A wonderful Monday in Grade 2!   We started off the day with a sharing circle and some weekend news.  We did a Biography video for our world news.  The man had crazy hair and was very good at math, do you remember his name?  I had to go to a quick meeting and Mrs. McFarlene came in and did a quick doodle with the class before going to Language Arts with Mrs. Hill.  In LA we worked on "How to" stories, did a reading group, and some daily 5.  After recess we had a special presentation by Carlos and Emily.  They were promoting Systema (a note went home today) and they were fabulous!  I cant say enough great things about that program.  We did a quick listening quiz in math before lunch.  After lunch we went to the computer lab.  We worked on putting pictures from Paint into our Word Pad Documents.  In PE we played some games.  "Everybodies it" is my favorite game!  Whats yours?  We went back to the classroom and read a little of "The One and Only Ivan".  Does Ivan seem happy to you?  We finished off the day packing some memo's about The play at JMH on Thursday, The upcoming Yard Sale, Systema, and Mango Go for 42.  Get lots of sleep, dress warm, and I will see you in the morning!

Another fun day in Grade 2 at Ian Baillie. We started the day off making our teams for Make Something that Does Something on Friday. We did up our jobs and did our Morning News for on a story of a Fox. Our spelling word was "convertible" and our "how to" story was for "How to make a Sandwich". In Math we did a quick listening quiz, flash cards with a friend, we reviewed greater than and less than, we looked at sorting 3D shapes by their attributes. Whats an attribute? After recess we had Language Arts with Mrs. Hill. We started out deciding who we were going to vote for in the grade two Mayoral Race; Bear, Monkey, or Arthur. Who did you vote for and why? (Bear won by the way). The class also worked on Biography poems. What was something you said you feared? The class also did a round of Daily 5 so that Mrs. Hill could work with a reading group. After lunch we talked about germinating seeds. We wanted to trick them into thinking they were planted in the ground. How did we do that? In PE Miss Clark let us play some games. What was your favorite game? We finished off the day with a quick glimpse at the Addams family, did a 3 minute desk clean, wrote in our book of gratitude and got our agenda's signed. Remember to dress warm, get lots of sleep, and I will see you tomorrow. Are you going to the District STEM FEST on Saturday? Maybe I will see you there!

We started off today with our floride and looking at our calendar for the coming weeks.  Next week we will be traveling to the Music Festival in Newcastle, and next week is a short week.   We did our spelling word "festival", a story for "How to make a pizza", and we doodled a purse!  In Language Arts with Mrs. Hill we worked on our "Weekend News", and practiced being editors looking for capitalization and punction at the end of sentences.  Dont forget to indent on each new paragraph!  After recess (and choir practice) we had math.  We reviewed rounding, addition to 20, the importance of place value, and a sheet for math by myself!  After lunch we went to PE with Mrs. Walsh.  I could hear the music and lots of laughing, so you must have had fun.  After PE we had ART with Mrs. Hill.  We worked on designing our summer flip-flops.  We finished off the day practicing our song for music festival.  We signed our own agenda's and called it a day!  Some students asked if they could bring in sunscreen.  YES, but please dont share!  We do have a few students in the classroom that have allergic reaction to an ingredient in some sunscreens.  They will bring in their own sunscreen aswell.  Get lots of rest, get to bed before it gets dark, and I will see you tomorrow!

It was a muggy day at Ian Baillie Primary today!   We started off the day with the spelling word "breakfast" and the story "How to look beautiful (handsome) for school".  We doodled BB8 and put our sheets in our books.   In math we did a listening quiz that required us to place numbers on top of each other in an invisible place value chart.  How would you write (35+57=) ?  We worked on our adding numbers to 20 flash cards and did some two digit additon.  After recess (and choir for some), we had language arts with Mrs. Hill.  We did word work and tried to figure out the difference between "to, too, and two" in our writing.  We also did guided reading groups before lunch.  After lunch we started to put together our tomato sphere project.  We labelled our cups and talked about how we will plant our tomato seeds from space.  Then we had PE with Mrs. Hache.  We came back and got new pens to do our book of gratitude.  We signed our own agenda's with the pens, and called it a day!  Dress warm, stay dry and get lots of sleep!   I will see you tomorrow!