Today was a busy day of crafting with Mrs. K. Students used Mrs. Kloschinsky fancy scrapbooking tools to create adorable Christmas Cards!

Thank you to Solana's mom for supplying the ingredients for this month's Tasty Tuesday, Grinch Kabobs!

There is no word sort or assessment this week.  Instead, we will be working on a holiday syllable sort in class.

In Science, we are continuing our exploration of magnets. Today students tested the strength of various magnets. Some magnets are stronger than others! We also realized that our chain of magnets became temporary magnets! COOL!

Students have been busy sorting data and presenting it as a concrete graph.  They have also been reading and analyzing pictographs! Complete this survey tonight:

 What is your favorite Christmas Carol? 

Jingle Bells

Silent Night

Here Comes Santa Claus

Deck The Halls

What was the most favorite Christmas Carol?

What was the least favorite Christmas Carol?

This week in Science, we launched our unit on Magnetism.  Students learned that a magnet is any object that produces a magnetic field.  They also identified five types of magnets: cow, bar, ring, wand, and horseshoe. 

Students predicted and tested various materials to answer the question: Are all materials attracted to a magnet? We discovered that not all materials are attracted to a magnet! 

Time To Catch UP!

Social Studies

Our trip to Meteghan has come to an end! Through practical activities, students were able to demonstrate an understanding and appreciate the geography, culture, language, heritage and economics and resources that shape Meteghan, making it one of many unique, dynamic communities in Canada.

As a culminating technology assignment, students put their knowledge of Meteghan to the test!  They created the first slide of their Communities in Canada presentation.  At the end of each unit, students will demonstrate their learning by adding text and images about the important aspects of the land, history, traditions, and people from each community.  

On Friday afternoon we celebrated the Acadian Culture.  Student were able to sample Clam Chowder, Oat Cakes and Snow Pancakes. They also made a lighthouse out of clay and played a fun Fishin’ Addition Game. What a great way to wrap up our Social Unit!

Math

We have completed Unit 5: 2-D Shapes. Students students were able to identify, describe, compare, and manipulate 2-D geometric shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and other polygons. Today we began Unit 6: Sorting and Graphing. We learned the terms sort, group and data!

Elf On The Shelf

We have been busy journaling about Chippy's, our Elf On The Shelf, mischievous behavior. Students are writing compound sentences, adding either the word and or because. Chippy, and his friend Elfie, pulled a fast one on us today! They switched rooms with another Grade Two class. I wonder what he will be up to tomorrow...

We have been super busy this week, practicing for our Christmas Concert. We are excited for our performances next week! Be sure to choose your seats wisely...we are on the right hand side of the stage, when you are facing it.

In Social Studies, we completed our exploration of the Acadian culture traditions. We are continuing to learn about the Natural Resources found in Meteghan, how they influence the jobs of the people who live in Meteghan, and how these Natural Resources become Goods.

In Math, we have been having fun learning about 2-D shapes. Today we learned the term polygon. A polygon must have straight sides and is a closed shape. Ask your child to draw you their favorite polygon.

During Daily 5 Writing, we have been working on our Robot In A Box paragraphs. Students answer questions to help guide their writing, write their sentences, edit for correct conventions and revise if necessary. I am impressed by the details that many students are including in their writing to help create a mental picture for the reader.

A successful Wellness Afternoon!

This week, we began Unit 5 - 2-D Shapes. Click HERE for a parent letter that describes some ways that you can support your child at home while we work through this unit. Students identified straight and curved lines and then created and sorted drawings of shapes, in Google Drawings, with both straight and curved lines.

In Social Studies, we started discussing traditions of the Acadian people in Meteghan. What are some traditions unique to you and your family? We learned about traditional clothing, food and music.We also read an Acadian folktale called “Evangeline and Gabriel”. We learned that traditional stories are used to help preserve information and teach us lessons.

This afternoon, student rotated through four Wellness Afternoon activities! Ask you child about their favorite activity!

Thank you to Kai's mom for supplying the ingredients for this month's Tasty Tuesday: Oh Canada Cookies!

Students completed the Measurement Unit Final Assessment today! We have quickly become proficient measuring masters!

A whole bunch of information.....

We have Christmas Events already!  

There are details for some of these events on our website and of course in the Weekly Update.

Please return Home Reading Bags!

Our cool adventure continues in Meteghan. Today we hopped on a lobster fishing boat and trapped lobsters. A lot of work, but well worth it to get a taste of fresh lobster dipped in butter!

In Math today, students identified correct methods of measuring with non-standard units.

A beautiful day to go Whale Watching and Clam Digging in Meteghan today, what a fascinating part of Canada.

In Math today, students recognized that when we measured length, it is important to use units that are the same!

Ask your child why the lengths of these slips of paper are different!

In Writer's Workshop today, students designed a robot to base their writing on. I'm looking forward to reading their detailed paragraphs!

Last week, we began Unit 4 - Measurement.  Click HERE for a parent letter that describes some ways that you can support your child at home while we work through this unit.  Today, students used unifix cubes to measure the length of various pencils.



In Social Studies, we dove into what Daily Life might look like for a child who lives Meteghan.  Students in Meteghan learn both the English and French languages in school. It was fun to learn a few short phrases and the numbers to ten in French.

In Social Studies, students compared the communities of Meteghan and Devon.  We collaborated to create a Venn Diagram which identified both the differences and similarities between the two communities.  We also talked about the Early Days in Meteghan, specifically the first people (Mi'kmaq) and the settlers (Acadians and British).  

In Art, students created a beautiful Remembrance Day poppy.  I encourage all of our families to attend the RBES Remembrance Day Assembly on Friday at 10:45 am.  

In Math students learned four strategies for predicting the next term.  1) Guessing, 2) Using the last term in the picture, 3) Using the length of the core to estimate and 4) The most likely term.  They learned that both guessing and the most likely term are not overly effective.   They did an amazing job of using graph paper to create, predict and extend to check their answer. 

Up up and away!  Today we flew to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, special thank you to Air Canada for the safe flight.  Since Yarmouth was not our final destination, students boarded a bus and made the 38 kilometre drive to Meteghan.  Students took a look through TripAdvisor and realized that there are not many places for visitors to stay chose to stay at the Anchor Inn Bed and Breakfast.  We are looking forward to learning about this unique Canadian Community!

During their Math lesson, students created and described repeating patterns in different ways.  Take a look in their agenda, where they converted a shape pattern into a letter pattern.

This month, all RBES students are hard at work preparing for their Christmas Concerts.  Please mark your calendars: Tuesday, December 4 - Grade 1-2 - 1:10 pm and 6:30 pm

Students are bringing home a photo of their Christmas Card artwork as well as order form.  Please consider supporting this RBES Parent Council fundraiser.  

Our bags are packed! In Social Studies, students compared the weather in Meteghan to the weather in Devon. Meteghan's temperature is warmer than Devon's, and there isn't any snow! Students packed pants, long sleeved shirts, runners and hoodies for their trip. We are "catching" our plane to Meteghan tomorrow!

During their Math lesson, students described  repeating patterns which had either one or two attributes changing.

It was an exciting day, because the students "passports" arrived and  we will all be able to catch the "plane" to Meteghan, which is departing on Tuesday!  

HaPpY HaLLoWeEN!

Thank you to our GENEROUS who provided the delicous snacks, pumpkins & treats for our class!  Also, huge thank you to Mr. & Mrs. Wright for helping out with the pumpkin carvings! 

Students had a spooktacular time playing Halloween Games on the Chromebooks,  a few games of BINGO, snacking, coloring, Writing Around The School and completing a Word Search! Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

RBES Costume Parade @ 9 am tomorrow!

Our PE focus this week is squats.  We ead the story Big Pumpkin and during the story, we turned our bodies into pumpkins, ghosts, witches and vampires; a lot of squats were done getting into pumpkin position during the story. 

In Math today, student extended and created patterns where one or two attributes changed. 

Notes for tomorrow:
- Snack parents, please drop your snack at the office in the morning.
- Wear costumes to school.
- RBES Costume Parade 9am.
- Class party in the afternoon. 

Reminders:
- Club Moo is now available on HotLunches.net
- There is no school on November 1

Students learned the term attribute today in Math.  They were faced with a challenge of identifying which attributes (shape, size, colour, direction or thickness) were changing in a pattern.

Our focus for the month of November will be Social Studies and the community of Meteghan. Students will be guided through a month long exploration of this east coast Acadian community.  If you have visited Meteghan or have Acadian artifacts, please reach out via email, we would love for you to share them with us!!

In math students continued their exploration of repeating patterns and identifying pattern core.  Using a variety of manipulativse, they created a number of repeating patterns.  

We dove into our third Math Unit today, Patterns! We learned the math words: pattern, core and term today.  Ask your child to make a pattern at home this evening using forks and spoons.  Then ask him/her to identify the core (the part that repeats).

In Social Studies, we began our investigation into What Is A Community? A community is a place where people live together, work together, and play together. Living in a community means cooperating with each other. This means working together, respecting the rights of others and following the rules of the community. We discussed that both Devon and 2C are communities that we are all part of.

Students have finished the planning stages of their Monster In A Jar writing! I am looking forward to reading and sharing of their final drafts!

In Daily 5, we launched word work.  This activity provides "students an opportunity to experiment with spelling patterns, memorize high-frequency words, and develop a genuine curiosity for and interest in new and unique words. By playing with words, word patterns, word families, prefixes, suffixes, and so on, students hone their knowledge of words and increase their speaking and writing skills." (Daily 5 website)  

Wiki Stix

Stamps

Sand

Magnets

Students began a week-long writing project called, Monster in a Jar.  Yesterday they trapped their monsters - some are scary, while others are cuddly. Today they began to plan their writing, answering questions to guide their writing and then turning their answers into sentences.

In the afternoon, we were treated to an Eatrh Ranger Experience!  There are so many ways that we can help the Earth; become an Earth Ranger today!  
 

Students used their knowledge about materials which absorb or repel liquids to solve a science problem.  Students were asked to choose a material that would make a perfect raincoat.  Ask your child what material they would use and why.

In Math, students learned to write ordinal numbers and used ordinal numbers to talk about position.  


See you at tomorrow's Parent Meetings!

Thank you, Mrs. Wright for supplying the ingredients for this month's Tasty Tuesday...the Ghost Brownies were SPOOKTACULAR!

Today we continued our work on solving Math Word Problems. Ask your child to draw a picture and write a subtraction sentence for this problem:

13 pumpkins in the pumpkin patch

none of the pumpkins were picked

How many pumpkins were left in the pumpkin patch?

2C Scientists were up to the challenge today to Stop The Leak! Ask your child what materials they used to waterproof their container.

Parent meeting information is available on the RBES Website (click HERE).  During Parent meeting night, Mrs. Kloschinsky will be running PowerSchool parent sessions; I encourage all parents in 2D to attend a session before or after our meeting.  

 

In Science today, we continued our exploration of liquids with mixing a solid with a liquid. Students learned the term dissolve by observing the making of yummy Blue Raspberry Jello!

In Math, we began solving simple word problems that involved addition to 20.  See if your child can show you how to solve this math problem (showing both a drawing and an addition sentence):  2C was carving pumpkins.  Ms. Jenae brought 5 pumpkins, Mrs. Suter brought 7 more pumpkins, How many pumpkins were there altogether?

In Science, students learned the words absorb and repel. We tested many materials to observe which material would work best to make a homemade umbrella. Ask you child what material they would chose.

Reminders:

• Return Home Reading

Library Tomorrow!

In a science demonstration today, students observed how some liquids are heavier, more dense, than others.

Today we began our home reading program.  All information about the program is in the canvas bag, but here's the Coles Notes version:

- read 15 minutes per day, 5 days a week
- if your child reads 15 minutes, initial the home reading calendar page in his/her agenda
- home reading bags come home on Monday and are to be returned every Friday (Thursday if it is a short week)
- students can read any "good fit books" from their reading bag, library books or books from home. 
- every few weeks, I will send home a new Parent Pipeline.  This document is very valuable, as it explains strategies we are discussing in class, please review it and reinforce the strategies with your child during his/her home reading time.

Together we can foster a love of literature and support your child as he/she becomes a voracious reader!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

Telus World of Science fun!

Thank you to our amazing volunteers, Mrs. Gette, Mrs. Wright & Mrs. Hoffman!

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

In Science, we have launched our Exploring Liquids unit.  Through hands on activities, students are able to recognize and describe characteristics of different liquids. Some of the new vocabulary introduced include surface tension, opaque and transparent.

Water can make sound!

Water can hang from our fingertips!

Water does not have a smell!

Water can be dragged!

Water can move!

Surface Tension - the invisible skin that water has!

Today we began our Word Sorts, this week students will learn and practice activities in class and then differentiated lists will begin coming home next week. 

Today we launched Buddy Read in Daily 5.  "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 prosody.  It also increases reading involvement, attention, and collaboration. What's more, children love partner reading and readily participate with books they choose." (Daily 5 website).

Terry Fox Run

Today was the Terry Fox walk. I am so proud of this crew for persevering through the wet weather and completing the long route.

The Telus World Of Science information went home today.  You can find the link to the letter HERE. Please complete the online permission form and payment by Monday, October 1st.

Students completed their Color Wheel Art projects today. Check them out...

In Math, we reviewed adding on a hundreds chart.  Students were then introduced to tens and ones (unit) blocks.  We used the ones and tens blocks to represent numbers to 20.   We will continue to explore this concept more tomorrow.

15 = 1 tens block + 5 ones blocks

18 = 1 tens block + 8 ones blocks

During our morning calendar, students practice counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.  These are concepts that can be reinforced at home, while you are commuting or while waiting in lineups.  Encourage your child to count by multiples daily to strengthen their knowledge of this skill.  Today we went a step further and began rocket launchers  (counting backwards by 1s from 10). Each day the rocket launch challenge will be different and will become progressively more difficult.

Students had their social studies unit assessment on mapping.  This assessment is recorded in Powerschool, feel free to check out the assessments which have been entered thus far.  As Mrs. Kloschinsky has shared with you, this is our first year using this program and although we are trying our very best to enter everything accurately, there may be bumps along the journey.  Please reach out if you see anything that appears unusual or odd on your child's account.  

Today we launched our second Math unit: Numbers to 20.  This unit will review and strengthen basic numeracy skills.

We also completed our Mapping unit in Social Studies.  In this unit, students gained the skills necessary to read a simple map.  They are familiar with the terms: cardinal directions, compass rose, key, symbol.  They can also identify, North, South, East and West on a map.  Tomorrow we will have a short assessment on these concepts.

Weekly Reminders:

• Fruit orders are coming home tomorrow and are due October 18.
• School photos are Wednesday.
• Cross Country is on Wednesday - please ensure you have completed the permission form in Powerschool. Cross country athletes will have their photos taken on Thursday.

Today, students logged into a typing program. The typing program we are using is Typing Club, feel free to also utilize this program at home.  

In Math, students completed their Unit 1: Numbers to 10 Assessment. We are quickly becoming Grade Two Mathematicians!