Today in Mr. McCallum's grade 2 class, we were a busy bunch! This morning, we had our literacy block. We started the morning the usual way, with our morning routine and a read a loud from our novel Cabin Creek. Then, we wrote a how-to piece on having the perfect, relaxing snow day! We shared our pieces with the class. They were all great!

Next, we had math. We were very busy in math. We practiced our subtracting skills as well as how to regroup. We watched a video that showed us how to do this then used hands-on maniupulatives as an aid. We regrouped using Base Ten Blocks. We also enjoyed a delicious fruit tray during our math class before recess, which was indoor as it was chilly!

After recess, we had PE. We played floor hockey and it was a blast. We ended our day by reading more from Cabin Creek, and a Book of Gratitude entry. We also earned a reward for our behaviour and the die landed on 6, which is computer free time!

Today we had a rather busy day in grade 2. We began our morning by reading from our class novel: "Cabin Creek Mysteries: The Clue at The Bottom of The Lake". After that, we worked on our Monitor and Fix skills for literacy. The students wrote an independant piece about their weekend and afterwards, they shared their work with the class.

After Language Arts, we had math. We began our class with a listening quiz and then we worked on representing numbers using coins. We practiced coutning coins and did Buddy Math where one student drew a number card from a stack and another student represented that number with coins.

During the afternoon, we had PE. Students went down to the gym and played a variety of games, one in particular was Hop Scotch. After gym, we had art class. For art, we finished our paper maché masks. This was messy but the kids had a blast. They worked well together. It was a great day!

The March Break was really hard on lots of people!  The students showed up looking like they were 100 years old!  We started off the day with a sharing circle to tell a little about everyone break.  Then we met Miss Patles.  She will be doing her student teaching in the class for the next 8 weeks. 

Our word endings were for the words "yell" and "sing".  Our spelling word was "secretary", and the problem we had to solve was "if grandma was snoring on the couch when your watching your favorite TV show".  We did a write to self for What we did on our March break.

After recess we had math.  We did a listening quiz on numbers and place value.  We talked about why one number is bigger than another number using the words "place value".  We reviewed some math sentences that we already know (or I hope you know) like "friends that make 10" and "doubles".  We also looked at making 4 math sentences with 3 numbers (and a funny looking tree). 

After lunch we had PE.  Miss McFarlene wasn't there but I heard lots of noise in the gym!  It didn't sound like Yoga to me?  What fun games did you play?  We finished off the day with an ART explosion.  At least it looked like an explosion for a bit!  We painted the first layer on our paper mache masks.  

We finished off the day with our Movie reward, book of gratitude, and got our agenda's signed.  What a fun first day back!  Get lots of sleep tonight, dress warm, and I will see you tomorrow!

On Monday March 13th 2017 it will be the 100^th day of school here at Ian Baillie!  To celebrate the 100th Day of school this year students in Grade 2 are asked to dress up the way they think they will look when they are 100 years old!  Will you have a cane, will you still have your hair, and will you still wear a Star Wars t-shirt?  (I bet Mr. McCallum will still wear superhero t-shirts).  Dress up, have fun, and we'll see you in 90+ years! Check out some pics from last years Grade 2 Senior Citizens!