being in bear country, saw bear artifacts like fur pelts, claws, skulls, and payed games with our visiting scientists.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 30th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus and the Pool of Bethesda.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Art - Finishing our Lemonade Drawing.
- LA - Journal Writing: Students had a choice to write about either: 2 things they hope will happen over the summer, or 2 things that happened on the weekend, or 2 things that they hope will happen in Grade 3.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Science/Socials/LA - Magic Tree House #12 Polar Bears Past Bedtime - Chapter 1.
- Math - Data and Graphing - Students interpreted 4 graphs (and answered 28 questions on them - e.g. how many more people like dogs rather than cats?).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 27th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Calls Matthew, the Tax Collector.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- LA - Spelling Words Sentences - Students used their spelling bee words to come up with at least 5 sentences.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Concert - Crawlspace and Cows Go Moo! - Two student-led groups played in the gym. Students got to rock out to songs by Taylor Swift, AC/DC, Metallica, and Ozzy Osbourne.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- ADST/Math - Prodigy Math & Minecraft Coding.
- Art - Glass of Lemonade Drawing.
- Clean up.
- Library - Grade 2s read with Grade 6s for the first time.
- Dismissal.
May 26th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music - Drumming.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Heals a Paralytic.
- Spelling Bee talk - Students found out information about the spelling bee, and how it will run. Today I re-handed out the booklets with the information and strongly encouraged students to take it home to read with their grown ups.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside Play.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunch Time. The final two chapters. Ask your child what happened to the children this time if you are interested.
- Math - Interpreting Bar Graphs - Students were given 3 bar graphs and then had to answer some questions using the information on the bar graphs.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, Technology - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry (20 minutes).
- Clean up.
- LA - Spelling Words - Students spent 20 minutes creating sentences using their spelling words to get them familiar with words they will be asked to spell.
- Dismissal.
May 25th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer + Bible Story - Jesus Heals a Leper.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Fortune Teller - students completed their fortune tellers and took them home today (hopefully).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunch Time. Chapter 8.
- Math - Students were introduced to bar graphs today. We did 2 together as a class, and the students worked on the last one on their own (showing their learning).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry - 15 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 24th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading.
- Prayer + Bible Story - Our Father + Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunch Time - Chapter 7.
- Math - Time - time to the minute - Example: Show the time 2:09.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Art - Zombie Sandwich.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 19th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father + Jesus at the Well.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- LA - Fortune Teller - Students began filling out a fortune teller Madlib (e.g. What does your (noun, body part) tell you?). We will be folding and cutting on Tuesday hopefully.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Walk with Mr. Morrison.
- Math - Time - Time to 5 minutes (e.g. show the clock hands at 2:05) and Time to 1 minute (e.g. show the clock hands at 8:58).
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- LA - Fortune Teller Madlib (con't) (10 minutes).
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 18th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 Minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father and Jesus' first miracle (the wedding, turning water into wine) and Jesus recruiting his 12 disciples.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- Madlibs - students completed their first Madlibs to help with with learning what a verb is, what an adverb is, etc...
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Math - Time - quarter to and quarter past, and half past.
- ADST - Minecraft Chemistry - students made ice bombs, etc... using Chemistry in Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 17th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father + Jesus Faces Temptation in the Desert.
- Morning Work - LA+ Math.
- Free Time (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunchtime.
- Math - Difference between quarter to and quarter past.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Chemistry and Coding.
- Socials - Discussion about Longitude and Latitude.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 16th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (15 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father + Story of Jesus being baptized by John.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Time.
- LA - Journal - Prompt: If I woke up one day with wings, I would be (describing feeling word). My wings would look like...I would fly to...and see....
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials - Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunchtime. The next chapter.
- Math - Quarter to (when there is only 15 minutes to the NEXT hour, we can say "its a quarter to 2 (meaning 1:45)". Students practiced this.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Social Studies - Mapping Skills - Alpha-numeric grid coordinates and map legends.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 13th, 2022 (Friday the 13th...oooohh spooky)
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading.
- All Day Play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Play at Hickory Park.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Frisbee Games.
- Movie - Lilo and Stitch.
- Clean up. SO much clean up.
May 12th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Swim Lessons (Last one for Grade 2).
- Snack.
- LA - abcya.com typing games.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials - Magic Tree House #11 - Lions at Lunchtime.
- Math - Analogue Clock Time Tell - quarter past (students began to learn today that a quarter of an hour (1/4 of 60 is 15 because 1/2 of 60 is 30, and half of that half is 15).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Building (15 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Parents stopped by the classroom and the bookfair.
- Dismissal.
May 5th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Swim Lesson #3.
- Snack.
- iPads (15 minutes).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown - Chapter 7.
- Math - Time. Students began to understand how to tell time on an analogue clock.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding.
- Art - Finishing up art from Tuesday/Wednesday.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 4th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading.
- Swim Lesson #2.
- Snack.
- iPads (15 minutes).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown - Chapter 6.
- Math - Division. There are 15 apples. How many apples can fit equally into 3 bags?
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding.
- Art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 3rd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Swim Lessons #1.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Math - Division skills. Example: 15 apples put equally into 3 baskets...how many in EACH basket?
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, Technology - Minecraft Coding - 20 minutes.
- Art.
- Clean up.
- Early dismissal (7 minutes outside early).
April 29th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading (10 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA/Math - Story - Fractions in Disguise. Today I finished off the book. It was a pretty great book (for being about fractions!).
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play - 10 minutes.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Clean up.
- Math - abcya.com Math and Typing Games - Students where shown what kinds of games we might be working on next week and got to preview some of them.
- Field Trip - Swimming with the Grade 2s and 3s.
- Dismissal.
April 28th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading (10 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA/Math - Story - Fractions in Disguise. Today I read 4 more pages. We did some math to explain what was happening in the story (talking about how 1/2 is the same 3/6, 5/10, etc...).
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside Free Play.
- Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #10: the next chapter.
- Math - Division Skills. Students today learned how to break things into groups up equally so they can shared amongst more people. Example: "10 apples. 2 students...how many apples does each student get? Place the same amount in each bag....so 10 divided into two groups equally is 5 each."
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Social Studies - Mapping and Map Interpreting Skills.
- Early Dismissal to play outside in the sun.
April 27th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA/Math - Story - Fractions in Disguise by Edward Einhorn and David Clark.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play (15 quiet minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Extra Recess.
- Lunch.
- Science - A Climate Scientist came in and did a talk about the water cycle, how climate and weather are different and how water can exist as a solid, liquid, or a gas.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/LA - Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown. The following chapter.
- Math - Multiplication and Skip Counting (e.g. 5 x 3 = 5, 10. 15).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building (20 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 26th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Silent Reading.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- Snack + LA - Story: Fortunately, the Milk, by Neil Gaiman.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Science/Socials - Magic Tree House #10 - Ghost Town at Sundown Chapter 4.
- Math - Beginning Multiplication. Example: 5 + 5 + 5 = 5 x 3 (3 groups of 5, or 5 groups of 3 - so think: 5, 10, 15).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding and Building (15 minutes).
- Art - Raincloud and Sun art. (Art Kids Hub on YouTube).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 25th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman. A few more pages.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Time - 3 warnings for too much noise. We shut down free time.
- Extra Work due to Noise - LA - Writing - If I were trapped in the school overnight, I would....
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills.
- LA/Socials/Science - Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown - Chapter 3.
- Math - Fractions (improper) - 3 whole pizza cut into 4 slices each - for a total 12 slices or 12/4.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
April 22nd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Silent Reading.
- Morning Work - Math + LA.
- Free Time - 10 minutes - 3 warnings for too much noise. We shut the Free Time.
- Extra Work due to Noise: LA - Writing + Reading + Comprehension - Completing a Story.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Socials/Science - Magic Tree House #10: Ghost Town at Sundown - Chapter 1 and 2.
- Math - Fractions. Example: Barry ate 1/4 of the pizza. Sally ate 1/3 of the pizza. Colour the circles to match the fraction. Which one ate more?
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding and Building (15 minutes).
- Home Reading Prizes Awarded.
- Clean up classroom and coat hooks.
- Library.
- Early Dismissal (10 minutes outside early).
April 21st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- LA - Story - The Black Death - the final chapter.
- Free Play (15 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills.
- LA/Socials/Science - The Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak. The Final Chapter.
- Math - Fractions skills. See yesterday's example below.
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Coding - Latex Balloon making.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (outside early 15 minutes to enjoy the sun).
April 20th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Centres/Free Play.
- LA/Science/Socials - The Black Death, Chapters 6 and 7. Ask you child what happened so far if you're interested.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills.
- LA/Science/Socials - The Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak. The final chapters. Ask you child what happened so far if you're interested.
- Math - Fractions. Example O O O O (3/4th of the circles are red, 1/4 is black; altogether each of them are a fourth.
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Building - Some of us learned how to use the chemistry feature to make latex, fill it with helium and dye it to make a ballon that can float a cow into space. So there's that.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (15 minutes early outside to play).
April 19th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music - Ukulele with Steve Slade.
- LA - Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA/Science/Socials - The Black Death - Chapter 4.
- LA - The Best Thing That Happened This Easter writing prompt.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Science/Socials - The Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting Coins. Example: 40 cents + 3 dimes and 3 nickels...40, + 30 + 15 = 40 + 45 = 85 cents.
- ADST - 15 minutes Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Art - Smart Watch Drawing and Design.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (10 minutes early outside).
April 14th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music - Ukulele with Steve Slade.
- LA - Morning Story - The Black Death - Chapter 3. Ask your children what happened in this harrowing chapter.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Morning Work.
- Art - Spring Door Art.
- LA - Writing - Prompt: Imagine if you had a hundred dollars, but could not keep it. You must give it away. Who would you give it to and what you want them to do with the money. (Apparently, Lamborghinis and Telsas and Mansions only cost $100! Who knew!?!?! - I obviously overpaid for my vehicle and house.)
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Math - Grouping Coins into 10s and 25 (e.g. group the following coins into groups of 10... 5, 5, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10...putting the 5 + 5 together to make, the 2 ones and the five and 3 ones make another 10, etc...in order to quickly do mental math).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Building - 25 minutes.
- Art - Flying Pig.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (15 minutes outside in the sun).
April 13th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer.
- LA - Story - This Moose Belongs To Me By Oliver Jeffers.
- LA - Journal - One Job I Don't Want Is...and why...
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton skills.
- Science/Socials/History/LA - The Black Death (about the Bubonic Plague of the 1300s). Ask your child what they learned today if you're interested.
- Math - Skip Counting with Money - e.g. 2 quarters, 3 dimes, and 2 nickels - 25 + 25 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 90 cents.
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Religion - Stations of the Cross 11 - 15.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 12th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Art - Spring Door Art - Planning and Cutting.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #9: 2 more chapters. Ask your child what happened if you are interested.
- Math - Adding Coins by Skip Counting - Example: 3 nickels, 3 dimes, and one quarter = 15 + 30 + 25 = 70 cents.
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Design and Coding.
- Clean up our room and our hooks.
- Early Dismissal (nice weather, so we went outside 15 minutes early to play).
April 11th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - Pezzettino by Leo Lionni.
- LA - Journal - The best thing about staying home was I got to...and the worst thing about staying at home was...or, if your child went to Arctic Sports, they were given the chance to write about that instead.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Science/Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak. Two more chapters. Ask your child what happened if you're interested.
- Math - Adding Patterns - Example: Start at 7. Add 10 3 times. Then add 5 twice. Then Add 1 (Answer: 7, 17, 27, 37, 42, 47, 52, 53).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Library.
April 6th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: I Wish I Could Draw by Cary Fagan.
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Science/Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak - Chapter 2.
- Math - Skip Counting to Big Numbers. Example: start at 145, add 10 each time (145, 155, 165, 175...).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building (25 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Religion - Lent - Stations of the Cross in class Celebration - Stations 6 - 10.
- Dismissal.
April 5th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- LA - Story - Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #9: Dolphins at Daybreak Chapter 1.
- Math - Three-Digit Numbers: 300 + 30 + 2 = 332, or 100 + 100 + 100 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1.
- ADST: Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding (20 minutes).
- Social Studies - Mapping Directions worksheet.
- Art - Easter Bunny Drawing.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 4th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Free Play (10 minutes).
- LA - Story - Flight School.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Journal - If I could travel anywhere in the world right now, I would go to ... (with who and why and do what).
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Recess
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #8: Midnight On the Moon.
- Socials - Mapping Skills.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
April 1st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Art - Finishing up our Stations of the Cross mini-book.
- Discussion about class behaviour (re: listening, being quiet and calm, and not interrupting).
- Socials/LA/Science - ClassDojo - The Ferry Conundrum. Today we wrote out the pros and cons of each option and chose one.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Arctic Sports.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon, chapters 6 and 7.
- Math - Fixing Mistakes in Patterns: Example: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20. Which one is wrong and why? The 13 is wrong because the person counted by ones when they should have been counting by 2s.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding.
- Loss of iPads due to noise, not listening to instructions. (Lost for Monday, possibly more days next week lost).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 31st,
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Its Not Fair! By Amy Rosenthal.
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon. Chapter 5.
- Math - Describing and Identifying Patterns - Example: 2, 5, 8, 11... (Start at 2, add 3 each time).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building (15 minutes).
- Religion/Art - Stations of the Cross Mini-Booklets. Students started work on their own mini-booklets on the 15 stations of the cross.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 30th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes.
- Guidance/LA/Socials - ClassDojo - The Arctic Conundrum.
- Snack.
- Free Play.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon.
- Math - Describing and Continuing Patterns. Example: 3, 6, 9, 12... (start at 3, add three each time).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies - Minecraft Coding and Building (15 minutes).
- Religious Celebration - Lent - Stations 1 - 5 of the Cross.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 28th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- LA - Story - Marcus Pfister's Milo and the Mysterious Island, with a happy ending and a sad ending.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Guidance/LA/Socials - ClassDojo - The Ferry Conundrum.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science - The Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon. Chapter 1 and 2.
- Math - Adding Patterns. Examples: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10...(what is the pattern, start at....and add x each time).
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Education and coding.
- Art - Happy Easter Block Letters. Colouring tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 25th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Art.
- LA/Socials/Critical Thinking - ClassDojo The Light Conundrum. Students copied the first part from the board (which we wrote yesterday).
- Art - Students finished their artwork from yesterday.
- LA/Socials/Critical Thinking - ClassDojo The Light Conundrum - Part II - Students had to tell what happened to the monster and why they think it happened.
- Free Play.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth. We finished to book today. Ask your child what happened if you're interested.
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technologies - Minecraft Coding.
- Movie - Winnie the Pooh and Spring Time (1 hour).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 24th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- LA - Story: Crafty Chloe.
- Socials/Critical Thinking - ClassDojo Conundrum - the Light Conundrum.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Arctic Sports.
- Socials/Science - Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth. Chapter 7.
- ADST - Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Education.
- Art: Folding Easter Bunny Surprise.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 23rd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- LA - Story: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Williams.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Social/Science/LA - ClassDojo Conundrum - The NASA Conundrum. Students filled out the worksheet. It will be uploaded to FreshGrade hopefully tomorrow.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth. Chapter 5.
- Skating.
- Dismissal.
March 22nd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- LA - Story - Monkey Puzzle.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Socials/LA - ClassDojo Conundrum. Ask your child what happened in today's conundrum. We will be working on the writing portion tomorrow and hopefully posting it this week on FreshGrade.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA: Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabretooth.
- Math - Estimating (e.g. 11 is closer to 10 than 20 because to ten it is one, and to twenty it'd be 9 'jumps'.
- ADST: Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Education Coding and building.
- Art: Monster Backpack.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 21st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA & Math.
- LA - Story.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Favourite Part of Spring Break.
- Guidance/LA/Socials - Class Dojo Moonshot Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth - prologue, Chapter 1 and 2.
- Math - Estimating/Rounding to the nearest 10 (e.g. 27 is closer 30 than it is to 20).
- ADST: Applied Design Skills and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 4th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Art - Finishing up Folding Leprechaun Puppet colouring.
- Centres.
- LA - Story: The Woods - by Rob Hodgson.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #6: Afternoon in the Amazon. Chapter 10. We finished the book! We'll be starting book 7 after Spring Break. Book 7 takes place in the Ice Age (Sunset of the Sabertooth).
- Math - Students finished off their Math from yesterday (Subtracting Strategies). See March 3rd, 2022 note for more information on how this was modelled/taught/reinforced.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Checklists handed out.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 3rd, 2022
-37
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- LA - Reading Comprehension: My New Babysitter - Students read the story and then cut and glued a worksheet in the correct order.
- LA/Socials/Other - Class Dojo Conundrum - The Weather Conundrum. Students watched the 90 second video today and tomorrow hopefully we will be writing our thoughts down.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #6: An Afternoon in the Amazon; Chapter 8. Ask your child what happened if you are interested.
- Math - Subtracting by Regrouping (AKA Borrowing). Example:
-37
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Art - Folding Surprise Leprechaun (colouring tomorrow).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 2nd, 2022
27 (smaller number to the next nearest ten) 30 is 3;
30 to 35 is 5;
3 + 5 = 8
35 - 27 = 8. While this is complicated, it is meant to show the students that there are other ways of subtracting ... you can 'make tens', you
can add up, etc...
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father - Ash Wednesday Talk.
- LA - Socials - Other - Class Dojo Conundrum - The Masterpiece. This was a short 90 second video with a problem. There is no easy answer, but a decision must be made. After watching the video, we debated the merits of each option and then we wrote what we thought. If the student completed this, it was uploaded to their FreshGrade Digital Portfolio earlier today. Check it out when you have a moment and ask your child why the voted the way they did!
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House #6: An Afternoon in the Amazon. Chapter 6 and 7. Ask your child what happened so far if you're interested.
- Math - Subtracting Strategies - Subtracting by Adding. Example:
27 (smaller number to the next nearest ten) 30 is 3;
30 to 35 is 5;
3 + 5 = 8
35 - 27 = 8. While this is complicated, it is meant to show the students that there are other ways of subtracting ... you can 'make tens', you
can add up, etc...
- Religion - Ash Wednesday Celebration. In Class.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 1st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Pancake Breakfast - For Shrove (Fat) Tuesday, we made the students pancakes. Students were able to eat up to 3 pancakes this morning.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA/Science - The Magic Tree House #6: An Afternoon on the Amazon! Chapters 6 and 7. We found out about priahanas, and how long the Amazon River is (4 000 miles/almost 7000 KM).
- Math - Subtracting Strategies - Subtract by Adding on. Example: 12 - 8 ... think *8...then count up to twelve. The 'spaces' between the numbers is your subtraction result (8, 9, 10. 11. 12 there are 4 numbers that come after the 8, so 12 - 8 is 4).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Education Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 28th, 2022
Double 3 is 6
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 - 2 = 5
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Toys in Space by Mini Grey.
- LA - Three Beavers Brown Story and Worksheet. Students read the story of the Three Beavers Brown (like the billy goat gruff story). They then completed a worksheet based on the vocabulary that was in the book.
- Snack.
- Class Dojo Conundrum - The Tree Conundrum. Ask your child what happened in this conundrum if you are interested.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House #6: An Afternoon in the Amazon. Today we learned in Chapter 3 and 4 that there are three layers in the Amazon rainforest - The thick treetop area (about 150 ft tall), called the forest canopy; then there is the understory (under the forest canopy) and then finally the forest floor. Also we learned that army ants eat flesh. Scary.
- Math - Adding Doubles, Adding Doubles + 1, and Adding Doubles - 1.
Double 3 is 6
3 + 3 = 6
3 + 4 = 7
3 - 2 = 5
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology). 15 minutes Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 24th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - Imagine a Night - Magic Realism Artwork book (Canadian Artist Rob Gonsalves).
- Life Skills - Putting Things in Binders (Correctly, one hopes).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Rendezvous Activities - Students participated in different activities. Ask your child what their favourite (besides sugar shack) was...
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 23rd, 2022
+27
50
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Art - Finish up Minecraft Spider.
- LA - Story - Giraffe Problems, by Jory John.
- Centres.
- Self-Reflection - Students were asked to reflect on their Behaviours for Success. They self-assessed themselves. I will be filling in where I think they are at currently in terms of their work ethic and emotional regulation. You will receive it in the checklists that will be sent home before Spring Break.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House #6: Afternoon on the Amazon. Chapter 1 and 2.
- Math - Adding with Regrouping (Carrying). Example: 1 (this "1" means 1 group of 10)
+27
50
- ADST: Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building (20 minutes).
- Clean up.
- LA - Bug in a Vacuum - about the five stages of grief when undergoing a life-changing event (denial, bargaining, anger, despair, and finally, acceptance)
- Early Dismissal - Outside for 15 minutes to enjoy the beautiful weather.
February 22nd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Skate - At CGC.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading - Epic! app for 20 minutes.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House #5: The Night of the Ninja - the final chapters.
- Math - Students who were not here yesterday had time to finish their math from yesterday. Students who were done yesterday's math got to go onto Prodigy Math right away.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding and Building - 25 minutes.
- Art - Students completed some art work.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 21st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Fox's Chicken Stew.
- LA - Writing - Monster Write - descriptions. Uploaded to FreshGrade.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #5: The Night of the Ninjas - Chapter 7 and 8.
- Math - Adding Tens and Ones - seeing that 12 + 12 can be seen as 10 + 10, and 2 + 2. See other entries below for more information if interested.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 18th, 2022
30 + 14
20 + 24
10 + 34
0 + 44
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - How Day and Night Came To Be ... Grizzly Bear and Coyote Legend.
- Art - Minecraft Spider Art.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA: The Magic Tree House #5: The Night of the Ninja - Chapter 4 and 5. Probably the most exciting part so far! Ask your child if you're interested...
- Math - Tens and Ones Algorithms. Example:
30 + 14
20 + 24
10 + 34
0 + 44
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Education Coding and Building.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 17th, 2022
+ 23
46 (understanding that we need to add the ONES first, then the tens, etc...working our way out to the left).
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Howard B. Wigglebottom: A Lesson in Sportsmanship (about sore losers).
- Art - Finishing our Sonic the Hedgehog drawing from yesterday.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Revenge Dodgeball
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #5: The Night of the Ninjas - Chapters 2 and 3. Ask your child what happened to Jack and Annie now...(if you're interested).
- Math - Adding (normally). After working all this week on breaking apart our numbers, we can now leave them together and add as normal. Example:
+ 23
46 (understanding that we need to add the ONES first, then the tens, etc...working our way out to the left).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Building and Coding.
- Art: Minecraft Steve in Diamond Armor.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 16th, 2022
49 40 + 9
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Art - Finishing off our Silly Gumdrops drawing.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: Enemy Pie.
- LA - Monster Write - Adjectives and descriptions.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House #5: Night of the Ninjas - Prologue and Chapter 1.
- Math - Adding 10s and 1s. Example: 23 is made of 20 + 3
49 40 + 9
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding.
- Art - We attempted to draw Sonic the Hedgehog. Some were more successful than others. There were some tears. There were also some triumph.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 15th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- LA - Story: Follow the Moon Home - a story about Loggerhead Turtles in South Carolina.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon. We finished the book today. And we met the mysterious M. Ask your child if you are interested.
- Math - Adding by Making 10s: Example: 28 + 3 =
- ADST: Minecraft Coding - 15 minutes.
- Art: Gumdrops drawing.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 14th, 2022
10 + 2 = 12
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Centres (10 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Creative Writing - If I made a potion, it would cause ....
- Snack.
- Religion - St. Valentines' Day discussion (and Math: The Year: 2022 - 270 the year Bishop Valentine was executed.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon - Chapter 8. Ask your child what happened if you are interested.
- Math - Making 10 to Add on: 7 + 5 (think 7...to get to 10 I need 3...if I borrow 3 from the 5, it will make 2)
10 + 2 = 12
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Valentine's Day Exchange.
- Dismissal.
February 11th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA Editing and Math.
- Centres (10 minutes).
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - The Energy Bus for Kids - The conclusion. Ask your child what the rules of the bus are if you are interested...
- LA - Creative Writing Prompt: Imagine you have your own restaurant. What food do you serve? What does it look like inside? And where is it located? Be Creative!. Students wrote at least 3 sentences.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Bobsledding...Ask your child if you are interested in how the did it...
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon. Chapter 7. Ask you child what happened so far if you are interested.
- Math - Prodigy Math for 25 minutes.
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - Minecraft Coding and Building for 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library/Book Exchange.
- Dismissal.
February 10th, 2022
-3 +3
7 + 6 = 13 (noting that moving '3' from the 10 - thus making it a 7, we have to put that same '3' somewhere...so it goes to the
other digit and increases it to give you the same sum.)
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Class Discussion: Re: Reading Prizes.
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #4 Pirates Past Noon - Chapter 6. Ask your child what happened if you are interested.
- Reading Level Prizes: For home reading. Each student got one prize today.
- Math - Adding With a Pattern:
-3 +3
7 + 6 = 13 (noting that moving '3' from the 10 - thus making it a 7, we have to put that same '3' somewhere...so it goes to the
other digit and increases it to give you the same sum.)
- ADST - Minecraft Building and Coding - 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 9th, 2022
0 0 | 0 0 0 2 + 3 = 5 (noticing that the dots don't change, just where we put the 'line').
and:
7 + 3 = 10
8 + _ = 10
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- LA - Story - The Energy Bus for Kids: A Story About Staying Positive and Overcoming Challenges. Today's rules were Rule #3: No Bullies Allowed, and Rule #4 Love Your Passengers (all of them). Ask your children what they understood from the lessons if you are interested.
- LA - Writing - The Secret Door - Students were given the prompt "If you found a secret door in your house, what would you do? Would tell anyone? What would see? Students were expected to come up with a few on-topic sentences on what they would see and do. This will hopefully be uploaded to FreshGrade tomorrow. Stay tuned!
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House #4 Pirates Past Noon. Ask your child what happened in the latest chapter if you're interested.
- Math - Adding in Two Different Ways: Example:
0 0 | 0 0 0 2 + 3 = 5 (noticing that the dots don't change, just where we put the 'line').
and:
7 + 3 = 10
8 + _ = 10
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft building and Coding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 8th, 2022
10 = 2 + __
10 = 3 + __
And:
20 + 10 + 6 = 36
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- LA - The Energy Bus for Kids - By Jon Gordon. I read the first two rules of the The Energy Bus for Kids: A Story About Staying Positive and Overcome Challenges. The first two rules were: 1: Creating a Positive Vision (If you can see it, you can do it); and Rule #2: Fuel Your Ride with Positive Energy. Tomorrow I will read the next few rules.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House #4 Pirates Past Noon - Chapters 2 and 3.
- Math - Adding with a Pattern and Expanded Form. Examples:
10 = 2 + __
10 = 3 + __
And:
20 + 10 + 6 = 36
- ADST: Minecraft Coding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal: 15 minutes outside early to play in the nice weather.
February 3rd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Organizational Skills - Putting things in binders.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon. We read Chapter 1 today. Ask your child what happened if you are interested.
- Math - Students finished off their Math booklet from yesterday. They then had time on Prodigy.
- ADST - Minecraft Building and Coding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 2nd, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - How To Catch a Star, by Oliver Jeffers.
- LA - Writing - Main Topic and Concluding Sentences - Students read a paragraph about how some butterflies evolved to look like poisonous ones. Then students had to tease out the main topic and come up with a concluding sentence. The teacher helped.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA/Annoyance - Attempted to read The Magic Tree House #3 - Mummies in the Morning, but students were very squirrly after P.E. So we had 5 minutes quiet with their heads down for a bit of a reset.
- Math - Odd and Even - noticing that EVERY odd number ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9, and that EVERY even number ends with 2, 4, 6, 8 ,or 0. Students completed 4 pages.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft building and coding.
- Clean up.
- LA - Mummies in the Morning - Chapter 10. Ask your child what happened.
- Art - Quick Draw! game on Google.
- Dismissal.
January 28th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - Oliver by Brigitta Sif.
- Conundrums - The Lake Conundrum part 1 and part 2. Ask your students. It was really cool. Their ideas were really insightful.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House - Mummies in the Morning.
- Math - Subtracting 10 and 1. Example: 26 ... 16, 15.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 27th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Conundrums - the Food Conundrum, and the Wage Conundrum. Students were asked what two of their favourite foods are, and why, and then were asked to choose only ONE to eat for the rest of their life...what would the choose? In the second one, students were asked to decide who should be paid the most, doctors, firefighters, or teachers...(I swear I did not come up with this one...). Ask you child what the answered and why if you are interested.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- LA - Apology Letter for P.E. Behaviour - Students missed P.E. as some people were not listening and being unsafe during the class. The entire class (minus those who were not here yesterday) wrote an apology letter. So, at least, they learned how to write a letter...
- Social Studies - The Magic Tree House - Mummy in the Morning. Ask your child what happened. Afterwards, we talked about the pyramids, showed them on Google Earth, showed the students what a sarcophagus looks like outside, etc...
- Math - Adding and Subtracting 10s and 1s. Example: Add 1 then 10. 71 ...72, 82.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Coding.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (exercise outside aka...P.E., but later).
January 26th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - Math and LA.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Sentence Stretching - Students were given a sheet that had Who, is with who, is doing what, where, and why. Students had to fill in the sentence. Example: Who? My pet cat; (is doing what?) My pet cat is playing (where?) My pet cat is playing at the beach. (With who?) My pet cat is playing at the beach with me.
- Snack/Class Dojo Conundrum - The Neighbor Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Bobsledding.
- Social Studies/Science/LA - The Magic Tree House Talk - About where the books take place, the eras, etc...with the world map.
- Math - Adding and Subtract 10 practice.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 25th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: The Gift of Nothing.
- LA - Main Topic Writing - Students were given a paragraph to read about sharks and their teeth. They were to find out what the main topic was and try to come up with a concluding sentence.
- Snack/Class Dojo Conundrum - The Alien Conundrum.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies/LA - The Magic Tree House - A Knight at Dawn - the conclusion. Ask your child what happened in the story if you're interested.
- Math - Mentally Adding and Subtracting 10. Example: 45 + 10 = ____
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology. Minecraft Coding.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - 2:45 outside for great weather!
January 24th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - Art - Winter Block Letters & Your Own Name in Block Letter Challenge.
- Snack + Conundrum - Flying Bike Conundrum. See Youtube under "Astra Nova School Flying Bike Conundrum" if you're interested.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Elmer by David McKee.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting 10.
- Math - Prodigy Math (15 minutes).
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology. Today we learned how to sign into our Minecraft Education account and play around for a few minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 21st, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story: The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot (Fractured Fairytale version of the Three Little Pigs).
- Snack + Conundrum - The President Conundrum. Search "Astra Nova School The President Conundrum" if you are interested.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Story - The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting 10 from a Number. Example: 17 - 10 = 7; 10 + 7 = 17; 23 + 10 = 33.
- Centres - Play time (Legos, Art).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 20th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Social Studies - Great Wall of China - Terracotta Warriors - history (came up in conversation, I went with it).
- Snack + Conundrum - The Pizza Conundrum. Search on YouTube "AstraNova School The Pizza Conundrum" if you're interested.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Story: Leo Leonni's Tillie and the Wall.
- Math - Making 10. Example: 6 + ___ = 10; and circle the 2 numbers that make 10: 5 3 7. Prodigy Math for early finishers.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - 2:45 played outside.
January 19th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA + Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - There's a Giraffe in My Soup! Funny story with describing words (to help us with our own writing).
- LA - Journal - Prompts: One of My Favourite Things is...why? What does it look like (describing words like big, enormous, tiny, etc...)? What does it do?
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Story: I am Not A Chair!
- Math - Finishing up Missing Numbers Math - Example: ___ + 3 = 5
- Religion - Epiphany Celebration. In Class.
- iPads - Students were given 15 minutes of Prodigy or Epic! to finish off the day.
- Early Dismissal - Played outside for about 10 minutes before the bell rang.
January 18th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Guidance/LA - ClassDojo - The Blue Fox Conundrum. Ask your child what happened in the video, or go online and search Astra Nova Blue Fox Conundrum.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Socials/LA - The Magic Tree House - A Knight at Dawn. Ask your child what happened in Chapter 5.
- Math - Number Sentences. Example: 3 + 4 = 7; 4 + 3 = 7; 7 - 4 = 3; 7 - 3 = 4.
- Art - Winter Block Letter Writing.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Early Dismissal.
January 14th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Centres - For early finishers.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Noun Verb Noun Sentence Writing: Students were given a sheet with three columns. One column was Noun #1, then the second column was a verb (action) and the third column was another set of nouns. The students then were asked to create five sentences using those words to create silly sentences.
- LA/Guidance - ClassDojo Conundrums. Today's video was the Treasure Conundrum. Search YouTube if you are interested in this one minute video that engages your child to think about ethics and reasons.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Social Studies - The Magic Tree House Book #2 - A Knight at Dawn. Ask you child what happened in Chapter 4.
- Math - Adding or Subtracting by Finding the Missing Number. Example: 19 - ____ = 9. Prodigy Math if done before Library.
- Clean up.
- Library - Book Exchange.
- Dismissal.
January 13th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music (Whole notes, half notes, quarter notes).
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- LA/Guidance - ClassDojo Conundrums. We watched to two conundrum videos (viewable on youtube under "Blue Comet Conundrum"). Students were encouraged to share their thoughts on the conundrum (e.g. who gets the naming rights of the blue comet? Why?). There were no right or wrong answers.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA/Social Studies - The Magic Tree House - A Knight a Dawn. Ask your child what's happening to Jack and Annie now on the second adventure.
- Math - Equal vs. Not Equal. Example: 12- 11 is equal or not equal to 5 - 4. Circle the correct words.
- Art - Block Letter Art - We began writing the word Winter in block letters and we will add colour hopefully tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 12th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Story - Why am I Here?
- LA - Journal Writing - Prompt: "The best thing working from home was.... The hardest thing was..."
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Hockey + Free Time
- LA - Ms. Forrest - The Magic Tree House Book #1.
- Math - Number Facts, iPad Prodigy.
- P.E - Bonus P.E. outside free time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 5th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA and Math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Christmas Journal Writing (Prompt: The best thing that happened over the Christmas Break was...)
- Snack.
- Indoor Recess - Grade 2 went to the gym.
- Guided Reading - Running Records day (We tested the students at the current reading level ... if they were fluent at that level, we bumped them up one level). Everyone went up. Mainly because of your child's hard work but also, you know, Ms. Forrest and myself....just sayin'...(kidding.)
- Lunch.
- Recess - Inside - Lego.
- P.E.
- L.A. - Once upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude/Once upon a Royal Superbaby storybooks.
- Math - Symmetry and Prodigy Math.
- Clean up.
- Dimissal.
January 4th, 2022
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA + Math Sheet (Grammar, patterns, adding, subtracting, skip counting).
- LA - Story - Sloth at the Zoo(m) - the story of a sloth who gets accidentally sent to the Zoo(m), not the Zoo.
- Snack.
- Inside Recess - Quiet Centres (Lego, magnets, art, etc...).
- Guided Reading - Running Records - Some students were assessed at the their current reading level.
- Lunch.
- Inside Recess.
- P.E.
- Social Studies & Science- The Magic Tree House #1 - Dinosaurs at Dawn
- Math - Lines of Symmetry + Prodigy Math (and Lego Bits and Bricks Coding).
- Clean up.
- Dimissal.
December 15th, 2021
8 - 2 = 6
8 - 6 = 2
- Attendance.
- Quiet Reading Time.
- Religion - Posadas/Advent Week 3.
- LA/Math - Morning Work - Blends (sh, ch, etc...), and telling time.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess/Garbage Truck Santa!
- Lunch.
- Centres.
- P.E.
- Story - I Am Peace - about being in the moment, and Chris Van Allsberg's "Z was Zapped!".
- Math - Fact Families - 8, 6, 2 = 6 + 2 = 8
8 - 2 = 6
8 - 6 = 2
- iPad Time: Prodigy Math, Legos Bits and Bricks (coding game), and Puppet Pals (storytelling/LA).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 14th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Morning Work - LA/Math - end and beginning blends (like 'bl' in black, blue, etc...) and patterns.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Story - The Sweetest Fig by Chris Van Allsberg.
- Math - Subtraction facts (e.g. 18 - 9; 47 - ___ = 41)
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 13th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Morning Work - LA/Math- words from the -og and and -op family, counting syllables, and some math.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Elf Journal (if you were an elf in Santa's workshop, describe what your job would be).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA - Story - Graham Base book.
- Math - Subtracting by Counting Backwards, and Subtracting by Counting Onwards (e.g. 32 - 5 = 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27; or 37 - 32 (think 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)).
- iPads - Lego Bits and Bricks or Lightbot (Math computer coding games), or Prodigy for early finishers.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 28th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Science - Candy pH Experiment. Ask you child what happened! It was pretty cool!
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math/Art - Patterns and Creating Halloween Garlands with Patterns.
- Centres - After a very long few weeks of not being able to have centres due to loudness/behaviour, we had centres today as we got through everything and most students were fairly well-regulated today.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 27th, 2021
- Attendance.
- LA - Secret Code (Cryptogram) and Spelling.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Math - Prodigy Math.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Snack.
- Math - Subtraction from Adding. Example: 37 - 35 = ? (Think 35, 36, 37: so, 2).
- Outside Early (2:30 - 3:05 play outside).
- Dismissal.
October 26th, 2021
3 + 2 = 5
5 - 2 = 3
5 - 3 = 2
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Skate with Grade 3.
- Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Fact Families - Example:
3 + 2 = 5
5 - 2 = 3
5 - 3 = 2
- Art - Halloween decorations.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 25th, 2021
- Attendance.
- LA - Quiet reading and writing at their own desk.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Journal - One job I would like to have is...
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Hundreds Chart Number Talk. Students were invited to find patterns in their hundreds chart.
- Pictures - We got our pictures take for Picture Day.
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 21st, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Talk: Classroom Behaviour - Noise Level, Loss of Privileges.
- LA - Halloween Word Searches.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading + Watching a Play: Today, at 11:00, we watched a Grade 2 reading group put on a play. It was wonderful.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Quiet Time: I put on a fireplace video and we did some quiet work to help regulate our behaviour after P.E. It, in fact, did help. A lot.
- Math - 100s chart introduction - Students learned how to use a hundreds chart to help them with subtraction and addition of big numbers.
- Art - Halloween Door Decorating.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 19th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Math - Fact Families 5. See below.
- Life Skills - Putting things in Binders.
- LA - The Boy in the Oak - Page 1 and 2. Book by Jessica Albarn.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Arctic Winter Sports.
- Math - Subtraction. See below for more information as to how Ms. Stephanie taught this.
- Science - Colour absorption. Ask your children how they did this.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 18th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Math - Fact Families: 4 - Students added 4 + 0; 4 + 1; etc...all the way to twenty to get their numeracy skills on a solid foundation for adding and subtracting.
- LA - People Make My Day - Story and worksheet. Students were read a story about how people make Jenny's day special. The students then cut and pasted characteristics of the people in the story under pictures of the different and diverse characters of the stories.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting on a Number Line - Students played a game (greater than or less than), and worked on a worksheet on subtraction. Our Student Teacher taught this lesson.
- Science - Plant Cycles and Care.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 15th, 2021
5 6 7
2 3 4 5 6 7
Students were encouraged to noticed that it is in fact easier and more efficient to count upward from your big number than counting from the small number up to the big number. Students then had to give the teachers 4 hard Math adding questions to answer. It was quite fun.
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - My Weekend Dream: The Comic - Students drew or wrote what, in their wildest dreams, would they want to do on a weekend.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding in Two Different Ways. Students were given an equation, and then had to on from each number. Example
5 6 7
2 3 4 5 6 7
Students were encouraged to noticed that it is in fact easier and more efficient to count upward from your big number than counting from the small number up to the big number. Students then had to give the teachers 4 hard Math adding questions to answer. It was quite fun.
- Prodigy Math - Students who were finished their Math sheet got about 20 minutes on the iPad to play Prodigy.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 14th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- Science - From yesterday. We planted our dirty, muddy socks. Ask your children why.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding by Counting On (e.g. 5 + 2 ... think what are the next two numbers (6, 7)). Prodigy Math for early finishers.
- Prize Box - Awards for some students who got to 40 checkmarks.
- LA - Story read by Ms. Forrest.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 13th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Journal Writing - We wrote today about the best day ever...if a child could run the schedule for the day, what would they do? FYI: There was a lot of mansion buying, a lot of quading, and a lot a lot a lot of video games. Oh, and sleepovers and pizza.
- Snack.
- Science/Socials/Health - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding on from a number: Example: 5 + 2 (think 5, 6, 7).
- Lockdown Drill. Students practiced hiding in a corner and being quiet.
- Math (Con't): Students who were finished all their math did some time on Prodigy.
- Science - Attempt at Science instruction. It was unsuccessful, as students were very tired and that turned into over-hyper and unfocused. So we stopped and will try again tomorrow morning after Music class.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 12th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- LA - My Thanksgiving Weekend: The Comic. Students were given six comic book panels to show what they did on the weekend.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding and Order: 5 + 2 = 7 = 2 + 5. Students who were done their pages in Math were given some Prodigy time on the iPad.
- Clean up.
- Art - Ephemeral Art - Art inspired by the Ephemeral Artist Andy Goldsworthy, we took the kids outside to create natural artwork out of nature and found objects.
- Dismissal.
October 6th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Art - Folding Frankenstein
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science, Socials, Health - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see. We also walked with socks outside of our shoes (don't worry, the socks were new Walmart ones!). The plan is to plant the socks and see what grows to show how where we walk, and where the wind blows causes germination and seed spread.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Delivered Food Drive Bags to the houses around Porter Creek.
- Math - Prodigy Math on iPads.
- Thanksgiving Liturgy - Students attended a brief Liturgy by the Grade 3s and Father Lou.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (10 minutes outside early).
October 5th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Get Organized: Putting things away in the right place (we hope).
- LA - Fundation.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Delivered food drive bags around our neighbourhood.
- DEAR/Snack.
- Math - Largest and Smallest Numbers: Example: 47 31 93 8 = 93, 47, 31, 8.
- Free Play.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 4th, 2021
- Attendance.
- LA - DART (Directed Assessment of Reading Test). Students read a book on Hairy Caterpillars. They then filled out an information sheet with labels.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Life Skills: Clean your Desk...!
- Math - Arranging numbers from smallest to biggest and from biggest to smallest.
- Art. Students who were finished all six pages of their Math work got some quiet art time.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 1st, 2021
- Attendance.
- Math - Fact Families: 3: 0 + 3 = 3; 1 + 3 = 4; etc...up to 20.
- LA - Fundations lesson and Game (Shhh...Don't Wake the Baby).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Counting and Adding to 100.
- Free Play.
- Clean up.
- Art - Google Quick Draw!
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 29th, 2021
31 (students worked on understanding that in the tens column, we say 2 + 1, but what we really mean is 2 groups of 10 plus 1 group of 10 = 3 groups of ten...)
- Attendance.
- Math - Fact Families: 2: 0 + 2 = 2; 1 + 2 = 3; 2 + 2 = 4; etc... up to 20. Students are having a hard time with their numeracy facts, so we are writing one page of facts per day to create a book they can then use to quiz themselves or their friends.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Orange Shirt Day/Truth and Reconciliation Day discussion - Why? What it is? (All discussion was Grade 2 appropriate).
- LA - Story - Can Someone Scratch My Back? By Jory John.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- LA - (Instead of Hike). As Grade 1 couldn't go, we decided that we would not go today either. We decided to read then do some group work on our All School Write which will be about if they had $ 1 000 000, what are some of the things they would buy and why. The teacher wrote the suggestions on the board and the reasons why. This will be used for our writing on Monday or Tuesday of next week.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Orange Shirt Day Walk/Vigil - Mr. Morrison took them on a walk around the back streets of the school.
- DEAR. 1
- Math - Adding with Regrouping (or Carrying as it was called in my days). Example: 27
31 (students worked on understanding that in the tens column, we say 2 + 1, but what we really mean is 2 groups of 10 plus 1 group of 10 = 3 groups of ten...)
- Free Play - Once students were done their Math, they were given some time to work on art, play a board game, etc...
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (outside 10 minutes early).
September 27th, 2021
+ 9
61
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Science/Art - Students looked at leaves under the microscope to see the midrib, and the veins of the leaf. Then students made art by colouring the leaves on paper.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding with regrouping (carrying). Example: 1
+ 9
61
- Centres.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 24th, 2021
21 - that the 7 + 4 gets split into two groups...a tens group and ones group. Then you add the two separate groups to get your answer)
- Attendance.
- Art. Colouring our Money Bags.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Fundations - learning that the digraph (glued sounds) ck is always at the end of a word.
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR. 1
- Math - Adding and carrying (understanding that 17
21 - that the 7 + 4 gets split into two groups...a tens group and ones group. Then you add the two separate groups to get your answer)
- Free Play - 10 minutes.
- Science - attempt at leaf science, but students were extremely unfocused so it will be done on Monday.
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 23rd, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Art - Students began to colour a From the Ground Up colouring sheet. If our class wins, we will get a prize a to share in the class.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shapes - Quadrilaterals, Pentagons, Hexagons, Heptagons, Octagons, Triangles.
- Art - Students were given more time to work on their art from this morning.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 22, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Centres for some. Quiet time for others. Some people lost centres due to noise. They will try again tomorrow.
- LA - Fundations Spelling. Students spelled words like cup, whip, duck, chop, quit, lunch, and cat.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science/Socials - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see. We got to see the Geese flying overhead. It was pretty cool.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shape Sudoku. Students made their own board game and pieces and then played against each other.
- Art - Colouring.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 21st, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Centers.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Triangles vs. Not Triangles, Circles vs. Not Circles, and Polygons vs. Not Polygons.
- Art - Drawing a giant Money Bag.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 20th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Centers.
- LA - Fundations.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Squares vs. Rectangles.
- Clean up.
- Planners.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 17th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Art/Science - Brain Drawing. Ask your students what we did...and why...
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR/Snack.
- Art.
- Terry Fox Marathon of Hope.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 16th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Art - Instead of DEAR, we decided to finish our Kids Art Hub project (Ewok drawing). We took our time and had fun.
- LA - Our YNTEP student teacher read a First Nations story about the raven who tricked everyone into working for him.
- Music.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shapes with straight lines vs. shapes with curved lines, vertices vs. sides.
- Centres - we had our centres play at the end of the day instead.
- Dismissal.
September 15th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- LA - Fundations - letter sounds (A - Apple - Aaaa, B - Bat - B (like your just pushing out a little bit of air). Afterwards, our YNTEP student teacher read a story that has to do with First Nations berry picking.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek. Picked cranberries. Learned the difference between soapberries, cranberries, and rosehips.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside play.
- DEAR.
- Math - Straight Lines vs. Curved Lines, Closed Shapes vs. Open Shapes (and Which One Doesn't Belong and Why?). This was interrupted by a Fire Drill. It took us 2 minutes to clear the building.
- Treat - at 2:30, we were invited to watch a 20 minute movie on how the Raven Stole the Sun, and ate cranberry cake. It was pretty sour but hey. Its cake.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 14th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- LA - Fundations - letter sounds (A - Apple - Aaaaa).
- Music.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Measuring shapes using blocks - Noticing that rectangle has 2 short sides that are the same, and two longer sides that are the same, so when measuring perimeter of a rectangle, they only really need to measure 2 sides.
- Art - Ewok drawing. Colouring tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 13th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- LA - Weekend Writing - Two things that were done on the weekend. I wrote verbs (actions) on the board from students' suggestions (e.g. have a playdate, a sleep over, watched a movie, ate KFC, etc...). On the other board I wrote our describing words for our sentence "It was a ______ weekend" (good, fantastic, fun, exciting, etc...).
- Snack.
- Recess
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Measurement (using referents to measure like Lego cubes, string, paper clips).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 10th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father - Without the looking at the words...just by memory!
- Centres.
- LA - Fundations lesson Day 1. Learning how to decode letters and digraphs (ch, sh, wh, th, ck).
- Life Skills - Putting things in binders correctly.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Talk. Students are given a white board and a dry erase marker. They were shown a series of pictures like this:
Students were then tasked to draw, write, and show what they see. Examples could be 7 + 3 = 10; 20 boxes - 10 empty boxes = 10, etc...There is no wrong answer necessarily. This is meant to increase numeracy concepts and computational fluency over time. Today we did 6 of these.
- Art - Students made Monster Bookmarks.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 9th, 2021
• Attendance.
• DEAR.
• Daily Schedule Rundown.
• Hike - Social/Science with Grade 5s. Ask your child what we did and saw.
• Snack.
• Recess.
• Guided Reading.
• Lunch.
• Recess.
• P.E.
• DEAR.
• Math - Measuring Length, Width, and Height using words like "long" "short" and measuring with a personal referent (e.g. a piece of string).
• Free Play - Because students worked so hard (and helped the Grade 5s by showing them our hike path).
• Clean up.
• Dismissal (Early - Outside by 15 minutes).
• Attendance.
• DEAR.
• Daily Schedule Rundown.
• Hike - Social/Science with Grade 5s. Ask your child what we did and saw.
• Snack.
• Recess.
• Guided Reading.
• Lunch.
• Recess.
• P.E.
• DEAR.
• Math - Measuring Length, Width, and Height using words like "long" "short" and measuring with a personal referent (e.g. a piece of string).
• Free Play - Because students worked so hard (and helped the Grade 5s by showing them our hike path).
• Clean up.
• Dismissal (Early - Outside by 15 minutes).
September 8th, 2021
1 2 3 1 2. 3 1. 2. 3
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - The teacher read the book The Couch Potato. Students then had to draw a picture from the story and something from their life that is similar. They then coloured it.
- Centres.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Hike - We saw beaver dams, beavers swimming, and ducks at the pond.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Fire Drill Practice and Tag Games.
- DEAR.
- Math - Showing Patterns in Two Ways - Example:
1 2 3 1 2. 3 1. 2. 3
- Liturgy - School Opening Celebration hosted by Grade 7 and Father Leo.
- Clean up. Planners.
- Dismissal.
September 3rd, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- LA - Animal Writing (beginning). Students wrote their name, the date, and then drew an animal that they liked. On Tuesday, we will write about why we like it (because its fluffy, etc...).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Park: We walked to the Lions Park at the end of Wann Road with the Grade 1s and played before it started to rain.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - How Many Tens, How Many Ones. Example: 53 is made with 5 groups of ten, and 3 groups of one. This is crucial to understanding place value.
- Clean up. Planners.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 1st, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Brainstorming - One animal they like (noun) and why/describing words (adjectives) e.g. fluffy, cuddly, etc...This was written on the board so tomorrow we will being our writing using our brainstorming ideas.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Socials/Science/P.E. - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see. We walked on the bottom of where the pond should have been but was dry. We saw evidence of beavers too!
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Playing outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Tens and Ones - Learning that the '1' in 10 does not have the value of 1, it means 'one group of ten' and the zero really means zero groups of ones.
- Art - Folding Puppy Surprise. Students began this artwork. They will work on it tomorrow as well.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - As Mr. Morrison was not able to supervise us from 12:25 to 1, he graciously took us outside again and we got to play until the bell rang.
- Dismissal.
August 31st, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer: Our Father.
- Centres.
- Guidance - ClassDojo Video on "Mistakes can be Magic" about trying and learning from your mistakes.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Math - Adding by Counting on. Example: 9 + 5 = (think 9), then count onwards five times (10, 11, 12, 13, 14) and 5 + 9 (think 5), then count onwards 9 times (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).
- Art - Binder Cover Art Work.
- Free play (10 minutes).
- Clean up and Planners.
- Early Dismissal (10 minutes early).
August 27th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown,
- Prayer: Our Father.
- LA - Favourite Food Writing: Students started by writing their name, the date, and drew a picture of their favourite food. On Monday, they will then write the sentences.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding by Counting On: Example: 9 + 4 = (think 9) --> 10, 11, 12, 13.
- Art - Students finished their surprise drawing.
- Clean up. (Plus potato chip reward for Quiet Game after Hike). Planners.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
August 26th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Centers.
- Music.
- Snack + Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students began to be assessed on their reading levels. We are starting them at where they left off last year in Grade 1. We will be moving them into groups soon and they will get to work one-on-one with teachers to help their reading and comprehension skills grow.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding up to 20. Students were shown a picture and had to count (in a specific way). Example 10 + 3 = ? (Students were taught to count on using their fingers (if they need to)...start at ten, then keep counting on your fingers) 10, 11, 12, 13.
- Free Play - If students done their Math, and had no corrections, they were given about 10 minutes of free time to play quietly.
- Art - We drew a Folding Shark Surprise. We will colour it tomorrow and the students can take it home.
- Clean up and Agendas.
- Dismissal.
August 25th, 2021
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer - Students learned the Our Father. We discussed what each line means...particularly the forgiving trespasses.
- Centers.
- Guidance - ClassDojo - Mojo learned about growth mindset (I can't do it yet, as opposed to I can't do it at all...ever...ever...ever).
- LA - Students began brainstorming what one of their favourite foods are and why. They then shared their choices with a partner. We went around the room and shared. The teacher copied down what the students said into columns organized by nouns (the foods) and the adjectives (describes the noun). This will be used tomorrow as a basis for our writing.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science/Socials - Hike in the forest across the road to see what we could see.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting same numbers and zero. Example: 5 - 5 = 0; 5 + 0 = 5. When students were done - and were marked and the papers were corrected, they were able to get some free time.
- Clean up.
- Gobble - Gobble game (ask your child about Ms. Forrest's game).
- Slightly Early Dismissal (10 minutes early outside to play).
August 24th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- DEAR.
- Centers (free play).
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading (Sort of) - Teacher read the story "A Listening Walk" by Paul Showers. Students then had to draw and write one connection from themselves to the story.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math.
- LA - Students finished their work from this morning.
- Clean up and Planners.
- Hook Clean Up.
- Outside early (10 minutes).
- Dismissal.
August 23rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- DEAR (Drop Everything and Read).
- Centres (free play).
- Discussion about behaviour, expectations.
- Creating their own name tags for their desks.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Finished working on their name tags.
- Read a story (I Want My Hat Back). Ask you child about the plot twist at the end...
- Clean up.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Binder and Desk Set Up.
- Math - Students did about 4 pages of Math (Number Sense - understanding that 2 = two = . .
- Clean up again.
- Dismissal with planners and permission forms.
June 11th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- All Day Play.
- Science - Students made Ice Cream in a bag.
- Recess.
- Year-End Celebration - Over the P.A.
- ADST/All Day Play Con't.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Snack - Walked to Coyote Video to get slushies for students. My treat.
- Clean out desk.
- All Day Play Con't.
- Clean up.
- Report Cards, Gift for Students (Book of Life Lessons Learned in Grade 2).
- Dismissal (2:45).
- Grade 3: August 23rd.
June 10th. 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Life Skills - Binder, cleaning desk, recycling.
- ADST - LA - Stop Motion Animation production.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- LA - ADST - Stop Motion Animation production.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Fun: Watched a Filipino fast food mascot (Joliibee) in a dance battle video.
- Math - Division. Students practiced grouping things in groups of 3, 4, and 5.
- ADST - LA - Math - Stop Motion Animation production, Minecraft Education, SumDog, and Prodigy.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal - 10 minutes early.
June 9th, 2021
- Attendance/Dally Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- LA - ADST - Stop Motion Animation film production. Ask you child about this.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading/ADST - Stop Motion Animation film production. The sequel.
- Pizza Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Division - Example: 12 apples on 3 trays. How many apples would be on each tray?
- ADST - LA - Stop Motion Animation film production & Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - 15 minutes outside and a treat.
June 8th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - ADST - Stop Motion Animation film production. Ask you children what went down. Hopefully I will be able to upload them today or Thursday to FreshGrade.
- Music.
- Recess.
- LA - ADST - Stop Motion Animation production.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - 1 hour outside at the Hickory Park.
- Math - Division - Example 12 divided by 2 = 6.
- LA - ADST - Stop Motion Animation, Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 7th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Letter to the Grade 3 Teacher: Students wrote a letter to their future Grade 3 teacher. In it, they had to introduce themselves, say their age, and list at least 4 things about them their new teacher should know for the following school year in August.
- Art - Students were asked to work on a picture for our class book that may or may not be published by Friday (Life Lessons Learned in Grade 2).
- Life Skills - Clean desks.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Test - Fractions and Multiplication. 9 questions.
- ADST - Minecraft Education & some stop motion animation for some eager students.
- Clean up.
- Discussion about behaviour in the last week of school (imploring students to keep it together until Friday when they leave school until August).
- Dismissal - Early outside by 15 minutes to enjoy a bit of sun.
June 4th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension - Stories 15, 16 and Review of 11 - 16. Students worked in groups through their latest reading comprehension stories.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Multiplying: Example: students were given 3 x 2 and had to figure out that 2 groups of 3 (3 + 3), and 3 groups of 2 (2 + 2 + 2) = 6 through their skip counting skills.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Coding, Design Challenges, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Science - Slime bubbles (ask your child what this was).
- LA - Story: After the Fall. Students were read the book After the Fall, which is about Humpty Dumpty finding the courage and strength to climb that wall again and be himself despite an accident that left him cracked and scared.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
June 3rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Core Competencies & LA - Self-Reflection on Core Competencies - Social Responsibility: The students finished off their Social Responsibility workbook that will be sent home with the report cards. I encourage you to sit down with your child over the summer and go over the pages as this is how your child assessed their social responsibility skills in school, and their own goals to improve over time.
- Snack.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Multiplication - Students were shown questions to do with multiplication, like 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = ____ x 2 (there are 4 groups of 2, so it'd be 4 x 2). Students also learned how skip counting is like multiplication (5 x 3 = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15; and 3 x 5 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15).
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding, Building/Design, and Chemistry.
- Social Studies - Mapping Skills - Students were given two maps, both with a key and had to figure out the answer to the questions about direction (e.g. East vs. West; North vs. South, around/within, etc...).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (10 minutes outside).
June 2nd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Guidance/Life Skills - Putting away thing properly (hopefully) in students' own binders.
- LA - Reading Comprehension - Students finished the most recent Reading Comprehension booklet (Story #s 12 - 15).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Kickball outside. Boys vs. Girls.
- Math - Fractions - more than a whole - Example: Students were shown a picture of two pizzas. Both were cut into 5ths. One whole pizza was completely shaded, the other had only 3 portions/slices shaded. Students then had to write 1 and 3/5th of pizza.
- ADST - Minecraft Education.
- Guidance - Life Skills - Discussion about playing nice with each other and the importance of walking away and not making the situation worse.
- Social Studies - Mapping Skills - Following a key or legend to find out scale, population, locations of sites, and important information.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal - 15 minutes outside early.
June 1st, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- LA - Reading Comprehension.
- Snack.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- Math - Fractions (smaller or bigger) e.g. 1/3 is _______ (smaller/bigger) than 1/10. Students saw two measuring cups of the same size, one divided into 3rds and the other into 10th. While the 10th have more lines, they lines/divisions are smaller than the thirds.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Design, Chemistry, and Coding.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Early dismissal outside to enjoy some somewhat decent weather.
May 28th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA + Core Competencies - Students began to fill out a Self-Reflection on Social Responsibility that will be included with their report cards. Students reflected on questions, answered honestly (hopefully), and wrote down one goal to work towards moving forward into the next school year.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Free time in gym.
- Math - Comparing Fractions. Students were shown pictures of either pies, or 'cakes' (squares that were then cut into equal rectangles) and had to shade 1/2 vs. 1/3 and tell which is more.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding, Design, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 27th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- LA - Reading Comprehension: Stories 7, 8, and 9. Half the students finished all three stories, the other half will finish it tomorrow.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Capture the Flag (Outside).
- Math - Fractions - students were introduced to fractions (half, thirds, fourths, and fifths). Students completed 3 worksheets on their own after a 20 minute lesson.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Coding, Chemistry, and Design.
- Social Studies - Cardinal Directions (N,E,S,W) and map orienteering (2 pages).
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - 15 minutes outside early to play and enjoy some reasonable weather.
May 26th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Desk Move - Students that were quiet today were able to move their desks by their friends if they wish. See expectations below under Desk Move, May 25th for more information.
- Binder Organization - Students were handed back their LA and Math sheets. They hopefully put them in the correct spot. I'm sure you'll find out on June 12th...Let me know how that goes...or not.
- LA - 3 Reading Comprehension Stories - Stories 5, 6 and Review of 1 - 6 questions. Students worked in groups to complete this activity.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Capture the Flag (outside).
- Math - SumDog - Students logged into the SumDog Math app for about 20 - 30 minutes of Numeracy work.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Coding, Design, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Social Studies - Kahoot! Quiz on Grade 2 Social Studies Knowledge (e.g. Where do koalas live? A: Australia; B: Canada; Europe; China).
- Early Dismissal - 15 minutes outside playing soccer and grounders.
May 25th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Desk Move - Students who were sitting in their own desk (in their own chair) this morning without being reminded that that has been the expectation these last 9 months of school, got to move their desks and sit by their friends (provided that they: listen when a teacher is talking or giving instruction, help each other out if they can, and be nice to each other - if not, they get strikes, 3 strikes gets them moved away from their friends for 2 days plus iPad/Computers privileges lost for those days. Students who did not get to move their desks will get a chance tomorrow provided that they can sit in their own desk in their own chair without being reminded that for the past 9 months, the expectation is exactly this: come in, wash your hands, sit at your desk, and whisper talk until announcements come on.
- LA - Reading Comprehension Stories # 3 and 4. Students read two stories and then answered multiple choice questions based on the events of the story.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading & Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- Math - Skip Counting to Add on: Example: Count by 10s starting at 5:
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding, Design, and Chemistry.
- Math - SumDog app introduction. Students helped my sign in and play a Math app that is similar to Prodigy. We will be working on this tomorrow during our Math time.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Dismissal.
May 21st, 2021
10 20 30 40 50 75 75 Cents.
live/lives
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Reading Comprehension Workbook - Story 1 and 2. We read the first one today together, then answered the questions as a class. This was done so students know how to answer those types of questions. The students read and answered Story 2 on the own (or in group with a teacher) and answered the comprehension questions as best they could.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - T-Ball Skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Money Counting - Skip Counting and Adding on: Students were shown pictures of coins, or circles with a monetary value in them and had to add the them up. Example:
10 20 30 40 50 75 75 Cents.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Coding, Design, and Chemistry.
- LA - Kahoot! Quiz on Subject Verb Agreement. Example:
live/lives
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 20th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Story - The Chicken Thief. A wordless story, that allowed students to use their inference skills.
- Life Skills - Clean out desks, shelves, etc...
- Music - Music Games.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Baseball Skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Grouping numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones (e.g. 253 is 2 hundreds, 5 tens, and 3 ones).
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding, Chemistry, and Design.
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Points Talk. Students found out where they are at in terms of prizes and awards.
- LA - Fox and Hen Together. Another wordless story, that allowed students to use their inference skills again.
- Early Dismissal - 15 minutes outside.
May 19th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Life Skills - Hand back work. Hopefully students put their work in the correct spots. I guess you'll find out over the summer!
- LA - Reading Comprehension - Main Ideas and Setting, Characters, Cause and Effect and Genres. Students were given two sheets. One sheet had two paragraphs - one about kittens, and another paragraph about puppies. Students had to read the paragraphs and tell what the main idea of the paragraph was. Then, students read the an abridged story of the boy who cried wolf, and had to write the setting, the main characters, cause and effect, and what genre it was. Then, we read a bit of the book Cool Down and Work Through your Anger by Cheri J. Meiners, M. Ed.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Extended Recess - Instead of Guided Reading, we walked to the park at the end of Wann road and played there for about 35 minutes. We then walked back.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Math - Directions - Above, Below, Left, Right, Centre. Students had to complete a sheet where they had to colour or circle the shapes that were either above, below, left, right, or in the centre.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Coding, Building, Design, and Chemistry.
- LA & Guidance - We finished Cool Down and Work Through your Anger.
- Bonus Recess - Outside early to play for 25 minutes.
- Dismissal.
May 18th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres - and Slime Making for those that wanted to make it.
- LA - The Little Prince, Chapters 8 and 9.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - 2D to 3D shapes.
- ADST - Minecraft Education coding, design, and chemistry.
- Science - Kahoot! Quiz on the Life Cycle of Mayflies. Students watched a 1 minute video and then answered multiple choice questions on the iPad via the Kahoot! app.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Dismissal.
May 17th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Danny Fox - Chapter 6 (I think).
- LA - Journal on One of My Favourite Vacations was..... Students had to write who they went with, and at least three things they did there.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Kickball with 4 bases - indoors.
- Math - Prisms vs. Pyramids.
- ADST - Minecraft Education, Coding, and Chemistry.
- Science - Kahoots! Quiz on Math and Metamorphic vs. Non-metamorphic life cycles.
- LA - Frog and Toad story: The Surprise.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (12 minutes early outside).
May 13th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Danny Fox (Book 2) - Chapter 4.
- Life Skills - Students had work handed back to them and they put them (hopefully) in the right spot in their binder.
- Snack.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Kickball skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting Patterns.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - Group Builds, Coding, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - Play outside.
May 11th, 2021
9 8 7 6 5 4 Shrinking.
+2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 Repeating.
11 10 9 8 7 6 Shrinking.
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Danny Fox (Book 2) - Chapter 2.
- LA - Pen Pal Letter Reading. Students read their Christ the King's pen pal's letters and started to think about how to answer them for tomorrow.
- Music.
- Recess
- Guided Reading & Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting Patterns - Is it Growing, Shrinking, or Repeating?
9 8 7 6 5 4 Shrinking.
+2 +2 +2 +2 +2 +2 Repeating.
11 10 9 8 7 6 Shrinking.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Design, Chemistry, and Coding.
- Science - Metamorphic vs. Non-Metamorophic Life Cycles.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside - Capture the Flag.
- Dismissal.
May 10th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- LA - Danny Fox (Book 2) - Chapter 1.
- LA - Weekend Journal Writing.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Soccer Outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Quiz on Adding and Subtracting Patterns.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding, Chemistry, and Design.
- Science - Kahoot! Quiz (practice). Tomorrow (hopefully) we will do an actual Kahoot quiz on Science.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 7th, 2021
+2 +2 +2 +2
5 7 9 11 13
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Spring DART (Reading Comprehension Test) - Students read a short book about animals who travel. Then they had to write or draw about what they learned.
- Art - Mother's Day Cards.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside - Intermediate side.
- DEAR/Art (time to finish up Mother's Day Cards if they were not done).
- Math - Adding and Subtracting Following Patterns - Example:
+2 +2 +2 +2
5 7 9 11 13
- ADST/Art - Minecraft Coding, Chemistry, and Design. Students were given even more time to finish their cards. Some students chose not to do them because "My dad already bought a card".
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
May 6th, 2021
3 7 11 ?
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- LA - Students finished off their "School Wide Write/All School Write". The theme was: "If I were a Super Hero (or a Super Villain), my powers would be...". Students had to come up with at least two superpowers, what they use them for, what their costume colours would be, and name. Students then drew artwork to match their picture. Students who were done were able to do some fun Mad Libs.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading & Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR - 10 minutes.
- Math - Finding the pattern through adding or subtracting: Students were give numbers like:
3 7 11 ?
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology): Minecraft Education coding, design, and chemistry.
- Clean up.
- LA - DARTs Test Talk: Students tomorrow will be writing the Spring DARTS. They will be given a book to read and answer some questions. Today, I introduced the activity we will be doing tomorrow.
- LA - I read Chapter 6 of The Little Prince, in which we find out that one day, The Little Prince watched 44 sunsets in one day.
- Science - Discussion about gravitational forces, the earth spinning, sun rotation, black holes, space and time (students asked many, many, many, many questions about the why The Little Prince wouldn't fall off his tiny planet...).
- Early Dismissal (20 minutes outside).
May 4th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Prayer.
- LA - Mad Libs practice.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading & Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- Math - adding with patterns: 6 --> 9 (+3), 9 -->12 (+3), 12 --> 15 (?)
- ADST - Minecraft Education, Coding, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Lock Down Drill.
- P.E. - Outside early for playing.
- Dismissal.
May 3rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Prayer.
- Guidance/Life Skills - Hand back and put things back in binder (hopefully in the correct spot).
- LA - Chapter 5 of The Little Prince.
- LA - ClassDojo Conundrum - The Lake Returns. Ask your children what happened in this conundrum. You can also search "ClassDojo Conundrum, the lake returns" in YouTube and it should come up.
- LA - Mad Libs example for tomorrow.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton skills with net and birdie.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding and Estimating (e.g. is 38 closer to 30 or to 40? Why?)
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Design and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- LA - This Book is Red.
- Dismissal.
April 29th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Prayer.
- LA - Is A Worry Worrying You? Another story about worrying and what you can do in order to mitigate the worry.
- Guidance/Health/Safety - Lock Down Drill practice.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack & Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills.
- Math - Subtraction Regrouping Test.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Guidance/Health/Safety - Lock Down Drill practice (again).
- Dismissal.
April 28th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - The Black Dog - In this story, the family is worried by a black dog (aka some unknown fear, anxiety, or worry). For a while, they do ignore it. They avoid it. They even pretend to hid from it. Yet, it still grows bigger. It is the youngest of the family that finds the strength to confront it and try to understand it. Students then created artwork based on the story.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- LA - Spelling Bee - All students were encouraged to participate in the first round of Heats. All students seem to try their best and use some of their skills to sound out words.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 27th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA/Social Studies/Guidance/Core Competencies - ClassDojo Conundrum #13: The Lake Conundrum. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcnAehFwR4. Students then debated why they chose who they chose.
- LA - The Little Prince - Chapter 5, in where our narrator finds out that The Little Prince is, in fact, from an astroid.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack/Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Quiz on Regrouping with Subtraction and when not to Regroup with Subtraction.
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside and early Dismissal.
April 26th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Last 25 minutes of The Iron Giant movie. The students then wrote what one of their favourite parts in the movie was, and drew a picture of it.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- DEAR.
- Math Quiz - 21 questions on when to regroup in subtracting, and when to simply subtract without borrowing (regrouping).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- LA - Chapter 2 and 3 of The Little Prince - in which our narrator recounts how he comes to meet The Little Prince.
- Early Dismissal (10 minutes outside).
April 23rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer.
- Expectations of "All-Day Play". The key learning outcome is 'solve your own problems peacefully'. For the most part, it worked. So it turns out that students can solve most of their own problems on their own in a peaceful way...hmmm.
- Guidance/Life Skills - Work handed back to students, and student put it in their binder. Hopefully in the correct spot.
- All-Day Play starts.
- Clean up + Snack.
- LA - Students listened to the first chapter of The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exuprey.
- Recess.
- Park-Play - Students and teachers walked down to to the end of Wann Rd to play at the park for 40 minutes.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills (with birdies).
- DEAR.
- Movie + Popcorn - The Iron Giant. There are about 20 minutes left that we will see on Monday if we get all our work done.
- Clean up. So much popcorn to clean up.
- Library.
- Early Dismissal.
April 22nd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Prayer.
- Guidance/Life Skills - Cleaning Desk. Deciding what to keep and what to recycle. Throwing away gross used masked that have been piling up in our desks (ewww...).
- Music - Rhythm Work with sticks.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading + Snack.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtraction with Regrouping - deciding whether to re-group (or borrow) or not. 24 questions.
- ADST - Minecraft Education design.
- Religion - New Life Celebration (Virtual) - Students watched the two Kindergartens' PowerPoint presentation of the New Life (Easter) Celebration.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (outside 10 minutes early).
April 21st, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Jory John's The Couch Potato. Students heard the story, then drew two detailed pictures, one of them being a lazy couch potato, and other is something they enjoy doing outside (e.g. riding a bike, sun tanning, swimming, camping, etc...).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - No hike today. Too wet.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Dene Games Outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtraction with re-grouping (borrowing). See April 19th for example.
- ADST - Minecraft Education Chemistry and Coding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 19th, 2021
- 36 --> 3 tens and 6 ones
59 5 tens and 9 ones
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayers.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We finished the final chapter.
- LA - Journal - Students had three options to write about today. They were: Three things you did on the weekend; Three things you like about Spring; and Three things they remember or liked about the novella Iron Man.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton skills.
- Math - Subtraction with re-grouping (borrowing). Students looked at the one digit and determined that if the top 'ones column' was smaller that the bottom 'ones column', they needed to re-group (or borrow a ten) and add that the ten to the ones. Example:
- 36 --> 3 tens and 6 ones
59 5 tens and 9 ones
- ADST - Minecraft Education Design, Coding, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (10 minutes outside in the gorgeous sunshine).
April 16th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- GoNoodle.
- Guidance & Skills - Handing back work to students. Hopefully students put their stuff away properly. I guess we'll see on the last day of school when the binder comes home!
- LA - The Iron Man - Chapter 4 and part of Chapter 5.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Badminton Skills.
- DEAR.
- Math/ADST - Students finished their Math sheets; then were given a bit of time on Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
April 15th, 2021
21
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Recess Queen Story.
- Art - Art based on story and friendship.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading (and snack).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting Using Ones and Tens: Students saw two numbers stacked on top of each other. They the subtracted the ones first, then the tens. Example: 34
21
- ADST - Students did Minecraft Education for 30 minutes. Some students tried the Minecraft Chemistry Lab expansion to create compounds.
- Clean up.
- LA - The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. (A bit more of Chapter 4). Time was taken up by discussing whether a nuclear bomb would be a solution to the Space-Dragon problem. Some students began asking about nuclear explosions, why we have nuclear weapons, how they work, etc...
- Dismissal.
April 14th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Chapter 3 and a bit of Chapter 4 of Ted Hughes' The Iron Man.
- LA - Madlibs with Grade 2 Spelling Bee Words: Students completed a madlibs using the Grade 2 spelling bee words (even if they are NOT doing the spelling bee). The students learned how to fill out a madlibs and remembered what a noun, verb, and adjective were. Students took their madlibs home. Check your child's backpack for a yellow sheet for information on the spelling bee and today's madlibs.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. (Outside).
- DEAR.
- Math - Which One Doesn't Belong + MoneyPrep. In Which One Doesn't Belong, the teacher showed a picture of four shapes and the students had to explain which one didn't belong and why (like a conundrum, there is no right answer). See picture below of an example:
- ADST/Science - Minecraft Chemistry. The teacher taught some students how to make ice bombs and students showed me that if they pour water on chickens, then shoot an ice bomb at them, they become frozen chickens. Pretty cool! And funny!
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 13th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Chapter 2 of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes.
- LA - ClassDojo Conundrum #11: The Airport Conundrum. If you are interested in these, check out the one we did today on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGnunFDoMZ4&list=PLuFbAbF1wG8RtNp23YyWClhWLyCNs7zdN&index=7.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting Mentally: Example: 43 - 3 = ?
- ADST/Coding/Science - Minecraft Education + Minecraft Education Chemistry Lab
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Dismissal.
April 12th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - ClassDojo Conundrum #10 - The Alien Conundrum: An astronomer decodes a message from space in response to his message of "Hello? Is anyone out there?". The answer the astronomer gets decodes "Yes, we are out here. We would like to visit. Where can we find you astronomer?". The astronomer is faced with a conundrum. They a) can answer, knowing that it will take a few light years to reach them, or b) not respond. We listed both pros and cons of doing both. At the end, students needed to decide and justify what they would do if they were the astronomer and why.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Voting was taking place in the gym, so students did GoNoodle in the library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting Strategies - noticing that 6 - 1; 7 - 2; and 8 - 3 all equal 5 (because the 'jumps back' on the number line are the same amount of spaces); and subtracting 9 by using 10 (e.g. 13 - 9 is the same as saying 14 - 10, so if we 'add' one number to the nine to make it 10, we need to add one number to the other one too. We can also subtract by counting up from the smallest number in the subtraction sentence to the largest one (e.g. 8 - 5 can be seen as 5, ,6,7,8 which would be three (3) 'spaces' on the number line.
- ADST/Science - Minecraft design and Chemistry (some of us made ice bombs using two carbons, three hydrogens, sodium (Na) and two oxygens).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 8th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance/Life Skills - Marked and corrected work handed back and put (hopefully) properly in the students' binders.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack & Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Dene Games with a student teacher and Mr. Morrison.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding with regrouping (carrying the tens to the tens column).
- ADST - Minecraft Coding, and Chemistry.
- Clean up.
- LA - Chapter 1 of The Iron Man (by Ted Hughes).
- Dismissal.
April 7th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- LA - Danny Fox - Chapter 10.
- Art - Danny Fox - draw a scene from Chapter 10.
- Clean up.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding with re-grouping (carrying tens from the ones column to the tens column.
- ADST - Minecraft Education coding - 25 minutes.
- Art - Students worked on Art for Mr. Kim.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (5 minutes early).
April 6th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA/Communication/Thinking/Personal/Social - ClassDojo Conundrum #9 - The Flying Bicycle.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding with re-grouping (tens with tens, ones with ones).
- ADST - Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Library.
April 1st, 2021
+ 26
4 | 14
Students see that they have '14' in the ones column. They need to take that 1 group of 10 from 14 and place it with the 4 tens, there for becoming '5'.
28
+ 26
4 | 14
54
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Science (impromptu) - Our actual brain size, how we are mostly water, and how headache can be from dehydration. Also covered was we need to keep our desks clean at the end of the day - if there anything on them, that desk doesn't get cleaned. Also, taking home water bottles and throwing away plastic cups as the custodians spray chemicals in the classroom at night and some might fall in the cup, and you could ingest it.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres (10 minutes).
- Prayer.
- LA/Core Competencies - Communication, Thinking, and Personal/Social - ClassDojo Conundrum #8 The Dinosaur Conundrum. Students debated about what to do with the discovery of a new species of dinosaur bones. Ask you child what the conundrum was, and what the options were, and what they chose and why. It was really interesting.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - adding by regrouping - Students were given two numbers and had to add the ones first and then the tens, and then put them together. The trick was to regroup when they needed to. Example:
+ 26
4 | 14
Students see that they have '14' in the ones column. They need to take that 1 group of 10 from 14 and place it with the 4 tens, there for becoming '5'.
28
+ 26
4 | 14
54
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft Education designing.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 29th, 2021
Tens | Ones
5 | 3
4 | 13
3 | 23
2 | 33
1 | 43
0 | 53
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- NO Centres - Students were to noisy on the last day before Spring Break, so we lost our Centres time.
- LA - Danny Fox - Chapter 7 - The Fisherman Tricks Danny. Ask your child how...
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA/Guidance/Personal-Social Communication - ClassDojo The Martian Conundrum.
- LA - Journal - Spring Break - At least 3 things they did during Spring Break. With a picture. Oh, and it has to be coloured.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- 2nd Home Reading Book Exchange Oppportunity.
- Math - Students began learning different ways of making a number by taking a group of ten from the tens group and exchanging it for a group of 10 ones (the TOTAL value stays the same, but the numbers added are different). Example:
Tens | Ones
5 | 3
4 | 13
3 | 23
2 | 33
1 | 43
0 | 53
- Clean up.
- Art - Mario Art as a gift for Mr. Kim.
March 12th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Danny Fox - Chapter 4 and 5.
- Life Skills - Clean up desk and classroom for Spring Break.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 30 minutes Prodigy.
- ADST - Minecraft Education - 15 minutes.
- Checklist Handout, Spelling Bee information (OPTIONAL).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 11th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- LA - Danny Fox - Chapter 4.
- Life Skills - Putting things away in binders.
- Music - Great lesson with 'Boom Whackers'.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- DEAR + Chips Snack.
- Math - Students played their own Math Games that Ms. Forrest and the students created.
- ADST - Coding in Minecraft (25 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 10th, 2021
+ 50 vs. 40 + 50 =
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Guidance - Discussion about carrying over 3 strikes throughout the week (erasing on Friday or after privilages lost).
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA/Personal/Social Learning - Class Dojo Conundrum #5: The Pizza Conundrum.
- LA - Danny Fox - One chapter.
- LA - Fundations Spelling Sentences - Suffixes -es; -est; -er; -ed; -ing. Example: I think Rick is the fastest in the class.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science/Health - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see.
- VeggieTales - Are you My Neighbour (finished the movie...12 minutes).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding ones and tens on top of each other (stacked up instead of left to right). Example:
+ 50 vs. 40 + 50 =
- ADST - Minecraft building 15 minutes.
- Art - Some students began drawing Mario. Other did other art while we were doing that. We will continue later tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 9th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Guidance - Rules about 3 strikes, expected behaviours, etc...
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Art - Art Kids Hub - Stitch (from Lilo and Stitch).
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding from 10 up...Example 9 + 3 can be seen as 9 + 1 (10), + 2 = 12. (Our brains like to add up ones from ten because it quicker than thinking 9, 10, 11, 12).
- ADST - Once students were done the three math sheets, they had a few minutes on Minecraft Education (12 minutes).
- Clean up.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Dismissal.
March 8th, 2021
10 = 2 +
10 = 3 +
10 = 4 +
10 = 5 +
Students were also given a number had to 'decompose it' (or break it down into 10s and 1s). Example. 43 = 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Danny Fox - Mrs. Spencer read a bit more of Danny Fox.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Stretching/Chin Up.
- LA - Class Dojo Conundrum #4 - The Chocolate Conundrum. Students heard the 1 minute conundrum and had to write down what 'team' were they on and why (reason).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding (What Makes 10...). Students were given numbers and had to follow the pattern. Example:
10 = 2 +
10 = 3 +
10 = 4 +
10 = 5 +
Students were also given a number had to 'decompose it' (or break it down into 10s and 1s). Example. 43 = 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - When students were finished their Math (and it was marked/corrected), they were give an few minutes to work on their projects.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (Early by 5 minutes).
March 4th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Health Talk - Hand Washing. Some students are lying about washing hands before sitting down to start the day. The expectation is that come in, wash their hands and sit down and talk quietly at their table.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Class Dojo Conundrum #2 - The Treasure Conundrum. Ask your child what that conundrum was and how they answered (and justified their answer).
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Odd vs. Even Numbers.
- ADST - 20 minutes Minecraft Education - Joining Worlds (friends joining their friend's world to help build).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 3rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Guidance - Class Dojo - Conundrum #1 - the Blue Comet. Ask your child what a conundrum is and what the the blue comet conundrum question was.
- LA - Finish off our 3rd Pen Pal Letter and took pictures of our us with our Minecraft Education creations to send to our Pen Pals (and to post in FreshGrade this weekend hopefully).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see. Everyone was pretty good on the hike and the weather was great, so that helped.
- Religion - Watched a bit of the VeggieTales movie Are you My Neighbor? A Lesson in Loving Your Neighbor.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Indoor Floor Hockey.
- Math - Lesson in Estimating and skip counting by 5s, 10s, and rounding up or down (if a number ends in zero to 4 the nearest ten is the down; 5 to 9, you round up).
- ADST - Minecraft Education (15 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Art/Religion - Students began colouring a sheet with the 14 stations of the cross to make into a mini-booklet to take home and share.
- Dismissal.
March 2nd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Finishing off our 3rd Pen Pal letter and envelopes.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Measuring Mass in groups with scales and comparing them to building blocks and paperclips.
- ADST - 15 minutes Minecraft Education.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 1st, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Most students finished their 3rd Pen Pal Letter, and read it. This video will be uploaded to your child's FreshGrade portfolio this week hopefully (or next week at the latest). Students where done their letter and the reading got an iPad for about 15 minutes.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students estimated the mass of different objects.
- Clean up.
- Art - Some students followed instruction on how to make a Flaming Mallow (a marshmallow sitting in a mug of hot chocolate, on fire, all toasty warm.
- Clean up (again).
- Dismissal (10 minutes early outside).
February 25th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - A interactive mini-lesson on 'Making Comments During a Conversation' (a.k.a: staying on topic).
- LA - Pen Pal Write. Most students got almost all the their work done. Once they were done, they had a few minutes on Minecraft Education.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. (indoors) - GoNoodle.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students 'weighed' mass mentally. Students were show a picture of a balancing scale with, for example, a strawberry and some Lego bricks. They had to decide (and justify) which one would weigh more in real life.
- ADST - (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) Minecraft Education - Students were given about 25 minutes on Minecraft to practice coding, building, and farming.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (5 minutes early).
February 24th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - A interactive mini-lesson on 'Its Too Loud!' (which my class most assuredly is).
- LA - We began writing our letters to our Pen Pals at Christ the King. Some students were able to get done, others will finish it off tomorrow and on Monday.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek to 'see what we can see'. Students, for the most part, were fantastic.
- Religion - Finished off VeggieTales Movie from last week.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- DEAR/Art.
- Rendezvous Activities - Stations Outside. Grade 2 started on Dodgeball (in the snow), then went to sled races. We then had our turn at the Sugar Shack. From there we did Hockey, then Tug of War and 'egg races'. We then played on the intermediate side for about 15 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Art/Movie (10 minutes) - VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbor? A Lesson in Loving Your Neighbor (based on the Good Samaritan).
- Dismissal (10 minutes early).
February 23rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - An interactive mini-lesson on Personal Space.
- LA - Students read their third pen pal letter from the Grade 2 group at Christ the King. Tomorrow, hopefully, we will begin to write our replies.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Mass as a form of measurement - Students were asked simple questions like what is heavier, a book or a pencil? How do you know? Once students completed their three pages, they then were able to do Prodigy or Minecraft for Education.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft coding/terraforming/building.
- Art - Students who were working on their Mandalorian drawing were able to finish it off (and in some cases begin to colour it).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 22nd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange Opportunity.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote a journal on what they liked about All Day Play Day, what they learned, and what they would change. When students were done, their options were to read, or do art.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Student learned how to measure (starting on the cm side, and starting at zero), and how to relate it to their fingers (e.g. your two fingertips together are between 1 and 2 cm - and you can use that to measure small things). Also, students learned when to use metres or centimetres for measuring.
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - Minecraft (20 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Art - Some students chose to draw the Mandolorian while others chose to draw something else or read quietly at their desk.
- Dismissal.
February 19th, 2021
- Attendance.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Expectations for All Day Play - Students came up with a list of expectations of how All Day Play will look like, sound like, and what can they do (safety being key).
- All Day Play Day Start.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- All Day Play Continued.
- Clean up.
- VeggieTales - Sumo of the Opera - A Lesson in Perseverance + 1st bag of Popcorn.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR - 15 minutes silent reading or art at their own desk.
- All Day Play Day - Minecraft for Education - Ask your child what they built and ask them if they helped others learn new skills. I taught some students coding within Minecraft for Education.
- Clean up.
- 2nd bag of Popcorn for home.
- Dismissal.
February 18th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - 3 Strike Rule Discussion, Choices Discussion, and All Day Play Discussion.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued measuring things in centimetres.
- ADST - Applied Design, Skills, and Technology - Minecraft for Education - house building and coding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 17th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- LA - Sentences (see yesterday's No Excuse Words).
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Snack.
- Recess (outside).
- Guided Reading (no hike).
- Lunch.
- Recess (outside).
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Measuring by centimetres.
- Ash Wednesday Celebration (in class - Covid edition).
- Clean up.
- Art - Door Decorating for Rendezvous.
- Clean up again.
- Dismissal.
February 16th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Writing 'No Excuse Words' - Students came up with sentences that had the words who, would, and which.
- Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Breakfast.
- Music.
- Recess - 10 minutes outside.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess - 10 minutes outside.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Measuring by different units (students used a paper clip and some building blocks to measure their pencil). Students then did two pages of Math. Then 15 minutes of Prodigy. Then about 15 minutes of Minecraft.
- Clean up.
- Valentines (the sequel) - a few students forgot their Valentine's Day cards and treats so they handed it out today.
- Library.
- Dimissal.
February 15th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations sentences (using ild; ind; olt; old; ost). Students wrote 4 sentences.
- Art - Valentine's Day mailbox.
- Snack.
- Recess - indoors.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess - 10 minutes outside.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - We began our measurement unit today. We are focusing on using other things to measure (e.g. paper clips; playing cards; hands).
- Clean up.
- Valentine's Day Card Hand Out.
- Clean up (again).
- Dismissal.
February 11th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations: lesson on the five exceptions of glued sounds (ild, ind, olt, old, and ost). Students spelled 3 sentences using those words (dictated).
- Snack.
- Recess (indoors).
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess (indoors) - VeggieTales movie.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their Math work from yesterday (or if they didn't finish it yesterday because they were absent). Others had time on Prodigy.
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - Minecraft Education. Students logged in for the first time. They explored their environment for a bit.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 10th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations lesson on the five exceptions of glued sounds with long vowels instead of short vowel sounds (e.g. ild (wild); ind (find); olt (colt); old (cold); and ost (post)).
- Snack.
- Recess/Art - indoor recess. Students could do art or read.
- Guided Reading (weekly hike cancelled again).
- Lunch.
- Recess - one lap around the school.
- Art/Reading.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - filling in missing numbers in hundreds charts.
- Art - https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ - artificial intelligence tries to guess what you are drawing. Students finished their Baby Yoda, Art contest entries, or created new artwork.
- Clean up.
- Dimissal.
February 9th, 2021
3 + 7 = 10 + 2 = 12
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Fundations lesson review on digraphs and bonus letters.
- Clean up.
- Music.
- Snack.
- Recess (indoors) + Art (students created artwork on what they are thankful for - winners will get an art prize pack and $30 to a charity of their choice).
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess (indoors) + Art (see above art write up).
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were given three numbers to add. They then had to find the two numbers that add up to 10, then mentally add up the last number. Example:
3 + 7 = 10 + 2 = 12
- Clean up.
- Art - Students were given time to work on their baby Yoda picture.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 8th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Journal - One thing I want to better at school is....because....I think the way I can get better at ______ is by _________.
- Snack.
- Recess - one lap around the school.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess (inside).
- P.E. - Dodgeball.
- DEAR.
- Math - Mentally adding and subtracting 10s, 1s (e.g. 47 + 10 = ?7).
- Social Studies/Science - Students looked at landforms across Canada, and used the clues to help up figure what what is going in the picture (e.g. snow on the mountain is because it is very tall mountain and the air is colder up there so the snow might not melt as quickly). We also looked at a few minutes of the new 4K Curiosity Rover on Mars.
- Art - Students began drawing baby Yoda (Grogu).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 3rd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Prayer - Students were introduced to the Net Group (a Catholic Youth Evangelical group). We prayed the Our Father with them and we played some quick games with them and Father Leo.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres - Cut short because of loudness.
- LA - TPS (Think Pair Share) - Students were put into groups of 2 and were to ask their partner what they liked about school (and why); what they don't like so much about school (and why); and what they would change about school. They were to then retell the class what their partner said (not what they said). The focus was on listening to the other person rather than just waiting for your turn to talk. Then, after the sharing part, they went and wrote a journal entry based on what their personal answers were. If there was time, they drew art to accompany their writing.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students finished up their writing from this morning. Then, read Epic! and read with other groups.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their Math booklet on adding and subtracting 10. Students focused on how when you add or subtract 10, the ones digit stays the same and the tens digit changes (goes up or down by 1). Once students were done, they were given some time on Prodigy Math. 5 minutes were free time.
- Clean up.
- Art - Students began drawing a Pokemon Surprise Ball. Tomorrow we will colour it (hopefully).
- Dismissal.
February 2nd, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - The Good Egg (one of my favourite books).
- Life Skills - Clean Desk. Help others clean.
- Music.
- Recess (10 minutes outside).
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess (10 minutes outside).
- Art (15 minutes).
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Learning that when adding 10 to a number, the ones digit stays the same and the tens digit goes up by one (e.g. 11 + 10 = 21).
- Home Reading Prizes.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 29th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Comic Book Writing - Students continued to work on their comics.
- Snack & Science - Students learned about the first flying car in production (the T-FX). For more info, see: https://terrafugia.com/who-we-are/tf-x/
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 100s Day Froot Loop necklaces - students had to make 10 groups of 10 (or 20 groups 5) Froot Loops and make a necklace with it.
- Clean up.
- Prodigy Math.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 28th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students continued to work on their comic books.
- Music.
- Recess & Snack (INDOORS).
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess - Indoors.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued to make number sentences (e.g. 9 + 2 = 11; ____ - 2 = 9).
- Social Studies - Google Earth Lesson with landforms around the world.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 27th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Comic Book Writing. Students started their own comic books.
- Snack.
- Recess - one lap around the school.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess - 10 minutes outside play.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - How Many Fewer? Students were given a few pages that questions like: Kim has 3 more triangles than Sam. How many fewer triangles does Sam have?, and 3 + 2 = ____ so ___ - 2 = 3 (the answer would be 5).
- Social Studies - Landforms in Canada - Students were shown pictures of parts of Canada and had to explain what they see and what they think (e.g. what season is it? What kind of water do you think is in picture, fresh water or sea water?).
- Guidance - We finished VeggieTales - Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush - A Lesson in Dealing with Bullies.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 26th, 2021
Jack has 9 shells.
How many fewer shells does Jack have? 17 - 9 = 8.
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Pen Pal writing - Finishing up all writing, art, addressed envelopes, and recording a video of them reading it to upload to FreshGrade.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students did one page on subtracting. They were given questions like:
Jack has 9 shells.
How many fewer shells does Jack have? 17 - 9 = 8.
- Prodigy Math.
- Home Reading Rewards.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Early Dismissal (5 minutes).
January 25th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Fresh Start Fitness.
- LA - Students worked on completing all parts of the pen pal letter project (writing, art with colour, addressed envelope, and reading on camera for Grown Ups).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - More vs. Fewer. Students were given some objects (circles and triangles) and had to tell which was more and how many more or fewer one shape was vs. the other other shape.
- Social Studies - Students were shown 3 pictures of different landforms in Canada and had to explain what they see, and what they know (e.g. there is snow in the mountains, but none on the ground, so its probably not winter and the mountain is high up as there is snow at its peak.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 22nd, 2021
9 - 2 = 7
9 - 7 = 2
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students worked on their pen pals' letter, art (with colour), and addressed envelope. If they were done all that, then we recorded them reading their letters and will (eventually) upload it to FreshGrade.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sentences - (e.g.) 7 + 2 = 9
9 - 2 = 7
9 - 7 = 2
- Farewell Party for Mr. Kim - Students ate a small bag of popcorn and watched about 15 minutes of a VeggieTales movie. The movie was Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush - A Lesson in Dealing With Bullies.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 21st, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Books Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Career Skills - handing back things and putting away things in the correct sections in their binders.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Numeric Sentences - Students were given 3 numbers and rearranged them to make them true. Example:
- 9 + 2 = 11
- 2 + 9 = 11
- 11 - 2 = 9
- 11 - 9 = 2
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 20th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Prayer - Father Leo came in for his monthly visit. We talked about Epiphany, and telling/seeking the truth and light, and then we closed with Our Father.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Fresh Start Fitness.
- LA - Students worked on their Pen Pal letters, drawings, and envelopes.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek to see what can see.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - We finished our Math booklets on Equal vs. Not Equal.
- Religion - Celebration - We watched the Grade 2 Epiphany Celebration. They did a great job. I will hopefully send a link today or tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
- Desk Move (after school...).
January 19th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students continued to work on their letter responses to their pen pals. Students who were done then drew a picture for their friend.
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- DEAR.
- Math - Equal and Not Equal - Students were given two sets of equations and had to figure out if the sum was equal or not (e.g. 12 - 11 and 5 - 4). Students who were done did Prodigy Math for about 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- P.E. - Playing outside in the snow.
- Dismissal.
January 18th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students began crafting their response letter to their pen pals.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Equal and Not Equal - Students were given equations to had to figure out if their sum was equal or not equal (e.g. 5 + 2 = 6 + 1. 5 + 2 = 7; 6 + 1 = 7).
- Social Studies - Students worked on their community maps. They were asked to take them home as we've been working on and off on them since November. Most are done, some are not. All students worked pretty hard on them. Students were also shown the community that Mr. Kim will be teaching in the NWT (Ulukhaktok).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 14th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle (Fresh Start Fitness).
- LA - Students read their Pen Pals' response letters. Then students wrote two more sentences with bonus letters (f, l, and s, that come at the END for the word, if there is a vowel before it). The two sentences were: Jeff felt the chill of the wind; and I will huff and puff up that big hill.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Basketball Skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting by Adding Up - Students learned how to add in order to subtract. Example: 45 - 38 = 7. Students think 38, and count up until they get to 45 on their fingers and write down how many fingers they hold up (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 - instead of thinking 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38) Our brains are more efficient counting up then counting down. Students who were done the two math sheets then finished their Math board game they created. If they were done that, they had some time on Prodigy Math.
- Clean up - Students were encouraged to take their water bottles home and clear off their desk (except for their name tags).
- Early Dismissal (by 5 minutes).
January 13th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centre.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote two sentences that used bonus letters (a bonus f, l, or s, is used at the end if it comes after a vowel): one was "Will still felt ill"; and the other one was "I had a glass of milk".
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science/Social Studies - Hike around Porter Creek - to see what we can see.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students added and subtracted on a number line. Prodigy for early finishers.
- Religion - Students filmed their parts for their celebrations.
- LA - Story - The Bad Seed by Jory John.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 12th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- LA - Fundations lesson: Bonus Letters f, l, and s (used only after an f, l, or s is after a vowel). Today's spelling sentence was: 'The class has a big test in math.'
- Home Reading Rewards (continued from yesterday).
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR & fun IT - Students were shown two Google experiments, Blob Opera, and Quick, Draw! sites. Ask your students what they did/saw/played with.
- Math - Adding and Subtracting on number line. Prodigy Math for those who were finished the three pages early.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 11th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Hand back assignments - Students were handed back marked and corrected work and were told to put in properly in their binders.
- LA - Fundations Spelling Sentence - Today's sentence also focused on bonus letters f, l, and s (which appear when an f, l, or s, comes after a vowel). Today's sentence was 'Bill will win at chess."
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Basketball skills (dribbling, chest pass, bounce pass).
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding '2' or '5' to a number - Students were given a number and were asked to add 2 or 5 to said number (e.g. 48 + 5 = 53 ... 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53) and seeing that we can make adding and subtracting sentences with three numbers (e.g. 5 + 3 = 8; 3 + 5 = 8; 8 - 3 = 5; 8 - 5 = 3).
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Rewards.
- Dismissal.
January 8th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations Lesson on bonus letters (f, l, s - used only when an f, l, or s follows a vowel). Students practiced spelling words on their magnet boards then wrote one sentence using bonus letters. Students were quizzed to spell the sentence "Jess got her stuff off the bed." Some students did not put the bonus letter after hearing 'stuf' and 'off' and 'Jes'. Students were given two words to spell at a time and then when they put their thumbs up, they were given the next two words (so the first part was 'Jess got'; the second part was 'Jess got her stuff'; then finally 'Jess got her stuff off the bed'. The teacher reminded them to check to see if they needed bonus letters for f, s, or l.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students added more detail to their Math board games. Students who were done had about 15 - 20 minutes on the iPad for Prodigy Math.
- Social Studies - Students tried to finish the inking of their community maps.
- Clean up - Water bottles go home, paper/plastic cups are recycled or thrown out, paper picked up and recycled or put away, and their desks are cleared off. Planners and Home Reading Books were handed out.
- Library.
- Hand out of script for January 20th, 2021 Epiphany Celebration hosted by Grade 2. Some students volunteered to read and others did not. Those that volunteered were given a part to practice over the weekend (for the most part one sentence with their name beside it).
- Dismissal.
January 7th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Fundations - Discussion about 'bonus letters'. Bonus letters are f, l, and s. Words get bonus letters when an f, an l, or an s, is followed by a vowel (its not 'tos me the ball' it is 'toss me the ball'.
- Music.
- Recess & Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Basketball skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students added more detail to their board games. When a sufficient amount of work was done, they were able to do Prodigy Math for about 15 minutes.
- Social Studies - Students inked their maps and erased pencil lines. Students who were done helped other students who were not done.
- Guidance Mini-Lesson - Discussion about not touching my own personal computer and iPad without permission.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 6th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Journal Writing: Students wrote about the best gift they every received - (it could be a non-physical gift like a trip/vacation, a pet, etc...). students were tasked with writing about what it was, what it does, how it makes them feel, and what it looks like.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science/Social Studies - Hike around Porter Creek 'to see what we can see'.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued working on their board games.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - We went outside about 15 minutes early to play in the snow.
January 5th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA & Social Studies - Students who were not completed their writing from yesterday finished it today; students who were done that worked on their Community Map (adding pen lines over top of their pencil lines; adding in more detail).
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Home Reading Points Tally.
- Math - Students began working on creating their own Math board games, starting first with the questions needed to answer correctly before rolling the dice.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 4th, 2021
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Christmas Break Journal - Students were asked to write about at least three things they did (or received) over the Christmas Break.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned the Grade 2 version of algebra - example: 2 + ___ = 7. Students were also shown how they will begin creating their own board game in Math to take home and challenge their grown ups and family members. This will be a on-going project that will take several weeks (on and off).
- Social Studies - Students continued to work on their Community Maps.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 17th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule Rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students finished recording their pen pal letter response. It was posted in FreshGrade.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned that in addition, order doesn't matter (5 + 2 = 7; 2 + 5 = 7) but in subtraction order does matter (if you have 3 things, you can't take 7 away...we don't introduce negative numbers until Grade 7/8).
- Art - Students drew a Elf on the Shelf.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (5 minutes early).
December 16th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Religion - Posadas.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Socials Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek. Tried to find the eagle's nest. Watched the light come up over the mountains while it was snowing lightly.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- LA - Students recorded their Pen Pal Letters today. Only two students are left to finish their video. I will be uploading the videos to FreshGrade tomorrow or Friday.
- Math - Prodigy Math - Place Value (the 3 in 38 means 3 tens or or 3 ones?).
- Social Studies - Students continued to work on their maps of their community.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (played outside in the snow).
December 15th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Pen Pal Letter writing - most students finished and some recorded their letters for upload to FreshGrade (hopefully on Friday).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - in the library for a short movie.
- Music - Students recorded their song for inclusion in the Christmas video.
- DEAR.
- Math - Ordering Numbers from Smallest to Largest.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
December 14th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Music - Rehearsal for recording our performance tomorrow.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Pen Pal Letter writing (most finished their letter and are working on their art).
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Ordering Numbers Greatest to Least, and Least to Greatest.
- Home Reading Prizes.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (Outside by 2:50).
December 11th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - discussion about ways of showing God's love to others. Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students ALMOST finished their pen pal letters. They worked so hard. We should finish up between Monday and Tuesday.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Classroom GoNoodle activities (The gym was being used for filming of the Christmas play).
- DEAR.
- Math - Ten Blocks and Place Value (see Dec. 10th) and Ordering Numbers (e.g. Order numbers from greatest to least - 59 62 87). Prodigy Math for 15 minutes or Math games.
- Clean up.
- Library (they were much better behaved).
- Dismissal.
December 10th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Advent and Intentions and Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Lesson in using ten blocks and ones blocks & showing how 28 is really 2 tens and 8 ones, not a 2 and a 8. Prodigy Math for people who finished their worksheets (a new island opened up in Prodigy today, so students were excited to play that).
- Music - Students practiced one more time today their parts for the Christmas video.
- Social Studies - Students continued to work on their community maps.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 9th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Advent discussion.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Pen Pal Write - Students started to answer their pen pals letters.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek. We tried to see the eagle that nests right above the pond, but we couldn't see them this time.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Music - Students practiced their instrumental for the Christmas video recording.
- DEAR.
- 3D printer explanation - We have commandeered our schools 3D printer in hopes of making some cool projects with the class. Students got to see it in action.
- Math - Base ten blocks work - Students were engaged in a lesson using base-ten blocks (a rod is ten, ten 'tens' are 100, 100 '100s' are 1000. Students then had 15 minutes on Prodigy or on other Math games.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal. We played outside early (10 minutes).
December 8th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - the Christmas story.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Grouping by 2 and 3 characteristics.
- Home Reading Points + The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Students suggested that they could just lie about how much time they read at home and get prizes. The Boy Who Cried Wolf was a story that none of the students knew, and was used to illustrate that, yes, you could lie...but if you are caught, the person will have a harder time believing you next time, and you're really only hurting yourself as sure, you got a prize for read, but you cheated and lied AND you didn't even increase your reading comprehension or fluency...
- Library - Library was in the classroom today as students were disrespectful on Friday in Library. They will try again this Friday. If a student makes poor choices in the library, they will lose their computer/iPad time for a whole week.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 7th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Guidance - Class Discussion about abhorrent behaviour in Library - throwing books, chasing each other in games of tag, being loud. Students who continue to do this will not only lose library for the week, they will lose computers and iPads for the entire week.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - ClassDojo Video - Part 3 of Facing Big Challenges - by taking small steps and only focusing on one step at a time instead of the 'big challenge at the end'.
- LA - Pen Pal Letter Writing - We began writing our letters to our pen pals at Christ the King.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Music - Students practiced their song for Christmas.
- DEAR.
- Math - Sorting and Grouping by Different Characteristics. Students who were done their work and/or corrections were able to do 15 minutes on iPads for Prodigy Math.
- Social Studies - Students continued to draw their community maps.
- Clean up. Students reminded to bring a reusable mask tomorrow for Music. And to be better behaved if possible.
- Dismissal.
December 4th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - We prayed for those in Hanes, Alaska who were affected by the mudslides.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - ClassDojo video - students watched part 2 of 3 of Mojo facing big challenges. Today's video was focused on taking small steps to work towards starting a big challenge.
- LA - Students helped me draft a letter to a pen pal. We read the letter, decided what we needed to answer, used a template to draft our letter. We also came up with questions we can ask our pen pal. On Monday, we will actually start to write our letters in the hopes of sending it out to Christ the King Grade 2 by the end of the week. Students then read their letters to each other.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Grouping worksheets - identifying how to sort things (letters versus numbers; words versus symbols; etc). Students had 15 minutes on Prodigy.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dimissal.
December 3rd, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - ClassDojo video on facing big challenges. Students shared some of their experiences of scary things that had to face (learning how to ice skate; horse riding; etc).
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were introduced to our next unit in Math (Grouping and Sorting Data). We talked about what is data, played some sorting games, and discussed why we sorted things we way we did (justification). Students were then given a few minutes on Prodigy or given the option to play a Math board game.
- Social Studies - Students continued to add more detail to their community maps.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 2nd, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Posadas.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres + visit from Mr. Hupe.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students discussed what kinds of questions their pen pals asked them, and think about how to answer them.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Desk and Classroom Cleaning - and then we watched the last 20 minutes of the VeggieTales movie (LarryBoy and the Bad Apple - A Lesson in Fighting Temptation).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Arctic Winter Sports.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students built a 3D rectangular prism and went around the school and took pictures of things that were shapes (e.g. the fire extinguisher box is a rectangle, with a smaller rectangular window, and inside, the extinguisher is a cylinder).
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Unwind.
- Social Studies - Communities - Students began roughing out their community/town map with different features of their community - water sources, stores, hospitals, etc...
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 1st, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Mini-lesson on capitalization.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 3D Shape - creating a pyramid.
- Social Studies - Students were engaged in what tomorrow's lesson will be.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 30th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students got letters from their Grade 2 pen pals at Christ the King. Students read their letters and thought of what they need to answer and what they want to ask their pen pal.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students created their own die out of a template and glued it together as a 3D cube.
- Home Reading Rewards.
- Religion - We watched a bit more of VeggieTales: LarryBoy and the Bad Apple: A Lesson in Fighting Temptation.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 27th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Rules for All Day Play.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- All Day Play Started.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- DEAR.
- All Day Play (continued).
- Clean up.
- Religion - VeggieTales - LarryBoy and the Bad Apple - A Lesson in Fighting Temptation (12 minutes watched...the rest will be watched at a later date).
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 26th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Joseph takes Mary and baby Jesus to Egypt.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations Lesson (more work on bonus letters f, l, s - Nov. 25th note) for further explanation.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Identifying Shapes - hexagons, heptagons, octagons, and pentagons.
- Body Break - Calming down to transition to next activity.
- Social Studies - Different modes of transportation around the community and in larger communities like Edmonton, Vancouver, etc...
- Science - Magic Tree House - Midnight on the Moon. Students asked questions about space and living on the ISS (International Space Station).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 25th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Language - Fundations lesson on Bonus Letters - ff, ll. ss - f, l. and s all get bonus letters if f, l, or s comes immediately after the vowel (e.g. shelf; miss).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies & Science - Walk around the pond in Porter Creek.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Polygons vs. Not Polygons - Explaining that polygons have straight sides and closed line, where as not polygons can have curved sides and open lines.
- Social Studies - Community - What do we use land in the Yukon for (hunting, fishing, mining, etc...).
- Science - Magic Tree House - Midnight on the Moon.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 24th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shapes - squares vs. not squares, rectangles vs. not rectangles (and why...what are the features that rectangles have that make them rectangles and not squares). Students who were done the 3 pages of work where allowed to go on Prodigy for 15 minutes.
- Social Studies & Science - Magic Tree House - Midnight on the Moon. Students talked about what they know about Space and Space Science. Ms. Forrest read from the first two chapters. Ask your kids what happened so far!
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 19th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange - Students were encouraged to take 3 - 4 books home this weekend, as tomorrow we do not have school.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students finished their procedural write (good copy and art).
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students got various 3D shapes and investigated if it rolled, slid, or was stackable. Students were then given 10 minutes in Prodigy Math, or playing a Math board game.
- Social Studies - Students were engaged in a conversation about their community and what they see around them (outside of their house, what things are in Whitehorse that help us (e.g. RCMP, Hospital, stores, CGC). On Monday, students will be writing about how their family contributes to the community of Whitehorse. What this means is that students need to ask their child what do you (the grown up) do in the community (jobs, services you use - doctors, nurses, pharmacies, grocery stores, etc...). If you child cannot remember this, you can write it in their planner for Monday morning. Afterwards, Ms. Forrest finished the latest Magic Tree House book (Sunset of the Sabertooth).
- Clean up. Hand out planners, home reading books, and permission forms for using Teams classrooms, Google Classrooms (in case of another shutdown), and, possibly, use Minecraft for Education software for school use. I will send an email this weekend explaining this. Keep in mind that this is OPTIONAL. It is not mandatory.
- Dismissal.
November 18th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Prayer - our school pastor (Father Leo) came by, introduced himself, told a story, and prayed the Our Father.
- LA - Students continued working on their good copy of their procedural write.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Hike - Students walked around the pond in Porter Creek. Grade 2s were amazing! Great job! We saw lots of snow and got to go bushwhacking.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 3D Shapes - Students were given physical objects like a pyramid, cube, and a rectangular prism, and had to 'break it apart' mentally, then draw the the shapes separately (e.g. a pyramid has 4 triangles and a square as a base). Students did 15 minutes of Prodigy.
- Social Studies - Ms. Forrest read a bit more of the Magic Tree House.
- Math & Games - We played a Lego Math game that Ms. Forrest found. Students rolled a die, moved to the corresponding number on the board. Under that number was an instruction - like add 2. If students rolled a 3, they would then get 5 Lego pieces (2 + 3 = 5) and then connect it. Whoever has the most Lego pieces by the end wins 1st place.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
November 17th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students continued to work on their procedural write. Most have started their good copy.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 3D shape assessment (pre-teach knowledge) - Students were asked to identify shapes from a list (such as cylinder; pyramid; cone; sphere; rectangular prismand cube). Geoboard mission cards. Once done, if there was time, they had a few minutes on Prodigy.
- Social Studies - Students worked in pre-selected groups to discuss our school community and what each adults role is and what each students role is.
- Clean up.
- Library.
November 16th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students continued to work on their rough copy of their procedural write. If they were completed their rough copy, and it was checked, and it was corrected, they began their good copy.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Desk Move & DEAR.
- Math - Students were given time to practice on geoboards (boards with pegs in them to create polygons with elastic bands). Students were given 'mission cards' (e.g. make a heptagon). Students also were introduced to regular shapes and irregular shapes (e.g. regular pentagon as 5 equal sides, an irregular pentagon has 5 sides of differing length). Students who completed their mission cards were able to have 15 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Social Studies - Ms. Forrest read a Magic Tree House book (Sunset of the Sabertooth).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 12th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Procedural Writing - Students began to write their rough draft of their procedural writing. Students selected what they would write about and share those instructions with someone who doesn't know how to do that skill. Students focused on breaking down their instructions into 4 steps.
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shapes cartoon - Students had to pick a shape and draw it. Then write "I am a _____. I have __ sides. I (students come up with a riddle)." Example: I am a rectangle. I have 4 sides. People open and close me all day...what am I? Answer: a door).
- Social Studies - discussion about community. Mr. Kim shared where he was raised (in South Korea and New Zealand).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 10th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Fresh Start Fitness.
- LA - Procedural Writing - Brain Storming for Thursday's write. Students were asked to think about one thing they can write about and explain to someone how to do. Students also co-constructed criteria (students explained what features the assignment has to have: like, name, title, detail, directions words like above, below, to the left, in the middle, etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - & introduction to Epic! (Literacy app).
- Lunch.
- Recess (Grade 2's day on the snow hill!).
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 2D shapes review, introduction to vocabulary - vertices, sides.
- Remembrance Day Ceremony (Virtual).
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Book Rewards: Students who got up to 30 check marks or 60 check marks, got prizes.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 9th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Fundations - tapping out words (like 'mat', 'win').
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Procedural Writing - How to Build a Snowman.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Social Studies - Remembrance Day talk (what is peace? What does peace mean to you personally?)
- Science - Butterfly life cycle - students took what they worked on last week, coloured, cut it out, and glued it into the appropriate order on cardstock.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 5th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Procedural Writing - Hedbanz activity (see November 3rd, 2020 notes for more information as to how this was done).
- Music.
- Snack & Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Making shapes (triangles, square, rectangles) with popsicle sticks - and noticing how many sides, how many corners each shape has.
- Social Studies/LA - Magic Tree House - Sunset of the Sabertooth.
- Science - Life Cycle of a Butterfly (discussion, video, mini-worksheet).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 4th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer- Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Procedural Writing - Continued.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek pond across the street from Holy Family. So. Much. Snow.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - 2D shape assessment (baseline). Students were given a sheet with various 2D shapes and asked to identify it. This was taken as a baseline, to see what students already know, and what they may not know. Students who were done were given some time on Prodigy Math. Students who haven't finished their skip counting videos were given the opportunity to do so.
- Social Studies/LA - Ms. Forrest finished reading The Magic Tree House novel about the Amazon. Ask you child what happened!
- Science - Life cycle of Ladybugs...ask your child what they learned!
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 3rd, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Procedural Writing - Continued - Students were tasked with giving instructions to Ms. Forrest on how to draw something without her knowing what it was using the game Headbanz as the model. Ms. Forrest had a headband with the picture on it. The students could see it, but she could not. They students then had to give her an instruction to help her draw the picture that was on her head. The more specific the directions, the closer it was to the actual picture.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Greater than, Less than, equal to.
- Clean up - Students cleaned their desks and put away some LA work in their binder.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 2nd, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Introducing Procedural Writing - Students were engaged in putting the instructions to make pancakes in the correct order. Students also watched a humorous video about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Ask you children what they remember.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Greater than, Less than, equal to. Students were filmed doing skip counting by 2s and 5s.
- LA - Story - Students were read a story by Bill Peet.
- Science - Metamorphic and Non-Metamorphic life cycles; guessing the life cycle of a lady bug.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 30th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joesph preparing for the 7 years of famine in Egypt.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations - Lesson on digraphs (sounds that count as one tap): wh; ch; sh; th; ck.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading & Virtual Costume Parade (via Zoom) - An iPad went around from class to class showing the various costumes in different classes.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Greater than >; Less than <; and =.
- Movie - VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbour? A Lesson in... Loving Your Neighbour.
- Clean up.
- Planners, Home Reading, & Sept - Oct. Checklists.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 23, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students learned of the covenant that Jesus and his Disciples made by sharing the body and blood of Christ. We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations - Lesson on digraphs (ch, wh, th, ck) that only get one sound/tap. Students who have not finished their Favourite Place write needed to do so today. Others did some art.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Kahoots! - Students learned how to use the online quiz format hosted on Kahoots.
- Art - Students continued to work on their Candy Corn Monsters and their Scarecrow pictures.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 20, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Prayer - All Souls Day discussion and Our Father.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - understanding that 2 is closer to 0 than to 10; 6 is closer to 10 than 0.
- Art - Scarecrow drawing (rough)
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 19th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Isaac and the Lord and their covenant. We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations Lesson - vowels vs. consonants, and spelling works like 'wax'; 'mat'; 'job' 'yap' and 'quit'.
- Guidance - Class Dojo - Perserverance - Overcoming 'the dip' through reflection and correcting your mistakes.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on their skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s skills. Students who were done their worksheets filmed a video for upload to FreshGrade. Stay tuned!
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Science - Metamorphic vs. non-metamorphic - Metamorphic is defined as a body that physically undergoes radical change (e.g. caterpillar & cocoon to butterfly) vs. non-metamorphic - body changes in size but not altered radically (e.g. puppy to a full grown dog).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 16th 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Centres.
- LA - Students continued to work on their final copy of the favourite place write.
- Snack (& Puzzle - Tower of Hanoi puzzle with 3 discs and 4 discs).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Skip counting by 5s and 10s, but starting at 'unexpected' or 'weird' numbers (e.g. 42, 52, 62, etc...).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 15th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Social Studies/Science - Ms. Forrest read a bit of the Magic Tree House: Afternoon on the Amazon. We learned about Amazonian fire ants as well.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Class Dojo: Perseverance skills. Students learned about 'the dip'. The dip happens when you start learning a new skill, and things are going okay, then you hit a 'wall', and others may be getting better at the skills than you are, and you feel like you 'dip'...this may cause us to want to give up, thinking that there is no point in continuing. We are working on skills to help up remember that we can't do something...yet! We just need to keep trying. The more we practice the better/easier it will be.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s practice - both forwards and backwards. Students also began skip counting by twos, but starting at 1 (so 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 , 11...).
- LA - Story: King Pig by Nick Bland. The story of a selfish ruler who doesn't understand why people don't like adore him. He slowly learns to make amends.
- Centres.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 14th, 2020
- Attendance/Daily Schedule rundown.
- Home Reading Book Exchange & Centres.
- Prayer - Students continued to hear the story of Abraham. Today we learned that sometimes God asks us to do hard things (like be nice to people who are not always nice to us). We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Pop See Go.
- LA - Writing - Students finished their rough draft (planning page) OREO writing on Favourite Place to Go. Some students started working on their good/final copy.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Socials/Science - Hike around Porter Creek with Grade 1 (to see what we can see). We hiked almost 5 km today, and we saw that the pond was frozen over in some parts. We talked about the parts that weren't frozen and why (deeper water doesn't freeze as quickly).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned/practiced counting by 10s. Students who were finished their work were able to get 15 minutes on Prodigy to practice skip counting.
- LA - Story - We read "This is Not My Hat" and "Diary of a Wombat".
- Art: Students were given 7 minutes to work on art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal - Students had to tell me one of their favourite animals - BUT: once an animal was picked, others couldn't pick that same one.
October 13th, 2020
- Attendance/Schedule rundown.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Abraham questioning God about saving the righteous from Sodom and Gomorrah. We closed with the Our Father.
- Guidance - Class Dojo Video - Students found out that Mojo was able to adjust his attitude and try to look on the positive side of thing...to try to look for the silver lining.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued to practice ski counting by 5s - focusing on using 5s to and 'leftovers' (e.g. 12 counters can be looked at as 5 + 5 + 2). Students who were done were able to get 10 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Social Studies - Mrs. Blythe (sub for Ms. Forrest) discussed Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 9th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of God's covenant with Abram, promising him that if he stay true to God's word, he would be fruitful and create nations that will give rise to Kings. We finished with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Class Dojo - Moods and Attitudes - Students learned that they can be a pilot and navigate (or steer through) their moods. They can choose to dive down into the bad weather, or try to rise above. Students were given the example of missing P.E. the other day because we decided to deliver Food Drive bags around Porter Creek. While they missed P.E., they still went for a walk, got to talk to their friends, and helped out our community.
- LA - Favourite Place - Students began filling in their OREO graphic organizer on one of their favourite places to go and why (one reason).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students had a lesson in estimation, and practical skip counting by 5s. Students were shown a picture of the cereal boxes in the foyer (for our Food Drive). They were asked to estimate (guess) how many boxes of cereal there were. We then made towers of 5 boxes down the hallway and skip counted by 5s to find out how many we had (and how close some students were to the real answer). Students then did 15 minutes on Prodigy Math, focusing on skip counting by 2s, starting from the 100s (e.g. 108, 110, 112, ___).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 8th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Abram taking a small army to secure the release of his nephew Lot, and how important it was to keep your promise to God. We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music - Students played xylophones.
- Recess & Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Students went for a walk to drop off some bags for the food drive.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students coloured a hundreds chart by 2s, and then by 5s, and circling where the numbers overlap. Students who were done were given 15 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Home Reading Book Exchange and Planners and Clean Up.
- Community Service & Social Studies - We walked around Porter Creek and dropped off some more bags for the Food Drive.
- Dismissal.
October 7th, 2020
up.
Once students were done cleaning their sections, they cleaned their desk.
Once students cleaned their desk, they got their binders and were handed back marked work. They put the work in the correct section of the
binder.
Once students were do THAT, then they had 15 minutes on centres.
- Attendance.
- Clean up:
up.
Once students were done cleaning their sections, they cleaned their desk.
Once students cleaned their desk, they got their binders and were handed back marked work. They put the work in the correct section of the
binder.
Once students were do THAT, then they had 15 minutes on centres.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video on Moods and Attitudes - students watched a 3 minute video featuring Mojo, who was looking forward to something, and then it didn't happen. This caused him stress and anger, and changed his mood from good to worse. We learned that our moods are like our own personal weather system. We will watch the send part of the video some time this week (hopefully).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek to see what we can see.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR & Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Math - Mr. Kim built upon his previous lessons about skip counting. The students were introduced to a hundreds chart and had to notice the pattern of counting by 5s (noticing that each 'ones' place ends in 5, or 0: 5; 10; 15; 20; 25; 30; 35...). Students who were done had 15 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Religion - Grade 3 Virtual Celebration - Students watched the video that Grade 3s created for our annual Thanksgiving Celebration. Students participated in prayer and reflections designed to help the realize that we are blessed and that Jesus gives us a lot of love to share.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House pre-talk: The next book takes place in the Amazon. Students were shown where the Amazon is (via Google Earth), and how big it is; how it is sometimes called the 'lungs of the world'; and how there are super-dangerous animals in there...we found out that most anacondas are 5 m in length (and we used five metre sticks to show that, and laid almost 4 children end to end to show how long that is in terms of Grade 2 students).
- Dismissal.
October 6th, 2020
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Abram moving to Canaan, and fully trusting in God. We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- Guidance - Discussion about rough housing. Students are getting quiet handsy and are jumping on each other (play wrestling). We had a discussion about how this needs to stop, and why. Also discussed with the next recourse: Students will be assigned an area of play for the day. They will play by themselves in that area. The next day, they will try again to play in a safe way.
- LA - Pre-write: Students continued sharing what their favourite place to go/be is and why. Tomorrow, we will get to fill out our OREO graphic organizer.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Many students went up in their reading levels. Way to go!
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Mr. Kim taught a lesson on skip counting by 5s. Students then listened to a song (a rap, really) about skip counting by 5s. They then completed an art activity that used their knowledge of counting by 5s. Finally, when students were all done their work, they were given 15 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House - We finished the book about ninjas. Ask your child what happened!
- Home Reading Books Exchange & Planners.
- Clean up.
- Library - I got to be a librarian again today (after 6 years!). I took them to the library and those that could sign out books, did. It was fun.
- Dismissal.
October 5th, 2020
- Morning Centres.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- LA - Students brainstormed what their favourite place to go is and why. The teacher took notes. Tomorrow, we will create a word wall to help students write (using the OREO template) to write about our favourite place to go is and the reasons why.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Mr. Kim taught another lesson on skip counting, where students had to build a pattern with coloured blocks, then write the pattern and finally colour the pattern on a worksheet. Students who were done were given 15 minutes on Prodigy Math.
- Art: Students drew one thing they are thankful for. This drawing will be put in a collage that will be displayed in the hallway along with other grades for our Virtual Thanksgiving Celebration.
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Book Exchange and Planners.
- Dismissal.
September 30th, 2020
- I apologize for not posting over the last two days. On Monday, we marked the All School Write and the DARTs, which took all day. Yesterday I had an appointment/procedure at the hospital so I was not at school.
- Students reached a Class Dojo milestone today. Class Dojo is a system I use to award points to the class and individual students when I catch them 'doing good' or being helpful without having to ask. Today, due to the excellent behaviour for the sub on Monday and Tuesday, the students got 1500 points since the beginning of the year. They were told that once they got 1500 points, they could have an all day play day. So that's what we did today. The schedule went something like this:
- Attendance.
- All Day Play Day Expectations (learning outcomes):
- No grabbing from each other (share).
- Be kind (use your manners).
- Let people join in.
- Don't ruin people's creations.
- Use quiet voices.
- Clean up your own creations before moving to another play area.
- Solve your own problems.
and reasoned way. #5 also proved difficult at times too...but students were given warnings, if they had an excess of two warnings, everyone agreed they
would stop, go to their desk, and be quiet for 2 minutes. Then we would try again. If this continued, it would 5 minutes...etc...
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Socials/Science: Hike around Porter Creek. Students saw 2 bald eagles, lots of squirrels, newly downed trees chewed by beavers.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Food Drive Talk: As we are not going door to door this year to collect cans, etc...the Food Bank has asked us to collect cereal boxes. The idea is to create a giant tower/castle of cereal boxes in the gym and try to get our picture in the paper. Students were engaged in a conversation about why we need food banks (its not just for the 'poor'), and that they are not to take cereal boxes from home without asking (and they cereal boxes have to be unopened, of course).
- All Day Play Day resumed.
- Clean up.
- Home reading book exchange, agendas, and First Reconciliation and First Communion hand out: Like last year, I am again teaching First Reconciliation and First Communion classes after school (Tuesdays at 6:30 - 7:30). If you are interested in having your child participate, read the form and contact the number or email listed in the form.
- Dismissal.
September 25th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- LA - Students were pulled to read with a teacher and asked questions about the DART book from yesterday (Hairy Caterpillars).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Indoors.
- DEAR.
- Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Walk - We walked to Hickory Park (on the corner of Wann and Hickory). We walked past it, said we weren't going to go in, walked a bit more, then turned around and said 'Just kidding! Go play!' This was a reward for working so hard yesterday and today with the school wide write, and the DARTs.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 24th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - YouTube - Push All the Buttons.
- LA - Students were given time to finish their OREO writing (rough draft) and work on their good draft.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Outside.
- Socials/LA - Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon. We finished the book today. Ask your child what happened!
- LA - Students started the DART (District Assessment of Reading Test). We started our Fall DART. (We do one in the spring as well, to track learning growth.) The Fall DART is the on Hairy Caterpillars. Students read the short book by themselves are were asked to complete two task: 1. Show what you found out about hairy caterpillars. You can draw a picture with labels and/or write; and 2: Come up with a question that you still have about hairy caterpillars. Students completed these tasks completely on their own (to serve as a baseline). Tomorrow, the students will be reading the book to the teachers and we will ask them comprehension questions. Students who were done this portion of the DARTs were then asked to complete their OREO writing, and their good copy.
- Math - 20 minutes Prodigy math.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 23rd, 2020
- Attendance.
- Guidance - T.H.I.N.K. - Before You Speak: T.H.I.N.K.: Is it True? Is it Helpful? Is it Inspiring? Is it Necessary? Is it Kind? Students were introduced to the concept of T.H.I.N.K.(ing) before they speak. We discussed what each letter means, and came up with examples of each (both negative and positive examples).
- Morning Centres.
- LA - All School Write - Think/Pair/Share & Pre-write (OREO): See September 21st for format. Today we started with the sentence starter "One thing I like to do is...". We created a 'word wall' with students ideas. This was left up on the board to help students with spelling.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Terry Fox walk - Students walked around Porter Creek. We did not do our regular Wednesday hike. We will do it next Wednesday.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Indoors.
- DEAR.
- Math - Mr. Kim taught a lesson on skip counting (focusing on skip counting by 2s, starting at 1, and ending at 24). He read a story about skip counting, did examples with students and did an interactive lesson on the board. Students had the chance to practice before completing the worksheet.
- Art - Ms. Forrest showed students how she takes their drawing and creates colour books of their stories using Procreate for the iPad.
- Socials Studies & LA - Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon. Ask you child what happened!
- Home Reading Books and Planners.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 22nd, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students finished their OREO graphic organizer from yesterday (see September 21st note below). If students were done, they then had to transfer the information from their graphic organizer to a journal page (2nd draft). If they were done that, they drew a picture that matched what they wrote.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Science - Bear Aware lesson outside. Mr. Welsh, a Conservation Officer came and gave a talk about how to be bear aware, as well as showed us casts of bear paws, fur hides, and bear skulls.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Indoors.
- DEAR.
- LA - Students finished their writing from yesterday/this morning.
- Math - Prodigy Math until transition time (15 minutes).
- LA - Students have been creating mini books for Ms. Forrest to tweak in her iPad. She shared 2 new students written and drawn stories today. We also read one more chapter of Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon.
- Planners & Home Reading Books.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 21st, 2020
Write the numbers above the number words.
Draw counters to show the numbers.
Write the number sentence.
Write the number as a word.
3
There are three cats. 000 3
4 +
There are four dogs. 0000 4
There are __seven__ animals all together. 7
Students who were done had 15 minutes on Prodigy Math if they wanted it.
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle and Kidz Bop.
- LA - Think Pair Share & Double Stuffed OREO writing - Students were asked to Think Pair then Share what a favourite food of theirs is, and why (using describing words like cheesy, salty, fluffy, cold, hot, crunchy, chewy, etc.). The students were put into random groups and were told that when they get tot the 'share' part of the activity, they are going to be sharing their partner's opinion (not their own). The reason we did this is to make sure that we are practicing active listening. Once students did their Think Pair Share, they then used the Double Stuffed Oreo writing graphic organizer. Oreo stands for: Opinion - Reason - Example - Opinion - Example - (Restate Opinion). You can also think of this as topic sentence, reason, example, another opinion/fact, another example, and a closing sentence. Students started out with I love to eat... I love ____ because .... I eat it when I .... It is (adjective like cheesy, salty, sweet). I also eat it when I .... That is why I love to eat .... We are not finished our second draft of this writing, so we will continue this tomorrow. All of this is in preparation for our All School Write which will use the same graphic organizer, and the topic sentence will be One of My Favourite Things to Do. We should start this on Wednesday. If all things go as planned.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Some students were shuffled around to ensure a better fit for reading for fluency and comprehension.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - First Word Problems: Students were given a worksheet (after multiple examples were tried on the board as a class) where they had something like:
Write the numbers above the number words.
Draw counters to show the numbers.
Write the number sentence.
Write the number as a word.
3
There are three cats. 000 3
4 +
There are four dogs. 0000 4
There are __seven__ animals all together. 7
Students who were done had 15 minutes on Prodigy Math if they wanted it.
- LA - Students were read Jon Klassen's I Want My Hat Back. Ask your child what happened! (Hint: there was a plot twist!)
- Planners, Home Reading Book Exchange, and information packages to be signed off by grown-ups sent home. These included confirmation of addresses, emails, etc; educational internet use permission; information on school fees; etc.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 18th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Life Lesson #1: Own Your Behaviour - There were lots of complaints about the Grade 2s and Grade 3s having hands on each other, saying unkind words, pushing and shoving, and being disrespectful to the morning supervisors. Students were invited to own some of their unkind behaviours. We explained that if we are honest, and admit that we were part of the problem this morning, we can move forward by acknowledging our part in that behaviour, and we can try to make amends (amends doesn't have to be an apology only...it can be doing something nice for someone you hurt; or trying to not do it again). We acknowledge that we are not perfect, but we can always try to be kind and accepting like Jesus. He wants us to be our best selves. Many students owned their behaviour without having to be called out by name. This was a big learning concept. Way to go Grade 2!
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father - focusing on the lines 'forgive our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us..." (connecting to Life Lesson #1).
- Life Lesson #2 - Setting up (and organizing) School Binders. Students set up their binders for the year, with five sections - LA; Math; Social Studies (SS); Science; and Other. Students learned how to decide where things go, and how (if it has adding and subtracting numbers on it, it goes in Math; if it has a piece of writing about what they did on the weekend, then it is LA; then to put it the right way in the binder so that when you flip from front to back - like a book, everything is right side up). This took a long time BTW.
- Recess.
- Life Lesson #2 (con't) - Finished setting up binders. Then we cleaned out desk for the first time. As students have individual desks for the first time. Artwork was taken home or recycled; books were put away, etc.
- Guided Reading - Students had 15 minutes on abcya.com in the Language section.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Dodgeball indoors.
- DEAR.
- Math - Cuisenaire Rods Math: - Factors that make up numbers. Kicking it very 'old school'. See examples below.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon - Chapter 2.
- Agendas, Home Reading Books.
- Clean up - Water bottles, masks go home for washing, chairs pushed in, name tags inside desks.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 17th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer.
- Guidance - strategies for calming down. This was practiced when students feel okay so that when they don't, they have some skills they can draw on when they need it.
- Music.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Base Tens Blocks Math - https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks: Students were engaged in an interactive lesson where the teacher pulled down base ten blocks and had to tell the class the number. Then students challenged each other. Students then finished their math booklet, focusing on the words for numbers and the digits and their commonalities (e.g. 16 = sixteen; 15 = fifteen). Students who were done were given a few minutes on Prodigy math, which focused on arranging numbers from greatest to least, and from least to greatest.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House - Pirates Past Noon - Chapter 1. Ask your child what happened so far!
- Clean up.
- Planners and Home Reading Books.
- Dismissal.
September 16th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - NTV (YouTube) - Feel it Still (by Portugal. The Man.)
- LA - Students wrote about 2 things they thought would happen (or might happen, or hope to happen) to Jack and Annie in The Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon. The students brainstormed (logical) things that might happen in the story (predicting). We created a word bank; a bunch of sentence starters and wrote at least two sentences. Students then added a picture to go with their prediction.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek. Ask your children what they saw!
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Students played Soccer outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued to work on understanding breaking apart numbers (e.g. 13 is 1 group of 10, and 3 ones). Students also used drawings to show value (e.g. one long rectangle signifying '10'; and 3 small squares showing '3'; together showing 13). Students who were finished the sheets were allowed to go on Prodigy for about 15 minutes.
- Fire Drill - Whole school. Everyone was out of the building in 1 minute.
- Home Reading Book Exchange & Planners.
- Silence - 3 minutes of silence practice. It was too loud today so we practiced silence and being okay with silence.
- Dismissal.
September 15th, 2020
and 5 + 3 = 8 and 3 + 5 = 8.
Students who were done the three sheets were given a bit of time on Prodigy and worked on skip counting and ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest.
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Pump it up!
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students today worked on adding up and realizing that changing around numbers when adding doesn't change the solution. Example:
and 5 + 3 = 8 and 3 + 5 = 8.
Students who were done the three sheets were given a bit of time on Prodigy and worked on skip counting and ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House #4: Pirates Past Noon. While we didn't actually get to read the first chapter, we had a discussion about what we hope will happen in the story and if there are such things are pirates nowadays.
- Clean up.
- Planners and Home Reading Books.
- Library.
September 14th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle (Elton John's I'm Still Standing).
- LA - Story - Celebrating Differences - Students were read a story about how we are all different - how we look different, think different, like different things, etc.. but as long as we all treat each other with respect and love, then we can find some common ground.
- Art - Students worked a bit more on their Annunciation pictures from Friday.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - adding and breaking apart numbers - focusing on 10 + ? ...example ten apples + two apples make 12 apples -understanding that the '1' in 12 is not a one, but rather 1 group of 10, and the '2' is 2 groups of 1.
- Social Studies - Students hear the rest of the Magic Tree House - Mummies in the Morning. Ask your child how it ended!
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Books and Planners.
- Dismissal.
September 11th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Science - Size of brains, nueroplasticity, how many nuerons we have as babies, and then as children, and as adults, as well as how amazing our brains are.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Social Express on being Flexible (not physically bendy - rather 'mentally bendy'). It is about not always getting your way but trying to be okay with it.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students read quietly at their desk while waiting to be called to read with a teacher. They were also given time on Tumblebooks to listen to books (for focusing on fluency and dynamic reading).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Indoors - Soccer skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students completed a few sheets that focused on understanding that any number added to zero is that same number (e.g. 5 + 0 = 5; 36 + 0 = 36...etc...). Students who were done were given a few minutes on Prodigy math. The internet was spotty so there was a lot of frustration, but we also saw a lot of patience and perseverance.
- Art - Students drew Mary and an Arc Angel announcing that Mary was with child.
- Clean up - Students selected (or kept) their home reading books, took their planners, water bottles and any masks and put them in their backpack for home time.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 10th, 2020
Noticing that there are a total of 6 starts, 2 are red, and 4 are black, so they could create a sentence like 6 - 2 =
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Class Discussion (Guidance) - hands off strategies - Students brainstormed ways of how to tell each other to ease up with the rough play and keep our hands to ourselves.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Snack/Recess.
- LA - Guided Reading - Students were grouped according to reading levels and paired with a teacher to read for a sustained amount to time. Students were asked to re-tell the story they read.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Students had P.E. indoors today.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students completed 3 pages of Math focusing on subtraction. Students see a picture and there are two colours on it (or some are crossed out) and have to come up with a subtraction sentence. Example:
Noticing that there are a total of 6 starts, 2 are red, and 4 are black, so they could create a sentence like 6 - 2 =
- Math (Bonus) - If students were done (and fixed any corrections), and had some free time, they could do a few minutes of Prodigy Math.
- Clean up.
- Exchange Home Reading Books - Students were asked if they were going to keep or exchange their home reading books.
- Dismissal.
September 9th, 2020
___ = 2 + 5
- Attendance.
- Centres.
- Prayer - Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Don't Read Like A Robot.
- LA - Hike prediction write: Students were asked to write about 2 things they hope to see on their weekly hike. They then drew those two things.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Hike around Porter Creek (other side of Wann Road across from the school). Students got to see a bald eagle just chilling out. We talked about the different parts of an eagle, what they eat, how big they actually are, etc...
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - indoors.
- DEAR.
- Art - students coloured art for the United Way Church Pancake Breakfast for Friday. Students were asked to draw a picture that shows Local Love (things we love about our family, community, school, and living in Whitehorse).
- Math - Lesson on adding, and understanding if an equation is flipped, it is okay, we can still handle it and not freak out. Example:
___ = 2 + 5
- Social Studies/LA - Students heard more of Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House #3).
- Clean up.
- Home Reading Book Selections, Planners, Masks.
- Dismissal.
September 8th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres - Soft Start - 25 minutes. See other days for procedures/routines.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses leading the Israelites by parting the Red Sea. We closed with Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Recess/Snack.
- Guided Reading - Students were broken up into groups according to reading levels and they read with a teacher. While they were waiting to read with a teacher, they were on TumbleBooks.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their Math from Friday (working on Number Sense). See September 3rd for more information.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 4th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres - Soft Start - 25 minutes. See September 3rd, 2020 entry for how this activity is organized.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses and the Burning Bush. We finished with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension work. Student re-read the story People Make My Day (from September 2nd).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension Assessments in preparation for Guided Reading Groups to start with students next week.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students completed two pages of Math, focusing on Number Sense. See Sept. 3rd Math for example of the type of Math we are doing currently.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
September 3rd, 2020
0. 0. 0. 0.
There are _____ xs than 0s.
There are _____ more xs than 0s.
- Attendance.
- Morning Centres - Grade 2 participated in a new activity. This activity could be called a 'soft start' to the day. Students come in, check the whiteboard for their name and the centre they will be at for about 20 minutes. Centres include: reading, drawing, puzzles, Lego, and building shapes with polygons. Students will rotate through each centre throughout the week (meaning if they read today, tomorrow they will be on a different centre for the day, and a different one from that the day after).
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the birth of Moses and how he was placed in a basket and floated down the river and ended up being raised by the royal family in Egypt. We finished prayer with Our Father.
- Music.
- Recess.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension Level Assessments.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- School Pictures.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were introduced to some online, interactive math games on the paid site education.com. Afterwards, students completed 2 worksheets on number sense. Example:
0. 0. 0. 0.
There are _____ xs than 0s.
There are _____ more xs than 0s.
- Social Studies - Magic Treehouse #3: Mummies in the Morning. Ask your child what happened in the story today!
- Clean up.
- Getting ready to go outside - Students had to mention one Yukon animal - not just 'bear', but 'brown bear', and once one animal was mentioned, students had to pick a different one before they could leave to get ready.
- P.E. - Students were taken outside to play as they missed their P.E. due to pictures being scheduled at the exact same time.
September 2nd, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students read a story called "People Make My Day" for the first time. We will read the story again tomorrow and students will complete a matching worksheet based on the story (they will have access to the story while matching items; so they won't have to rely strictly on memory).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Science & Social Studies - Grade 2 and Grade 1 went for a socially distanced hike and looked at the changing environment (land formation, features over time), the moss, the beaver dam, the creek that no longer runs because of the beaver dam, and other things that were interesting to look at.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Math - Prodigy Math - focusing on adding up to 18 (with no regrouping/carrying), numbers sense, and hundreds charts.
- Social Studies, Science, & LA - Magic Treehouse #3: Mummies in the Morning - Ask you child what happened so far!
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 1st, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Assembly - Students attended their first assembly in the gym. Social distance and cohort (classroom) bubbles were strictly observed. This assembly was about general school rules and procedures.
- DEAR.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Recess.
- LA - Students were assessed on their current reading and comprehension level.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - Second indoor gym class.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Talks. See Math note on August 21st for information about how this is done. Students were also taught to start counting up from the big number when adding (e.g. 8 + 3 can be counted as 8, 9, 10, 11), and when counting counters, (like in number talks), if you know you have '5' in one ten-frame, there is not point in counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (just start at 5 and add up).
- Social Studies - Magic Treehouse - A Knight at Dawn. Students finished the story today. Ask them what happened...
- Library.
- Dismissal.
August 31st, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Tower of Babel.
- Zones of Regulation (see August 28th note for information).
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote about one thing they did on the weekend, and added a bit of detail. When done, students added a picture to their writing.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- LA - Students were pulled for reading assessments.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- LA, Guidance, and Core Competencies - Students were read the story 'If You Can't Bear Hug, Air Hug" by Katie Sedmak. This book is written to highlight the importance of social distancing right now. Students then were introduced to the Core Competencies as something we will be working on throughout the year. These are skills we learn and develop over time. These include Communication skills, Thinking skills, and Personal/Social skills. The story helped students develop their Personal/Social skills through creating art that illustrates and example of showing responsibility for their health and well-being.
- Math & LA - Prodigy Math and Reading Assessments.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 28th, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Noah and the flood. We closed with the Our Father.
- Zones of Regulation - Students were asked to move around the room (quietly) in a certain way that matches their mood. In Zones of Regulation, there are four 'colours' you be 'in': Blue - Sad, Sick, Tired, Bored and/or Moving Slowly; Green - Happy , Calm , Feeling Okay, Focused, Ready to Learn; Yellow Zone - Frustrated, Worried, Silly/Wiggly, Excited, and experiencing Loss of Some Control; and finally, the Red Zone - Mad/Angry, Mean, Terrified, Yelling/Hitting, and Completely Out of Control. Students were invited to check in with their feelings, and see where everyone was at, being cognizant that we could all be in different zones that our friends and that it is okay. Students know that they can be in different zones at the same time - that the zones (other than the Red Zone) are not mutually exclusive.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Class Dojo Video on Growth Mindset. Growth Mindset is switching your brain from thinking 'I can't do it, I'll never do it, It's impossible, so I better just give up' to 'I can't do it ... YET...'. It is about making mistakes and learning from them, and not giving up when faced with a challenge.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- LA - Students read for 20 minutes, then worked on language games.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E. - First gym class indoors!
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on Prodigy math. Skills today included ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc...) adding to 20, and bigger vs. smaller.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
August 27th, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Science - size of objects in the galaxy in comparison (youtube video).
- Prayer - Student heard an abridged version of the Fall of Adam and Eve. We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Recess.
- LA - Students read on their own, and then were introduced to the education website abcya.com, focusing on word games and number games.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Computers & Math - Students were given lessons on how to turn on, log in, and open apps on the computer. Students were also given their Prodigy math usernames and passwords and shown how to log in and get started. The math they worked on today was focused on number concepts (identifying how many counters on the screen, single digit adding, and identifying numbers symbols with the correct word - e.g. what is the word for '4'? A: five B: four).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 26th, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were read the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Students finished prayer by reciting the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were read One Hundred Million Kisses (again). They were then given a sheet, where they had pictures of the characters in the story, and they had to cut and paste the images by the sentence that matches that character.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Social Studies/Science - Grade 2 went on a hike and checked out a beaver dam, gross looking mushrooms (that we knew not to eat...ever), and moss. Grade 2 were good role models for Grade 1, who accompanied us on our hike. There were three adults on the hike and social distancing was practiced.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- LA - Students who were not finished the LA work from this morning were given time to finish up. Students who were done were invited to read and/or draw.
- Math - Students were introduced to Prodigy Math, where they will create a character online and 'fight' in math battles for points. The teacher created free accounts for students and tomorrow they will be able to log in and start battling.
- Social Studies - Students listened to a little more of The Knight at Dawn. Ask your child what happened so far...
- Planners/Agendas - Students were given agendas (or planners), and the hope is that any communication or information can shared both ways. If there is an upcoming appointment, this is the spot to write it in. Planners will be checked daily. If your child is reading at home, write down what they are reading and for how many minutes. Students will be given points and may get a reward. I will send more information home some time next week or the week afterwards.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 25th, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of God creating the Heavens and Earth. Most days, we will be reading from the Children's Catholic Bible. This resource features abridged, child-friendly versions of the Old and New Testament stories. Students are engaged in a discussion about the reading (lessons, morals, etc...). We closed with the Our Father.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Music.
- Recess.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension - Students read a story called "A Hundred Million Kisses". Students were told that they will be working on a ordering/matching sheet based on the story tomorrow. We will read the story tomorrow, and they will have the access to the story when they are matching the pictures to the action on the worksheet. Students who were finished were given 15 minutes on the iPad.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on their number sense (matching and pairing up numbers and shapes, and counting). This was a gauge to see what the students can do without assistance.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Social Studies - Magic Tree House - The Knight at Dawn. Students were read the first few chapters of this book. If you want to know what happened, ask your children.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
August 24th, 2020
- Attendance.
- DEAR (Drop Everything And Read).
- Prayer - Students began to learn the Our Father and what each sentence means.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were given the beginning of a story, and were asked to draw and write what they thing happens next.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- LA - Students read quietly for a bit, then finished their morning LA work, and completed their write from Friday (about 2 things that happened over the summer).
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Math - Number Talks - See August 21st, 2020 Math entry for example.
- Socials/Science - Students were read the last few chapters of the Magic Tree House chapter book about dinosaurs.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 21st, 2020
- Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR (Drop Everything and Read).
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Science & Math - Hand Washing Experiment: As we have two sinks, we split the class into two groups. When we said 'go', student A opened the tap, pumped soap into their hands, wet their hands, and went to the back of the line; student B took student A's place, repeated the pattern, then student C took student B's place, etc... Students continued to soap up their hands while waiting in line to rinse, and wait until they get to the front of the line to rinse and dry their hands. This meant that it only took 19 students 3:30 minutes to wash their hands! We will continue to practice this as the weeks go on.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- L.A. - Students wrote about 2 things they did over the summer. They then drew a picture to accompany one of those sentences. Students who were done read, or did art.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- Zones of Regulation. Students are shown four colours that associate with moods. They are then asked to put a thumb up, or stand up, or do some other action to show how they are feeling. Students are told they can be in more than one mood and that whatever mood they are in is okay. There is no wrong answer. It is their mood. They are then invited to look around the classroom (without talking) and take note of how their classmates are feeling (to realize that - for example: some of us can feel tired, but happy, and maybe a little bit sad, all at the same time).
- Mindfulness - GoNoodle video on calming strategies (to practice when students are struggling).
- Math - Number Talk - Grade 2 had their first Number Talk. They were shown a picture on the board and given mini whiteboards. They then were invited to write, draw, and/or explain what they see. Once they wrote something down, they were invited to write another thing they see. See below for example:
The student might see 8 purple dots and 2 blue dots. Or that there are 4 purple dots and then 4 more purple dots under that. Then next thing they may
write is that there are 10 dots in total. Or that there are 20 boxes. Or that there are 10 boxes filled with dots out of 20. Or that 2 purple and 2 blue dots line
up. Or that you can make 20 - 10 = 10...the goal is to see the beauty of math and look at things in a different way. There is no 'right answer' in that
students MUST come up with all of what I wrote above. It is gently encouraging the students to 'see differently' and 'see the connections'. It is about
meeting the child where they are at.
write is that there are 10 dots in total. Or that there are 20 boxes. Or that there are 10 boxes filled with dots out of 20. Or that 2 purple and 2 blue dots line
up. Or that you can make 20 - 10 = 10...the goal is to see the beauty of math and look at things in a different way. There is no 'right answer' in that
students MUST come up with all of what I wrote above. It is gently encouraging the students to 'see differently' and 'see the connections'. It is about
meeting the child where they are at.
- Social Studies & Science - Students were read the first few chapters of a The Magic Treehouse novel. Ask you child happened so far!
- Dismissal.
August 20th, 2020
- Attendance.
- Mask use mini-lesson.
- Music class.
- Expectation Re: Bathroom, cleaning, giving each other space.
- Bringing in their school supplies - organizing them, putting them away, etc.
- Art - Students decorated a mask bag to keep their mask protected when not in use.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Art (cont.) - Mask bag, and cover and spine of their binder.
- Lunch.
- Recess.
- P.E.
- DEAR (Drop Everything and Read).
- Science - "Sparkle Flu": We showed the students how when you sneeze (simulated by blowing a handful of glitter at the front row of desks). Then, we walked around and touched peoples things (shoulders, desks, chairs, etc), to show how the glitter goes everywhere. This was not done to scare students, it was done in a fun way to show the importance of coughing or sneezing in your elbow, and giving each other space.
- Science - Walk in the Woods. Students were led on a walk and observed the way the trees looked, found tiny strawberries, saw a beaver dam, moss and lots and lots of weird mushrooms (which we didn't pick, eat, or touch!).
- Dismissal.
March 13th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about the life of St. Thomas More of England.
- Religion - Students began to watch an age-appropriate version on The Animated Passion on the last super, Jesus' trial and punish and His resurrection.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Art - Students learned how to draw a leprechaun; the artist giving students step by step instructions is a former Holy Family teacher.
- Celebration/Farewell - We have one student and one EA transitioning over to Vanier and our school had a mini-party in our gym with balloons and, later, cake!
- Clean up.
- Grade 2 Checklists handed out.
- Dismissal.
- Spring Break begins (and the sounds of Mom, Dad, I'm bored are close behind....).
March 12th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - Story and then Students finished up their letter to their pen pal.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued their adding and subtracting practice, as well as making ten.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 11th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students wrote their pen pals from Christ the King for a third time; this time focusing on what our plans are for Spring Break.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students practiced their place value by answering riddles (e.g. 327; 256; 285; 42; 492; 813; 602; 523 - and students must follow the clues: I am 3-digit number; My hundreds digit is not 5; my tens digit is even; and my ones digit is less than 4; Who am I?).
- Clean up.
- Prizes for Class Dojo points - students who received 100 Class Dojo points (or over), were able to get a prize from the prize box as a reward for helping out in the class when not being asked to (sometimes called 'caught you being nice').
- Dismissal.
March 10th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Guidance - Social Express lesson on personal space.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued practicing place value (e.g. 3 hundreds, 4 tens, and 2 hundreds = 300 + 40 + 200 = 540).
- Lenten Celebration - Stations 4, 5 and 6 of the Cross.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
March 9th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about the lives of Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Steck-Vaughn Reading & Comprehension worksheets on Penguins.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on practicing their place-value and hundreds chart math skills (e.g. 2 hundreds, 7 tens, and 8 ones make up the number 278).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 6th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Field Trip - Swimming at the CGC.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were given time to finish their work - students who were done all their work and their corrections had some quiet free time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 5th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Mindfulness - Students learned to 'be the pond' - ask your child about it.
- Math Games - Select students were asked to participate in various interactive math games on a website where they can practice their place values, and skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued working/practicing their math skills - including making 10 then adding on (e.g. 3 + 5 + 7 = 10 + 5 = 15), or making ten then subtracting 1 (e.g. 9 + 4 = 10 + 4 - 1 = 13) and fact families (e.g. 6, 4, 10...6 + 4 = 10; 4 + 6 = 10; 10 - 4 = 6; 10 - 6 = 4).
- Clean up.
- LA - Story - Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg.
- Dismissal.
March 3rd, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Students were told that they if they make poor choices, they will have to write a think piece for the teacher and their parents explaining what poor choice they are making, and how they will plan on correcting their behaviour(s) in the future. See pdf attached below this post for more information. If notes are sent home, please know that the behaviours were addressed in class. The email of your child's Grade 2 behaviour Think Sheet is sent as a courtesy to inform you what happened in the day.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued practicing patterns in adding and subtracting (by adding or subtracting 10 and/or 1).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
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March 2nd, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Mindfulness Break.
- Guidance - Social Express Lesson on coughing etiquette.
- LA - Students finished their inferring lesson on Chris Van Allsburg's The Sweetest Fig. Most students got the plot twist at the end (woo-hoo!).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their Math and practiced with their Place Value Math Puzzles.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 27th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Guidance/Social Express - No Means No.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were introduced to a place value Math Puzzle.
- Science - A biologist came into the school today to teach students Biodiversity...and she brought in a lot of furs.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 26th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about St. Paul and what Ash Wednesday mean in Christianity.
- LA - Students were read an inferring book (where they have to infer what is happening in the story. Today we began Chris Van Allsburg's The Sweetest Fig. We stopped at key point in the story and had students predict what would happen next in the story. We will finish the story tomorrow. You may want to ask your child about the story so far...
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued their work by adding or subtracting ten - realizing that the ones digit stays the same and the tens digit goes up or down by 1 (e.g.: 10 + 24 = 34; 24 - 10 = 14).
- Celebration - Ash Wednesday.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
February 25th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Prayer.
- Shrove Tuesday - Students were invited to partake in a pancake breakfast provided by Holy Family as part of 'Fat Tuesday'.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Swimming.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 24th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Making 10: Students were given a number and had to figure out what makes '10' (e.g. 4 + __ = 10?). Students who were completed the four pages today in Math were able to do art while waiting to transition.
- Science - Bill Nye the Science Guy video on Biodiversity - We will be having a guest presenter on Thursday that will teach us about biodiversity. At the end of the video, students were expected to answer questions about what they just watched (e.g. What is biodiversity? Why is it important? What happens if we push animals out of their natural habitat? etc...).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 20, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Work Period - Students had 45 minutes to finish any outstanding assignment in order to participate in our annual Rendezvous activities.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch - Parent Council provided a hot dog lunch for all students who wanted one or two hot dogs.
- Art - Students were allowed some constructive free time while they waited for Rendezvous activities to start.
- Rendezvous Activities - Students were outside for 45 minutes doing activities, then students had another 45 minutes inside to participate in other activities.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 19th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students worked on a filling in the word bubbles in comic panels/cells in order to make a humorous story about a dog chasing a cat.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued working on word problems (using the clues like "How many more ____ than ____?"; "How many in total?").
- Buddies - Grade 7s came to our class to help us with storyboarding.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 18th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Skating.
- Recess.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued on learning about deciphering word problems.
- LA - Students were introduced to tomorrow's lesson on making a sequential comic page (meaning it has a beginning, middle, and end).
- Clean up.
- Library.
February 17th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about the life of St. Benedict.
- LA - Students wrote a cartoon strip to tell a story.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned how to use clues in word problems to decided if they should subtract or add (words like in total; how many more ____ than ____?)
- Art.
- Clean up.
- LA - We started to read The Little Sled Dog by Michael Kusugak (a author from Nunavut).
- Dismissal.
February 14th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about the true Saint Valentine.
- Guidance - ClassDojo video on accepting things you can't change, and changing your attitude.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Art - Valentine's Day crafts.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
February 13th, 2020
9 + 43 = 52
52 - 9 = 43
52 - 43 = 9
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about the life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - ClassDojo video about keeping your attitude in check, and realizing that there are things we can't control, be we can control the way we respond to people/things/events.
- Math - Students continued to learn about number sentences - Examples:
9 + 43 = 52
52 - 9 = 43
52 - 43 = 9
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 12th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - Students learned about St. Joseph (Jesus' Earth Daddy). Father Szwagrzyk came in for his visitation and elaborated the story of Joseph's life.
- Guidance - ClassDojo video on understanding how moods and attitudes affect not just you, but everyone around you. Tomorrow we will (hopefully) learn some ways to get out of a bad moods and eventually learn that there are things that you can control and things you can't (and that you can control the way you react/interact with others).
- DEAR.
- LA - We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio. Students were tread the story about a person who realizes that they can't change the way they look, but they can (possibly) change the way people see.
- Math - A former Grade 7 student of mine (now in Grade 9) came to conduct a math test as a part of her science experiment on Grade 2 students.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - Students were tasked to draw something on paper, than make re-create it in Minecraft with added features.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 11th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Body Break/Self-Regulation - GoNoodle - Mindfulness/Breathing.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Guidance - Appropriate vs. Not Appropriate Touch - Respecting people's personal space.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were introduced to tomorrow's Math - building on what they learned yesterday.
- ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology)/Social Studies - Minecraft building - Students were tasked with building signs using their initials (e.g. LC) in bird's eye view (flat, on the ground looking up at the sky) and horizontal (from the ground up so it could be read a ground level). Students were challenged with thinking about the to make letters and rotate themselves to build the letters in creative ways).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 10th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- LA - Journal - Students were given the title My Favourite Things to do When it Snows. They were then to write at least 3 things they enjoy doing when it snows a lot (and focus on details, like who are doing this activity with? What do you feel when you are doing this?).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on systematically figuring out missing numbers in number sentences (e.g. 3 + __ = 8; start at 3, count up until you get to 8 - noting that there should be five fingers held up).
- Social Studies - Minecraft for Education - Students were tasked to build a house in a Minecraft world; discussion about resources, what is needed in house, and why.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 4th, 2020
20 + 31 = 51
51 - 20 = 31
51 - 31 = 20
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students began learning about some Saints' lives.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Discussion about anxiety and stress (and nervous energy) and how to use strategies to calm our bodies down (e.g. if you take 4 seconds to breath in slowly, then make sure your exhale is twice as long (e.g. 8 seconds)).
- Math - Students were introduced to fact families and took three numbers in a fact family and switched them around to make other adding or subtracting sentences.
20 + 31 = 51
51 - 20 = 31
51 - 31 = 20
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 3rd, 2020
- O Canada, Annoucements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard about Paul's final imprisonment, and then, later, the writing of the Book of Revelations (kids friendly version).
- Guidance - Social Express - Discussion and role-playing about how to handle a disagreement with your friends.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned the beginnings of finding a missing number (algebra): 7 - ____ = 4 (students think 7 takeaway something is equal to 4, or think 7 - 4 = 3).
- Social Studies - Students practiced asking, listening, and remembering what their partner said about what they saw, what they wondered, and what they inferred when they looked at a picture of the environment in the Yukon and BC.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 30th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Discussion about student-suggested consequences for being too noisy.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students created a picture of bird with different polygons - once students did this three different ways, they were able to create their own picture/mosaic with polygons (see your child's FreshGrade portfolio for examples).
- P.E.
- Math - Students were introduced to tomorrow's Math lesson on Equal or Not Equal. Students were shown two addition or subtraction statements and had to explain if they were equal or not equal (example: 3 + 5 and 4 + 4; students were encouraged to note that while yes, 3 + 5 and 4 + 4 = 8, the reason is because the 'spaces' you are jumping (or adding) remain the same...the 4 in 4 + 4 can be further pulled apart/broken down to a 3 + 1; the 1 can be added to the other 4 (which would then make 5) and then you have 3 + 5; and you can do the same type of thing with the 3 + 5 - breaking the 5 into a 4 + 1, and putting that one with the 3 (thus making 4).
- Social Studies - Students were put into groups of two and were told to ask their partner what they saw, what they wondered, and what they thought/inferred based on a picture of the environment.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 29th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - Danny Fox.
- LA - Steck-Vaughn story #13
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about lines of symmetry and how to decided if a shape is symmetrical or not.
- P.E.
- Guidance - Class discussion about noise pollution and its adverse heath effects (higher blood pressure, heart stress, added anxiety, headaches, irritability, and loss of hearing). Students helped come up with a list of consequences if a student needs to be reminded too many times to use their quiet inside voice (students suggested to lose privileges like recess, PE, computers, not sitting with their friends, etc..).
- Social Studies - Students looked at three other pictures of an environment in Canada and were asked what they saw, and based on what they saw, what they were able to reasonably infer.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 28th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Guidance - Taking Ownership lesson - Through role-playing, students learned to take ownership of their behaviours (not other students' behaviour) and accepting the consequences (good or bad).
- LA - Danny Fox.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students practiced different ways of adding (e.g. 48 + 3; 48 is only 2 away from 50, so if you break the 3 up into a 2 + 1, you can add that 2 to the 48 (to get 50), and then just add 1).
- Science - Students looked at a different picture and told what they saw and what they inferred.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
January 27th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - Story - Chapter 3 of Danny Fox.
- LA - Steck-Vaughn Reading & Comprehension - Story #12.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Subtracting by Counting Forward (adding on) and Counting Backwards: Students practiced looking at number sentences and deciding whether to count up (adding on) from the smaller number, or whether it makes sense to count backwards (e.g. with 22 - 15 it makes sense to count up from 15 (so student thinks: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and notices that there are 7 numbers that follow from 15 to 22) or they could think 15 to 20 is 5, 20 to 22 is 2, therefore 5 + 2 = 7; with 43 - 4, it doesn't make sense to start counting up from 4 to 43 (we don't have enough fingers and toes) so it makes sense to count backwards 43, 42, 41, 39). Students were also shown how they could check their subtraction by adding (e.g. 6 - 4 = 2; 2 + 4 = 6).
- Social Studies - Students began learning about inferring. Students were shown the picture:
They were then asked: What do they see; what do they know; what do they infer (infer being information that our brain can reasonably guess at and that that guess makes sense). A student-given example was that they saw a lake; the lake is clear, and therefore is probably clean; and if the lake is clean, and there are no houses around, there are probably pretty good fishing around this area). We will be continuing this activity throughout the week with other pictures from around the Yukon, BC, and the world.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 15th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus' two disciples walking on the road to Emmaus and Jesus ascending to Heaven.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - 2 Guided Dance videos, and the Mindless to Mindfulness video.
- LA - Students practiced their parts for the Grade 2 Epiphany Celebration this afternoon.
- Snack - Students were given 10 minutes to eat their snack indoors before going outside for at least one lap around the school.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Art (Quiet Time) - Students were given ten minutes to finish up any of their art they were working on after they were finished their lunch.
- LA - Students practiced their individual parts for the celebration.
- Celebration - Grade 2 students hosted Holy Family's annual Epiphany Celebration. (They did a fantastic job.)
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 10th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being raised from the dead, and his visitation to Mary Magdalen.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students re-read their second pen pal's letters and started to brainstorm about what they could write about to their pen pal.
- Snack - As it was cold, students were encouraged to eat their snack inside as many students take off their mitts/gloves to eat.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked to complete four math sheets on place value and decomposing numbers (e.g. 42 is actually 4 tens and 2 ones).
- Unplugged Games - Students were encouraged to take 30 minutes to play a board game, create a piece of art, or read.
- LA - Students were assigned parts to read in the Epiphany Mass.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 9th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Mindfulness Break.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Social Express lessons on using critical thinking, and strategies to deal with teasing behaviour.
- Snack - Students were offered the chance to have a snack before they went outside as it was pretty cold this morning.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on place value (e.g. the '7' in '71' doesn't actually mean '7', it means '7 tens and 1 ones'.
- Art/Games - Students that were done all their work (including corrections) had their choice of playing a board game, or working on art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 8th, 2020
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Reading Power Story - Emily's Blue Period. Students were read the book and then asked "In the story, how did the main character make the world a better place?" Students then had to write a correct example of how Emily made the world a better place though her acts and art, and then students had to draw a picture as an example of what they wrote. Students then were asked "How can I make the world a better place?" and students had to come up with a sentence and a drawing that showed an example of them making the world a better place.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on Data and Graphing questions. The students answered questions based on bar graphs and on pictographs. Students also had to be aware of the scale of the y axis (e.g. 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10) and know that 'half-way' up a box meant the odd numbers (e.g. if the number was between 0 and 4, but past 2, then it has to be '3').
- Buddies - Grade 7 came and Grade 2 students were partnered up and the Grade 7s helped the Grade 2s to figure out some of the more challenging questions (e.g. What is the difference between the number of people who love ice skating and sledding compared to those who love skiing?). Once Grade 2 students and their Grade 7s were done, they were able to do Prodigy Math on the computers for up to 25 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 20th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library & Prayer.
- Mindfulness break (on GoNoodle).
- LA - Christmas Stories.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Christmas Carol Sing-A-Long.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Mindfulness Break (on GoNoodle).
- DEAR.
- LA - another Christmas story.
- Math - Students finished up their Data and Graphing booklet.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 19th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being taken down from the cross.
- Mindfulness - GoNoodle video on 'Weathering the Storm" and 'Forgiving Others'. These two videos were chosen as many students are cranky and can say some mean things to each other - these videos talk about being resilient and how when we can choose how we feel, holding on to anger is not a healthy choice - and that with breathing, it doesn't necessarily get rid of those feelings, but they may be eased.
- Guidance - Social Express lesson on Making a Mistake and being honest.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA - Christmas story.
- Body Break - GoNoodle Mindfulness break on Swirling emotions and thoughts.
- Math - Students looked at pie charts, bar graphs, and Venn diagrams and answered (or asked) questions about them.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
December 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Posadas & Prayer.
- DEAR.
- LA - Story - Olive the Other Reindeer - The story of a dog named Olive, who at Christmas hears the song Rudolph the red nose reindeer, and hears "Olive the other reindeer (instead of "all of the other reindeer") and believes she is a reindeer destined to be in Santa's fleet of reindeer.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. (10 minutes).
- Swimming - Grades 2, 3, and 4, went swimming at the CGC.
- Snack.
- DEAR.
- LA - Jan Brett story.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 17th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about the different ways they celebrate Christmas around the world.
- LA - Students heard a Christmas story from another part of the world other than ours.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video on Personal Space & discussion.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA - a different Christmas story from a different culture around the world.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students began to learn about Venn Diagrams and answered questions based on the information presented.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 16th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus dying on the cross, and the Roman Centurions deciding that Jesus was the true son of God after He died on the cross.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Class Dojo videos on positive self-talk, and deciding what is fact and fiction in the stories we tell ourselves (e.g. if you can't get a Math question/concept, it doesn't make you 'dumb'; you just need a bit of help or clarification).
- LA - Students read their pen pal's letter, and started thinking about how to answer it.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video on Mindfulness breathing and calming nervous or stressful energy.
- DEAR & Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Math - Students learned more about pictographs. Today's pictographs were done with a scale of 1:2 (meaning that for every one symbol; if 2 and half flowers were shown, then it really meant 5).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being nailed to the cross, and asking his Father to 'forgive them, for they know what they do'. Students discussed this concept, and how it was magnanimous behaviour, as our first human instinct when some hurts us is not prayer or a request for God to forgive the person that hurt you.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading/LA - Students were read half of Lemony Snicket's A Lump of Coal.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on an activity where they had to title, label, and create a bar graph based on information given.
- Analog/Unplugged fun - Students played with blocks, did art, and played board games.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 12th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Dress Rehearsal for the Christmas Concert.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on their second Data and Graphing booklet. Today's activities focused on translating tallies to lines on a bar graph and properly labelling them, then answering questions based on said graph. The teacher asked students for help to complete the first two bar graphs/questions, and then the students worked on their own for the third bar graph.
- Home Reading Rewards - Students who reached a 40, 80, 140, 180, 240, 280, etc... had their choice of a prize from the prize box; Students that reached the milestone of 100 or 200 were awarded $10 to spend at Coles (or Indigo.ca).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 11th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being condemned to death.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Art - Students created a paper snowman cutting out, colouring and gluing different pieces of paper together.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - GoNoodle (in class).
- Music - Students practiced their song on stage.
- Language - Students were read a story.
- Math - Students practiced their math skills on either Prodigy, Mathletics, or abcya.com (Numbers Section).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 10th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus and the agony in the garden.
- Guidance - Mindfulness breathing and stretching, followed by Social Express lessons on listening to a conversation, not interrupting, and being in the conversation (not changing the subject and staying on topic).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Art - Students worked on any unfinished art work.
- Music - quick rehearsal.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
December 9th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus washing the feet of his apostles, and then they heard the story of the last supper. After this, students were asked to say a private prayer in their heart and then we recited the Our Father.
- Guidance - Mindfulness - Students were invited to practice three yoga-esque stretches (Elephant, Triangle, and Tree) to help calm and centre their body.
- LA - Story: What if...? A story by Anthony Browne about a boy who worries a lot (this book is like a grown up version of Scaredy Squirrel).
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their Data and Graphing booklet. Students who were done this we assigned a sheet where they had to find 20 number sentences that add up to 10 (e.g. 3 + 7; 5 + 5; 8 + 2; etc...). Tomorrow we will start a new Data and Graphing booklet.
- Art - Students were given time to work on any unfinished artwork.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey before the Passover celebrations.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video on Mindfulness - Students participated in a guided breathing activity in which they were invited to imagine all their worries in a cardboard box being carried away by a red balloon which went further and further away with each exhale. Students quietly transitioned to their desks.
- LA & Religion - Students completed an advent activity in which they cut puzzle pieces out and glued them on to the foundation of a house. This was done to remind the students of the parable of one house built on sand, and another house built on stone (and which one will be stronger). Each puzzle piece had a tenant of Christian faith, such as: honesty, helpfulness, truth, kindness, respect, fairness, patience, and prayer.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Guidance - Class Dojo Video on Mindfulness - Students participated in the same activity as the morning and were able to transition quietly to Math.
- Math - Students finished their off the Data and Graphing workbook. We will continue to work through another data and graphing booklet next week.
- Art - Students finished off their unfinished projects.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
December 5th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of blind Bartimaeus.
- Sinterklaas - Students found treats in their shoes.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video (Part 1 of Being Mindful) - Students watched a Class Dojo video where Mojo feels nervous, anxious, and worried. Students were asked to reflect on a time where they felt 'big feelings' like anger, worry, anxiety, dread, fear, embarrassment, etc... Students were not asked to share the specifics of the incident out loud, but if they wanted to share what those feelings felt like, they could. This was to show students that everybody has 'big feelings' and that it is important to learn how to handle them, rather than give in to them.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- DEAR.
- Art - Sinterklaas folding origami project.
- LA - The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Students were read the story of the boy who cried wolf, noting that the fables have a lesson to teach us. Students understood that the lesson that the author wanted to teach us was not to lie, but also, to draw it into our daily classroom activities, this includes exaggerations, and asking to home because they are 'sick' each day at the exact same time (this seems to be between 1:30 and 2 PM each day and is often tied to Math and/or Science for some strange reason). Students heard of real life examples from my previous years of teaching where students will try to take advantage of concern and miss out on school on regular basis; this eventually results in adults not trusting what a particular student is saying and when they truly are sick, the teacher might not believe them.
- P.E.
- Math - Students worked on their Data and Graphing booklet.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
December 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Religion - Posadas.
- DEAR.
- Religion - Sinterklaas - The origin of the Santa Claus story.
- Art - Students worked on their classroom decorations.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Home Reading Rewards
- DEAR & Home Reading Books Exchange.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to listen to Sigur Ros (a band from Iceland) while watching a computer visualization on the screen (if they wished).
- Art - Students worked on more decorations.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
December 3rd, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Zacchaeus the Tax Collector and Jesus.
- Guidance - Class Dojo video - The Golden Rule - Students learned about 'banking' respect (meaning if you are respectful to people, they will, in turn, be respectful to you - and you need to keep earning the respect of your peers and other people in your life to fill up your 'bank account'). Students connected this to filling people's buckets vs. dipping buckets.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR & Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Math - Students answered data and graphing questions.
- Art - Students who were completed their their Math work were able to continue to work on some Christmas decorations for the classroom.
- Advent - Students started an activity where they were to colour a picture in a certain way to reveal a picture that will remind them of Jesus.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
December 2nd, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Zones of Regulation.
- LA - Story - Russel the Sheep - a story about a sheep that can't sleep.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Art - Students started to make decorations in class for Christmas.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 25th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus teaching various small children.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote a journal entry based on at least three things that happened on the weekend.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Music - Grade 1 and Grade 2 students met in the Music Room and worked on their songs they are practicing to sing at the Yukon Government Building on Wednesday (if they brought their permission form and $2.00).
- DEAR.
- Math - Students started their Data workbook. Students were shown various pictographs and had to answer questions based on the graph.
- Games - Students were allowed to play board games for 15 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 22nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus' Transfiguration.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR & Home Reading Books Exchange.
- Math - Number Talks.
- LA - Story - Students were read the story of Pete (a pig) and Pickles (an elephant).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus naming Simon Peter as the the rock on which the Christian faith will be built upon.
- Science - Students were shown a screen shot of my sound meter app on my phone. While they were 'silently reading', the noise pollution level was near 80 db (which is the average noise level of a large city's busy traffic intersection. Students were shown how noise affects health (my bmp was at 96 with noise level at 80 db, and 68 bmp when it was quiet). We discussed physiological changes that happen in our body when there is excessive noise over a sustained period of time (increased heart rate, trouble concentrating, increased blood pressure). Students were more mindful throughout the day in terms of volume level.
- Body Break - GoNoddle.
- Recess - Due to the slick conditions on the playground, all Holy Family students were inside for recess. They were allowed to read, colour, draw, or play a board game.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess - Indoor recess. Some students when to Arctic Sports practice, others stayed in the classroom and read, coloured, drew, or played a board game with their friends.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Music - Practice for the upcoming YTG performance (permission forms when home today).
- DEAR.
- Body Break - GoNoodle video entitled "From Mindlessness to Mindfulness".
- Math & LA - Students did Prodigy math, while the teacher pulled students in the hallway to read their letter aloud. These videos will (hopefully) be uploaded to each student's FreshGrade account on Friday.
- Clean up.
- Guidance - Lesson on how to put everything in your backpack without shoving everything in there and saying "There's no room, can you help me?".
- Dismissal.
November 20th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of saving Peter from drowning.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Discussion about respecting property (like name tags, pencils, erasers, papers, books, magazines, etc..).
- Religion - Father Szwagrzyk came in to discuss faith and Jesus' love for all with the Grade 2 class.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Music - Grade 1 and 2 meet to practice Jingle Bells and sing the first verse of Silent Night for an upcoming performance.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Talks (see November 18th Math for further explanation).
- LA - Students practiced reading their letters to their pen pals. Some students were able to finish their video recordings. This will be uploaded to FreshGrade for parents to see by Friday (hopefully).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 19th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the loaves and fishes feeding a multitude.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Students practiced lining up and not cutting in front of others.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Music - Students practiced their songs they will sing when they go on their upcoming field trip to sing at a Yukon Government building.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Talks (see below for more information).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus calming the storm while on a boat with his disciples, and Jesus curing Jairus' little girl.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Students participated in a lesson about respect (how to show it and noticing that it is not just one thing you show once and that's it - it is not a 'one and done' process). Students then practiced lining up and not cutting in front of each other, as there were many issues last week with butting in line, not being able to keep hands to selves, and/or not talking.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR & Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Math - Number Talk Math - Students were show pictures on the smart board and had to write/show what they saw on their personal whiteboard (e.g. a ten frame with 8 red dots and another ten frame with 3 blue dots, showing 8 + 3 = 11...and/or noticing that the ten frame is missing 2 red dots, so you could move up 2 of the blue dots up to the 8, therefore making 10, then having to add only 1; and/or noticing that 2 ten frames equals 20, and 20 take away all the empty spaces - of which there 2 in one, and 7 in the other - which makes 9, and 20 - 9 = 1). Students were encouraged to notice lots of things about each picture - if students didn't 'see' the other math happening, that is okay; through Math Talks all students will being see math fact families in different ways.
- Science & Health - Students began to fill in their Heartsmart Kids work book (Grades 2 - 3) that focuses on cardiovascular health and healthy eating.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 15th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus and the Roman Centurion & his servant.
- LA - Students read their written responses to their pen pals to practice their fluency. They will be recording their reading beginning on Monday. The video will be uploaded to the student's FreshGrade portfolio for parents to view by the end of the week (hopefully). Students who were done were taught how to make a 8 page book with a single piece of paper and no staples or tape.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR & Home Reading Book Exchange - While students were reading quietly at their desks, they were encouraged to take home reading books at their current reading level.
- Math - Students continued learning about pictographs and answered a variety of questions based on different pictographs.
- Art - Students were given some time to work on their books from this morning, or create new ones. Some students chose to continue working on Math and logged into their Prodigy account.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 14th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Mini-lesson on Respect.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus' sermon on the mount.
- LA - Students continued working on their letters to their pen pals.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax while listening to quiet music.
- Math - Students were introduced to pictographs.
- LA - Students continued to work on their letters to their pen pals (letter, corrections, picture, and envelope).
- Board Games - When students were done all three parts of their letters, they were allowed to work on art, or play board games quietly.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard about Jesus and the Pool of Bethesda.
- LA - Students continued writing their pen pals. This time, students focused on answering their pen pal's questions and coming up with other questions (e.g. What are you looking forward to at Christmas?).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students played Dodge Ball.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Talk 2 - Students recapped what they learned yesterday, and the teacher introduced the next number talks, which was focusing on ten-frames (two stacked rows of five boxes, with coloured dots in them). Students were selected at random and asked to explain what they see, and how they counted a certain ten-frame.
- Clean up.
- Buddies - Students read with their Grade 7 buddy, and then created artwork with them.
- Dismissal.
November 12th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus calling Matthew to be one of his followers.
- LA - Students began writing their letter to their Grade 2 pen pal from Christ the King. Students were asked the parts of a letter, and what we should write (e.g. Dear _____: Hi! My name is ______. I am in Grade 2 at Holy Family. I am ___ years old. My favourite thing to do is ______.) Students stopped there today. Tomorrow we will answer our pen pal's questions and ask them questions. We are hoping to send back the letter by the end of this week.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Arctic Sports practice.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students did their first "Number Talks". Each student had a white board and a dry erase marker. I put up some numbers and students, instead of answering orally, or on paper, they answered on their white boards. The teachers circulated around the room to check students' understanding. The topics covered today were place value (understanding that the '5' in 54 isn't actually 5, it means '5 groups of 10'); and an introduction to data and graphs.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR/Home Reading Book Exchange.
- Prayer - Students heard the stories of Jesus curing lepers and the paralytic man.
- Snack - Students were given snack early as it was forecasted that it would be cold during morning recess.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students practiced Arctic Circle Sports.
- Class Party - Students changed into their PJs, brought in their own stuffed animals, and watched a VeggieTales movie (Larry and the Bad Apple - A Lesson About Temptation). Students were given popcorn, and in celebration of a student's upcoming birthday, they were treated to a dairy-free and egg-free cupcake.
- Clean up - Oh so much clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus healing Simon Peter's mother-in-law, as well as many other people afflicted with other things around the Sea of Galiliee.
- LA - The Enemy: A Story About Peace - Students were read this book today as it ties into our Remembrance Day celebration this afternoon. The story tries to explain the messy truth that our enemies are people too, with loves, cares, and families, and often, war is not started by individuals but by nations and people get conscripted into it. When students were done, they were given their first Pen Pal's letter from the Grade 2 class at Christ the King. Tomorrow we will be working on our responses.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Practice for Remembrance Day - Students were re-told the expectations during our Remembrance Day ceremony.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited (encouraged) to quiet their mind, let their mouths rest, and do something quiet while listening to Harry Connick, Jr.'s Little Dancing Girl.
- Art - Students created art while waiting to be called down to the ceremony.
- Remembrance Day Ceremony.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
November 5th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer & Remembrance Day Discussion.
- LA - Students wrote on our poppy wreath one way the could be peaceful.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were put with new teachers to ensure that they are exposed to different styles of teaching and they are learning different skills than they would if they were always with the same grouping and teachers. These groups will last until Christmas Break.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were assessed one-on-one on geometry. Students were tasked with creating at least 3 polygonal shapes (e.g. triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, and octagon). This video will be uploaded to the students' FreshGrade digital portfolios to share with parents.
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
November 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Nicodemus and Jesus, and then Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote about their weekend (e.g. if they went trick-or-treating, with who, what did they get, what was their favourite treat, etc...). Students who were done with their corrections, worked through a Remembrance Day booklet.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Prize Box - Students who reached a level of 40, 60, 80, 100, etc... where given a reward for their home reading.
- Math - Students practiced with a geo-board (a peg board) and elastic to create the polygons we know (triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, and octagon). They did this to practice their shapes for when they make a video to upload to FreshGrade.
- Clean up.
- Fire Drill (Grab and Go) - Students evacuated the school to practice their fire evacuation preparedness (Primary were out in 1:17).
- Silent Ball.
- Dismissal.
November 1st, 2019
- I can post an answer to 'what did you learn to day?' and say: I learned that amazing kids come from amazing parents. Thank you to all of you who were able to make it to Parent/Teacher interviews. I was able to meet most of my students' parents by the end of the day, and for that I am thankful. I look forward to having an open dialogue with you throughout this school. Please let me know if there are any concerns, questions, comments, and/or suggestions.
October 31st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- LA - Students were show how letters are just symbols that all had decided have a specific sound/shape, but it could have been different (like x could mean the letter 'x', or the roman numeral 10, or x could also mean 'by' as in 'multiplied by', so it all depends on what we see/learn. With that students were given morning message they had to decode with a key (e.g. A is a black ghost, B is a black kitten').
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students went to the Grade 3 class and we shared our stories with them, and they shared their stories with us. Good times were had by all.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Costume Parade - Primary students held a costume parade in the gym and danced to some Halloween songs. The Intermediate students joined in.
- Art & Craft/ADST (Applied Design, Skills, and Technology) - Students put together their own Halloween board game based on the snakes and ladder style of games.
- Clean up - Students helped clean up the disaster area that was our classroom this afternoon.
- Dismissal.
October 30th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus throwing the money-lenders out of the temple. Students then also heard how Halloween came from All Hallows Eve and a Celtic Pre-Christian ritual. Father Swavic (from Sacred Heart Cathedral) came in to introduce himself to the students.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were partnered up and they read their Spooky Stories to each other. Students also were shown the 'One Star & One Wish' activity, where the reader reads their story, and the listener says one thing they liked about the story, and one thing they wish the author could do the next time they write (this is couched as not a mean thing to say...more like: 'Try working on .... next time'; 'It'd be cool if you... next time'.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Library - Students got a sneak peak of the book fair.
- Math - Students built a 3D hexagonal box to colour and take home.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Mrs. Spencer read a few pages from a book that explains that our brains are like computers that stores lots of information, and feelings, and that every time you do something or say something, another person is making a feeling about you (if you are mean to someone, then that other person feels like scared, or hurt, and won't want to play with the first person).
- LA - Students finished off their Spooky Words, Spooky Sentences write. Students were given words that had to be categorized in nouns, verbs, or adjectives. Once that was done, they used those words to make 'spooky sentences' to create a story. Students made corrections and wrote out a good draft. They will be reading it to the Grade 3s on Halloween during Guided Reading block.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Math (& catch-up work) - Students who were not done their math, or their Spooky Words, Spooky Sentences write, and/or their My Favourite Thing About the Winter Is write, they had the hour to complete it. Once students were done, they were able to go on Prodigy Math until 2:05.
- Halloween Discussion - Students were told that they could bring their costumes on Halloween if they wish. Costumes will be worn in the afternoon (time will be given AFTER lunch) to change. No weapons are allowed (no foam swords, plastic knives, foam/plastic nunchucks, etc...). Hoods and masks are okay so long as when any teacher asks, the student removes it. There will be a costume parade at 12:45 in the gym, and then there will be a few activities (like Math games, and board games, some arts and crafts, etc...). If the student doesn't want to bring their costume, they are welcome to bring their pjs to school and be in them for the afternoon. There will be no sweets, treats, or sugar candy given out...I'm sure they'll have more than enough later on...
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 23rd, 2019
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus and Mary and Joseph going to the Passover celebration and Jesus staying behind in the temple to preach for 3 days.
- LA - Students heard the story called "Hey! That's My Monster!", about an older brother who uses a monster (as a metaphor) to help him get to sleep, but he realizes that his little sister needs another way (very different way) to fall asleep. Students were first engaged in a conversation about different habits (or tricks, tools) to help us calm down and fall asleep. These were put on the board to illustrate that the way I might calm myself at night might not be the same for another person with different needs.
- Recess.
- Grade 4 Bible Celebration - All Holy Family students participated in this celebration which included a Catholic Mass.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued their Data, Sorting, and Grouping booklets from yesterday. See Oct. 22nd entry below for more details.
- New Learning Skills - Students were assigned plicker cards (like QR codes) and were engaged in a fun 5 question quiz. This was practice for students to get used to the format. Soon, there will be a 5 question quiz on Geometry (covering shapes we know, have used, and practiced categorizing) using the plickers format. Once students were done, they were allowed to do 10 minutes of Prodigy.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 22nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus escaping to Egypt to avoid being found by Kind Herod, as well as the account of Jesus growing up.
- LA - Students began their Halloween themed short story. The students were presented with a list of Halloween words and had to organize them into nouns, verbs, or adjectives (words that describe (or add detail to) a noun). The students will then make sure that each sentence will have a noun, verb and an adjective.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students began their data and sorting unit. Students were given various objects/letters/symbols/shapes and students had to group them into the correct grouping according to the criteria dictated (e.g. shapes with 5 straight lines; or 'triangles with dots in them'; or 'upper case letters'. Students who completed their assigned sheets were able to do Prodigy on the computer/iPad for a few minutes until it was time for PE. Students cleaned up before gym and put on their outside gear and got ready to go outside early.
- P.E. - Students played outside as the From the Ground Up boxes were being set up in the gym.
- Dismissal.
October 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students had to complete their 'Favourite thing to do in the Winter" write - including their graphic organizer, good copy, and picture (with colour).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished current their Jump Math booklets on geometry. Students learned to identify shapes by their proper names and characteristics (e.g. a hexagon has 6 sides; a heptagon has 7 sides, a pentagon has 5 sides, and octagon has 8 sides, a quadrilateral has 4 sides and could be any four sided shape, etc...). Students who completed their math books (and corrections if they had any) had 20 minutes of Prodigy Math on the iPad.
- Science + LA - Story - Over and Under the Snow - this book ties into our winter writing project, as well as our science unit on life cycles, adaptations, and habitats of woodland creatures.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - Discussion on making good choices and the consequences of not making good choices during learning and instructional time. Students were asked to look to the right, then to the left. Then, forward, and backwards. If in any direction they can see, interact, touch, or talk to their best friend (the ones they cannot stop laughing with), then they were asked to reflect on whether during learning/instruction time, this was a good choice on their part. If it was not, they were encouraged to move to a better choice. Students were told that of course, at recess, or free time, they can hang out and laugh. Many students took this opportunity and switched spots quietly. Students were also informed that both I and the EA are spending a lot of time correcting behaviours of students who are not ready to learn in that moment. Those students will be asked (politely) to leave the class if they are distracting and taking away learning opportunities for others. There will be no yelling, chastising, etc...When the student is ready to come back, they may do so and try again. If they missed learning time, they will be expected to do the work during recess, PE, or computer time.
- LA - Double OREO graphic organizer writing continued from previous days - OREO stands for Opinion, Reason, Example, Reason, Example, and Re-state opinion (closing sentence). We are writing about our favourite thing to do in the winter. Students were provided sentence frames if they needed it. Sentence frames consisted of sentences like "One of my favourite things to do in the winter is....". "You can....". "I like... because...". "You can also...". That is why....is my favourite thing to do in the winter". Students were expected to get to the second reason in their OREO. Some students completed their graphic organizer and will get to work on their good copy on Monday.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E./Skating.
- Snack & Home Reading Rewards.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 8th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jeremiah the Prophet.
- Zones of Regulation.
- Body Break - GoNoddle.
- LA - Brainstorming on our three favourite things to look forward to when Winter comes (e.g. making snowpeople, snow angels, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Christmas break, skiing, hockey, etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to sit back (or lie down) and relax to some calm music for 5 minutes. This is an important skill to have in order for our brains to rest, reset, and be ready to learn.
- Math - Students completed their worksheets from yesterday. Today's focus was on vertices (a fancy name for corners, or a point where two lines in a shape meet), and sides. Students should have noticed that when there is a closed shape, the number of vertices and sides are the same (e.g. a triangle has 3 vertices, and three sides); if the shape is open or 'broken', then that can change the ratio (e.g. triangular shape that has one side where the two lines don't meet would still have 3 sides but only two vertices).
- Clean up.
- Library.
- Dismissal.
October 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Elijah and the Flaming Chariot.
- LA - The teacher read the story Green Wilma that had a really cool plot twist that made the children reflect on the events of the story in a different way. Students shared their interpretations of the ending.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students used blocks to measure each side of rectangles and other polygons noting that certain sides are the same length. Students then added up the four (or more) sides of their shape to find the perimeter. Students also learned about closed line shapes and open lined shapes (e.g. a circle or square is a closed line shape, and a spiral is an open lined shape). Students who were done were able to log into Prodigy math for about 15 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Guidance – Students re-watched the two interactive Social Express videos from yesterday on interrupting and on being part of a group.
- Zones of Regulation - See previous days for further information.
- Body Break – GoNoodle.
- Prayer – Students heard the story of Elijah and the Prophets of Baal.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- LA – Students wrote about what they are thankful for, and wrote it on a mini card and then coloured it. This is in preparation for the Holy Family’s Thanksgiving Celebration on Wednesday.
- Math – Students logged on to Prodigy math and played on it for 30 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 3rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Zones of Regulation - See Oct. 2nd and Oct. 1st notes for more information.
- Prayer - Students heard the story story of Solomon praying for wisdom to lead his people.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students heard the story "The Tale of Two Beasts" by Fiona Roberton. The story focuses on the adage "There are two sides to every story" and is told in two parts. In Part One, a little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then, in Part Two, the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who force-fed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? A Tale of Two Beasts is an eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. Students discussed how each person has a different perspective, likes, and sometimes, when we say or do things, it might not 'translate' to the other person. Students also talked about what being empathetic means.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about vertices (a fancy-shmancy way of saying corners - or the point where two straight lines meet). Students also learned helpful prefixes and suffixes that can help them remember what characteristics a shape has (e.g. triangle - prefix 'tri' means 3 in latin, and 'angle' means the inside measurement of a corner; therefore a triangle has three angles, three sides, and three vertices).
- Guidance - Students participated in two interactive videos about being part of the group (what that looks like and sound like) and interrupting (again, what that looks like and sounds like). Grade 2 is struggling with this as of late and we are working on this as our goal.
- Science - Students learned about the life cycle of a sea turtle.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 2nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR - Students heard the story of David recapturing the ark, as well as building the temple.
- Zones of Regulation Check In - Students moved around to different areas of the room based on their moods/emotions.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students heard the story The Empty Pot, about a boy named Ping that is honorable and honest.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished up their measurement booklets, then had some time on their Mathletics account.
- Buddies - Grade 7 came to our classroom and helped the Grade 2s set up their Prodigy Math accounts.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
October 1st, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements
- Music.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of David vs. Goliath.
- Zones of Regulation - Students participated in an activity based on the zones of regulation where they moved around the room according to their moods. Students were asked if they were in the Blue Zone (sad, sick, tired, bored, moving slowly), the Green Zone (happy, calm, feeling okay, focused, ready to learn), the yellow zone (frustrated, worried, silly/wiggly, excited, loss of some control), or in the red zone (mad/angry, mean, terrified, yelling/hitting, out of control). Students were told that they could be in two (or more) different zones as feelings are complicated. We will be doing this as a check in each morning (when possible).
- LA - Students were read the story "Mmmm Cookies" by Robert Munch. Students focused on onomatopoeia (words that sound like their sound - like scrape, gush, woosh, zoom, etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students were given three referents to measure by (a block, a paper clip, or a piece of string) and had to justify, in words, why they would choose that particular referent over another one when measuring a object (such as a chalk board, an eraser, a book, and a water bottle).
- Science (& Music) - All Holy Family students attended an environmental interactive concert. The same performers will be performing at the Old Fire Hall at 2:30 on Saturday as part of the Break Out West music festival. The Old Fire Hall performance is completely free.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 30th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of God picking David above his brothers as a leader for the people of Israel.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were read the first part of Three Questions (based on a Leo Tolstoy story). The story is about a boy who embarks on a quest to find the answer to his three questions. Those questions are: "When is the best time to do things?"; "Who is the most important one?"; and "What is the right thing to do?".
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students read with their guided reading teacher then did various language activities.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students were taken around a few cul-de-sacs to drop off bags for the annual all schools Food Drive.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students measured various things around the room (like tables, mugs, books, pencils, etc...) with a piece of string and blocks. Students were introduced to estimating when it comes to length (e.g. the pencil is about 4 blocks long).
- LA - Students were read the last part of book Three Questions. The main character in the story finds out that the answer to "When is the best time to do things?" is 'now'; the answer to "Who is the most important one?" is 'the one you are with'; and finally, the answer to "What is the right thing to do?" is 'to do something good for the one who is standing beside you'. The lesson the boy learns in the end is that to be present and not be always wishing he was dong something else.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 24th, 2019
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- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joshua calls Israel to witness.
- LA - Students read a story by themselves and answered comprehension questions.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - See below (September 23rd, 2019).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lie back and listen to some relaxing music.
- Math - Students continued their pattern work, focusing on showing patterns in different ways. Example:
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- DEAR.
- Library.
- Clean up.
September 23rd, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses worshipping in the desert and his death. Students then heard the story of Joshua and walls of Jericho.
- LA/Science - Students read a factual story about Kangaroos and then answered some reading comprehension questions on what they read.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Different groups of students read with their guided reading teacher. While students were waiting or done with their guided reading teacher, they were able to be on the computer and spent 10 minutes on tumblebooks (audio/visual children's books online) and 10 minutes on abcya.com and only on the 'Letters' section (that focuses on words, nouns, verbs, etc...).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Class discussion about appropriate lunch behaviour (e.g. no throwing food, no sharing food, no screaming, etc...).
- DEAR.
- LA - Students watched a story called "Chester's Way", which was presented in animation, as well as in ASL (American Sign Language). Students then helped create a web with the characters names and their similarities and differences. Finally, students were asked to think about what they believe would happen if the story continued (e.g. didn't end there; continued on for another 4 pages).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 20th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Swim Lessons (7 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Different groups of students read with their guided reading teacher. While students were waiting or done with their guided reading teacher, they were able to be on the computer and spent 10 minutes on tumblebooks (audio/visual children's books online) and 10 minutes on abcya.com and only on the 'Letters' section (that focuses on words, nouns, verbs, etc...).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Terry Fox Run.
- Math - Students worked on addition questions.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 19th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Swim Lesson (6 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Different groups of students read with their guided reading teacher. While students were waiting or done with their guided reading teacher, they were able to be on the computer and spent 10 minutes on tumblebooks (audio/visual children's books online) and 10 minutes on abcya.com and only on the 'Letters' section (that focuses on words, nouns, verbs, etc...).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA - Story telling and writing.
- Fire Alarm - The fire alarm rang at about 2:15. This was not a drill, and it looks like the fire alarm was also tripped at Porter Creek High School at the same time, so both PC and Holy Family evacuated and the fire chief and a fire truck came to ensure that it was a false alarm.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Swim Lessons (5 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Different groups of students read with their guided reading teacher. While students were waiting or done with their guided reading teacher, they were able to be on the computer and spent 10 minutes on tumblebooks (audio/visual children's books online) and 10 minutes on abcya.com and only on the 'Letters' section (that focuses on words, nouns, verbs, etc...).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lie down and listen to Michael Nyman's score from the movie The Piano.
- Math - Students worked on their pattern booklet.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 17th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Swim Lesson (4 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Different groups of students read with their guided reading teacher. While students were waiting or done with their guided reading teacher, they were able to be on the computer and spent 10 minutes on tumblebooks (audio/visual children's books online) and 10 minutes on abcya.com and only on the 'Letters' section (that focuses on words, nouns, verbs, etc...).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax, switch off their brain for a bit and listen to the song "Yahweh" by Elevation Worship.
- Math - Students created patterns by following the instructions (e.g. "Create a pattern where the shape changes; create another pattern where the it changes by colour AND shape; etc...").
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 16th 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses coming down the mountain to find the Israelites worshiping a golden calf.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were read "The Tea Party in the Woods" by Akiko Miyakoshi. As we read the story, the students were encouraged to ask relevant questions every few pages.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were introduced to the format of the guided reading block, and they were introduced to the teacher and other students who will be in their group starting tomorrow. Students will go with other students who have similar reading levels and they will do small group work with a teacher (either the Librarian, the Grade 7 teacher, the Grade 3 teacher, or an EA. When students have read with their teacher they will go back to their original classroom and continue to do work there (e.g. LA Reading and Comprehension sheets, word searches, activities based on their books they read, tumblebooks, and the 'letters' section of abcya.com).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to stretch, or be at their desk with their head down, and listen to Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight".
- Math - Students learned how to identify different attributes in patterns (e.g. the patter is organized/changing by size and shape; or by direction and thickness, etc...).
- Science - Students began watching a Bill Nye the Science Guy video on Metamorphic and Non-Metamorphic life cycles.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
September 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Swim Lessons (3 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were called outside the classroom to read for their DART assessment (see Sept. 12th and and 10th notes for further information).
- Assembly - All grades attendance today's Terry Fox Pep Rally. Students watched a short video about Terry Fox, his struggles, and his legacy. Students then heard from a member of our staff that has been cancer free for 8 years now (whoo-hoo!) due to donations that helped spur innovations in cancer treatment.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Israelites arriving at the foot of Mount Sinai and Moses and Joshua going up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments from God. A brief, age appropriate, discussion was had on what each commandment means. Students were asked to pray for patience, more kindness, and for those who are sick.
- LA - Students were read a story called "Memoirs of a Goldfish", about a goldfish who is bored in his bowl. Slowly his tank gets filled and he begins to get annoyed at the extra fish and snails. Eventually, he gets annoyed and mad and is put in another bowl. At first, he is happy, but over time, he's bored again and realizes that he actually misses his make-shift family. He eventually gets put pack in the original bowl, and he has a different perspective on his life.
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 12th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Swim Lessons @ the CGG (Swim #2 of 7).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about pattern cores (e.g. x o x x o x o x x o x o x x o .... --> x o x x o x o x x o x o x x o -- green being the 'core' of the pattern -- the part that repeats or loops).
- LA - Students were asked to read part of our Fall DART book aloud and asked questions about it (see Sept. 10th, 2019 entry for more information).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 11th, 2019
- O Canada, Attendance, Announcements.
- Swimming.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Math - Students help calculate how many home reading points they need to get to the reward prize box.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Celebration - All the school attended the 1st Holy Family Celebration of the year (presented by Grade 7).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 10th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses and the parting of the Red Sea, and the Israelites receiving manna from Heaven.
- LA - Students were shown the book they will read for the DART (Directed Activities Related to Text) as well as the worksheet so they know what they have to look for when they read it.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading/LA - Students read quietly for 15 minutes. The students then worked on their DARTs. When they were finished, they were given the choice of reading, colouring, or going onto abcya.com to play some educational games.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about the patterns of odd and even numbers as well as ordinal numbers (and their pattern). Odd are 1, 3, 5, 7,9, - and then it keeps repeating - skipping one each time (its 'even' counterpart); even numbers act the same way, but can be divisible by at least 2. To illustrate this, the students were asked to show 2 fingers on each hand to make four - observing that each hand has the same amount as the other one. Students were then asked to show the number seven on their hands (3 fingers on one hand, 4 on the other hand)...this is odd because it cannot be split evenly into two parts with equal amounts. Students then were show that a number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 will always be odd because the odd number is in the 'ones' column (therefore 10 867 900 833 will be always odd because the ones column is a 3, which is odd. Ordinal numbers (or, placement order, numerical order) are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th...and that continues the same (the '-th' continues for the 'teen' numbers, but then revert back to st, nd, rd, th....
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 9th, 2019
- O Canadas, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the first Passover (and why its called the 'Passover').
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - School Wide Write - Brainstorming. Students used a graphic organizer to write down, in point form, their 3 favourite things to do and at least one reason why the enjoy doing that activity.
- Recess.
- Assembly - Primary students went to the gym to hear the From the Ground Up presentation (a healthy initiative fundraiser where half of the money for the vegetable boxes sold stay in the school to purchase things for the school). The money raised from last year was enough to buy a water bottle filling station for our school - which has so far saved 3800 water bottles from being recycled/thrown out.
- LA - Students continued to work on their brainstorming session from earlier about their three favourite things to do and why.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - School Wide Write - Students were given ample opportunity to work on their School Wide Write.
- Math - When students were finished their School Wide Write, they were allowed to go onto Mathletics for the first time. Mathletics is a subscription based site that has students practice math skills in a fun and interactive way.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard two stories of Moses - Moses as a baby, being put in a basket and floated down the river to escape certain death, then being adopted and raised by the princess; and the story of Moses and the burning bush.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were told that on Monday, they will be participating in the School Wide Write (each grade in the Yukon does this twice a year - once in the fall, and once in the spring - to set a benchmark for writing). The theme this fall is "My 3 Favourite Things and Why I Like Them".
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were put with random partners to do a "think-pair-share" activity on "My 3 Favourite Things and Why I Like Them". The think-pair-share activity is done by having all students think about the topic by themselves (silently). Then they are paired up with a random person (not their best friend) and they then 'share' their ideas on the question. Finally, they share it with the whole class.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lean back (or lie down) and listen to two songs; Max Richter's A Catalogue of Afternoons, and Michael Nyman's main piece from the movie The Piano.
- Catch Up Hour - Students had 1 hour to finish all pending work (this included Math, LA, and Science work) that was started but not completed because of factors such as talking, playing instead of working, not asking for help, or rushing and making mistakes.
- Silent Ball - Students were introduced to a game where they are allowed to sit on top of their desks and throw a dodgeball around the class. The object of the game is to silently throw the ball to another player; if the player drops it, they are out. There is not talking, no sound effects in this game. If a student talks, they are out. If they drop the ball, they are out. If they hit someone in the head with the dodgeball, they are out.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 5th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the abridged story of Joseph being sold into slavery.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students re-read the story A Hundred Million Kisses (from yesterday). This re-read was done by the teacher to the whole class. (This was to ensure that students had an opportunity to hear the story being told fluently before having to arrange the mix and match sheet that the students coloured yesterday.)
- Recess.
- Guided Reading/LA - Students re-read the story A Hundred Million Kisses with a different partner than yesterday (student-partner reading). Students, when done, were able to finish colouring their sheet, cutting it out, and arrange it so that that the person matches their sentence. Once they were done that, and it was marked, the students were able to go onto www.abcya.com.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on finishing their latest Math booklet (on creating word problems from pictures - e.g.: a picture of "A frog catches 4 flies, and 3 got away" can turn into "There are 7 flies. 4 flies were eaten by a frog. How many were left? 3 flies got away.").
- LA - Students who were not completed their LA work on A Hundred Million Kisses had time to do so.
- Science - Students who finished their math, and LA, had time to finish the Frog Life Cycle.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours.
- LA - Students read the story One Hundred Million Kisses in groups of two. Students then coloured a mix and match sheet based on the events in the story. Tomorrow students will cut and paste the story in the right order.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading: Students read quietly to themselves and then were able to practice logging on to a computer and navigating to www.abcya.com. Students then played educational word and spelling games for 15 minutes.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Fire Drill.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lie back (or sit comfortably), and listen to Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight".
- Math - Students began tackling their first word problems and learning how to construct numeracy sentences (e.g. 7 - 2 = 5; Seven cars were in the parking lot. Two cars left. How many cars are left in the parking lot? 7 cars).
- Science - Students continued to work on their Frog Life Cycle.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 3rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Prayer - Students heard a short Old Testament story, then recited the Our Father.
- Guidance - Students learned about differences between each other, and on treating others the way they would like to be treated (as well as a brief discussion about empathy).
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Fundations lesson of 'k' sounds (e.g. 'c', 'k', and 'ck'; 'k' is usually only used with short vowel sounds (like the 'i' in 'milk').
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Student heard the story of an imaginary friend who never gets chosen to play with real-life children.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students played capture the flag outside.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lie on the floor and quietly listen to Sigur Ros' "Untitled #3".
- Math - Students continued on with their numeracy skills, focusing on their continuous learning that numbers like '17' are not a '1' and '7' put together, it is '1 group of 10' and '7 ones'.
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 30th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students recited the Our Father.
- LA - Fundations lesson on digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck) and blends ('sl' in 'slip').
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Silent reading. Then, students heard the story of Ordinary Mary and her Extraordinary Deed, in which our titular Mary picks some blueberries and gives them to neighbour how then bakes muffins with them and passes them on to five strangers. Those five strangers then pay it forward to 5 others, etc....until all six billion people in the world were affected by Mary's deed in one way or another. The main lesson today was being nice, kind, and helping others if possible, and not polluting negativity everywhere.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued to work on their Math, focusing on adding up from the bigger number (e.g. 10 + 3 = 10, 11, 12, 13), and understanding that the '1' in '13' is not a one, its one group of ten and three ones.
- Science - Students finished colouring their Frog Life Cycles. Some students were able to glue it together in the correct order.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Lot.
- LA - Students participated in a Fundation lesson on digraphs ('wh, ch, sh, th, ck' that goes either at the beginning of a word or at the end of the word.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were read two stories. One was on being present in our learning; the other story was a Leo Lionni book.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to listen to Breathing Star by Allena Johnson and relax.
- Math - Students continued on working on adding up from a larger number (e.g. 6 + 2 can be figured out counting up two more spaces after 6 - so 6, 7, 8).
- Guidance - Social Express lesson on Whole Body Listening (what does it look like, what does it sound like; eyes forward, sitting up straight, don't talk over teacher, etc...).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 28th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - Students wrote about their favourite colour(s) and why they like them (e.g. I love the colours orange, yellow, and red. I like them because they remind me of a campfire).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were read the story "A Colour of his Own" by Leo Lionni.
- LA - Students completed a Fundations lesson (focusing on tapping out sounds e.g. "mat"; "mmm -- a -- t").
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Class Discussion & Guidance - Social Express lesson about "It's too loud" (being mindful of people's ears).
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to lie down and listen to Max Richter's Path 5 (delta) from this opus "Sleep".
- Math - Students continued to practice their adding and subtracting skills, focusing on any number + 0, or any number - 0 is the same number (e.g. 7 + 0 = 7; 7 - 0 = 7...its the same number because you are adding and/or taking away nothing, so the value doesn't change). Students also began the first steps in understanding that the '1' in '17' isn't a 1; it means '1 group of 10' and '7 ones'.
- Science - Students began colouring the frog life cycle.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 27th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard a brief version of the Tower of Babel story.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Class discussion about the Fundations program.
- Recess.
- Assembly - Mr Hupe went over the rules and expectations for Holy Family students this year (e.g. no toys - of any kind; no cellphones, no iPods, cameras, gaming devices, etc..., unless specifically sanctioned by the teacher).
- Guided Reading - Student were read a book called Art and Max. The strategy we were focusing on today in our reading is Inferring (The ability to decipher or discover clues about the story by using our eyes, the information on the page, and logical assumptions).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax and listen to Yo La Tengo's "Green Arrow" instrumental song.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Math - Students worked on adding and subtracting skills. In adding, we are working on remembering in 'add up' from the big number (instead of counting up from zero, count up from the biggest number you have - if the question is 6 + 2, it isn't efficient to count 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5,6 7, 8 to get to the answer; it's much more efficient to count from six and count up two spots - 6, 7, 8).
- Library.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 26th, 2019
7 apples ___, ___, ___. ___. 7 apples, 8, 9, 10, 11.
__ is 4 more than ___. 11 is 4 more than 7.
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Cain and Abel, as well as the story of Noah and his Ark.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote about what happened over the weekend. Students were encouraged to write complete sentences with detail (e.g. This weekend, I had a playdate. It was fun. We played on the trampoline.).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were read "Sometimes I like to Curl up in a Ball". Prior to reading the story, the students were engaged in a conversation about things we like to do that make us happy. After reading, students drew and coloured a picture that showed the activities that make them happy.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax and listen to Moby's 'Hymn' instrumental.
- Math - Students worked on three pages of math. They focused on counting onwards (counting up). An example the way that this is taught in Grade 2:
7 apples ___, ___, ___. ___. 7 apples, 8, 9, 10, 11.
__ is 4 more than ___. 11 is 4 more than 7.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Science - Students learned about the life cycle of frogs (from egg, to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to froglet, and finally, adult frog). Students were reminded that frogs are examples of a metamorphic life cycle.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 23rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard an abbreviated version of the exile of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
- LA - Students wrote about their favourite foods - focusing on complete sentences with capitals and periods.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were read the story "Hooway for Wodney Wat!". Students were then invited to share their connections. Student then wrote their connections on a sheet and added a picture.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax, lie down, and be still while listening to Han Zimmer's instrumental "You're So Cool". Students were then invited to share their images and feelings they had while listening.
- Math - Students continued their work in their Jump Math booklet - focusing on comparing quantities (e.g. "There are 5 more spiders than ants"; "There are 3 fewer ants than spiders".
- Guidance - Students watched an interactive video that focused on personal space, being safe and being respectful.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
August 22nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard an abbreviated version of the creation of Adam and Eve. We finished prayer by reciting the Our Father.
- LA - Journal Writing - Students wrote about two things that happened over the summer.
- Recess.
- Assembly - Students attended a discussion on Brownies and Scouts.
- LA - Journal Writing continued.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Mindfulness - Students were invited to find a spot to lie down and listen to an instrumental (Ray Lynch's Celestial Soda Pop - from 1984). Students were asked to share their thoughts, feelings, and images that stemmed from listening to the song.
- Math - Students began their Jump Math work. They worked on matching numbers to quantities (sides of dice to numbers), and finding which object was higher in quantity than the other one.
- Science - Students began learning about life cycles. Students were shown pictures of two types of life cycles - metamorphic and non-metamorphic. Students were asked to look at the pictures on the mini-poster and try to figure out what the difference between metamorphic and non-metamorphic mean (e.g. frogs vs. owl - a frog's body drastically changes during youth (tadpole to tadpole with legs, to young froglet, etc...), where as an owl grows in size but doesn't grow new body parts...because that would be weird).
- Clean up - Students helped clean up the classroom and were given their new planners. There was a mix up with the planners - the ones we handed out yesterday were to go to Kindergarten, and we were supposed to get the smaller ones with the moose on the cover. If your child read yesterday, it was marked down on a tally sheet.
- Dismissal.
August 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were read the first story of the Catholic Children's Bible. These are short one page stories that give key teaching. Today's story was how God created the Heaven and Earth and populated with animals and all sorts of creatures. We finished our reading by reciting the Our Father.
- LA - All About Me - Students were asked to fill out a "fill in the blanks" worksheet in order for the teacher to learn a bit about each student (and gauge their writing skills).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - In the coming weeks, students will be broken up into groups between Grade 2 and Grade 3. They will grouped by reading level and they will work with a teacher on reading and comprehension, as well as fluency and vocabulary, skills. Today, we read two stories by Oliver Jeffers (Stuck, and Lost and Found). Students were invited to share their thoughts on the stories.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Mr. Morrison discussed one of our school's "Three B's" (Be Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible), and what being safe looks like.
- DEAR.
- Binder Set Up - Teacher explained how to set up binders for the whole school year. There is one section for LA (Language Arts), one for Math, one for Science, one for Socials, and one for Other (such as Guidance work, Art, etc...).
- LA - While some students were finishing up work, the teacher read one more story by Oliver Jeffers (Up and Down).
- Clean up - Students cleaned up the classroom and then were given their planners for the year.
- Dismissal.
June 14th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Student Film Fest - Students showed their various stop motion animation films to a few teachers. Students then made some art, had a snack, and went outside a bit early.
- Recess.
- Religion - Students participated in the annual Holy Family Closing Ceremony, where each grade shares what they learned during prayer and in religion classes.
- Recess.
- Lunch - While students ate, they watched a little bit of a VeggieTales movie.
- P.E. - Grade 1 - 6 swim. All students from Grade 1 - 6 went swimming from 1 PM to 2:30.
- Report Cards.
- Dismissal.
June 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - Students learned about the lives of Saints Kateri Tekakwitha (daughter of a Mohawk chief and a Christian Algonquin) who died in 1680, and Saint Paul who died around the year 67.
- LA/ADST/Art - Students independently created some new stop motion animations. Some students worked alone, while others collaborated. This activity was very much a 'hands-off' kind of teaching...if students faced a problem, they had to solve it themselves. The results were uploaded to each participating child's FreshGrade portfolio for immediate viewing.
- Recess.
- Awards Celebration.
- LA/ADST/Art - Students finished up their projects. Some students chose to make multiple films. Then students cleaned up.
- Recess.
- Lunch - Students were able to have hotdogs for lunch if they wished.
- P.E. - Students played floor hockey in the gym.
- Fun Day - Students went around the school finding and participating events that the Grade 7s hosted.
- Clean up and pack up - Students were told to take their binders, hats, water bottles, toys, etc... home. If they are left on Friday after school they will be recycled.
- Dismissal.
June 12th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Class Discussion - Students were told the expectations of the swim with the Grade 6s.
- Swim - Students swam with the Grade 6s.
- Snack.
- Computers - We got back to the school at 11:10, so they students, after having a snack, had 20 minutes on the computers if they wanted them. They were also offered the option of colouring, drawing, writing, or planning their stop motion animation for this afternoon.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA/ASDT/Art - Students either partnered up, or worked solo, creating at least one stop motion animation longer than 10 seconds (about 70 pictures). students were also shown how to add sound effects, theme music, and record their voices.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 11th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance
- Music.
- Library.
- LA - Core Competencies Self Assessment - Students wrote what skills they learned during their foray into stop motion animation and what they wanted to keep practicing. These sheets will be sent home with the report cards.
- Recess.
- LA - Core Competencies Self Assessment - con't.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Show and Share.
- ADST/Art/LA - Students worked on their own stop motion animation videos. Some added sound effects, music, etc... We will continue this tomorrow and Thursday morning.
- Clean up.
- Mini Film Festival - Some students were able to show their work to class.
- Dismissal.
June 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about two saints - Saint Therese of Lisieux and Saint Damien of Molokai.
- Social Studies - See, Wonder, Thought activity - Students, in groups of three, were shown a picture of a desert and made connections and inferences (see June 6th, June 5th, etc...notes for how this activity was taught).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Prize Box Rewards - those who had a multiple of 20 checkmarks got their choice of prize. This is the last prize box awards of the year. Students are still encouraged to read though...especially over the summer.
- Core Competencies - Students were asked to reflect on their behaviour and achievements based on our group work activities. This self-assessment sheet will be sent home in their report card folder (among other self-assessment pieces that will be included).
- Class Party - Students watched VeggieTales Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler - A Lesson in Friendship and had treats. Thank you all the parents who provided snacks. They were delicious.
- Clean up - Oh so much clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard a short history of the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and St. Benedict. Students then prayed the Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
- Social Studies - Students were put into groups of three and asked to repeat the same activity as yesterday (although with different pictures) -We have been focusing on different land formation (valleys, plains, plateaus, hills, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc...) what they See, what they Wonder, and what they Think (inference based on what they saw and what they wondered). Groups presented their sheets to the class.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA/Art/ADST - Students filmed their raw footage for their movie using stop motion techniques (see below for more information).
- Clean up - Oh so much clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 5th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - The teacher read a story called "What Does it Mean to be Present" by Rana DiOrio and Eliza Wheeler. The story helps students understand what being in the present is, and how it can help them at school. One line the teacher particularly liked was "Being present means living in the moment. It means realizing that...yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift - that's why we call it the present!". Students then were asked what does being present mean? What does it look like? What does it sound like? Students then wrote two things (or ways) they can be present in class and present it their life.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA/Art/ADST - LA (Language Arts/Art/Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies) - We welcomed a very special guest into our classroom. She tasked the students with making a clay model of themselves, which they will animate tomorrow. Students were also told that tomorrow they will be assessing themselves in one of the our three Core Competency areas (specifically, Creative Thinking). They were asked to think of a time today during the project, how the might have come across difficulty and how they solved it by trying something different, or changing their plans.
- Clean up - Oh so much clean up.
- Dismissal.
June 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Discussion about Responsibilities - Many students did not bring/take out/show their parents the permission form for our field trip to the Whistle Bend Extended Care home. As a result, students who did not have their forms (that were sent home a week prior to the outing) we told they would stay behind this afternoon.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Field Trip (or Math): Students who had their forms in were allowed to go to Whistle Bend and do an art activity and bingo with the seniors there. Those who did not have their permission forms in completed their Math - focusing on shapes and geometry (spheres, cubes, prisms, and cylinders).
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
June 3rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Social Studies - Land formation of the Yukon and BC - continued from last week (students were shown a picture and asked to work in groups and write down what they See, what they Wonder, and what the Think/Infer).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Shapes - Students learned to the properties of cubes, cylinders, spheres, and cones.
- Science - Water Cycle - video and worksheet.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 30th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students did intentions (prayerful thoughts offered up to God about someone who is deceased, ill, or for someone you worry about). Students then recited the Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
- Social Studies & Core Competencies - Teachers discussed what we observed of them being in a group. Teachers noticed that there was a lot of fighting, fooling around, arguing, and noise. Students were engaged in what respectful disagreeing could look like and sound like; students came up with suggestions. The Social Studies lesson was repeated today with a different picture after the teachers modelled what good group work looks like and what (valid, relevant) inferring means. Groups were slightly more co-operative. Lesson will continue tomorrow with the groups shuffled. Students will not necessarily be in their friends group. Students will be asked to practice their group work skills tomorrow.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA - Frog and Toad Story.
- Swim Lesson #7 of 8.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students prayed for the those affected by wildfires, floods, and tornados. We prayed one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be,
- Social Studies - Students were engaged with a lesson on inferring and were tasked with coming up with a See, Wonder, Think answer with their group. Students were broken up strategically (e.g. not with their best friends) and looked a projected picture of a place in BC/Yukon. They then, in their group, have to come up with some (relevant) about what they SEE, what they WONDER (what questions do we have?), and what they THINK (what do they infer based on what I SEE). Students had difficulties working in groups and taking turns, but this was on purpose. Students will get to re-apply their skills again tomorrow and repeat the lesson with different pictures (there is a total of 7 pictures, so we will be doing this over the course of the next few weeks).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- LA - Students were read a story.
- Swim Lesson # 6 of 8.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
May 28th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Social Studies - Students learned about the difference between Climate and Weather, and we began to talk about how the environment is made up of living and non-living things.
- Recess.
- Bear Aware Safety - Students attended the a discussion hosted by a Conservation Office about they types of bears there are in the Yukon, and how to safely deal with them (what you should do), and how to safely deploy bear spray (students were able to practice with empty cans of bear spray).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Show and Share.
- Swim Lesson # 5 of 8 - Students are being good representatives of Holy Family in the change room and at the pool. Way to go Grade 2!
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
May 27th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students hear the story of Paul and Timothy.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 7 Day 2; and Letter Writing Activity.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued describing patterns (e.g. Starting at 3, add 2 each time).
- Early Dismissal - Students got to play outside for about 25 minutes before the home bell rang.
May 23rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer.
- LA - Daily Edit; Week 7 Day 1. Students then completed a reading and comprehension. If they were all done, and it was marked (and it was correct), they drew a "I'm done, now what can I do?" stick (see May 22nd LA note below this entry). Student who had corrections were asked to stop their 'I'm done' task and correct their work, then return to their 'I'm done' task.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Swim Lesson # 3 out of 8.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 22nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension work - Students read a story by themselves then answered comprehension questions. Students who were done drew a 'I'm done now, what can I do?' stick and did the task that was written on the stick (e.g. Write a letter, do a puzzle, practice sight words with flash cards, etc...). When they were done that, they picked a different one. During this activity, there is no 'cherry-picking' (you get what you get).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Show and Share - students who brought something to show were able to show and, um, share what they brought.
- Swim Lesson # 2 of 8.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
May 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students wrote about 3 things (minimum) that happened over the Victoria Day long weekend.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- PE.
- Swim Lesson #1.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 17, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 6 Review, and Reading and Comprehension mini-booklet.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Guidance/Religion - Veggie Tales - Larry Boy and the Bad Apple - Larry and his friends are besieged by temptation. Students were engaged in a class discussion on temptation (about how even though we could love doing one thing so much, it can cause damage to our responsibilities and our relations). A common thread in the discussion was video games. The teacher's example is that even though he loves video games, if that was all he thought about, wanted to do, and did, he would not be a teacher (or a decent one at least).
- Bonus Recess - Students went outside to enjoy the sun about 15 minutes before the dismissal bell rang.
May 16th, 2019
4 tens, and adding one group of ten each time).
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - All School Write Spring 2019 - Students were given a choice of writing about "My Favourite Thing in the Whole World (and why)", or "My Favourite Toy/Stuffy (and why)". Students were expected to write at least three reasons (and NOT "I like it because it's cool. Its awesome. and its good" (sic).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Patterns - Students practiced describing patterns - whether they were shrinking, repeating, or growing. Students also looked at patterns in a hundreds chart and looked at the ones column number (and described that pattern), and looked at the tens column of a number.
4 tens, and adding one group of ten each time).
- Guidance - Growth Mindset Lesson - Students watched a video of Mojo facing a problem and shutting down and giving up. (The video can be viewed at www.classdojo.com/BigIdeas). Students discussed moments where they felt overwhelmed and felt like giving up (in sports, math, science, etc...). The teacher (me) shared his daily experiences of facing challenging things. Homework: Students will interview a parent. Students were asked to talk (and write down) the biggest challenge their parent faced today; How the parent and child think about the challenge in a new way; and if the parent is faced with the same challenge tomorrow, what would they do differently. This is a take home assignment and does not have to be completed until after the long weekend.
- Music.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 15th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - DARTs - Students did the spring 2019 DARTs (District Assessment of Reading Test). The students did one at the beginning of the year on Hairy Caterpillars. This one was on Travelling Animals. Students read the text independently, then filled out a questionnaire. Students then were pulled out of class one by one to read a short passage (from the same text) with the teacher and orally answer 4 questions. Not all students were done today. Those that haven't read today will read tomorrow with the teacher.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students finished off the assignment from yesterday.
- Buddies - Grade 7 came and read to the Grade 2s, and the Grade 2s read to the Grade 7s.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 14th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students prayed recited one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
- LA - Fundations lesson - suffixes 'er', 'ed', 'est'.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued working on understanding and explaining patterns (e.g. 14 (-5) 11 (-5) 6 (-5) 1 = start at 14 and subtract 5 each time).
- Art/Computers - Students who were done their math and had no corrections to do were able to have a little bit of free time to do art and/or computers.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students prayed one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
- LA - Commas - Students were introduced to commas, and how important they are to the meaning of the sentence (e.g. slow children at play vs. slow, children at play; or my personal favourite: eat here, and get gas; eat here and get gas). Students completed a worksheet that focused on commas; after they were done that, they worked on their Daily Edit (Week 6 Day 5).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Pattern recognition - Students learned to describe an increasing pattern, and continue said pattern (e.g. 4, 14, ..., ..., ..., ...).
- Art/iPads - Students who had completely and correctly finished the assigned math were given choices: reading, creating art, or do some educational games on the iPad.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 10th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- LA - Super-secret project...
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- LA & Art - Again, super-secret project (shhh)...
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 9th, 2019
59
+ 32
91
Students noted that 9 + 2 is 11, BUT the last digit in eleven (the '1') means one group of ones, and the first digit in eleven (the other '1') refers to one group of tens, therefore we carry, because we add our ones column and then add our tens column.
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students discussed the way God shows his love for humans throughout the ages (through Bible stories, and beyond). Students then prayer Our Father, Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
- Music.
- LA - Fundations Lesson on pluralizing words (-s vs. -es suffixes & when to use). Then students began working on their Daily Edit (Week 6 Day 4).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Outside play.
- DEAR.
- Math - students finished up their math from Tuesday (regrouping/borrowing when subtracting - and only when needed). Students were also introduced to 'carrying' at group of ten when adding. Example:
59
+ 32
91
Students noted that 9 + 2 is 11, BUT the last digit in eleven (the '1') means one group of ones, and the first digit in eleven (the other '1') refers to one group of tens, therefore we carry, because we add our ones column and then add our tens column.
- LA - our Guidance substitute came in to read a story.
- Art - Students began making art out of popsicle sticks. They will be given time to finish off tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 8th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard a story about sharing faith with others. Students then recited the Our Father, a Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 6 Day 3.
- LA - Quotation Marks and Dialogue Tags - Students had to place their quotations marks in the correct position and highlight the dialogue tag (e.g. who is saying the words and how). Example: Daniel and I, Frank explained, wanted to go to the store.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Religion - Third annual Catholic Schools Mass.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of St. Boniface, and prayed the Our Father, one Hail Mary, and a Glory Be.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 6 Day 2.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Students worked on questions that made them ask if they had to regroup/borrow or not. Students were shown examples of when to regroup and when to simply subtract (if your ones column on top is bigger than the bottom ones column, you can subtract without regrouping/borrowing).
- Art - Some students did art, while others were enjoyed watching the Marble Olympics 2019 on youtube.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - We read the stories of St. Andrew and St. Norbert. Students then recited the Our Father, a Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.
- Body Break - Students did 2 GoNoodle activities.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 6 Day 1 (focusing on commas, quotation marks, and adding detail.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Regrouping/Borrowing introduction - Subtracting: Students were introduced to regrouping (or back in my day, borrowing). When subtracting vertically, students look at the ones column and decide if they are able to subtract the ones column without having to go 'next door and knock' for a group of ten to borrow. Students practiced regrouping by taking one group of ten from the tens column and adding it to the ones column (noting that they are not really changing the essential number value). Example: 47
- Art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 2nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - Students prayed one decade of the rosary.
- LA - Quotation Marks Lesson & Daily Edit Week 5 Day 5.
- Library - Students had the opportunity to exchange books.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on corrections from yesterday's math. Those who were done were able to do art or play educational games on the iPads.
- Guidance - Lesson on being in a group (respectful listening and interacting).
- Music.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
May 1st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were read information about the way the Catholic Church honours and celebrates Mary. Students then prayed the Our Father, one Hail Mary, and we closed off prayer with a Glory Be.
- Class Discussion - Students came up with 6 possible consequences for when an individual is being too loud (after being asked 3 times to keep the volume down). These range from losing computer/iPad time, losing free time (all or a portion of), having to take the recycling down to the big containers and sort, etc... All of these suggestions were given by students and written down by the teacher. The teacher then made a smart board poster that will be shown when students are working.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 5 Day 4 - Students were led through an interactive lesson where they got to see what type of editing/grammar skills they would be using today in their Daily Edit. After practicing this, students then completed their edit and had it marked. Once marked students went to their hooks, ate their snack and went outside.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students went outside.
- LA - Students worked on their Hybrid Animal Information Sheet. Students were asked to explain what kinds of features/characteristics their hybrid animal has, what its 'species name' is, what its pet name is, what it eats, what it can do, etc...This will be the basis (or content) of our letter.
- Religion - Students attended the Kindergarten classes' celebration of Spring/Easter New Life.
- DEAR.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 30th, 2019
67 23
- 23 + 44
44 67
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students prayed the Our Father, one decade of the rosary, and closed with a Glory Be.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 5 Day 3 - After being shown examples on the board of the type of editing and grammar skills they will be practicing, students completed their Daily Edit.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- DEAR.
- Math- Number Sense - Students continued to practice their Subtracting Skills; today's lesson focused on vertical subtraction (tens columns and ones columns), as well as checking their subtraction answer by adding (see example below).
67 23
- 23 + 44
44 67
- Clean up.
- Class Discussion - Students were told to think of ways (and possible consequences) to be quiet when they are done their work and have free time (while waiting for other students to finish).
- Dismissal.
April 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were read a short bio of St. Tarcisius, the patron saint of First Communion and alter boys. The class then closed their prayer session by reciting the Our Father, one Hail Mary, and finally, the Glory Be.
- Zones of Regulation - Brief check-in to get the students moving and getting them to their desks.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 5 Day 1 and 2 - Students practiced their editing skills and as well their grammar skills. Today's new learning was changing a noun to the the possessive (example: the backpack that belongs to the boy --> The boy's backpack).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Students played outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Fun Math Fact - students were shown the 'Rule of 37' in math (where you pick a number from 1 - 9, (e.g. 4), then create a three digit number with it (e.g. 444); you then add the four individual numbers (4 + 4 + 4), and use the total to divide your original number (e.g. 444/12); students were shown that the answer will always be 37 (you can do the same with 111, 222, 333, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999).
- LA & Science - Students were introduced to the next step of their hybrid animal project. Students were shown the information organization sheet they will fill out then use for their first draft of their letter to explain their creation (its features, habitat, its usefulness, its adaptations, etc...).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 26th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students prayed a decade of the rosary.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 4 Review.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- (Pizza) Lunch.
- Clean up from Pizza Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outdoors.
- Whistle Bend Extended Care Home Visit - Students visited some seniors, created art from a story the seniors shared about their childhood. Students then shared their item(s) they brought with them to share. Finally, students sang The Tokens' The Lion Sleeps Tonight for the seniors.
- P.E. - As students were well behaved and respectful, students were taken to a new playground in Whistle Bend and were allowed to play for about 15 minutes. We drove back to the school after this.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 25th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students prayed a decade of the rosary.
- Self-Assessment pre-talk. Students were introduced to the concept of self-evaluation on a Core Competency. They were told what they should be looking for (evidence of Creative Thinking) when they are working on the first part of the LA Persuasive Writing project. The teacher went through the sheet they would use to document evidence of their Creative Thinking.
- LA - Persuasive Writing Project - Students started working on their hybrid animal/pet. They combined two or more animals together and imagined what features from each animal would be prominent and why (what is the feature used for?). Students then drew a very rough draft of their animal and named it using a hybridized name (see April 24th LA note).
- Self-Assessment - Students reflected back on the process they used when coming up with their rough draft of the hybrid animal. They then wrote evidence of that down (noting as well if they worked independently, co-operatively, needed guidance, or needed direct support to get their work done).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Students were reminded that the same we that we learned different strategies to add, we can use the same ones to subtract (but reversing the method). If students what to find out what 7 + 9 is, they know that that 9 is only 1 away from 10 (and our brains like adding 10s), so 7 + 10 is 17, 17 - 1 is 16, (which is 7 + 9). Students were show that it works similar in subtracting. When we subtract, we can try to make 10 (example: 9 - 7 is only one away from 10 - 7; 10 - 7 is 3, so 9 - 7 = 2 (because its one less than 3 - the one less represents the 1 less from the 10 to the 9).
- Guidance - Students discussed different ways they have to relax and/or calm down (self-regulation strategies).
- Music - Students learned the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". It is the hope that we will be able to sing it at Whistlebend tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 24th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were given their own rosary. Students learned proper (i.e.: respectful) way of handling the rosary. Students were lead in a decade of the rosary.
- LA - Students were told that over the next few days, we will be creating imaginary hybrid animals (e.g. a flamippo - a hippo crossed with a flaming - then writing a letter to our parents explaining and convincing them to have it as a pet. This is part of our persuasive writing unit (as well as art). Students began to brainstorm animal hybrid ideas.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- DEAR.
- P.E. - Mini-Wrestling Tournament - two other schools came to visit us and wrestle. Some Grade 2 students wrestled and other Grade 2 students cheered on their classmates and the school.
- Art - Students created things out of paper.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 23rd, 2019
4 + 3 = 7
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students prayed for those who lost their lives or were injured in the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka.
- LA - Daily Edit - Week 4 Day 4.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Wrestling skills practice in preparation for the mini-tournament tomorrow (held at Holy Family at 12:30)
- Guidance - Mini-lesson - Students were told the reason we do not play Truth or Dare at school (not at lunch, recess, etc...). It was explained that it often starts off as fun, but then it can turn mean and embarrassing, and can hurt friends' feeling.
- Math - Students continued to practice their adding skills. Today we focused on doubles and either adding one or taking away one to find the answer. Example: 4 + 4 = 8
4 + 3 = 7
- LA - Imaginary Fred - Students were read part of the book Imaginary Fred, about an imaginary friend named Fred, who floats around in the wind until he is wished as an imaginary friend. When the child makes real friends, he slowly fades away and is caught by the wind and repeats the cycle with another child. This makes Fred quite lonely and he desires to have a 'forever friend'.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - Whole school prayer in the foyer. Students heard about what happens on Holy Thursday in the Catholic Church.
- Hand Back Work - Students were handed back their marked work and (hopefully) followed instructions and put their work in the correct place in their binders.
- LA - Daily Edit - Week 4 Day 3.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued to practice adding vertically, carrying groups of tens to the tens column. Students also learned and practiced 'double sums'. Double sums are two numbers that are the same and should be memorized (e.g. 2 + 2 = 4; 3 + 3 = 6; 4 + 4 = 8; 5 + 5 = 10; 6 + 6 = 12; etc.). This will be the basis for the next step in realizing that this can be used to help us add quicker (e.g. if you know that 6 + 6 = 12, then you can figure out 6 + 7 because it is like 6 + 6 + 1...).
- Guidance - Students learned about positive self-talk and affirmations.
- Music.
- Easter Treats - Students were given some treats that students and teachers brought.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 17th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned about Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 4 Day 2.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension booklet.
- LA - Swan Haven Write.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students continued learning how to add vertically and carrying groups of ten.
- Celebration - Our retelling of the the final 4 stations of the cross (stations 11 - 15).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 16th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - Music did not happen today, as the whole school gathered in the foyer to pray for the people of Paris and their loss over the Cathedral.
- Library.
- Social Studies - architecture mini-lesson on Norte Dame Cathedral.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about carrying over while adding vertically, and understanding that the '1' you are carrying over is not a 1, its 1 group of 10 (2 groups of ten, etc...).
- Art.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
April 15th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students wrote about what they expect to find at Swan Haven.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Swan Haven preparation - Students were broken into 3 groups and were told what the expected behaviour is.
- Drive to Swan Haven.
- Lunch at Swan Haven.
- Science - Life cycles and migration of swans.
- Drive back from Swan Haven.
- Clean up & Planners.
- Dismissal.
April 5th, 2019
29 + 6 (it doesn't make sense to 'pull' or 'rob' 4 from 29 to add it to 6 to make 10; its much more efficient to to rob 1 from the 6, then add it to 29 - so it becomes 30, and the 6 becomes a 5)
30 + 5 = 35
Students were then asked to extend that thinking to larger and seemingly 'unwieldy' numbers:
68 + 24 (you should rob 2 from 24 to add it to 68; thus it becomes 70, 70 + 22 is 92)
70 + 22 = 92
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Body Break.
- Assembly - Read-a-Thon pep rally.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess - Practice for those who are interested in being on our annual wrestling team.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Wrestling practice.
- DEAR.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 3 Day 1.
- Math - Number Sense - Students continued to hone their skills in 'making 10' to add (see April 4th note below for more information). Students then were tasked to evaluate which of two numbers are easier to make a group of ten.
29 + 6 (it doesn't make sense to 'pull' or 'rob' 4 from 29 to add it to 6 to make 10; its much more efficient to to rob 1 from the 6, then add it to 29 - so it becomes 30, and the 6 becomes a 5)
30 + 5 = 35
Students were then asked to extend that thinking to larger and seemingly 'unwieldy' numbers:
68 + 24 (you should rob 2 from 24 to add it to 68; thus it becomes 70, 70 + 22 is 92)
70 + 22 = 92
- Art - Students finished up their Stations of the Cross mini-booklet and worked on their Corpus Cross (see April 4th note).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 4th, 2019
I I I I I I I I I I I I I
(7) (6)
I I I I I I I I I I I I I
(10) (3)
Students 'pull' 3 from the 6 side, therefore that 6 becomes a 3, and the 7 becomes a 10; it is easier to add 10 + 3 (which is 13) rather than 7 + 6 (which
is also 13).
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students read about Justice and Human Dignity (and also built on their knowledge of empathy).
- LA - Daily Edit Week 2 Review - Students continued to hone their grammar and editing skills.
- Religion - Students continued to work on their Stations of the Cross mini-booklets.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess (Wrestling practice for those who were interested in competing on our annual wrestling team).
- Lunch.
- Gym - Wrestling skills.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students worked on making ten out of two groups to making adding easier.
I I I I I I I I I I I I I
(7) (6)
I I I I I I I I I I I I I
(10) (3)
Students 'pull' 3 from the 6 side, therefore that 6 becomes a 3, and the 7 becomes a 10; it is easier to add 10 + 3 (which is 13) rather than 7 + 6 (which
is also 13).
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in to talk about playing and sharing things; taking responsibilities in our roles when playing and participating with others.
- Art - Mrs. Blythe came in to guided students in how to make a Corpus Cross. Students began this today and will work on it tomorrow.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 3rd, 2019
3 + 4 = 7 9 + 1 = 10
2 + 5 = 7 8 + 2 = 10
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Prayer - NAT special guests - Our school was blessed to have a few of the NAT Catholic youths in the school who are travelling Canada and organizing spiritual retreats and workshops. The entire school gathered in the foyer and sang songs and prayed a decade of the rosary and shared prayerful intentions.
- Daily Edit Week 2 Day 5 - Students continued to practice their editing and grammar skills.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Indoor activities as the gym was occupied with the NAT facilitated spiritual retreat.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Students continued to practice their adding skills. Today's work was scaffolded from yesterday's lesson (see April 2nd notes). Today students worked on adding and/or subtracting 1 to get the same total.
3 + 4 = 7 9 + 1 = 10
2 + 5 = 7 8 + 2 = 10
- Computers - Students who were completed the math work were able to have 15 minutes on computers.
- Religion/Art - Students began working on their Stations of the Cross booklet in preparation for Good Friday and Easter.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 2nd, 2019
10 = 2 + 8
10 = 3 + 7
10 = 4 + 6
10 = 5 + 5
10 = 6 + 4
10 = 7 + 3
10 = 8 + 2
10 = 9 + 1
10 = 10 + 0
(Noticing that the first number increases by one while the second number goes down by one).
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus washing the feet of his Disciples (and the lesson that everyone is important and should be treated with dignity and respect).
- LA - Daily Edit - Week 2 Day 4. Students continued to hone their editing and grammar skills.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Patterns in Adding - Students learned that a number could be shown as different adding sentence, but do not change the total
10 = 2 + 8
10 = 3 + 7
10 = 4 + 6
10 = 5 + 5
10 = 6 + 4
10 = 7 + 3
10 = 8 + 2
10 = 9 + 1
10 = 10 + 0
(Noticing that the first number increases by one while the second number goes down by one).
- Guidance - Due to issues in the classroom and on the playground, students did some work to foster empathy amongst their peers.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
April 1st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements, Attendance.
- DEAR.
- LA - Daily Edit - Week 2 Day 3. Students worked on 5 questions that required editing and grammar corrections.
- LA - Steck Vaughn Reading and Comprehension booklet. Students read a short passage with a partner and then answered multiple choice questions based on the story and what the students inferred.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - students completed their odd and even number booklet.
- Science - Plant life cycle - introduction video with Bill Nye the Science Guy.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal - 15 minutes early to play outside and enjoy the sunshine.
March 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements & Attendance.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard an abbreviated version of the story of St. Gemma.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 1 Review & Daily Edit Week 2 Day 2 - Students practiced their editing skills, focusing proper punctuation, proper use of capitals, past and present tense, and types of sentences (command, statement, question).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about even numbers and odd numbers, focusing on the ones place value of a number to determine whether a number is odd or even (example 1 is odd, therefore: 11 is odd, as is 21, 31, 101, 111, and 1 000 001). Students then showed what they learned on different math sheets.
- Art - Students made paper crafts for the last 30 minutes of the day.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 28th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements & Attendance.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard about St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of Canada.
- Zones of Regulation Check in/Body Break.
- LA - Daily Edit - Week 2 Day 1 - Students practiced their editing skills by fixing various issues with sentences and words (capitalization missing, punctuation marks, adding 'es' to a word when it ends in s, z, x, sh, or ch, if not, to pluralize a word you add only an 's', etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Lacrosse skills practice.
- Math - Number Sense - Skip Counting, Estimating, and Rounding - Students worked on questions that required them to skip count (by 10s, then adding in the left over one), and deciding when 'tens' is closest to that number (if they had 46 things, is it closer to 40 or 50 and explain why).
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in and read a story focused on social emotional skills.
- Music.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
March 26th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements & Attendance.
- Music.
- Library.
- Organizing - Students were handed back work and asked to put the work in the correct section of their binder.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- LA - Daily Edit Week 1 Day 4.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students were invited to meet and work with two Lacrosse players that compete internationally. Students worked on the basics of lacrosse, and will do so with these special guests over the next two days.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued working on their skip counting and worked on rounding (if a number is 5 or less, it is rounded down, and if an number is 5 and up, it is rounded up. Example: 2 is more/less than 10. 2 is closer to 0/10.)
- Computers/Art - Students who had completed the expected amount of work were able to do art or play educational games on the computer (including Prodigy).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 25th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements & Attendance.
- LA - Daily Edit - Students were given five quick questions on a sheet (titled Daily Edit Week 1 Day 3) that helps them with the grammar work. The 5 questions focus on proper capitalization of letters (names, beginning of sentences, days of the week (in English), proper names, etc...), punctuation, past tense vs present tense, and questions vs statements.
- DEAR.
- LA - Journal - Students wrote about two things they did over their spring break.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students practiced their skip counting skills through interactive work with the smart board. Students also showed their knowledge of counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s in their math booklet.
- Socials - Mapping - Introduction to longitudinal and latitudinal lines on a map. Teacher referenced our previous work with grid coordinates (e.g. battleship and work sheets where you have to find A2, B7, etc...). The link was drawn to previous work with grid coordinates and longitudinal and latitudinal lines on maps.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal (3 minutes early).
March 8th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students read a longer version of Jesus feeding people after the Sermon on the Mount.
- LA - Students worked independently on the Daily Edits.
- Sugar Shack - In celebration of French-Canadian culture, Grade 2 was invited to have boiled maple syrup mixed with (clean) snow, served on a popsicle stick.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students played an interactive adding game on education.com. Students then had the opportunity to login and play on Prodigy (see email for more information).
- Prize Box Rewards - Students who reached a multiple of 20 checkmarks in their reading tally were given the opportunity to choose a prize from the box.
- Religion - Mini-party - Children finished the story of Jonah and the Whale on the animated site Superbook. Some students got an opportunity to play some of the bible-themed skill games on the site.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students were retold the story of the first Passover in more detail. Students were able to share their recollections of the last time we talked about the Passover.
- LA - Students were introduced to a new activity. The new activity that will be done on a regular basis (e.g. every two or three days) is a Daily Edit. Students will have four or five questions that will allow them to practice their grammar skills and knowledge. They will be asked to underline mistakes in a sentence and re-write it correctly underneath (e.g. did you like the movie will become "Did you like the movie?") and figure out past tense, future tense, and endings (for example: 'es' is only added to a words that end in s, z, x, sh, or ch). Students will be starting this activity tomorrow. After this, students finished off the Hockey Game workbook and answered what they thought the two main characters (Tim and Freddy) learned about themselves.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students who were not finished their mass/measurement work from yesterday had time to finish it off. Students who were done worked on 20 addition questions and 20 subtraction questions (e.g. 4 + 7; 9 - 5).
- Guidance - Students watched two Social Express interactive videos and discussed their connections and thoughts. One video was on 'No', and how to deal with it if a student (or child) hears it from a teacher (or parent), and the other video was on accepting consequences and not blaming other people when something happened as a result of your poor choices.
- Music.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 6th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned more about Ash Wednesday and Lent.
- LA - Students read the Hockey Story (using what we did on Monday) and then summarized what they thought the story was about. Students were asked to summarize Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students continued learning about mass (see Wednesday for more info). Today's lesson focused on group work and each group was tasked with find the mass of various items (such as a paint brush, an eraser, pencil, pen, and a quarter) and make the scales balanced using a referent (a snap-connect cube and/or a paper clip).
- Religion - Students participated in our Ash Wednesday celebration.
- Guidance/Art - Self-Regulation - Students recalled what we discussed yesterday during the afternoon, that sometimes we can have big emotions that are hard to control or we don't know how to deal with them. These can seem like a beast (or monster) takes over thoughts and actions. We may always have this 'beast' but its important to find ways to minimize those negative feelings. Students shared when their 'beast' comes out (e.g. when angry, upset, hurt, sad, mad, happy, etc...) and what they do to calm themselves. After a discussion, students were able to begin to draw their beast (see youtube videos by Class Dojo for further information).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 5th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Shrove Tuesday Pancake Breakfast - Students were invited to have pancakes and ham that were cooked up by teachers and staff, as well as volunteers.
- Prayer - Discussion about Ash Wednesday and its symbolism in the Catholic Church.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students began another measurement unit (this time on mass). For the purpose of Grade 2, mass refers to weight (I explained that in high school, mass really means the amount of matter in a body, regardless of the volume or any force acting on it). They were given a riddle to see if they could logically discern what would weigh more: 40 pounds of metal, or 40 pounds of feathers. Students worked on exercises that have to do with estimating (or logically guessing) what is heavier or lighter).
- Social Studies - Students continued working on their Map It Out booklet. This time they were working on grid coordinate maps and continuing to use the cardinal directions.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 4th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned the difference between a Lenten promise and a regular promise. Students also read an explanation of charity, fasting, and offering alms during the Lenten season.
- LA - Reading Comprehension - Students were shown various pictures of book covers. The students then used their prediction skills to answer questions about what they thought the book might be about (we also used association, e.g. if the subtitle of the book said "Facts, Stories, and Games" then they might find a word search, a puzzle, and that it is probably a non-fiction book because it advertised that the book contained facts). Students then worked on a work sheet where they had a picture of two hockey players on it, and had to use those same prediction skills to write about what they may think the story will be about (and, more importantly, why they think that may happen in the story...where could you back this claim up? e.g. it wouldn't make sense if the students expected it be a story about werewolf hockey players because nothing in the cover remotely gives us this idea....). Students then worked on a pre-vocabulary work sheet of words that they will find in the hockey story we will read on Wednesday.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- DEAR.
- Guidance - (15 minutes) - Students were visited by the principal of the school and were spoken to about showing kindness when playing outside (especially sharing ice blocks and snow forts).
- Math - Measurement - Students went around the classroom and measure different objects; students also decided what unit they would use to measure certain objects (e.g. when measuring how long a swimming pool is, would you use cm (centimetres) or m (metres)). Tomorrow we will be introducing Mass.
- Social Studies - Mapping - Students who were not finished the previous mapping assignment were asked to finish it (with assistance from the teacher). This exercise showed a map of Canada, United States of America, and Mexico, as well as the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Students were asked to write down the cardinal directions of where countries (or bodies of waters) lay in relation to another (e.g. Canada is in what direction from the United States of America?). Students who were finished had quiet reading time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
March 1st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about the parts of the Catholic Mass.
- Clean up - Students were handed back assignments and they were told to put them in the correct spot (at the back of each section).
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Clean up - Students cleaned up the classroom from their lunch period (board games put away, lunch kits put back in their backpack, etc...).
- PE - Grades 1 - 5 went swimming. It was wet.
- Planners - Students took home a sheet with details about a possible literacy camp (free) that will be held over the summer.
- Dismissal.
February 28th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard a reading from the Old Testament about why we sacrifice (or give up) things to show our love to God.
- Body Break - Go Noodle (dancing to a kids version of Portugal. The Man's I Feel It Still).
- LA - Re-telling Activity - Students were read a story in the Aesop catalogue about the grasshopper and the ant. Students were given five index cards. They then had to draw what they imagine happened in each part. The teacher would read two sentences and give the students time to draw what happened. These drawing will be then used to help students retell the story tomorrow morning.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students finished off their Measurement booklet (focusing on measuring not just length, or 'tallness', but also width, or 'fatness'). If they were done (and it was marked and corrected), they had free time.
- Music.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 27th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Learned a bit more about the tools Michaelangelo used to carve marble; students prayed the Our Father.
- Skate.
- Snack.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes today due to skating.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - students continued working on their Measurement booklets.
- Math - (free time) - If students were done, they were able to either go to abcya.com or log in to Prodigy (an online role playing Math game). Students will be practicing/learning Prodigy game play in the next week so if they choose to play at home over March Break, they may do so.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 26th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the longer version of the story of Simon Peter (the future St. Peter) and learned about the St. Peter's Basilica (and about Michaelangelo - NOT the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, but rather the artist).
- Recess - Students lost their recess due to not listening and being respectful in Music. Student did have their snack.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - Students read quietly for 15 minutes.
- Math - Students finished off Number Sense (for now) and began the second unit in Measurement. Students were reminded how 100 cm = 1 m; therefore 200 cm must equal 2 m; etc.... Students then worked on three sheets where they measured things with their hands, blocks, paperclips, pieces of paper, etc. Students who were not finished the three pages were given homework.
- Social Studies/Art/Core-Competencies - Students self-reflected on the creative thinking skills they used/learned/practiced during last week's lessons with our artist that came in to help us build a community building using fabric collage.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students read from the book Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ. Today we read a more detailed version of Adam and Eve.
- Zones of Regulation/Body Break - movement break to get ourselves from the prayer corner to our desks.
- LA - Students read the second part of the penguins story (part 2 of yesterday's reading) and completed 3 reading comprehension sheets based on what they read.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Rendezvous Activities - Grade 2 students had many activities to participate in; they spent 45 minutes inside, then had 45 minutes outside. At the end of the day, students were able to see a can-can dance performance.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 20th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students learned more about the Catholic Faith and sharing our gifts (understanding that gifts are not just money, donations to the food back, etc... - it is also our talents).
- LA - Students read a story about Penguins (part 1) and did worked through reading comprehension sheets based on what they understood from the reading.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Social Studies & Art - Students continued to work on their picture of a community building from yesterday (see February 19th - below).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 19th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about how the many different ways we could share our gifts with others (like reading to the elderly).
- LA - Students selected books at their reading level to read with to the elderly at the Whistlebend Seniors Centre.
- Snack.
- Community Outreach - Students went to the Whistlebend Seniors Centre to do some arts and crafts and read to a senior.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Social Studies - Students discussed some of the things that are needed in a community (e.g. hospitals, buses, airports, police headquarters, fire department, stores, schools, etc...).
- Art - Students began creating a background for the fabric collage. Each student was assigned a community resource to build. Once they sketched out what they were assigned, they began gluing fabric strips/patches to bristol board to create the sky and the ground. Tomorrow students will get to add their buildings and, hopefully, vehicles/people.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 18th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students read from our classroom resources "Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ" - Symbols of Our Faith - The Bible, The Missal, Prayer Corner, Crucifix and Cross, Rosary, and Saints.
- Class Discussion - Field Trip Prep.
- LA - Students heard the story 'The Dot' about a girl named Vashti who doesn't think her art is very good, but finds out that just a little encouragement from someone can lead to courage, self-belief, and unlocking a gift that she can then share with others. Students responded on how and why Vashti's world was a better, and then the students had to explain what they would do to make the world a better place.
- Recess.
- Field Trip Prep/Talk - Students were visited by the outreach coordinator program for Whistlebend. We were read a story about some of the struggles that the elderly have but also how they can give us so much.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Class Discussion - Behavioural expectations in school, at recess, in hallways, and during Gym.
- Math - Number Sense - Students worked on the first two pages of new booklet, which will focus on 10s and 1s, adding and/or subtracting, and, later on, measurement. Today students were given the opportunity to take an assigned number and add (or subtract) either 1, 10, or both (e.g. add 1 then add 10, or add 10 then add 1: 15, ___, ____ = 15, 16, 26; or 15, 25, 26).
- Social Studies - Students discussed aspects of our community (e.g. who protects us, who teaches us, who cares for us, where food comes from, etc..).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 15th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the (kid-friendly version) of the Book of Revelations.
- LA - Aesop's Fable - The Fox and the Cat. Students were given five index cards. The students numbered the cards and the teacher read one part of the story. The students drew what they imagined happened. The students then were asked to put down their pencils and listen to the next part of the story. When that part was over, they were instructed to pick up their pencils and repeat the process. At the end, they shared their drawings with a partner. The idea was to solidify their visualization and retelling skills.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- LA - Crossword - Students were introduced to crosswords. The teacher created two 'scavenger hunt' crosswords based on the Grade 2 students. The teacher came up with questions that relate to a specific students (e.g. This student has a twin), and students had to recall, or ask, who this could be. When they found out, they had to make sure it fit in the correct numbered line either across or down. This was introduced to that soon we could do eventually vocabulary/definition/science crosswords.
- Art - Students had to finish their morning drawings by adding colour. When they were done, they were allowed a bit of free time.
- Games - Students were able to play board games and/or create their own games to challenge their fellow students.
- Clean up.
- LA - The Fox and the Cat Moral - The teacher asked what could be the lesson (or moral) of this fable. Many students were very close to the lesson (which is an amazing thing). The moral of The Fox and the Cat fable is that it doesn't matter how many 'tricks' you know, if you don't use them, then the person (or animal) that has one, and it works, wins.
- Dismissal.
February 14th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Paul's final imprisonment. Students also watched a short (somewhat humorous) video on the real St. Valentines.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension & Retelling - Students read a story in partners then worked on comprehension worksheet.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Reading Awards - Students who have reached certain milestones with their home reading got either a prize from the prize box (for a multiple of 20 checkmarks), or a $10 gift card to Coles (for reaching a hundred checkmarks, or multiple of a hundred), or both (for reaching 100, and 20 in the same time period).
- Math - Number Sense. Those who were not finished their math from yesterday had to work on that while those who were finished got to work on a Valentine's Day art activity.
- Art - Students made a paper rose out of card stock.
- Guidance - Our Guidance Teacher came in to teach a lesson on ways to change our mood when we are sad, angry, or scared.
- Music.
- Valentine's Day Cards and Treats Exchange.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 13th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- LA - Reading Comprehension - Students read the First Nations story "Why We Have Day and Night". Students then completed a vocabulary sheet, a word search, and were asked by the teacher (one-on-one) what happened at the beginning of the story, in the middle of the story, and at the end of the story. The teacher also asked what the moral of the story was (being stubborn and always trying to get your way doesn't work always...being flexible in your thinking is much better).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Guidance - Yet another class discussion about being kind to one another, and the job of a Grade 2 student (always trying their best to learn and work, being kind and helpful, and avoiding people we don't get along with).
- Math - Number Sense continued from yesterday.
- Buddies - Grade 7 came to our classroom and helped Grade 2 read a story about diverse communities. Students then filled out a worksheet based on their story. When students were finished their work, the Grade 2 student and their Grade 7 buddy were allowed a limited amount of time on www.abcya.com.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 12th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Disciples spread the new of Jesus throughout Israel, Rome, and Greece.
- Hand Back Assignments - Students placed their marked work in their binders (hopefully in the correct place - writing assignments with LA, math with Math Section, etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Relax - Students were invited to play and discover different features on various coding sketches on OpenProcessing.org.
- Math - Number Sense - Students continued to practice adding and subtracting 10 to a given number (e.g. 12 + 10 = 22; understanding that when adding 10, the ones column stays the same, and the tens column goes increases (or goes up) by 1; and: 12 - 10 = 02; understanding and showing that when subtracting 10 from a given number that the ones stay the same, but the tens decrease by one).
- Social Studies - Going through the Social Studies Family Questionnaire form that went home today. It is due no later than Monday, February 18th, 2019. An email will be sent home in case students misplace their own sheet. Please go over this with your child at your own leisure.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
February 11th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Simon Peter and the Centurion.
- LA - Personal Writing - Students had the option of writing about either four things they did on the weekend, or write about if they could go anywhere in the world, where they would go, what they would do, and at least four reasons why they want to go there.
- Snack - As it was colder today, I allowed students to eat their snack earlier, instead of waiting until they are outside to eat it.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Clean up Classroom & Discussion - as the class was left slightly messy, we had a discussion about classroom responsibilities and the reason to clean up after ourselves.
- DEAR.
- Math - Making 10 - Students were given a list of numbers and they were to circle the two that add up to ten (e.g. 4 5 6 7 8 9; students had to circle the two numbers that add up to ten - 4 5 6 7 8 9).
- Social Studies - Students talked about diversity in our classroom and what are some features that make up different cultures (e.g. food, language, customs/celebrations, weather, colours, clothes, animals/insects, etc...). This is in preparation to interview parents and/or grandparents to discuss heritage and culture in order to work on a project with a visiting artist next week. Questionnaires will be sent home hopefully tomorrow (Tuesday), or the day after.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 30th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of about the the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
- LA - Students re-wrote the cartoon story from Monday in words (taking the pictures and turning them into a dialogue with quotation marks) and learned to use other words to describe how someone is saying something (avoiding always using the words 'says' and 'said'; trying to use 'exclaimed', 'asked', 'shouted', etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Addition and Subtraction skills.
- Art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 29th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- LA - Fundations lesson on 'o' sounds - difference between 'most' and 'lost'.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Class Discussion - Students were made aware of their noise level.
- Math - Number Sense - lesson on the concept of more vs. less, and how it relates to adding and subtracting (e.g. Bill has 12 raisins. Yu has 8 raisins. How many more raisins does Bill have?). Students then had to come up with a number sentence (e.g. 12 - 8 = 4). Some students were taught to count up from the small number to the bigger number to get the difference (count from 8 to 12 -- 9, 10, 11, 12--four spaces/numbers; therefore 12 - 8 is 4) instead of counting backwards.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 28th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Zones of Regulation & Body Break
- LA - Quotation Marks Activity - Students received a worksheet with a witch and a tiger and various word-bubbles. The students had to create a conversation between the two characters. Tomorrow, they will write out their characters' conversations in print, with quotations and with other words other than 'said' (students will be expected to use 'exclaimed', 'asked', 'shouted', etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Number Sense - Number sentences (see previous days below), and More or Less.
- Art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 24th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being put in a tomb after His death.
- DEAR
- LA - Quotation Marks Lesson - Students were introduced to more complex use of quotation marks (e.g. Sally disagrees with you, saying, It's still too much to pay for a bike.)
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym (outside, as Grade 7 and Grade 6 were setting up for the Science Fair tomorrow).
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - More number sentences.
- Art - Students experimented with different types of drawing.
- Music.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 23rd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- LA - Quotation Marks Lesson - After a review of yesterday's skills, students were able to put in practice what they learned by highlighting only the part of the sentence where someone is talking, then putting quotation marks around those parts (see Jan. 22nd for more information on the activity).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Number Sense - Number Families - Students worked with three numbers to create up to 4 number sentences (e.g. 3 + 5 = 8; 5 + 3 = 8; 8 - 5 = 3; 8 - 3 = 5). This was taught visually and tactically (with counters and blocks - physically moving around the groups of blocks to show that if you put 3 blocks on one side and 5 blocks on the other side, then reverse - or switch their position - it still equals 8). This was taught on the smart board using tiles that could be moved around the board.
- Buddies - Grade 7 came to the class and students were paired up and they read together.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 22nd, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- LA - Quotation Mark Lesson - Students were asked to come up to the smart board and highlight the part of the sentence where the words that the person is speaking are (e.g. a sentence that says NO shouted Kim. I don't want to go shopping! becomes NO shouted Kim. I don't want to go shopping!) Tomorrow, the students will then take the highlighted part and only put quotation marks around the highlighted part.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- LA - Reading Prizes awarded to students for their success in home reading.
- Math - Number Sense - Number Families - Students worked with three numbers to create up to 4 number sentences (e.g. 3 + 5 = 8; 5 + 3 = 8; 8 - 5 = 3; 8 - 3 = 5). This was taught visually and tactically (with counters and blocks - physically moving around the groups of blocks to show that if you put 3 blocks on one side and 5 blocks on the other side, then reverse - or switch their position - it still equals 8).
- Computers (20 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 21st, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being nailed to the cross.
- Body Break - students practiced our new hallway routine (there are different shapes glued to the floor - students are allowed to skip, jump, hop, move side-to-side, etc... once they are walking across these shapes). Students then did one Go Noodle activity.
- LA - Quotation Marks Writing Activity - Students were tasked with writing three mini-conversation and show the proper use of quotation marks (e.g. "What did you do on the weekend?" asked Mr. Colaci. Fred said "I went to the Canada Games Centre and swam.").
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Skating.
- Prize box hand out - Many students got a few rewards today from their home reading...Way to go!
- LA - Story - Gleam and Glow - This story was inspired by true events that happened during the Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war in the 90s.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
January 17th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer.
- Zones of Regulation/Check-in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Punctuation - Students were given a story without punctuation and they had to figure out where the periods go, if it needs a question mark, or an exclamation point. The teacher had students help to fill in the punctuation on the smart board (for the first half of the page), then the students worked on their own to complete the story.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Organizing + Hand Back Assignments - Students were handed back assignments and they put it (hopefully) in the correct section of their binder. Students then took apart all the Lego they built in order to 'reset' for Monday.
- Library - As students are going to miss Library on Friday, they were able to exchange, sign out, or at the very least, look at books.
- Music.
- Dismissal.
Jan. 10th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus and his disciples going to Jerusalem for the Passover.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Compound Words & Compare and Contrast - Students were guided through a lesson on compound words (review of what they are, and how two words separate means one thing, but if you put the two words together, they mean something else - e.g. a butter fly could mean butter flying through the air, or a model of a fly carved out butter; but a butterfly means something else). Students then worked on their comparing and contrasting skills by seeing what is different, or the same, between a picture of a rural and urban setting.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - 5 minutes.
- Math - Students continued their Number Sense practice with equal vs. not equal equations. Students were given two equations and had to tell, in words and pictures, how it was equal or not equal to each other (e.g. 3 + 4 = 2 + 4 *not equal; where as 3 + 4 = 5 + 2 * equal)
- Guidance - Our Guidance teacher came in for 30 minutes and worked with students on activities pertaining to Whole Body Listening (hands, eyes, ears, and feet on teacher or classmate when they are talking).
- Music.
- Clean up,
- Dismissal.
Jan. 9th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR - 10 minutes.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus and Bartimaeus.
- LA & Religion - In celebration of today's Epiphany celebration, students came up with four things they could do be a light for others. Students then wrote their four ideas down, coloured a star. The Grade 2 teacher then took pictures of each student to later glue onto their star.
- Snack - Due to the cold weather, students had the opportunity to have their snack early before going outside.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - 8 minutes.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax for 3 minutes while listening to Four Tet's Lush, while watching a computer visual from openprocessing.org.
- LA - Finishing touches on Epiphany star and writing from this morning.
- Math - Number Sense - Equal vs. Not Equal - student had to do pairs of equations (e.g. 3 + 4; 5 +2) and see if they were equal or not equal to each other.
- Epiphany Celebration.
- Art - 20 minutes.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Jan. 8th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer & LA - Epiphany Activity 1 - Students read the story of the Epiphany and coloured a sheet on the three wise men/kings.
- Snack - Due to the cold weather, Grade 2 is allowed to have their snack before recess, so they do not have to take off their mitts while outside.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Quiet time - Students were invited to find an unoccupied spot on the floor or at a table and relax for about six minutes. Students were able to see a computer code generated visualization (from openprocessing.org) and listen to Iceland's Sigur Ros' Untitled #3 (Samsketyi).
- Computers - LA - Students did activities on abcya.com.
- Science - Students learned about the Salmon life Cycle in different ways. First students looked at our Science resource on the Salmon Life Cycle and discussed the various stages (Egg, Alevins, Fry, Smolts, Adult, and Spawners). Once this was discussed, students then created the life cycle on the smart board by physically moving around the pictures and labels. After this, students watched two short First Nations videos; one on the life cycle animated and narrated by Elementary School students, and one on how First Nations use their traditional knowledge to conserve and respect the fish they catch. One more video was played, which as a fun cover of Gloria Gaynor's 1970s Disco hit I Will Survive, but the lyrics were changed to reflect the salmons' life cycle. The last few minutes of Science were given to introduce and play a quick game of the Salmon Life Cycle Mix and Match Game. In this game, students are given random cards that they must match to other students. Some students had the definition cards (the ones with words on it) and others had the picture cards (self-explanatory I hope). Once a set was complete (all twelve cards - 6 definition cards, 6 matching picture cards), students had to put them in the right order as quickly as possible.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Jan. 7th, 2019
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus spending time with Zacchaeus in Jericho.
- LA - Post-Christmas Journal - Students wrote about 3 things that happened during the Christmas Break.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR (10 minutes).
- Math - Students learned how you can break geometric shapes into other shapes (e.g. a hexagon can fit 6 triangles inside of it. For an extension, the teacher showed that one rhombus holds three triangles, and that if two rhombus' put together is equal to a hexagon, then two rhombus' must hold 6 triangles).
- Guidance - Students worked on a self-reflection activity where they were asked to rate themselves on whether they use nice words and play with lots of different people (metric used was happy face (always); 'meh' face (sometimes); and sad face (never)).
- Dismissal.
Dec. 20th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story that Jesus told about the Pharisee and the Publican (lawyer).
- LA - Christmas Journal # 3 - Students wrote about three things they wish for this Christmas. Students were given the option to write about something material they wish for, or for something immaterial (like more time with family, playing games, having sleep-overs, etc...) or a combination of the two. All three Christmas Journals were sent home in the student's backpack.
- Recess.
- Choir - All School Carolling in the gym.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Movie - Students were given a choice to continue to watch the Christmas Chronicles, or to watch Curious George's Christmas movie in Grade 1, or read in the hallway.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal.
Dec. 19th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Posadas.
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Lazarus.
- Body Break - Student chosen GoNoodle activities.
- Snack.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Optical Illusion - students were show 2 dimensional pictures that appear to be moving due to over processing of visual information.
- Math - Students practiced their skills to divide shapes symmetrically and/or asymmetrically.
- ASDT - (Applied Skills, Design, and Technology) - Students were tasked to create something unique out of a cardboard box.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 18th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- LA - Christmas Journal #2 - Students wrote about what they are looking forward to eating over the Christmas break and why. They had to use two adjectives to describe the food (noun)).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students learned about symmetry by looking at shapes that were 'cut' and deciding if it was symmetrical or asymmetrical.
- Arts & Crafts - Students created artistic work with cardboard and/or created songs on the iPad.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 17th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- LA - Christmas Journal #1 - Students wrote about at least 2 things they are looking forward to Christmas and why they are looking forward to it.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Number Sense - Subtracting using a number line and subtracting by counting up (e.g. 38 - 34: instead of starting at 38 and counting backwards 34 times, it makes more sense to take the smaller number (34) and count up to 38 using fingers).
- Movie - Students watched part of the Netflix movie The Christmas Chronicles.
- Clean up.
- Early Dismissal (3:00).
Dec. 13th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- LA - Contractions & Compound Words - Students learned to break apart contractions and put them together (e.g. students were given 'we're', and they had to write the two words that make up that contraction (we are); and they were given 'he is' and had to shorten it to 'he's'). For the compound words, students were given a list of words and learned which ones go together and make sense, then they had to write the compound word as one single word (e.g. grape + fruit = grapefruit). The teacher explained that the two individual words mean something, and together, in a compound word, it means yet something else (example used was the words snow and man are two separate words with two different meanings, yet if you put them together, you get a snowman, a man made out of snow - on a geeky aside the teacher also showed students that spaces in words, and commas and apostrophes and all sorts of punctuation change the meaning of the sentence completely; as in: Hey theres snow man. vs. Hey! There's snow, man. vs. Hey there snowman!).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Place value games (see your child's FreshGrade link in the next few days for the activity).
- LA - Story creation on iPads & Art.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 12th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus telling a law scholar about actions of the Good Samaritan. Students discussed how when Jesus says we should be kind and help our neighbours, he's really talking about being kind and helpful to all people.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Tech Rehearsal - Grade 2 practiced their parts on the stage.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Video of Tech Rehearsal - Students watched a video of their practice to see how they look.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Subtracting. Students learned and/or practiced different ways to subtract. These ways included mental math, using number lines and counting leaps back, counting back using a number line (no leaps drawn), and counting backwards using their fingers to keep track (e.g. start at 44, and count back 4 - (43, 42, 41, 40) while counting four on their fingers).
- Class discussion about sharing, politeness, kindness, and free time expectations.
- Clean up.
- School pictures handed back.
- Early dismissal (3:00).
Dec. 10th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus blessing children.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Grammar - Verbs. Students were introduced to verbs as action words. Students were able to show their understanding by completing two sheets independently.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Music practice.
- Math - Number Sense work - students worked through activities to decide if it was easier to add starting from the big number or from the small number (e.g. - 3 + 9, or 9 + 3?). The logic being that if the student starts at 3 and counts the next 9 figures in the sequence, it takes longer ( 3, 4, 5, 6. 7. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12) versus starting at 9 and having to only count the next three numbers in the sequence (9, 10, 11, 12). Students realized that they still get the same answer, but one is more efficient and less prone to mistakes (not to mention more logical) than the other.
- LA - Students used Puppet Pals 2 and Scratch Jr. to animate stories.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 7th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
- LA - Noun and Verb online games - Students were able to practice their skills at identifying nouns and verbs through two interactive games.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR & Home Reading Rewards - students who reached a certain amount of checkmarks from home reading were given a choice of prize.
- Music - Students rehearsed their song for the Christmas Celebration.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to find a spot in the classroom and listen quietly to the Vitamin String Quartet's version of Mad World (by originally by Tears for Fears) and watch a visualization on the board.
- LA - Online practice with Verbs and Nouns. Students who were done were able to get iPads and create a story in Puppet Pals 2 or in Scratch Jr.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 6th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus declaring that Peter will be the rock on which His church will be built on. Students were told that 'the rock' refers to the base, or foundation on which everything can be built on after Jesus dies.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Nouns and Adjectives - Students were introduced to adjectives (describing words). They were given a list of verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and asked to create a list of adjectives.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to relax to the Vitamin Quartet's version of Brick while watching a computer generated visualization.
- Math - Adding, Subtracting, and Order - Students learned pre-algebra skills by solving for x (don't worry, I didn't use this language with them). Students were given a two numbers and had to find out the missing number (e.g. 8 + ___ = 13). Students solved this with a number line and counting the 'leaps' or 'jumps'.
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in and guided the students on a lesson of when you should introduce yourself.
- Body Break - 2 more GoNoodle videos.
- Music - Students practiced the song they will perform in Holy Family's annual Christmas Celebration.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 5th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Posadas - See the "Informational Items and Notes" tab for more details.
- LA - Grade 2 Reading Nouns - Students worked on a sheet that had verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns. They were tasked to circle and write down the nouns (person, place, or thing).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Adding, Subtracting, and Order - Students learned that in addition, order does not matter (3 + 2 + 5 = 10; 3 + 5 + 2 = 10; 2 + 5 + 3 = 10), but in subtraction it does matter (e.g. if you start with 4 things, you cannot take 8 things away, therefore 4 - 8 doesn't make sense (for Grade 2 math purposes)).
- Art - Christmas programme drawing - Every year, our school picks one student's artwork to be the cover of our Christmas Celebration programme.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 4th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus rescuing Peter when he tried to walk on water. Students were also reminded of the reason we celebrate Posadas, and what it mean in our school culture.
- Hand back assignments - Students were handed back marked assignments. Once students were done placing their work away in their binder, they had some quiet free time to draw, write, or play a board game.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students completed some review sheets on grouping and skip counting (e.g. circle groups of ten and tell how much it in the picture -- students were to circle ten groups of items until they were left with just 'ones' that couldn't be fit into a group of ten, then write the correct number).
- Clean up.
- LA - Our Vice-Principal came in to read a story to the Grade 2 students.
- Dismissal.
Dec. 3rd, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus walking on water.
- LA - Students were read the story Three Questions, based on Leo Tolsty's 1910 short story about searching to find the answers to the questions: When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Students were then asked to make a personal connection to the story and write about what was the most important thing to them and why.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Science - Metamorphic and non-metamorphic life-cycles - conclusion. Students matched the correct sequence of non-metamorphic and metamorphic life-cycles on the smart board. Students then coloured, cut out, and glued a life-cycle of a frog.
- Art - Christmas decorations - Students started to create Christmas decorations to hang in the classroom.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 23rd, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the pool of Bethesda.
- LA - Common Nouns worksheet.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- (Pizza) Lunch.
- Gym.
- PJ and Stuffy Party - Students changed into the PJs and brought their stuffy into the classroom. We then watched some episodes of SuperBook (God Creating the Universe and Jonah and the Whale).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 22nd, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus calling Matthew to join him.
- Body Break - Zones of Regulation & GoNoodle.
- LA - Students finished up any pending work. The two pending assignments were a reading and comprehension activity, and a common nouns work sheet.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- LA - finish up work. Students who were done were able to have some quiet free time building things with Lego, doing art, playing board games, or practicing their Scratch Jr. skills.
- Guidance - Class discussion about understanding idioms (I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant; or, I baked a cake with my friend, we had a sleepover and we had a ball).
- Music - Students are practicing their song for the Christmas celebration.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 21st, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- LA - Teacher read Jamie Lee Curtis' "When I Was Little". Teacher then prompted students to make a connection to the story by thinking about something they used to do when they were little and now that they are older, they don't do anymore.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students wrote about their connection to the story. They also were tasked with making sure the two sentences they wrote had two commas and two periods (e.g.: When I was little, I used to eat crayons. Now, I eat pizza.).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR (5 minutes).
- Quiet Time - Students were invited to find a spot on the carpet and relax for 8 minutes while listening to Jose Gonzales' 'Heartbeats' and 'Crosses'.
- Math - Refresher on place value (understanding that the '2' in 25 is not a 2, it is actually 2 tens, and five ones. Students were led through various examples. They were then given a multiple choice quiz to see if they understood the concept and could extend their thinking (to the hundreds place). Students who were done were able to do a colour by number until the Grade 7 buddies came.
- Buddies - Grade 7 helped students in a dice-art activity.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 16th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- DEAR.
- LA - Students were read the story "Surprise for Mr. Frog and Mr. Toad". The students read it previously with their Grade 7 buddy on Wednesday, read it with a Grade 2 partner on Thursday, and today the followed along in the book while the teacher read the story. Students were then given a sheet which had key points of the story jumbled. Their job was to sort the plot points in chronological order.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students completed their workbook on Data. Students were given at least two sets of data and were asked to sort it in an organized fashion. With the data organized, they then had to answer comparing questions. In the final question, they were given an incomplete data table, and had to pick a relevant title for the graph, and answer questions about it. Students who were done were able to log in to Grade 2 Mathletics for the first time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 15th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Prayer - Students read the story of Jesus healing Simon Peter's Mother in Law.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Guidance - Mr. Hupe came to our class to discuss behaviour during recess and after school.
- LA - Students re-read the story they read with the Grade 7 buddies.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - introduction to data labelling and sorting. (E.g.: What do these numbers/charts actually mean?)
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford taught a lesson on making appropriate conversation (being empathetic and responsive).
- Music - with Mr. Woolridge.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 14th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Jesus and Samaritan at the well.
- Zones of Regulation + GoNoodle.
- LA - Activity based on capitalizing the first letter of each sentence. Students were given a paragraph that had no capitals at the beginning of words and they had to then circle the letter that should be capitalized. Students then had to write two sentences based on the picture (that had to do with the paragraph they just read) - making sure that their first letter in each sentence was capitalized. Students who were done learned/practiced chess, did art or played with built with Legos.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- GoNoodle - Don't Read Like a Robot.
- Math - Students were introduced to our next unit in Math which falls under Probability and Data Management. Today's work focused on sorting the data into groups (building on from last week's skills) and the sorting these items (or data) into correct rows. Students also created comparison sentences (utilizing subtraction skills). An example of this was: 8 students wear running shoes. 4 students wear boots. 8 - 4 = 4. 4 fewer people wear boots than running shoes.
- Buddies - Grade 7 came to help students read a story (Mr. Frog and Mr. Toad). Once Grade 2 students were able to tell me what happened (and the irony in the story), they had their choice of getting a computer or playing chess with their Grade 7 buddy.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 13th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Nicodemus and Jesus.
- LA - Nouns - Students were reminded what nouns were (people, places, and/or things). They were then given a worksheet. We did the first three examples on the board, and the rest given as in class work.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students were assessed on their grouping skills. Students were tasked with showing the teacher how they grouped various items around the classroom.
- Science - Some students were given a quiz on non-metamorphic and metamorphic life cycles. This was done using an online quiz created by the teacher. Students who were not assessed today will be assessed tomorrow and Thursday.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 9th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Library.
- Health & Science - Students were reminded of what to do when we have an earthquake drill (to duck and cover; lock fingers and cover their neck). Students were then shown pictures of the spine and why we should protect this area of our body.
- LA - Students wrote about two things that they hope will happen on the weekend.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students reviewed geometric shapes they learned (triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon). Remaining students were assessed on their skills. Students who were assessed then worked on finishing their maps of Canada.
- Earthquake Drill - Grab and Go. Students duck and covered for 1 minute, then waited one minute, then went to their hooks and got their coats and exited the building.
- Social Studies - Students continued to work on their maps. When done, they had some free time. They were able to work on a Lego project, or work on a KiwiCo box. (KiwiCo is a subscription-based STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) box that Grade 2 will receive every month with projects that educational and fun).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 8th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students head the story of Jesus throwing the money-lenders out of the temple and why.
- LA - Students were asked to write about three things they enjoyed about the Remembrance Day ceremony. They were given the sentence starters "Yesterday was the Remembrance Day Ceremony. One thing I liked about the ceremony was.... Another thing I liked about the ceremony was .... and ....". After they were done this, they were given a work booklet provided by Veterans Affairs Canada. Students were also pulled out in groups of 3 or 4 to help bake carrot cupcakes and potatoes for the Grade 2 class. Our veggies were provided by From the Ground Up organization to encourage healthy eating.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Science - Our Student-Teacher taught a lesson on Newton's three laws of physics. See: http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/Newton/ for a good intro.
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in and Grade 2 did to lessons on "Starting a Conversation" and "How to Handle a Mistake". Students then worked in their Guidance book.
- Music - With Mr. Woolridge.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
- Cupcakes.
Nov. 7th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- DEAR.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus at the wedding of Cana, where Jesus preformed his first miracle.
- LA - Students were given the writing prompt "This Remembrance Day, I will remember .... I will remember them because ... ". Once students were done (and done their corrections), they were given a connect-the-dots worksheet on the Victoria Cross medal. If they were able to finish this, they were able to work on their map of Canada.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside, as the gym was being decorated for our Remembrance Day ceremony.
- Science - Our Student-Teacher taught a lesson on At-A-Distance forces (gravity) vs. Contact forces (air resistance, etc...). Students were also show a video of what happens when feathers and a bowling ball in a vacuum at NASA. It was really cool - ask your kids what happened.
- Remembrance Day ceremony. Most Grade 2 students were respectful and solemn during this time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 6th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Social Studies - Mr. Hupe came in and discussed what we are remembering when talk about Remembrance Day. He discussed his personal family connection to World War I and how hard life was in the trenches and for all the families left behind.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Social Studies/Math - Students were given time to colour in their poppy (to be presented tomorrow), Students then worked on their maps of the Provinces and Territories of Canada. Students who were not assessed on their geometry skills yesterday did so today.
- Social Studies - Our Student Teacher taught a lesson on Rights and Freedoms using the students' bedroom as an example. Students were asked to come up with three 'rights and freedoms' (or rules) that they either have in their bedroom or they wish they had in their bedroom. Students then wrote down those 'rules/rights and freedoms' and explained why they think it should be a rule (and 'because it's fun' is not an acceptable Grade 2 answer). Students who were done were given free time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 5th, 2018
- O Canada, Announcements
- DEAR - Drop Everything and Read (10 minutes)
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus calling his disciples.
- LA - The students were given a writing prompt "The coolest thing I ever saw/did is...". Students then had to write what they did (in relation to its coolness factor) and who they were with when it happened, and why it was cool.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - 10 minutes.
- Math - Students were given geoboards and elastics and tasked with creating all the geometric shapes we learned (triangle, square, rectangle, pentgon, hexagon, heptagon, and octagon).
- Social Studies - Provinces and Territories and capitals introduced. Students began their map of Canada project.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Nov. 2nd, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer.
- LA - Students were asked to write about their last two days and about what they hoped to do this weekend. The writing prompts/sentence starters were: On Wednesday, Oct. 31st, I did/went.... On November 1st, I .... This weekend, I hope that I get to....
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Our student teacher taught a lesson on greater than, less than, and equal to and its symbols. Students played a game where they had to roll dice and add the numbers together and compare it to the their partner's numbers. They then had to use the symbols of greater than, less than, or equal to to see which person won the round.
- Kahoot Quiz - Students were introduced to a teacher created quiz on the website Kahoot. The quiz today was familiarizing themselves with the task of taking an online quiz. Kahoot allows teachers to create interactive quizzes - but they watch teacher's computer screen to read the question and the possible answers, and then students had to select the right answer on their iPad. I misjudged how much our network could handle, and many frustrated students were dropped from the game. (The majority of the students handled this well, some did not). This quiz will be repeated on Monday with only 5 students logging on at a time to ensure each student has a chance to learn and play. This will be followed by a Science quiz on definitions and examples of metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles. This quiz will also be done in Kahoot, but will also be done in groups of 5 at a time.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 30th, 2018
- O Canada, announcements.
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being found in the Temple after three days.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- FreshGrade discussion & Hand back work - I discussed what parents will see if they choose to sign up for their child's FreshGrade updates. I handed back work that has been marked and students put the work in their binder.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - students read quietly for about 15 minutes.
- Math - We continued to learn more about grouping data through its characteristics. We did physical representations of characteristics that students have (e.g. I asked certain students to stand up at the front of the room and have the other students guess what data I was sorting - like colour of shirt, type of shoes, hair colour, etc...). Students completed three more sheets based on this activity. Students who were done could practice on Lightbot on the iPads.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 29th, 2018
- DEAR - After O Canada and announcements, students read quietly for about 15 minutes.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus growing up.
- LA - Students were given the writing prompts: "This weekend was ______ (e.g. okay, fun, sad, etc.). One thing I did on the weekend was... Another thing I did on the weekend was... A third thing I did on the weekend was...".
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - Students read quietly for 10 minutes.
- Math - Students reviewed what they learned on Friday (sorting by groups and looking for only one attribute or characteristic) and extending this to sorting by multiple attributes (e.g. square with stripes, triangles with dots and triangles without dots). Students completed three pages of math based on this lesson.
- Science - Students reviewed the difference between metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles. Students began watching a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about different life cycles.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 26th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Mary and Joseph fleeing to Egypt because of King Herod.
- LA - Students finished off their Family Write. Those that were completely finished were able to have a bit of free time. Students were given the choice of educational games on the computer, play board games, read, or write.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR.
- Math - Students participated in an interactive lesson on our Promethean Board where they had to sort through data and classify it in some manner (see pictures below).
Many students came up with interesting ways to sort - not just the obvious ways - some students sorted the first picture by closed shapes or open lines, and straight lines and curved lines. Students modelled that data can be displayed in many different ways - not just in obvious ways. Students then
completed three worksheets on what they just learned.
completed three worksheets on what they just learned.
- (Sneaky) Math & Art - Students who were done their math sheets were allowed to use iPads to play around on Lightbot (coding, patterning, and computational thinking), Scratch Jr. (also teaches the same skills as Lightbot, but a bit more 'open' and not as guided), or create art in the app Pages.
- Interim Checklist handed out.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 25th, 2018
- Ice Skating - Students went ice skating with their Grade 7 buddies.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- DEAR - students (and the teacher) read quietly for 15 minutes.
- Prayer - Students were read the story of the Magi and King Herod.
- Math - Students were introduced to our next Math unit. The next Math unit will be focusing on probability and data. Children were introduced to data sets and the different ways we can classify items. The example the teacher showed was a box of letters in different colours. We sorted them first by colour, then by letters, then by vowels. All of this was to show students that there is more than one way to classify data sets. Students were then invited to get items around the room (e.g my tub of lego), and show me the different ways to sort the data.
- Clean up.
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in and students where shown a video about being a part of a group. Students then modelled what good listening looks like. Students then worked on their Guidance booklets.
- Music - with Mr. Woolridge.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 24th, 2018
- LA/DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) - Students were asked to read quietly to themselves after O Canada & Morning Announcements.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jesus being presented in the temple on the 40th day.
- LA - Students were given the choice to write about either "Children should be allowed to... because...", or "My Halloween pumpkin will look like .... It will have ....".
- Recess.
- Grade 4 Bible Celebration - all grades attended.
- DEAR - Students read quietly until recess time (about 15 minutes).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students practiced identifying geometric shapes and classifying them. Students learned that a quadrilateral shape has four sides and four vertices, a pentagon has five sides and five vertices, a hexagon has six sides and six vertices, a heptagon has seven sides and seven vertices, and (finally) an octagon has eight sides.
- Free time - for the last 20 minutes of the day, students were allowed to read, do art, play a board game or with 3-D brain teaser puzzles, write, or try their hand at the puzzle game Tower of Hanoi (found at http://www.webgamesonline.com/towers-of-hanoi/index.php). Students started with three discs, and moved up to four discs. Students tried to complete the tower in as few mathematically possible moves (e.g. with three discs, the least amount of moves are 7).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 23rd, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the birth of Jesus.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- Math - Students were introduced to polygons and the different kinds (octagon, heptagon, hexagon, etc...).
- Science - Students were introduced to metamorphic life-cycles and non-metamorphic life-cycles.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 22nd, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joseph and Mary going to Bethlehem for the Census.
- LA - Extra Yarn - Students were read the story Extra Yarn, where in a girl has a magical box of yarn that she uses to gift sweaters and such to the people of her town. A greedy Archduke offers her money for the box of yarn, but she politely says 'no'. He then steals the yarn, but the box is empty because he wasn't willing to share it with anyone.
- Guidance & PBIS (Positive Behaviour Intervention and Support) - Students practiced getting on and off a school bus in a safe and respectful way. All of Holy Family participated in this activity.
- Guidance - Social Express lesson - Students were shown a video on how to say no where they had to choose what they could say when they want to say no in a polite way. Students also did participated in a mini-lesson on when it is too loud in the classroom (which it often is).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students switched Guided Reading teachers today.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students went outside to play.
- Meditation (5 minutes).
- Math - Review of properties of shapes (what makes a triangle a triangle and not a square, rectangle, or circle) and their vertices.
- Science - Students watched short video of the metamorphosis of a butterfly in preparation of our life-cycle unit.
- Silent Ball - Students were explained the rules of Silent Ball. Silent Ball is a 'reward' game we can play at the end of the day when we've done all our work.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 19th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth.
- Guidance - Students practiced appropriate bus line and bus riding behaviour.
- LA - First Nations Ontario story read by Ms. Radziunas.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students will be starting different guided reading groups on Monday.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Meditation/Mindfulness - Students were invited to relax by listening to Massive Attack's song Teardrop.
- Home Reading Rewards - two more students were given their choice of prizes as their home reading rewards.
- Math - Students worked on three pages of math on closed line and open lined shaped, as well as classifying shapes and counting vertices.
- Art & Games - Students were given time to either do self-directed art, figure out brain-teasers, or learn how to play Robot Turtles. Robot Turtles is a board game that teaches computational thinking and coding concepts in a fun way.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 18th, 2018
- LA - Students were given time to finish their Family write (including final draft). If students were done, they where given the writing prompt "My parents always tell me to never...". Students had to write about what one thing their parents always tell them not to do (either around the house, at school, in public). Students who completed both tasks were given time to read or create art.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Meditation - Students were invited to sit or lie on the floor, and watch a computer generated image while listening to Sigur Ros' Untitled 3.
- Math - Geometry - Students learned about open lined shapes vs closed line shapes. Students were also introduced to vertices.
- Home Reading rewards - two students reached 20 checkmarks in our home reading program and were allowed to pick a prize from the reward prize box.
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in and talked about personal space and how it is important to ask people before touching them.
- Music - with Mr. Woolridge.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 17th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Gabriel, Mary, and the Annunciation.
- LA - Students worked on corrections from their Family write (from Monday).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students reviewed the characteristics of shapes (e.g. a square has all four sides the same; a rectangle has two short sides and two longer sides; a triangle has 3 sides). Students completed a worksheet on lines - straight lines and curved lines as an introduction to Geometry.
- Computers - Students played strategy & logic games.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 16th, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of King Cyrus freeing the Jews so they could return to Judea and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
- LA - Fundations - Students recalled that some words get 'bonus letters' when followed by a short vowel sound (e.g. its 'all', not 'al'; its 'miss', not 'mis').
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students reviewed how to measure length, height, and width. Students then worked on measuring distance.
- Science - Introduction to Life Cycles.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 15th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Daniel and the Lions' Den.
- LA - Students began working on their Family write project. Students worked on their first draft today. Tomorrow they will fix any corrections and do final copy.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading & Pictures - Students were called down to have their class and individual pictures taken.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played games outside.
- Meditation - Students were invited to find a quiet space on the floor and relax while listening to Moby's Hymn.
- Math - Students finished up their Measuring Length Unit. Students who were finished got some free time on the computer.
- Rewards - Two students received 20 checkmarks for reading (one checkmark for 15 minutes read, two checkmarks for 30 minutes read, or three checkmarks for reading for 45 minutes or above). Each of them received a prize from the prize box.
- Body Break - Go Noodle - Students were invited to dance and follow the moves of dancers on Go Noodle, or make up their own moves.
- Music & Art - Students were invited to create art while listening to Max Richter's Summer 3 from his reimagining of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 11th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Daniel and the Vegetables.
- LA & Art - Students first were shown different samples of writing from BC Grade 2 students. They 'marked them' in terms of clarity, types of sentences, and information. The samples used are from the BC Performance Standards in Grade 2 Writing (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/performance-standards/writing_g2.pdf). Students were then introduced to the LA and Art assignment where they started to create a family mobile. This will be used on Monday to create a written piece that will tell who is in their family mobile and what kinds of things they like to do together (for samples of this activity, please refer to the Performance Standards link above and go to the Personal Writing samples page).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- LA & Art - Students finished off, and assembled their family mobiles. Students who were done had some quiet free time (legos, reading, or more art).
- Clean up.
- Mindfulness/Meditation - Students were invited to pick a spot on the floor and watch a computer generated visualization while listening to Max Richter's Path 3 (7676) from Sleep.
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in to talk about flexible mindsets.
- Music - Students participated in Music class with Mr. Woolridge.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 10th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jeremiah the Prophet.
- LA - Students were tasked with writing why they are excited about October. The writing prompt was "I'm excited its October because...". If students were completed early, they added a picture to match their writing.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA & Guidance - Students worked on the next page of their self-reflection booklet. This week's self-reflection theme was solving problems in a peaceful ways. Students had five statements that they had to rate as something they always do, sometimes do, or never do. Students also took on a goal to work towards in this area.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- PE.
- Math - Coding. Students were able see and manipulate computer codes to change backgrounds and size.
- Mindfulness/Meditation - Students were invited to relax by looking at computer code generated visuals on the Promethean board, whilst listening to Max Richter's Dream 2 (entropy) from the neo-classical work Sleep.
- Computers - students played strategies and logic based games.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 9th, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Jonah and the Whale.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students learned volleyball skills.
- Math - Students continued their measurement unit in Math. This time, students worked without a ruler and used strips of paper and a length of string to measure objects around the classroom.
- LA - Students were given the writing prompt: "The best thing I ate at Thanksgiving dinner was...".
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 5th, 2018
Dave Brubeck's Take 5
Dave Brubeck's Blue Rondo a la Turk
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Isaiah becoming a prophet and foretelling the Messiah.
- LA & Art - Students wrote about what they were thankful for and created a Thanksgiving Card.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played games outside.
- Art & Mindfulness - Students listened to three songs and created artwork based on what they hear and what they feel. The three selections today were:
Dave Brubeck's Take 5
Dave Brubeck's Blue Rondo a la Turk
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 4th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Elijah and the flaming chariots.
- Social Emotional Learning - Students learned about personal space and how everyone has a different size of 'bubble' they need to feel calm.
- LA - Students wrote about what they liked about the Thanksgiving Celebration. Students learned to write their journal by skipping a line to allow for corrections, as well as the proper format of writing on loose-leaf paper (margin on the left, title at the top, name and date, etc...).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played games outside.
- Math - Students began their Measurement Unit in math. They began learning about height, width, and length.
- LA - Students were read the story Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura. Students then worked on a reading connection sheet to explain their connections to the story.
- Music - Students learned some new songs as well as a few new dance moves.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 3rd, 2018
- Music - Students practiced their song in the gym in preparation for today's Thanksgiving Celebration.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Elijah.
- LA & Religion - Students practiced their parts for the Thanksgiving Celebration.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading (30 minutes) - Students explored PuppetPals2 (an interactive story creator).
- LA & Religion - Students from Grade 2 and the Grade 2/3 class practiced their parts for the Thanksgiving Celebration in the gym (final rehearsal).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students went outside to play.
- Math - Students were introduced to the iPad app Lightbot: An Hour of Code. In this app, students learn computational thinking, logic, mathematical patterns, and the basics of computer coding.
- Thanksgiving Celebration - Grade 2 and Grade 2/3 performed wonderfully. Way to go!
- Math - Lightbot (continued from earlier).
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 2nd, 2018
10 cm = 1000 mm
1 m = 100 cm
1 km = 1000 m
- Library.
- Music - Practiced with the Grade 2/3 class the Thanksgiving song in preparation of tomorrow's celebration.
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Solomon asking for wisdom to lead his people.
- Recess.
- LA & Religion - Students had the first full rehearsal with the both classes (Grade 2 and Grade 2/3) for the Thanksgiving Celebration.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students were given a baseline quiz (meaning the marks will NOT be a part of each student's report card) on Measurement. This was to assess where to begin with measurement and break off students into similar groups to teach key concepts about the metric system. Examples:
10 cm = 1000 mm
1 m = 100 cm
1 km = 1000 m
- Music - Practiced the Thanksgiving song (again).
- Computers - Games on abcya.com.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
Oct. 1st, 2018
- Future Thinking - In Grade 2 we are trying something new. We are trying to 'travel in the future' (through thought) and imagining what we are doing. The example today was that our Goal was to go to Music class. The teacher asked "How are we going to get there?" (Walking) "How are we going to walk?" (Quietly) "What is that going to look like?" (Straight line, no cutting, hands to self). "What are we going to do once we are there?" (Sit, sing, participate, listen to teacher) This is a way for students to visualize their path before they arrive at their destination. We will be doing this a lot in the Grade 2 classroom to ensure that all students know what is expected in terms of work, behaviour in hallways, gyms, during presentations, when guests come to the school, on the playground, etc...
- Music - Students practiced the Thanksgiving Celebration song with the Grade 2/3 class.
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Solomon building the temple.
- LA - Students practiced their parts for the Grade 2 and Grade 2/3 Celebration.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students delivered empty grocery bags donated by Save-On-Foods around Porter Creek in anticipation of our Annual Food Drive.
- Music - Students practiced their Thanksgiving Song two more times.
- Body Movement Break.
- Math - Students were introduced to the next unit in Math: Measurement. Students were asked the different kinds of measurements there are (e.g. width, height, span, long, short, heavy, light). Students were also introduced to the concept that there are 10 mm in 1 cm; and that 100 cm = 1 m.
- Dismissal.
September 26th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of King David asking God for forgiveness. We also prayed for all the students and family members who are sick.
- Zones of Regulation check in
- Body Break - movement activities.
- Guidance (mini lesson) - Name that feeling. Students watched a short series of videos and then had to describe (in words) what what that feeling was (e.g. a sad face often has eyes down, face is down, and body is slack).
- LA - Tumblebooks - ebooks online.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Terry Fox Run prep (rules, expectations, filling out stickers that say "Terry Ran for Me, I'm Running for _____).
- Terry Fox pep rally in Gym.
- Terry Fox Run.
- Lemonade and Watermelon snack (graciously provided by Super A Porter Creek).
- Thanksgiving Celebration discussion (10 minutes).
- Clean up.
- Book Exchange.
- Dismissal.
September 25th, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of David dancing before the Ark.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle (freestyle dance).
- Guidance - Social Express - (mini lesson) What to do when you sneeze.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students finished off their pattern work booklet. Today's lesson was on patterns in real life - specifically on Canadian postal codes. Students had to discern which ones were postal codes and which patterns were not postal codes (e.g. R2K 1L6 vs RK2 1L6). Students learned that all postal codes in Canada follow the pattern of letter, number, letter, number, letter, number. If the pattern deviates from that, then it is not a postal code in Canada.
- Fire drill.
- Discussion on our upcoming Thanksgiving Celebration.
- Clean up.
- Book Exchange.
- Dismissal.
September 24th, 2018
- Zones of Regulation check-in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle - Quiet Time.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of David and Goliath.
- LA - Fall Reading Assessment - Students read by themselves the book "Hairy Caterpillars" and answered a worksheet on the book. Students were allowed to have the book with them for reference when they answered their questions.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students continued practicing showing patterns in different ways (e.g. from turning shapes into numerical codes).
- Social Studies - Students began work on their Self-Reflections on Core Competencies. Today, students self-reflected on how they saw themselves in terms of taking care of their learning environment in the classroom.
- Planners & Book Exchange - Students wrote in their planners "One thing I liked about today was...".
- Dismissal.
September 21st, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Joshua calling Israel to Witness.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were introduced to today's writing topic and invited to brainstorm. The writing topic today was "My Favourite Place to Visit". This could be a place they wanted to go (but haven't yet), a place they've been to before, a place near or far, real or imaginary.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Pizza Lunch.
- Gym.
- LA - "My Favourite Place to Visit" personal write. Students used an 'OREO' graphic organizer (O = Give your opinion; R = Give reasons for your opinion; E = Give examples for your opinion; and O = Restate your opinion). Students used this graphic organizer to put their ideas in point form (a few words, not complete sentences) to organize their writing. Once students showed their completed graphic organizer, they were given regular loose-leaf paper to expand on their points.
- Dismissal.
September 20th, 2018
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- Prayer - Students learned about Joshua and the battle of Jericho.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - In preparation for the Grade 2/3 Thanksgiving celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, students wrote on an orange pumpkin shaped sticky note some things they were thankful for.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Earthquake drill and evacuation.
- Math - Continuing our exploration of patterns, today students learned how to assign a letter to each shape in the pattern to create a mirror pattern.
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- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford came in to discuss feelings - and how to manage them.
- Music - with Mr. Woolridge.
- Dismissal.
September 19th, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about Moses and the Israelites worshiping in the desert, the construction of the ark of the covenant, and Moses' death.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- LA - Students were read the book InvisiBill, about a boy who feels invisible within his family dynamic, and eventually really becomes invisible. He then realizes that even though his family doesn't always pay attention to him, he's still important and valued. Students then worked on sheet where they had to explain what part they liked in the story, write a sentence when they felt sad or invisible (or, for those that were stuck, they were tasked with writing about what they would do if they were invisible), and draw a picture.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played outside.
- Math - Students continued yesterday's math work. If they were done, students go some time on the computers or were able to read quietly.
- Buddies - Grade 6/7 came to help the Grade 2 students attend the Catholic Book Fair. Students then played outside until the end of day bell.
- Dismissal.
September 18th, 2018
Complete the next 3 terms
1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, _, _, _
1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1
- Music.
- Library.
- Religion - Students hear the story of Moses breaking the tablets (and the teacher having to field questions about how the tablets were not iPads but made of stone...).
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - GoNoodle.
- Social Emotional Learning - Introduction to the concept of social emotional learning - learning together about social expectations and interpreting feelings.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - students played grounders outside.
- Math - Core Patterns lesson - after doing activities that model the learning of what a core pattern is, students completed questions based on the learning concepts.
Complete the next 3 terms
1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, _, _, _
1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1
- Planner writing & Book Exchange
- Dismissal.
September 17th, 2018
- Prayer - Students were read the story of the Golden Calf.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - Go Noodle.
- LA - Students had to write about at least 2 things they did on the weekend. They then had to draw and colour a picture to match what they wrote about.
- Get Ready - Do - Done - students were walked through the steps of what they need to do at every step of the writing assignment (what they need to get ready to work, what they need to do, and what they need to get done) in order to be completely done.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - students were introduced to ordinal numbers (numerical organization e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 2nd last, 4th last, etc...). Students lined themselves up in alphabetical order and then had to figure out who was 4th, 4th last, third, 2nd last, etc.... Students then organized themselves by height. This was to show how even though we have the same people in the line, we can organize things by different categories and that affects their order based on how we organize things. Students then completed 4 pages of math based on ordinal numbers.
- Planner writing and Book Exchange.
- Clean up.
- Dismissal.
September 14th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students heard the story of God giving the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Body Break - Go Noodle
- LA - Students were read the book Marvin the Unluckiest Monkey in the World. Marvin is a monkey (obviously) that claims he is having the most unluckiest day ever because everything goes wrong. But Pete the Penguin has a plan to show Marvin that things aren't so bad...it just depends on the way you look at it.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Soccer games.
- Math - This was the last day for students to complete all their math booklets. On Monday, students will be learning ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc...).
- LA - Reading & Comprehension - Continued from yesterday. Teacher re-read "My New Babysitter" to the whole class. Students then sorted sentences into different categories (Reasons to Dislike & Reasons to Like the new babysitter).
- Clean up and Dismissal.
September 13, 2018
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension - Students read with a partner the story "My New Babysitter". After reading the story, they coloured a worksheet and cut out sentences to paste on a piece of construction paper that lists reasons to dislike the babysitter and reasons to like the babysitter. The purpose of the story is show that while change can be scary, in the end it can be a good thing...depending on how one views the situation.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - students continued their work from yesterday. Student have until Friday to catch up on their Math work. If their work is not completed by the end of Friday, it will be assigned as homework.
- Planner writing and Book Exchange.
- Music.
- Dismissal.
September 12, 2018
- Prayer - Students were told the story of the Passover.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension - Students read with a partner the story "A Hundred Million Kisses". After reading the story with a partner, we read the story together out loud. We then matched the picture of the person or animal with the sentence that matches the part in the story. Students began working on colouring their pictures on the worksheet.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students continued their work from Monday. Students that were done had free time (reading, drawing/colouring, legos).
- Planners and Book Exchange.
- Grade 7 Buddies - Grade 2 partnered with Grade 7 and Grade 2 re-read the story "A Hundred Million Kisses" to their Grade 7 buddy. Grade 7s were told to only help their Grade 2 buddy if they were stuck on a word. Once they read, Grade 7 helped Grade 2 cut and paste the pictures by the sentences they correspond to. If they were finished, they were allowed a few minutes on the computer (playing on www.abcya.com).
- Dismissal.
September 11th, 2018
- Music
- Library
- Prayer - Students heard the story of Moses and the Burning Bush.
- Zones of Regulation - Class discussion about Red Zone vs. Yellow Zone (Red Zone's Angry/Mad vs. Yellow Zone's Frustrated) and what the difference is.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Class discussion of Bus Rules and Swimming expectations (including walking off the bus, lining up, walking in and out of the CGC, and change room behaviour).
- LA - Out of Sight Words (www.abcya.com) game interactive game.
- Swimming.
- Book Exchange.
- Dismissal.
September 7th, 2018
Example Question: Paul has 5 apples. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 8 pears. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has ____ more _____ than _____
Answer: Paul has 5 apples. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 8 pears. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 3_ more pears than apples.
- Prayer - Students were read the story of Joseph, despite being sold into slavery, then later becoming the governor of Egypt, he still forgave his brothers who had wronged him. Students ended our prayer session by reciting the Our Father
- Library.
- LA - Fundations lesson - continuation of yesterday's lesson (see Sept. 6th, 2018).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading (see Sept. 5th, 2018 for format).
- Fire Drill.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Dodge ball.
- Math - Students were introduced to the concept of comparing two things and showing that comparison by subtraction. Students were presented with a word problem (similar to the one below) and the had to fill in two ten-frames to visualize it. Students then had to complete the sentence.
Example Question: Paul has 5 apples. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 8 pears. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has ____ more _____ than _____
Answer: Paul has 5 apples. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 8 pears. 🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆🀆
Paul has 3_ more pears than apples.
- LA - Discussion about home reading program and its importance.
- Sentence of the day (Today is Friday, September 7th, 2018. Tomorrow will be Saturday. One thing I hope to do this weekend is....).
- Home book selection.
- Dismissal.
September 6th, 2018
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Joseph being sold into slavery then eventually becoming governor of Egypt. Students ended prayer by reciting the Our Father.
- LA - Students did a fundations lesson focusing on when to use a 'c', 'k', or a 'ck' (e.g. C is almost always used in the beginning of words; K should only really be used before e, i, or y..."cat" vs. "kite" - and the digraph 'ck' is either in the middle of the word or at the end).
- LA - Hand back assignments and copy and complete sentence of the day "Today is Thursday, September 6th, 2018. Tomorrow will be Friday the 7th. One thing I really hope that happens today is...".
- Recess.
- Guided Reading.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Science / Health - Fire drill expectations and practice (also discussion on what is required for a fire to start and spread).
- Planners - Students had to write in their planners one thing they did today (e.g. One thing I did today was...). Students also took a levelled reading book home. This can count towards their time read at home. (Mark it down in the planner and 15 minutes gets 1 checkmark, 30 gets 2, and 45 gets 3 checkmarks which can then be redeemed for prizes.)
- Guidance - Students continued working on their "How Full is your Bucket" sheet with Mrs. Oxford.
- Music - with Mr. Woolridge.
- Dismissal.
September 5th, 2018
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours. We finished our prayer time with a recitation of the Our Father.
- LA & Math - Hand back. Students put marked work in their binders in the correct spot.
- LA - Fundations Lesson - Students practiced spelling words with digraphs ('wh'; 'ch'; 'sh'; 'th'; 'ck'). Some examples were 'bat' vs. 'bath' (one has a digraph, the other doesn't).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Groups of students met with a teacher and read in a group for 30 minutes. Afterwards, they were able to read silently for pleasure for 15 minutes, and had 15 minutes on computers (www.abcya.com Letters Games)
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students did corrections on their work and continued to work on the booklet from yesterday.
- Celebration - Grade 7s hosted Holy Family's Opening Celebration. Grade 2 comported themselves with respect and reverence. Way to go Grade 2!
- LA - Sentence of the day - Students had to complete the following prompt: "Today is Wednesday, September 5th. Tomorrow will be Thursday. One thing I hope I get today is...".
- Home reading book selection - students picked an appropriate reading level book to take home and read. This book can count towards our class' home reading program.
- Dismissal.
September 4th, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Zones of Regulation check - in.
- Prayer - Students and teacher discussed expectations for the Opening Celebration "We are Light for the World" tomorrow. Students finished with a recitation of Our Father.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Today was the first day of Guided Reading Groups. Students were broken up into groups and were paired with a teacher. They spent 3- minutes on reading a book with a teacher, then worked on 15 minutes of silent reading, then 15 minutes on www.abcya.com (Word Games - Orange section).
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Students played games outside.
- Math - Adding and Writing Numbers to Twenty. Students had to write both numerical digits and the words in their answers. (E.g. How old are you? ___ = ______; How old are you? __7__ = Seven.)
- Birthday party!
- Planner writing.
- Dismissal.
August 29th, 2018
- Prayer - Students recited the Our Father.
- Zones of Regulation check - in.
- Body break.
- LA - Sentence of the day (Today is Wednesday, August 29th, 2018. Tomorrow will be Thursday.); Printing, Letters, Sounds and Words pages 2 - 8; Printing, Letters, Sounds and Words - beginning consonants pages 9 - 11).
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students were read Sometime I Like to Curl up in a Ball and Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Day.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E. - Soccer skills and game.
- Math - students learned and practiced the concept that the number 14 can be shown as really two numbers - that the '1' in 14 is actually 1 group of 10, and the four can be shown as 4 ones. The teacher extended this activity with manipulatives on the smart board. The teacher also created questions for students seeking math enrichment (e.g. if '14' is really one group of tens + 4 ones; then what is '38'? '59'? '100'?).
- Computers (abcya.com and lego.com).
- Planner sentence - "My favourite part of the day was ... "
- Dismissal.
August 28th, 2018
- Music.
- Library.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- Go Noodle body break (3 minutes).
- Prayer - Students heard the story of God calling Abram.
- Recess.
- LA - Fundations lesson - using digraphs ('wh', 'ch', 'sh', 'th' and 'ck'. Next, students copied the sentence of the day (Today is Tuesday, August 28th 2018. Tomorrow will be Wednesday.). Students then worked on their alphabetical order worksheets from the previous day. If all work was done, then they got quiet free time with Lego/wooden building blocks or drew.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math. Subtraction and addition work left over from yesterday. Students were completed and got 100% got free time on the computers (using only www.abcya.com).
- LA - Story - Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Bernett & Jon Klassen. Students asked were asked questions as the story went along and offered predictions.
- Dismissal - Students had to write in their planner one thing they liked today.
August 27th, 2018
- Prayer - Students heard the story of the Tower of Babel. We closed our prayer time with Our Father.
- Zones of regulation check in.
- Go Noodle body break (3 minutes).
- LA - Students organized their binders with four dividers (one for LA; one for Math; one for Socials; and one for Science). Students then put their work in the correct sections.
- Recess.
- LA - Students completed any outstanding work from last week. Those that were done had quiet free time to play games or build with blocks.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- P.E.
- Math - Students learned and practiced subtraction and addition facts by drawing and/or crossing off pictures.
- LA - Story. Students were read "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen. Students worked on their inferring skills (using clues in the text and pictures to figure out what is happening in the story that might not be specifically referenced by the author.
- Planner sentence writing.
- Dismissal.
August 24th, 2018
- Library - Students were able to sign out books for the first time as Grade 2 students today. Please keep the ziploc bag for reuse for the next library time.
- Prayer - Students were told the story of Noah and his Ark. Students finished with a recitation of Our Father.
- Zones of Regulation check in.
- LA - Students began their own "No Excuses Spelling List". Today's words were "the", "of", and "and". Students wrote these words our four times on each line of their paper and worked on starting from the top of the line.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Students listened to the story "Why?" by Richard Torrey. (Sample questions: "Why do crackers have holes in them?" and "Why does all the good-for-you food taste bad?"). Students shared their connections and thoughts. Students then read quietly for 10 minutes.
- Assembly - Mr. Hupé discussed school rules, student responsibility, playground safety, and introduced new staff.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym - Basketball skills (including dribbling, passing, bounce passing, and catching).
- Math - Students continued to practice their number sense skills by adding numbers together (e.g. 5 + 2 + 1 = ?).
- Math Games - Students were able to play some group games on www.abcya.com. Games included adding and subtracting games and sight word games.
- Dismissal - Students wrote in their planner what they liked about the day (or what their favourite part of the week was).
August 23rd, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about the fall of Adam and Eve. Students recited the the Our Father.
- Zones of Regulation check-in. Students moved around to different corners of the room to show how they were feeling.
- Class discussion about hallway rules. This discussion was going over our school's "3 Bs" (found in students' planners in the front) - Be Safe; Be Responsible; Be Respectful.
- LA - Students practiced printing the alphabet. It was observed yesterday that many students are writing letters and numbers from the bottom of the lined paper and moving up. This activity was meant to enforce the concept that students should write from the top of the line down, not the other way around. Students who finished early did an alphabetical ordering activity.
- Recess.
- Guided Reading - Teacher finished reading "Here We Are: Notes of Living on Planet Earth" by Oliver Jeffers. Students shared many observations about the book (mainly about places and people).
- Social Studies - Mind mapping. Students began a project where they put their name in the middle of the paper and drew branches off their name to include facts about them.
- Recess.
- Lunch.
- Gym.
- Math - Students worked on simple adding (e.g. 3 + 2 = ?).
- Guidance - Mrs. Oxford read the book "How Full is Your Bucket (for kids)".
- Music.
- Dismissal.
August 22nd, 2018
- Prayer - Students were read the story of God creating Adam and Eve. Students finished with a recitation of Our Father.
- Zones of Regulation (see August 21st, 2018 for more info). Students learned a bit more of the different zones of regulation and how they can be in different zones at the same time.
- LA - Students drew at least 3 things they did over the summer. This activity meant to help the student write at least three sentences about what they did over the summer.
- Recess
- LA - (continued) - Students then took those three pictures and used them to create at least three sentences on what they did over the summer. Students were encouraged to sound out words by listening closely, sounding out the word slowly, breaking down the words into chunks, and/or tapping it out.
- Recess
- Lunch
- Gym
- Math - Students worked on number matching. Students were given a digit and had to find the pictorial representation of that number (e.g. 3 is the same as ***). Students also worked on the concept of less vs. more (e.g. 7 is less than 10).
- Science - The class read half of "Here We Are: Notes of Living on Planet Earth" by Oliver Jeffers. Some things that students learned were that the moon is more than 384 000 km away from the Earth.
- Planner writing.
- Dismissal.
August 21st, 2018
- Music
- Library
- Prayer - Students were read the story of God Creating Heaven and Earth. Students learned to recite the the Our Father.
- Class discussion about Zones of Regulation (Blue Zone; Green Zone; Yellow Zone; Red Zone). We will be working on understanding the different zones throughout the school year. More can be found at: http://news.scas.nsw.edu.au/zones-of-regulation/
- Recess
- Classroom Rules discussion
- Binder Art
- Recess
- Lunch
- Gym
- Math - Students learned how to create a four colour repeating pattern using building blocks. Students then coloured and extended their pattern on paper. Students also learned how to transfer the colours to a letter code (e.g. Red; Blue; Orange; Yellow = R; B; O; Y). Finally, students had to explain how the colour code and letter code are the same and how they are different from each other (possible answers include: they are the same because the letters are the starting letters of the name of the colour; they are different because one pattern is showing colour, the other is showing letters).
- Dismissal.
June 6th, 2018
and cones, spheres, pyramids, and cylinders.
Students explored these properties and tried to figure out if 2 D shapes are in 3 D shapes (e.g. pyramid has three triangles leaning
into each other and a square).
The teacher also taught students the Latin prefixes 'tri', 'bi', and 'uni' to help them understand that 'tri' means 3, therefore a
triangle has 3 angles; a bicycle has 2 wheels, a unicycle has one wheel.
- Prayer - students read two stories today. They read about Jesus and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, and Jesus Walking on Water.
- Clean up/Move - students helped move things off shelves and box them up. The whole school will be getting new carpet in each classroom and shelves will have to be moved.
- Guided Reading/Computers.
- P.E.
- Math - students learned about Geometry.
and cones, spheres, pyramids, and cylinders.
Students explored these properties and tried to figure out if 2 D shapes are in 3 D shapes (e.g. pyramid has three triangles leaning
into each other and a square).
The teacher also taught students the Latin prefixes 'tri', 'bi', and 'uni' to help them understand that 'tri' means 3, therefore a
triangle has 3 angles; a bicycle has 2 wheels, a unicycle has one wheel.
- Year end Awards ceremony in the gym.
- Early dismissal (outside 15 minutes early).
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about Jesus and the wedding at Cana.
- LA/Reading Power Connection Activity. Students were read The Recess Queen book and where ask to complete a worksheet on summarizing the story, making a connection (drawing a picture), and completing the phrase "This reminds me of...".
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Science and Applied Design lesson - students had to create their own tool using the knowledge of forces (static electricity, magnetism, push/pull, and gravity).
- LA/Story - Students were read the book "Why?" by Richard Torrey.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about Jesus and his apostles.
- Science - Our YNTEP student-teacher lead a class on an exploration of static electricity. Students blew up a balloon and rubbed it on their shirt. Students then took the negatively charged balloon and tried pick up salt and pepper. One spice picked up, where the other didn't. Students were encouraged to figure out, through logic, why the other spice did not pick up (hint: opposites attract, while like charges repel).
- Guided Reading.
- P.E. - Students played outside.
- Math - students began Unit 5, Adding and Subtracting Numbers to 100. After a re-cap of what numbers mean in terms of their place values (e.g. 53 is really 5 tens and 3 ones), and that numbers can be expressed in different ways (e.g. 53 can be expressed as 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 3; or 50 + 3; or 49 + 4; etc), students worked on expressing numbers in a variety of ways, using pictures, words, and numbers, and skip counting by 10s (e.g. 43 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10). Students also tried to 'make 10 or 20' then subtract. One example of this was 18 + 70. 18 is close to 20 (its only 2 less than 20); therefore we could add 20 + 70, which gives us 90. 90 - 2 is 88.
- LA/Story : A Yukon Winter Coat by Rachel Finn, a story about diversity, adaptation, inclusion, and friendship.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about Jesus being tempted in the desert.
- LA - Spelling test and Observational Literacy Survey tasks.
- Science - Our YNTEP student-teacher lead the class on an exploration of magnetic properties. Students learned terms such as: Magnetic Field; North and South Pole of a magnet; and what types of metal are magnetic (such as: Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt).
- P.E.
- Mathletics/Abcya.com Math games.
- LA/Reading Power lesson on Connecting (part 1). Students were read the book A Story for Bear by Dennis Haseley & Jim LaMarche.
Monday, May 14th, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about Jesus being baptized by John.
- Science - Our YNTEP student-teacher finished off his lesson on gravity and air resistance by have students work on their parachutes a bit more, then dropping them from the stage of the gym to see which designed worked the best.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Mathletics/Abcya.com Math games.
- LA/Reading Power lesson on Connecting to Stories. Students were read InvisiBill and asked to connected to the story of a boy who feels invisible.
Friday, May 11th, 2018
- Library.
- Science - Our YNTEP student-teacher facilitated a lesson on gravity and designing a parachute to create air resistance. Students designed their own parachute using cups, pipe cleaners, string, tape, tissues, plastic, etc... Students then addressed design flaws on their own by trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Grade 2 will be testing their prototypes on Monday (hopefully).
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Class discussion.
- Swim Lessons (#8).
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about Jesus being found in the Temple during a Passover visit to Jerusalem when he was about 12 years old.
- LA - Students completed the Spring DARTs (District Assessment of Reading Test). This test is done early in the school year (Fall DARTs), and then almost at the end of the school year (Spring DARTs) to map growth of reading and comprehension. Students read a book entitled 'Travelling Animals' and then answer two questions on the text. Students had access to the text at all times during the writing process. Students also had to read aloud a passage to the teacher. This is to ask how the student figures out unknown words and to gauge fluency and expression.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- LA - Story: The Skunk by Mac Barnett and Art by Patrick McDonnell.
- Swimming Lesson (#7).
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about how Jesus grew up. Father Ain came in and discussed Jesus' life before he began preaching.
- Science - Our YNTEP student-teacher taught a lesson on Friction. Students did experiments in different centres that explored exerting different levels of friction on different surfaces.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Swim lessons (#6).
Monday, May 7th, 2018
- Prayer. Learned about Joseph and Mary taking Jesus to Egypt to escape King Herod.
- Guidance/Language Arts. Our YNTEP student-teacher taught a lesson about Self-esteem and how we can increase it.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Mathletics.
- Science. Our YNTEP student-teacher taught the first lesson of the Grade 2 Forces lessons. Students got to explore different centres that had tasks where they had to push or pull using manipulatives (like magnets, string, gravity, etc...).
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
- Prayer. Our YNTEP student teacher taught us about Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers.
- LA & Social Studies - Discussed the concept of community and what it means. Students learned how to connect communities to each other by going from micro to macro (e.g. Family - School - Porter Creek - Whitehorse - Yukon - Canada - North America - Earth/World - Galaxy) and going from macro to micro (reversing the order). Students then coloured and created a map based on a fictitious community.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Story - we read the book The Curious Garden by Peter Brown.
- 2nd swimming lesson.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
- Library.
- All School Write Spring 2018 - Students wrote about 4 things that they hope they were going to get to do during the summer.
- Math Lesson 1 - Paper airplane folding.
- Math Lesson 2 - Measurement (how far can your paper airplane fly (in metres)?).
- First Swimming Lessons.
Monday, April 30th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about how 40 days after Jesus was born, he was presented to the temple to Simeon.
- LA - Journal - students had to write at least four things they did over the long weekend. Students were also given a choice to write about their 4 favourite movies, songs, things to do, etc...
- Guided Reading.
- P.E. - Grade 2's YNTEP student teacher taught a Zumba routine.
- Math - Mathletics.
- LA - Read Willoughby and the Lion (Transforming book).
- Guidance - Worked on the first page of their Self-Reflection book (see Thursday, April 26th, 2018).
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read the story of the birth of Jesus.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E.
- Math - abcya.com Math Games.
- Guidance - Mrs. Harding came in to discuss how hard it is to solve a problem when we are having big feelings like anger; sadness; frustration; etc... and that we should take time to calm down first then we can name our feelings and problems.
- Self-Reflection Booklet - Students began creating the cover of their self-reflection booklet that will hopefully go home with their report cards.
Friday, April 20th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Learned about the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
- Discussion about expected class behaviours; expectations.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E. - Wrestling Tournament.
- P.E. - outdoor activities (2:50 - 3:13).
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read the story of Daniel in the Lions' Den.
- LA - Students worked on Reading and Comprehension Exercises on the Months of the Year and the Four Seasons.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E. - Badminton skills.
- Computers.
- Guidance with Mrs. Harding. Students discussed why it is important to pay attention, and what they do to self-regulate (e.g. exercise, deep breathing).
- Students discussed ways to be behave in class, and what showing respect looks like.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students read about Daniel and the Vegetables.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension exercises on racoons (continued from yesterday).
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher, 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Fitness and skills stations.
- Math - Students continued to learn about measurement (cm and m; and weight).
- Computers - 20 minutes free time, then we went outside 10 minutes early to enjoy the sun.
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about Jeremiah the Prophet.
- LA - Reading and Comprehension exercises on raccoons.
- Guided Reading - Students read for 30 minutes with a teacher, and then spent 30 minutes on literacy stations.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills in preparation for our mini-wrestling tournament on the 20th. Participation in tournament will be voluntary.
- Math - Measurement. Students learned when to use centimetres and when to use metres. Some students measured the gym with a metre stick.
- Guidance - with Mrs. Harding. Discussion about yesterday's book (What Do You Do With a Problem) and students each set a self-regulation goal for them to try to work on until the end of the school year.
- Computers - Free time for 20 minutes; Students then went outside early to enjoy the sunshine.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
- Prayer - Student read about the paralyzed man that Jesus cured.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises on time, and days of the week (continued from yesterday).
- Guided Reading - Students read for 30 minutes with a teacher, and then spent 30 minutes on a literacy station.
- P.E. - students practiced throwing and catching with scoops.
- Math - Measurement (centimetres and metres).
- Story - Kobi Yamada's What Do You Do With a Problem? Students were then invited to make connections to the story and how they solve problems. Students also engaged in a discussion about how it is sometimes possible to view a problem as an opportunity to learn and grow.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students read about Elijah and the Fiery Chariot.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises. This booklet was focused on retelling, re-scanning to find information, and following directions. Students also practiced the days of the week, and times of the day (morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, midnight) within the context of the story.
- Guided Reading - Students spent 30 minutes with a teacher and then 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling Clinic with a guest coach.
- Math - Measurement. Students focused on the measuring objects with building cubes, rulers, string, paperclips, etc...
- Computers - abcya.com, then some free time.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about Solomon reign for 40 years.
- LA - Students completed the Reading and Comprehension sheets about Whales from Friday. Students focused on recall, scanning, and locating information skills.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Throwing and Catching Scoop Ball practice.
- Math - Measurement Unit - students began to learn about centimetres and metres, and the correct way to measure an object.
- Science - completed Water Cycle mini-poster from Friday.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students read about the Temple of Solomon.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises focusing on paragraphing and locating information (recall and re-scan). Students read about Blue Whales. '
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills, and King of the Mat game.
- Math - Patterns & Attributes; Measurement.
- Art - Students began their Water Cycle mini-poster.
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about David asking for forgiveness.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises focusing on paragraphs and locating information (recall and re-scan)
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills.
- Math - Patterns & their Attributes; Measurement.
- Science - Water Cycle.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
- Prayer - Students read about David vs. Goliath and David dancing in front of the Ark.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension exercises focusing on finding specific information in paragraphs.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills.
- Math - Patterns & their Attributes; some students began their Measurement unit work.
- Science - Life cycles recap; Water Cycle introduction.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
- Library.
- LA - Journal writing. Students had to write about at least 5 things they did over Spring Break.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills.
- Math - Patterns and their Attributes.
- Social Studies - World Map colouring.
Friday, March 16th, 2018
- Library.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension Exercises (continued from yesterday).
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - 1/2 gym floor hockey; 1/2 gym free time.
- Computers/LA - Computers for those who were done the LA from yesterday; LA work for those who were not caught up.
- Math - Continued Math from yesterday. Students practiced picking out attributes in patterns and repeating terms.
- Art - for those that were done their Math.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
- LA - Reading & Comprehension Exercises.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E.
- Computers - Educational games from www.abcya.com and movement exercises from GoNoodle.
- Guidance - With Mrs. Harding. Grade 2 talked about how sometimes feelings happen faster than our thoughts and that we might not be able to change any one else's behaviour, attitude, or thoughts, but we try to be in charge of our feelings.
- Math - Students finished up math from yesterday (see below). If students were completed the math, then they began learning about core patterns, terms, and attributes.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
- LA - Reading & Comprehension Exercises.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Students went outside to play due to Grade 5/6 floor hockey tournament taking place in the gym.
- Math - Students continued to strengthen their adding and subtracting skills using tens, and working on place value (see below).
- Social Studies - Mapping. Students learned about where Canada is on a world map. They have started to fill in their own map of the World, and they learned about the equator, where it is, and what it does.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about when Joshua calls Israel to witness.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension activity.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Frisbee skills and games.
- Math - continued on from yesterday's math (see below).
- Celebration - 3rd week of Lent/Stations of the Cross.
- Social Studies - word searches based on Provinces, Territories, and Capitals of Canada.
Monday, March 12th, 2018
3 + 2 + 7 = 10 + 2
= 12
- Prayer - Students learned about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. Students also prayed the "Our Father".
- LA - Personal Journal Writing. Students wrote about three things they did over the weekend and drew a picture.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Students practiced floor hockey skills and then played a game of floor hockey.
- Math - Students are continuing to strengthen their adding and subtracting skills with tens. Students are also learning place values (remembering that the "2" in 23 is really 2 tens and 3 ones). They also were presented with three numbers, two of which make ten, and adding the third number.
3 + 2 + 7 = 10 + 2
= 12
- LA - Story & Compare and Contrast (30 minutes) . Students were read Chris Van Allsburg's Jumanji story (about 1/3). They were comparing it to the Jumanji movie (the Robin Williams one) we are watching during lunchtime.
- Social Studies - Students finished off their personal map of Canada (adding Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland/Labrador; Nova Scotia; and New Brunswick.
Friday, March 9th, 2018
- Library.
- LA - Students learned about "kicking the 'e' with 'ing'". Students practiced turning words like 'have' to 'having'; 'make' to 'making'; 'arrive' to 'arriving'; and 'come' to 'coming'. Students noticed that with these words, the letter 'e' is kicked out by 'ing'.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - students practiced some floor hockey skills, then played a full gym game, focusing on passing to students they wouldn't normally pass to.
- Math - Students finished up the Math booklet from this week focusing on adding 10 and taking away 10 and number combinations that make 10.
- Art - students coloured Celtic Cross and Celtic Knots. Grade 2 also saw the last Grade 7 Destination Imagination performance (that was recorded on video). Students focused on seeing if the story had a beginning, middle, and end; if actors were facing the audience; if the props added to the skit; etc...See yesterday's notes below for more information on Destination Imagination (DI).
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
- Prayer - Students learned about Moses breaking the tablets of the 10 Commandments.
- LA - Personal Journal Writing - students wrote about their three favourite things to do and why. Students then added pictures of the three things to their journal entry.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Wrestling skills.
- Math - Students kept working on adding 10 and subtracting 10 from various numbers. Students who were finished we able to have some quiet computer time.
- Guidance - Mrs. Harding came in to talk about diversity of opinions.
- Buddies - Grade 2 went to the Grade 7 classroom and watched 4 Destination Imagination skits. Destination Imagination is a STEAM based program (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math).
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer - Students learned about Moses and the story of the Golden Calf.
- LA - Students worked on their reading comprehension skills by reading a book with no words (only visual information). Students had to infer what the book was about before they read; while they were reading (so about halfway through the book); and after they finished reading. Students completed a worksheet on this activity. Each student chose a different book.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Free time (half gym floor hockey; half gym free time).
- Math - Last day to finish up subtracting by counting up and counting down worksheet.
- Art - Finish up Fabric Colleges.
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
- Prayer - Learned about Moses and The Ten Commandments.
- LA - Students did reading comprehension exercises.
- Guided Reading - Reading quietly for 15 minutes, then did tumblebooks online. Students also read with a teacher for 30 minutes.
- Art - Students sew buttons onto felt fabric in order to make a felt fabric collage that depicts a scene from the First Nations' story "The Legend of How Summer Came to the Yukon".
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
- Prayer - Learned about Moses in the Desert; discussed our first school Lent celebration that will take place at 2 PM.
- LA - Students wrote about three things they did on the Rendezvous long weekend. When they were done, students were able to create mini-books with the stations of the cross.
- Guided Reading - Students read silently for 25 minutes, then did 15 minutes of tumblebooks online. Students were given about 12 minutes free time on the computer.
- P.E. - Lacrosse skills practice.
- Math - Continued math from previous days (subtracting by counting up or counting down)
- Lent Celebration #1.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
- Library - Reading Power: Inferring mini-lesson on the book Chalk.
- Prayer -Rread the story about Moses leading his people out of Egypt.
- LA - Created class list for showing respect to school staff and guest speakers using "I can..." statements.
- Guided Reading - Students were visited by an Artist in the School who told them the story of How Summer Came to the Yukon.
- Math - Continued working on counting forwards and backwards to subtract (see below).
- P.E. - Lacrosse skills.
- L.A./Art - students worked on their picture on How Summer Came to the Yukon that will be turned into a fabric collage on Thursday.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
- LA - Students finished their Reading Power Questioning sheet on The Cinder-Eyed Cats. Students then worked on their comic strips by editing them (correcting spelling mistakes) and colouring them.
- Guided Reading.
- P.E. - Hockey skills.
- Math - Counting forwards and backwards to subtract (see yesterday).
- Computers with Grade 7 Buddies.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
43 - 4 = 43; 42; 41; 40; 39
Students also learned that adding and subtracting are related. Example:
2 + 6 = 8 6 + 2 = 8
8 - 2 = 6 8 - 6 = 2
Students noted that all four equations contain the same numbers in a different order and that order doesn't matter when adding.
- Library.
- LA - Reading Power Lesson on Questioning. Students were shown the cover of Eric Rohmann's The Cinder-Eyed Cats and had to write at least two questions. Students were then read half the book, and we stopped to write down two other questions. We will finish this lesson tomorrow.
- Guided Reading - Students read 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Hockey skills.
- Math. Students were introduced to the concept of subtracting by counting backwards and subtracting by counting forwards. Examples of today's Math lesson:
43 - 4 = 43; 42; 41; 40; 39
Students also learned that adding and subtracting are related. Example:
2 + 6 = 8 6 + 2 = 8
8 - 2 = 6 8 - 6 = 2
Students noted that all four equations contain the same numbers in a different order and that order doesn't matter when adding.
Monday, February 19th, 2018
- LA - Superhero Journal. Students had to write about imagining what kind of superhero they would be, what kind of superpower(s) they would have, what their superhero name would be, and what they would use their superpower for. Students had to edit and correct mistakes, then also add a picture to their writing.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - student played outside.
- Math - Last day to finish Number Sense worksheets in class from last week.
- Social Studies - Students filled in Quebec and Nunavut on their map of Canada and began colouring the provinces and territories.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
- Library.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension Activities.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes on literacy centres.
- P.E. - Free time.
- Math - Students continued to practice adding and subtracting methods.
- Social Studies - Continued to fill in student maps of Canada. In addition to reviewing where Yukon (YT), and British Columbia (BC) are located, students labelled Alberta (AB), Saskatchewan (SK), Manitoba (MB), Ontario (ON), and the Northwest Territories (NWT).
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
- Ski School - Students went to the CGC to practice their cross-country ski skills.
- Snack.
- Watched part of Veggie Tales - Big River Rescue - A Lesson in Helping Others.
- P.E. - 1/2 court soccer; 1/2 court free time.
- Math - Continued practicing adding and subtracting methods
- Social Studies - Learned the location of the Yukon and British Columbia on a blank map of Canada. Students begun labelling their own maps with the compass rose and the Yukon Territory and British Columbia.
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
- Religion/LA - Students today learned about Ash Wednesday. They completed a reading comprehension on Ash Wednesday, and created a picture of themselves.
- Valentine's Day card exchange.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes Reading Power visualization lesson on The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood; 30 minutes literacy activities.
- P.E. - Free time (1/2 gym soccer; 1/2 gym free play).
- Valentine's Day treats.
- Math - Number Sense. Students practiced more adding and subtracting methods.
- Ash Wednesday Celebration.
- Clean up.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
- Library.
- Shrove Tuesday Pancake Feast - all students had the opportunity to have pancakes, juice, oranges, and ham if they wanted in preparation for Ash Wednesday/Lent.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes literacy centres.
- Surprise Fire Drill
- P.E. - Dodge Ball
- Math - students had to do at least 3 correct pages of work in order to have free time. Students continued to practice counting up from a big number to the smaller number (e.g. 8 + 4 = 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 instead of counting 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and understanding that counting from 8 up four spaces is easier and more efficient than starting at 4 and counting eight spaces up). Students also practiced subtraction with number lines.
- Science - Learned more about a duckling's life from age 4 weeks to 8 weeks.
Monday, February 12th, 2018
- Prayer.
- LA - Connecting with Stories Activity - Students were read Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball by Vicki Churchill. Students then shared their connections and wrote about it.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes literacy centres.
- P.E. - Dodgeball Games.
- Math - Number Sense Math - Today students worked on counting up from big numbers (e.g. 8 + 4 = 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and counting up with fingers: 45 + 4 = 45, 46, 47, 48, 49). Students who completed at least 3 pages of math had some computer time.
- Science - Students learned more about the duck lifecycles.
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
- Library.
- Prayer.
- LA - Grade 2 started creating their own comic books/story boards. Students who were away will get a chance to work on this project on Tuesday, Feb. 6th.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with a teacher; 30 minutes literacy centres.
- P.E.
- Math - Continued Number Sense work from previous day. If students completed 3 pages of Math, they were able to have some free time on the computer.
- 100s Day Activities - in honour of completing the first 100 days of school, students were able to make a 100 days poster, and make Froot Loops (sic) necklaces with 100 Froot Loops. Students practiced skip counting by 2s to create piles of 10; and practiced skip counting by 10s to get to 100 - reaffirming their knowledge that 10 tens make 100.
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
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8 + ___ = 15
- Prayer
- LA - Reading & Comprehension work.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 10 minutes silent reading; 20 minutes creative writing.
- P.E.
- Math - continued Math Number Sense work from yesterday. Today's focus was on equality and inequality with balances. Students were shown pictures of scales with the same items on them, but different quantities. Students then had figure out if they had to add or subtract a certain amount of the items to make the scales balanced or unbalanced.
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8 + ___ = 15
- Guidance Lesson on Empathy. Students watched and discussed a 3 part video by Class Dojo on "Empathy for Students". https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=class+dojo+empathy.
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Is 13 - 6 and 10 - 3 equal or not equal?
- Prayer.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension work.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 10 minutes silent reading; 10 minutes buddy reading; 10 minutes creative writing.
- P.E. - Go Noodle website.
- Music - practiced 'Flexible Learning' Song on stage.
- Math - Continued Math Number Sense work from yesterday, but focusing on equal and unequal equations.
Is 13 - 6 and 10 - 3 equal or not equal?
- Music - whole school rehearsal for tonight's concert.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
56
Tens Ones
5 6
4 16
3 26
2 36
1 46
0 56
- Library.
- Prayer.
- LA - Reading & Comprehension work.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes silent reading.
- P.E. - Tag games.
- Music - Practiced 'Flexible Learning' Song.
- Math - Number Sense: Students worked on understanding that numbers can be shown in different ways, and seeing that a number like 56 can be broken up into groups of 10s and 1s (e.g. 56 = 5 tens; 6 ones; or you could take a one group of ten from the 5 tens and split it into ten 'ones' and add it to the previous 6 ones, thus creating 16 ones and leaving 4 tens which, when added together, still equal 56) and that there is a pattern to this.
56
Tens Ones
5 6
4 16
3 26
2 36
1 46
0 56
Monday, January 29th, 2018
Examples: Write numbers in order from smallest to largest: 51, 94, 8, 48, 19, 49, 20.
35 is ___ 10s and ___ 1s.
- Prayer.
- LA - Journal - Students were tasked with writing about at least 2 things they like (like music, etc...), or participate in (this could be sports, activities, favourite animals, etc...). Students were not permitted to finish their sentences with 'because its fun'; or 'because I like it'.
- Guided Reading - 30 minutes with teacher; 30 minutes quiet reading time.
- PE.
- Music - Practice 'Flexible Learning' Song with Mr. Woolridge and Steve Slade.
- Math - Finish off Math from yesterday - putting numbers in order from greatest to least; or least to greatest and groups of 10s and 1s
Examples: Write numbers in order from smallest to largest: 51, 94, 8, 48, 19, 49, 20.
35 is ___ 10s and ___ 1s.