Mrs. K shared her card making expertise to put the finishing touches on our very special Christmas gifts!

Sorting and graphing data

In Science today, students predicted, tested and recorded their observations while testing various materials, answering the question: Do all materials attract to a magnet?

Reminders:

Wednesday:
-Gingerbread Building @ 5:30 pm (pre-registration required)

Thursday:
- Devon Public Library Tour! Online permission forms MUST be completed by December 18 by 3 pm or alternate arrangements will be made for your child.
- Return Home Reading
- Word Sort Test

Friday:
- PJ & Stuffie Day
- Christmas Brunch
-PM - Christmas Movie

Early Dismissal @ 2:21 pm

What a beautiful concert put on by our Grade 1 & 2 classes, led by the talented Mrs. Stanski! Thank you to all of you who could join us for one/both of the performances!

In Math today, we began Unit 5: 2-D Shapes. Students will identified straight and curved lines and sides, and open and closed lines.

In Social Studies, our focus was Acadian Traditions. Students read through posters detailing many different Acadian Traditions.

Sparkle has returned to 2C! We are excited to see what mischief she will get in to!

A great day of learning at the TWOS!

A huge thank you to our parents: Mrs. Stelter and Mrs. Baker for joining us!

HaPpY BirThDaY!

In Social Studies this week, we continued our investigation of Meteghan, Nova Scotia. Our focus was on their Daily Life. We had fun whale watching, clam digging and lobster fishing!



In Math, we continued measuring, using different units and comparing lengths.

Weekly Reminders
Tuesday
- Jersey Day

Wednesday
- Christmas Card orders are due

Friday
- Growing Smiles fundraiser orders due
- Word Sort test
- Return Home Reading
- RBES Wellness afternoon


In Math today, we began our next unit: Measurement. You can view the parent letter HERE.

Remembrance Day Assembly @ 10:45

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!!

We are ready to begin our adventure! This morning we packed our suitcases, received our passports and bought our plane tickets! 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....YET! Students packed pants, long sleeved shirts, runners and hoodies for their trip. 

Up up and away!  This afternoon, 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 kilometer drive to Meteghan.  Students took a look through TripAdvisor and realized that there are not many places for visitors to stay. They researched and chose to stay either at the Anchor Inn Bed and Breakfast or Au Havre Du Capitaine. We are looking forward to learning about this unique Canadian community.

HaPpY HaLlOWeEn!!!

Students had a great day.....the RBES costume parade, pumkin carving, Black Cat constructing, snacks & Halloween themed centres!  Thank you to Mrs. Stelter and Mrs. Baker for supplying the pumpkins and working with the pumpkin carvers.

Halloween Parade at 9 am tomorrow!

In Math, we are continuing our learning of patterns. Students are building patterns that have two attributes changing. Ask you child to build a pattern, describing the two attributes that change.

Our descriptive, Monster In A Jar, stories are almost complete and ready for publication. I am impressed by the detail that everyone is adding to make their stories easier for the reader to visualize.

Thank you to Ms. Greenhough for sharing her awesome Halloween activity. There were many giggles today, sharing the costume ideas students shared with me. Here are a few....



We launched our first unit in social studies, an adventure to Meteghan, Nova Scota. As a group, we brainstormed questions we had about this Canadian community. Using google searches, we found some interesting answers! For example, it would take 841 hours to walk, via the Trans Canada Highway to get to Meteghan!

Exciting things happened today!!  Our 2C class shirts arrived!  

Today the Grade Twos had their final science rotation for their liquids unit.  

In art, students created a Halloween themed art project where they made different shades/tints of paint for their background.  They then completed a guided drawing of a Haunted House to add to the foreground. 

In Math, we launched Unit 3 on patterning.  Today we identified pattern cores, terms and extended repeating patterns. 

Today students received their differentiated Words Their Way sort.  Each morning, students  work through a different activity to reinforce their spelling pattern for the week.  You can find this week's sort in the front of their Home Reading Bags.

Weekly Reminders

Monday 
- Words Their Way begins, please see note in your child's agenda

Wednesday
-Return Library Books

Thursday
- Halloween Parade 9am
- Halloween Celebration in class.  Thank you to the students who are signed up to provide snacks for this day: Ryan, Daniel, TJ & Katelyn.

Friday 
- WTW test

- Return Home Reading

No School on Monday

Today, as we continued our exploration of liquids, students were thrilled to see how many water droplets they could stack on a penny, due to surface tension!

Return Home Reading tomorrow!

Today we launched our first science unit: Exploring Liquids. First of all, students brainstormed examples and non-examples of liquids.



Secondly, students rotated through various stations, learning about the many characteristics of water!

Water takes the shape of its container.

Moving water makes sound.

Water does not have a smell.

We can hang a drop of water from our fingertip.

In Math, we were busy reading and solving addition word problems.  They learned to identify words that indicate addition: altogether, in total, joined in, etc.).  Ask your child to show you how to solve this problem at home by drawing a picture and writing an addition sentence.

There are six frogs in a pond.
Five frogs joined in.
How many frogs altogether?

We re-read the story, Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving, by Dave Pikey. Students were polled:

Today we read a funny story, Twas The Night Before Thanksgiving, by Dave Pikey. After reading the story, we discussed who the characters were, what they were like, where the story took place (setting) and the main events.



RBEStudents are collecting socks for Socktober. Thank you, TW, for bringing in the the first pair for 2C!

Today was our first library block of the school year. Students enjoyed a story read by our librarian, Mrs. Sacuta, chose a new book and then lazed around in the comfy chairs, reading.

Students were introduced to the term syllable - vowel sounds we hear in a word. We brainstormed one and two syllable words, watched a funny video where we practiced clapping out syllables and counted and sorted syllables in Thanksgiving themed words.

Tips to explain syllables to children:

• All words have syllables. A word might have one, two, or even more syllables. Reading has two syllables: read (clap)—ing (clap). Clap as you say each syllable to demonstrate the breaking sound between syllables.
• Red has one syllable: red (clap).
• Purple has two syllables: pur (clap)—ple(clap).”
• Now you try. Clap your hands for each syllable in the word happy.

Words to practice breaking into syllables

seven	mice	hotdog
window	truck	paper
yellow	toys	elephant

In Math today students practiced solving addition word problems by drawing simple models.

Thanksgiving is around the corner! Students enjoyed crafting a turkey and took a moment to reflect on what they were grateful for. At the end of the day, students enjoyed making a Thanksgiving Joke teller!