This link is set up as a discussion launch for you and your child. "Ask Me" is a question you can ask your child. In other words, they're saying "Can you please ask me this question" so I can share what we did at school today?
Alternatively here are some awesome questions you can ask your child, "Whats the funniest thing that happen at school today?" ; "Whats the kindest thing you did at school today?" ; "Whats was the easiest thing you did today?" ; "Whats the hardest thing you did today?"
Wednesday, Sept 3rd - Ask me "how do you play the game DICE TO MEET YOU?"
Thursday, Sept 4th - Ask me "what was the mystery drawing you did today at school? Here's the link.
Friday, Sept 4th - Grade 2 is all about change. Ask me "how do you play the change game?"
Monday, Sept 8th - Ask me "what are smelly spots?"
Tuesday, Sept 9th - Ask me "what are clip cards and how do they help us learn?"
Wednesday, Sept 10th - Ask me "can you start at 20 and skip count by 10's to 100? Can you start at 80 and skip count backwards back to 0?'"
Thursday, Sept 11th - Ask me "how do you play the math game tenzi?" Our class loved it today and were doing so much math:)
Friday, Sept 12th - Today we talked about our names and how names are chosen. Ask me "how did you choose my name?"
Monday, Sept 15th - Ask me "what did you do today for International Dot Day?
Tuesday, Sept 16th - Ask me "what is the Dog Bone math game?"
Wednesday, Sept 17th - Ask me "where is your practice folder/duotang?"
Thursday, Sept 18th - We have been talking about the Zones of Regulation. Ask me "what does the GREEN zone mean?" This visual will help.
Friday, Sept 19th - We are working had on counting and representing numbers. Ask me "counting tallies is the same as counting by _____?
Monday, Sept 22nd - Ask me "what did Baby Enzo do today during his first visit?"
Tuesday, Sept 23rd - Ask me "what is the FLOSS rule we have been learning in UFLI?" Students have a sheet in the front of their binder to help them 'teach' this to you.
Wednesday, Sept 24th - Ask me "when you skip count by 5's (starting at 0) do you say the number 27?"
Thursday, Sept 25th - Ask me "what did you learn today about Terry Fox?"
Friday, Sept 26th - No School
Monday, Sept 29th - Ask me "what is a good fit book?" There's information on the back of their calendars to help with this.
Tuesday, Sept 30th - No School Truth and Reconciliation Day
Wednesday, October 1st - Ask me "what is the trick or treat Halloween show down?"
Thursday, October 2nd - Ask me "what are ordinal numbers? Eg, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc. Activity from today
Friday, Oct 3rd - Ask me "where is your password page and how do you sign in to Google?"
Monday, Oct 6th - Ask me "what are 5 words with the -sh digraph at the beginning? What are 5 words with the -sh digraph at the end?"
Tuesday, Oct 7th - Ask me "what is your favorite song for our Assembly this Friday?"
Wednesday, Oct 8th - We spent time in the LLC today practicing our e-mails and going into our Google Classroom. Ask me "how do you make an underscore_ on the keyboard and why is it so important? "
Thursday, Oct 9th - Ask me "what are 5 rules for fire safety? "'
Friday, Oct 10th - Ask me "what is the symbol on chromebooks that means power?" We're doing a lot of work on digital literacy.
Monday, Oct 13th - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tuesday, Oct 14th - PL for teachers. No school for students.
Wednesday, Oct 15th - Ask me "how many different little words can you make out of the letters in your name?" We did this today with the letters in ' FIRESMART '.
Thursday, Oct 16th - Ask me "what does estimation mean? What is another word for estimation (your best good guess)?
Friday, Oct 17th - Ask me "what are 3 examples of gas or what we call WATER VAPOR." We've been talking about the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid and water vapor (gas).
Monday, Oct 20th - Ask me "what did you learn about Diwali today?"
Tuesday, Oct 21st - Ask me "does 34 come between 40 and 65? Does 23 come between 12 and 25?"
Wednesday, Oct 22nd - Ask me "where is your sheet that is teaching you all about coins?" We have a new Healey Helper for this one.
Thursday, Oct 23rd - Ask me "what is the difference between a blend and a digraph? We have a new Blue Healey Helper in our binder for this.
Friday, Oct 24th - Ask me "how do you do boom cards in our Google Classroom?"
Monday, Oct 27th - PL Day No school for students
Tuesday, Oct 28th - Ask me "how did you make your pumpkin kittie today at school?"
Wednesday, Oct 29th - We had a great morning at the Fluvarium and learned so much. Ask me "is there more freshwater or salt water in the world?"
Thursday, Oct 30th - Ask me "how did you do the Ghost word work today at school? (hint... they were using flashlights)
Friday, Oct 31st - Ask me "did you like playing Halloween Musical Books this afternoon at school?"
Monday, Nov 3rd - Ask me "what did you learn today about the words; could, would and should? "
Tuesday, Nov 4th - Ask me "what is the difference between a growing pattern and a repeating pattern? "
Wednesday, Nov 5th - Ask me "why do people wear poppies?'
Thursday, Nov 6th - Today we used oil pastels to make a field of poppies for Remembrance Day. Ask me "what is the horizon in a picture". We talked about this a lot today and how, in art we respresent things close to us as big and the things far away are smaller. Like when we look up in the air, an airplane looks so tiny but close up its very huge.
Friday, Nov 7th - Ask me "what happened this morning during our Remembrance Day assembly?"
Monday, Nov 10th & Nov 11th - No school
Wednesday, November 12th - Ask me "what are some tricks for learning the difference between the lower case letters b and d? We have a visual in our binder for this.
Thursday, November 13th - Ask me "how was your science experiment this morning at school?"
Friday, November 14th - Ask me "how do you play the game BOP IT?"
Monday, November 17th - PL Day for teachers (no school for students)
Tuesday, November 18th - Ask me "how do you 'count on' from money in a piggie bank? There is a practice sheet in the front of their agendas.
Wednesday, November 19th - Ask me "what materials did you talk about today that change when they are outside in wet weather? "
Thursday, November 20th - Ask me "what activities did you do this afternoon in the LLC (library learning commons)?"
Friday, November 21st - Ask me "what is a timeline?"
Monday, November 24th - Ask me "what are word puzzles?"
Tuesday, November 25th - Ask me "how do you play the card game we learned today at school?"
Wednesday, November 26th - We've been talking about the neatness of our letters and writing and the importance of their size and if they sit on the line or not. Ask me "what does TALL SMALL and TAILS mean?" There is a new visual helper in the front of our agendas now to help with this.
Thursday, November 27th - Ask me "what happens to the vowel in a word when there is an "e at the end of the word?". Eg. rope, time, shade, phone, made, tone, etc."
Friday, November 28th - ASk me "what is the cat/kit rule for spelling?"
Monday, December 1st - Ask me "what is the waiting box?"
Tuesday, December 2nd - Ask me "how do you play the number buddies game in your blue binder?"
Wednesday, December 3rd - snow day
Thursday, December 4th - Ask me what happens to the c sound in a word when it is followed by an e? (yellow sheet in binder to help with this sound rule?" The c is a soft sound; it says S.
Friday, December 5th - Ask me "say the word sit what happens to the word when you change the middle vowel to e"?