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November 20th

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This week we learned... a lot!  Métis Week in Grade 2 was a wonderful celebration of learning, culture, and hands-on experiences. Each day, we explored a different aspect of Métis culture through books, videos, discussions, and creative activities. A huge thank you to Joellen (Emmi Q.'s mom), who volunteered on Thursday morning. With incredible energy and kindness, she made bannock four times with four groups of children. Wow! The students loved tasting the bannock plain, with butter, and with delicious saskatoon berry jam.  We also responded to the book "What’s in a Bead". This story helped us learn about respect and the meaning carried in beadwork. Earlier in the week, we researched Métis clothing, dance, and the Métis flag. We also practiced our editing skills by working through fix-ups together on the whiteboard. Click here for the video that we watched in class.  "Metis speed" is our favourite jigging speed. On Friday, we learned how to create a bubble grap...
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November 7th

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This week, students began writing their Fortunately stories inspired by Fortunately by Remy Charlip . They’ve been practicing writing complete sentences and using their editing skills to improve their work. Next week, we’ll finish illustrations and covers for our stories. In math , we explored numbers up to 1000 and practiced identifying place value in numbers like 1,098. Students played Fast Doubles ( knockout game)  and began learning how to read and locate numbers on a number line . Try asking your child, “On a number line from 185 to 200, where would 195 go?” Our Buddy Reading Program is off to a great start! Students take turns being the coach or the reader , with roles changing each week. Ask your child to model some of the reading strategies from our classroom poster. We also discussed the meaning of Remembrance Day and the significance of wearing a poppy. We read A Poppy Is to Remember and wrote poems about peace . (Sorry for the quality of the photos, the sun was...
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