FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

• Ms. Reichert will be sending a separate email with information pertaining to this week's Google Meet

• ENGLISH:

  1. Read a Poem for Two Voices with a family member;

  2. Listen (and sing along) to Idina Menzel's Into the Unknown from Frozen 2

  3. Make and share your own rainbow poem

• MATH:

  1. Watch the video about equal groups/ sharing

  2. Complete the equal groups activity

• FRENCH:

  1. Read the feedback on your Les reptiles document you shared with me last week.

  2. CLICK HERE to learn about amphibians. Complete the questions in the document or on your own paper at home.

  3. Share the document or photos of your work with Mme Kylie.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

For our French Google Meet this week, we will be playing Animal BINGO. Please have your child prepare the BINGO card before our meeting.

• Print off this BINGO card or draw a 5x5 grid on a piece of paper you have at home.

• Write 24 of THESE ANIMALS randomly on the card, with a free space in the middle.

• Gather some loose pieces (i.e., Lego, Rainbow Loom elastics, beads, rocks, etc. ) to use as the counters.

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the end of Love That Dog

  2. Review the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your Love that poem from last week

  3. Read Love that Dog by Jack inspired by Mr. Walter Dean Myers

  4. Determine the meaning of the words in the I can hear you document

• MATH:

  1. Listen to The Doorbell Rang

  2. Play the multiplication games Circles & Stars and Feed the Birds

• FRENCH:

  1. Read the feedback on your Les poissons document you shared with me last week.

  2. CLICK HERE to learn about reptiles. Complete the questions in the document or on your own paper at home.

  3. Share the document or photos of your work with Mme Kylie.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

For our English Google Meet this week, we will be having a Poetry Cafe. Please come prepared with a poem you have written (shape, Love that, small, cinquain, etc.) as well as one you have found to share with your peers.

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the next section of Love That Dog

  2. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your shape poem from last week

  3. Read Love that Boy by Walter Dean Myers and watch the Simile video

  4. Create your own Love that poem using the shared Google Doc.

• MATH:

  1. Listen to the multiplication video

  2. Complete the multiplication activities

• FRENCH:

  1. Read the feedback on your Les oiseaux document you shared with me last week.

  2. CLICK HERE to learn about fish. Complete the questions in the document or on your own paper at home.

  3. Share the document or photos of your work with Mme Kylie.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

For our French Google Meet this week, we will be playing a game called “Qui est-ce?”

Before our meeting please have your child prepare the following:

• Choose an animal to describe. It can be a stuffy, a pet, or a drawing.

• Create 3 clues to share with the class. These clues can be the type of animal (i.e., un mammifère, un oiseau, un reptile), the colour of the animal (i.e., des rayures orange et noires, des plumes noires et blanches), where this animal lives (i.e., à la ferme, en Afrique, chez moi), what it eats or anything else you would like to use.

• Be prepared to read your 3 clues to the class and to show your animal to the class after a few guesses.

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the next section of Love That Dog

  2. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your small poem from last week

  3. Read The Apple by S.C. Rigg

  4. Create your own shape poem using plain white paper, pencil and coloured markers

• MATH:

  1. Listen to Fraction story and complete fraction sort

  2. Add a recipe to the shared Google Slides and share with Ms. Reichert

  3. Complete the Fraction sort

• FRENCH:

  1. Read the feedback on your Les mammifères document you shared with me last week.

  2. CLICK HERE to learn about birds. Complete the questions in the document or on your own paper at home.

  3. Share the document or photos of your work with Mme Kylie.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

For our English Google Meet this week, we will be doing a Scavenger Hunt! You will be asked to retrieve items and bring them back to show your peers. Please ensure cables are safely tucked away, especially this week!

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the next section of Love That Dog

  2. Review the new poem by Robert Frost The Pasture

  3. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your questions for the Poem Review from last week

  4. Create and share your own small poem in the style of Valerie Worth

• MATH:

  1. Watch the story Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

  2. Play the probability games with a member of your family

• FRENCH:

  1. Learn about mammals with this Google Slides presentation. Complete the questions in the document or on your own paper at home.

  2. Share the document or photos of your work with Mme Kylie.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

FOCUS ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK:

• GOOGLE MEET:

For our French Google Meet this week, we will be playing BINGO. Please have your child prepare the BINGO card before our meeting.

• Print off this BINGO card or draw a 5x5 grid on a piece of paper you have at home.

• Write 24 of our sound vocabulary words randomly on the card, with a free space in the middle. See example.

• Gather some loose pieces (i.e., Lego, Rainbow Loom elastics, beads, rocks, etc. ) to use as the counters.

• When students win a BINGO, they will be asked to share a sentence using one of the vocabulary words.

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the next section of Love That Dog

  2. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your questions for the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening from last week

  3. Find a poem then complete the Poem Review and share with Ms. Reichert

• MATH:

  1. Watch the video about carrying when using two digit subtraction

  2. Complete the two digit subtraction sheets

• FRENCH:

  1. Choose 3 activities to complete for the sound <eil/eille> using this Google Slides presentation.

  2. Submit a sentence using <eil/eille> to Mme Kylie HERE.

• SHOW & TELL: Share photos of your favourite activities and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• GOOGLE MEET: In preparation for our Google Meet on Thursday, please:

  1. Bring a piece of plain white paper and something to colour with (e.g. crayons, pencil crayons and yes, even markers!)

  2. Be ready to answer the question: What is your favourite thing to do with your mom?

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Ms Reichert read the next section of Love That Dog and create a Cinquain poem for your mom using this template.

  2. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your Cinquain poem from last week

  3. Review the slideshow of our cinquain poems

  4. Listen to Ms. Reichert read the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and answer the questions

• MATH:

  1. Watch the video about carrying when using two digit addition

  2. Complete the two digit addition sheets

• FRENCH:

  1. Finish writing your story from last week.

  2. Choose 3 activities to complete for the sound <ail/aille> using this Google Slides presentation.

  3. Submit a sentence using <ail/aille> to Mme Kylie HERE.

• SHOW & TELL: Share a photo of you in school colours or Hawks attire, before Friday, and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• GOOGLE MEET: Prepare your response to Mme Kylie's question, in French, for our meeting on Thursday.

  1. Regarde cette vidéo. Qu’est-ce que tu aimes voir au printemps? Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire au printemps?

• ENGLISH:

  1. Listen to Love That Dog and create your own Cinquain poem using this template.

  2. Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your Choose Kind writing activity.

• MATH: Listen to the story about measurement before using a string to measure objects longer than, shorter than and equal to 1m in your home.

• FRENCH:

  1. Read the feedback from Mme Kylie on your story brainstorm from last week.

  2. View and listen to this Google Slides presentation to write your story.

• SHOW & TELL: Share a photo of you and your pets or stuffy learning together, before Friday, and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• GOOGLE MEET: Prepare your response to Ms. Reichert's question for your meeting this week.

  1. What is your special object you are choosing to share? Why is it important to you?

• ENGLISH: Make a copy of the How are you choosing to be kind? Complete this document and share with Ms. Reichert.

• MATH: Listen to the story about measurement.

• FRENCH: View and listen to this Google Slides presentation to review the parts of a story. Complete this brainstorm document with your ideas for your story and share the document with Mme Kylie.

• Read the feedback from Ms. Reichert for your journal entry.

• SHOW & TELL: Share a photo of the favourite thing you did this week, before Friday, and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• GOOGLE MEET: Prepare your response to Mme Kylie and Ms. Reichert's question for your meeting this week.

  1. Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire à la maison chaque jour? (What do you like to do at home each day?)

  2. What is something new you have learned the past few weeks? (a game, an activity, something you have made, etc.)

• ENGLISH: Make a copy of the journal response and complete before sharing with Ms. Reichert.

• MATH: Select one virtual math game (using technology) and one physical game (using manipulatives like dice or cards) to play this week.

• FRENCH: Work through the Google Slides document to practice the sound of the week <ille>.

• Go to your Google Drive and read the response and feedback from Ms. Reichert and Mme Kylie on your letters from last week.

• SHOW & TELL: Share a photo of the favourite thing you did this week, before Friday, and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• Learn how to MAKE A COPY and SHARE a document by watching this video.

  1. Make a copy of the letter writing document found under the English tab, and write a letter in English to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Make a copy of the letter writing document found under the French tab and write a letter in French to Mme Kylie.

  3. Share the document with the respective teachers.

• Share a photo of the favourite thing you did this week, before Friday, and check out your friends' activities under the Show & Tell page.

  1. Students in 2A can EMAIL their photo(s) to Ms. Reichert.

  2. Students in 2B can EMAIL their photo(s) to Mme Kylie.

TO DO:

• Check out the new activities posted under all subject tabs at the top of the site and learn how to navigate this site (i.e., clicking on embedded links, making copies of documents, printing activity sheets).

• Create a schedule to determine what activities to do in a day.

Finding a balance of:

• Daily household chores (i.e., get dressed, clean your room, make lunch, etc.)

• Learning time (i.e., choose 2 activities to do each day from the French, English or Math sections on the website)

• Creative time (i.e., choose 1-2 activities from the Science, Social Studies or Makerspace/Art sections on the website)

• Outdoor Time or Movement (i.e., find time to get outside and play or use one of the activities from the Movement section on the website)

• Find time to get together as a family, engage in free play or free technology time that is suitable for your child and your family’s needs

• Share a photo of the favourite thing you did this week before Friday! We will add the photo to our Show & Tell tab to see all of our friends at home. :)

We want to welcome you to a new format for learning. We understand that your days are busy with many of you working from home and we intend to keep our structure flexible while providing some ideas for student learning while at home. We have created this site as a grab-and-go tool. These activities are optional and are meant to help students continue developing, practicing and extending their skills. At this point, no activities are being evaluated.