Merry Christmas!

2C students enjoyed a day filled with holiday cheer!

They were excited to read and share their stories from Santa, delivered from the North Pole by Candy Cane, our elf!

We all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas Brunch!

Christmas themed activities kept us busy until PE!

2C rocked it today!!  The afternoon and evening Christmas Concert performances were outstanding!  Way to go!  Thank you to all of the moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles who came out to watch; the students loved performing for you!

We had an extra tasty day today!  In the morning, the new RBES smoothie cart was in our room.  Students created a smoothie with: orange juice, cranberry juice, yogurt, banana, mixed berries, avocado and spinach.  The feedback from the students was overwhelmingly positive!  We can't wait for our next smoothie cart day!

Juices, Yogurt, Berries, Avacado, Spinach & Banana 

This week is going to be a busy one!  Below is a summary of our week:

Monday:

- Grade 3/4 concert 1:30 & 6:30

- Home reading comes home

Tuesday:

- Grade 1/2 concert 1:10 & 6:30 (dress fancy)

Wednesday:

- PreK/Kinder concert 6:30

- Boks registration due

Thursday:

- Return Home Reading bags

- Top secret Christmas gift coming home - store it under your tree until Christmas morning

Friday:

- PJ and Stuffie Day

- Class Christmas brunch & activities AM (Snack Students:Rachel, Christian, Parker and Lourne, details in newsletter)

- School wide movie PM

Sadly, it is time to depart from Meteghan, Nova Scotia. Students enjoyed an excellent afternoon of activities, crafts and food samples! Next stop, Iqaluit, Nunavut!

Today was a concert-a-palooza!

We walked through a couple rehearsals of our Christmas Concert.  It's coming along nicely.  Please be sure your child continues to rehearse their concert song at home.

Little Drummer Boy 

Come they told me

Pa rum pum pum pum

Our new born King to see,

Pa rum pum pum pum

Our finest gifts we bring

Pa rum pum pum pum

To lay before the King

Pa rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

So to honor Him

Pa rum pum pum pum,

When we come.

Little Baby

Pa rum pum pum pum

I am a poor boy too,

Pa rum pum pum pum

I have no gift to bring

Pa rum pum pum pum

That's fit to give our King

Pa rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum

Shall I play for you

Pa rum pum pum

On my drum.

Mary nodded

Pa rum pum pum pum

The ox and lamb kept time

Pa rum pum pum pum

I played my drum for Him

Pa rum pum pum

Happy National Hot Cocoa Day!

We are hard at work completing our Meteghan unit in Social studies. Today we discussed that many people in Meteghan have jobs related to the Natural Resources found there. We also learned that a Natural Resource (lobster) is a Good, when it's sold for money. Meteghan sells many goods, such as fish, seafood and wood products made in factories.

We also reviewed counting by 2, 5 (backwards is tricky!) and 10s forward and backwards!

Reminders:
- Comfy couch tickets are on sale!  Purchase yours now for a chance to have the best seat in the house for our concert! 

Bring a mug for National Cocoa Day

Thank you to Ms. Huculak for providing the ingredients for December's Tasty Tuesday!

In Social, students learned the term, natural resource, and discussed natural resources that are found in the community of Metehgan.  Ask your child how many natural resources they can name. 

In Math, we continued our review of skip counting. Students should be able to count to 100 by 1, 2, 5 and 10.  This is a great skill to practice while driving around or during supper!  

Reminder:

Payment for the Canadian Cultural Days is available on Powerschool.  

On our website there is a link to the parent letter and the registration link:

http://rbes.blackgold.ca/parents/boks/

Today we were thrilled to see Candy Cane hanging from a green balloon and especially happy that he was able to get his magic back!

Students were very excited to try their third Daily 5 activity today, Word Work.  In our class, there are 7 different Word Work activities that students can choose from.  Over the next day or two, we will be working through the 7 activities in order to become familiar with each one.  Word Work is an opportunity for students to review their Word Wall Words (rainbow words) in a fun and interactive way. 

In Social Studies, we continued our discussions on traditions celebrated by the Acadians of Meteghan. Their music and dancing had quite a few of us tapping our toes. We are all looking forward to sampling some of their tasty foods at Meteghan's Cultural Day next week! If you haven't already, please complete the Powerschool payment.

In Math, we reviewed the concept of Greater Than, Less Than and Equal to, using playing cards and symbol cards.  This is an activity you could play at home.  Always remember that the alligator eats the larger number. We have also been practicing counting by 10s. Students should be able to count by 10s starting at any number (i.e.: 10, 20, 30 40 or 36, 46, 56, 55).  Students made groups of 10 with the goal of organizing 100 items.

Students spent some time today, designing their Avitar, and completing patterns as they were introduced to Mathletics. Their log in information will be sent home on Friday.

Welcome to 2C, Candy Cane!

Students in 2C were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of our Elf, Candy Cane. We are all looking forward to seeing what mischief he might get into over the next few weeks.

Perspective Snowmen!

The finished product! Too adorable....

Spelling Test Tomorrow!

We began our second Daily 5 activity, Read to Someone, today.  Students learned how to hunt for a buddy, sit E-E-K-K and use thumbs as bookmarks.  Why do we use the Read to Someone strategy in our classroom?  Daily 5 website says, "Of all the choices children participate in, Read to Someone is often their favorite.  Reading with someone helps readers, especially developing readers, increase areas of comprehension, accuracy, fluency and prosidy.  It also increases reading involvement, attention and collaboration. What's more, children love partner reading and readily participate with books of their choosing." (https://www.thedailycafe.com/daily-5/read-to-someone)

Library Tomorrow!

A huge thank you to Mrs. Webb for providing this month's Tasty Tuesday ingredients. The O'Canada Cookies were a hit!

Paint Day will be held on December 3.  You can reserve your child's spot by registering in Powerschool.  

Word Sort Test Tomorrow!

We love Veggie Grazing!  Here are a few of  today's grazers!

In Social Studies, we looked at Trip Advisor to see what choices we had for accommodations. We decided to stay at the Anchor Inn & Breakfast, it has free wifi, breakfast is included and it's beach front property! 

Using rods and cubes, we built numbers to 100 on a Tens/Ones chart.

In Writing, we completed another web to help plan our writing! The discussion today was incredible. We ALL learned so much...I've never even heard of brumation!

Grade 2 were excited to unveil their class t-shirts at today's assembly! What a great looking bunch!

A HUGE thank you to Ms. Coleman for working with 2C on their art projec for the Parent Council Christmas Card fundraiser, they turned out amazingly. Orders are due on Friday, November 10th. For more information, check out this LINK.

Early Dimissal @ 2:21 pm on Wednesday, November 8th.

Remembrance Day assembly on Friday, Novembe 10th @ 10:45. Please feel fre to join us!

Happy Halloween from RBES!

Halloween BINGO

Halloween Costumes!

Giant Pumpkin Word Search

In the morning, 2C students created stories about a monster and played Frankenstein, Race to 100!

Our afternoon was filled with Halloween themed stations.  Thank you to the parents of: Kairo, Maddy, Aydin and Myla, who provided the snack for our Halloween afternoon.

Reminder: Tomorrow is a PD day, there is no school. 

Tomorrow is Halloween!

Students are asked to come to school in their costumes. The Annual RBES Costume Parade will begin at 9 am, feel free to join us! After the parade, our morning will be as 'normal' as possible, working on our Word Sort, Halloween Math and Monster Writing. In the afternoon, students will rotate through various Halloween themed centers and nibble on delicious snacks. 

We finished our first unit in Science, and moved right along into Social Studies. In Grade Two, students will learn about 3 different communities: Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon. Today we launched with the Big Idea: What makes Meteghan, Nova Scotia a unique, dynamic community within Canada? by discussing what a community is and what the word 'unique' means. We decided that the best way to learn about a community is to go there, and that's exactly what we are going to do!

In Math, we began our Numbers to 100 unit, by playing a game of Number Line Scoot. Students enjoyed moving around the classroom, filling in missing numbers on a number line to 100.

In Music today, the students did a great job of keeping the beat to a fun Halloween song.

Parent Meetings on Wednesday!

Book your meeting today. Find out more HERE! Don't forget to also check out the Wild West Book Fair in the library!

I am not sure who was more excited today, me or the students!?!??!  We had an awesome time at Fred Penner!  It is unbelievable to think that at 70 years old, he can still bring that much energy and excitement into a room; he is a true Canadian legend.

Today was our first experience with the Chromebooks.  It was a very gentle introduction, but students are excited to practice logging in and also testing out Grade 2 Mathletics next week!  

Reminders: 
- There is no school tomorrow, as it is a PD Day.
- If your child did not return his/her home reading today, please do so on Monday.

Library Tomorrow

Thank you, Mrs. Ott, for supplying this month's ingredients for Tasty Tuesday. The snack was spooktacular!

As we are nearing the end of our Patterns unit, students completed a review assignment on repeating and growing patterns. We are also working on using growing patterns to solve math problems. Ask them to show you 2 ways to solve this problem: There are 7 scarecrows in the field. There are 2 birds on each scarecrow. How many birds are there in all?

Please complete online Fred Penner permission form and payment ASAP

In science today, students learned that not all liquids mix because some liquids have a greater density.

In Math, we are continuing with Growing Patterns where students extend numerical patterns. For example, what comes next?

16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26,  _?_

Fruit Orders due on October 19!

Our home reading and Rainbow Words programs began today.  Details about home reading can be found inside your child's reading log.  Details about Rainbow Words can be found on the note that came home and also on our class website.  Please be sure to assist your child in remembering his/her reading bags/books/rings every Friday.  

Students have been working hard to transfer their knowledge of +/-0 and +/-1 into long-term memory for quick, rote recall.  Working on these strategies at home will help to strengthen your child's rote recall of their basic facts.  Additional information about basic facts can be found on Basic Fact Strategies and Basic Fact Games tabs of our website.

In Science, we continued our exploration of liquids. Today we learned the term viscosity. Molasses moves very slowly, so it has a high viscosity.

See you on Tuesday, October 10th!

Students had a fabulous time this morning meeting their Grade 2 and Grade 4 buddies.  We are partnered with Mrs. Murtha-Toles and Mr. Van Huis's classes and we can't wait to spend more time with them!

I was away this afternoon at a district-wide Grade 2 Curriculum Mapping PD session.  It was a fabulous opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from across the district while strengthening our knowledge of Social Studies curriculum organization and implementation.   

Reminders: 

- Tomorrow is our weekly assembly.

Surface Tension

In Science, students learned and observed the term surface tension.

Wednesday is Early Dismissal @ 2:21 pm.

In Science today, students explored the characteristics and properties of water.

Water does not have a smell.

We can tilt and move water.

Water can make sound.

We can drag water.

Water takes the shape of its container.

We can hang water from our fingertip.