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Bonjour families!
Thank you to the volunteers that helped us with our walking tour of Airdrie! We are looking forward to our skating excursions, as well as meeting families next week during student-led conferences! We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Updates and Reminders:
Updates and Reminders:
**SKATING - Both classes will be skating the following days and times listed below, beginning next week at the Rob Ebbesen Arena (we will be walking - so please make sure your child is dressed to walk outside).
Please let us know via email if your child needs to borrow skates - we can provide them for students, if students have their own skates and helmets, please have them bring a skating bag with the following items: helmet & skates (extra snacks are also a good idea on these days).
Monday October 17th - 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Monday October 24th - 9:00am - 9:45am
Monday November 7th - 11:15am - 12:00pm
**Please let us know if you are available to volunteer for this great opportunity!
Volunteer update: As of this year, all volunteers will need to attend a safety orientation with Mrs. Neis in addition to filling out annual volunteer forms and submitting a criminal record check to the office. To book a safety orientation, please contact Mrs. Neis: sneis@rockyview.ab.ca. Thank you families!
Learning Conferences: are Wednesday October 19th and Thursday October 20th.
Learning Conferences: are Wednesday October 19th and Thursday October 20th.
Please sign up for a time on conference manager (you may need to make a new account):
Please sign up for a time on conference manager (you may need to make a new account):
https://aebowers.schoolsoft.com/login.jsf
Learning Conferences will look slightly different this year. We will be doing a student lead format: your child will present a piece of work that they have chosen and explain it. Your child will also be sharing a goal that they have made at school and how they plan to achieve it. We look forward to meeting with you to celebrate your child’s learning thus far!
Learning Conferences will look slightly different this year. We will be doing a student lead format: your child will present a piece of work that they have chosen and explain it. Your child will also be sharing a goal that they have made at school and how they plan to achieve it. We look forward to meeting with you to celebrate your child’s learning thus far!
School photos- Order forms are due October 20th.
We are now able to visit the Learning Commons (Library)! Please send your students' library book back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.
Tuesday- Mme Cornell
Thursday- Mme McCaffrey
The Absence Choice Board is available for students that are away and still able to complete work at home. Follow this link for the instructions: Absence Choice Board
Boom Cards are set up for your child. This literacy tool is used in the class and can be used at home as well for practicing letter sounds, phonemes (ou, on, er, ai, in, oi, etc) and common/sight words. If you need help with logging in, please contact your teacher. Here is the link to login: https://wow.boomlearning.com/
Please check if you are able to login to myBlueprint as well: https://app.myblueprint.ca/
Airdrie Community Links is offering several Parent supports for a variety of topics such as anxiety, ADHD, big feelings, and social thinking. If you would like further information on any of these supports, and others, here is a link: Community Links Ressources
Why do we lose control of our emotions video: Emotions video.
This week in:
This week in:
Literacy:
We will be continuing our grade 2 words this week! The sound of the week is: "eu". The words of the week are: feu, jeudi, veux, peux, jeux.
If you are not sure about pronunciations, Wordreference (english-french dictionary) has a listen button for the words: https://www.wordreference.com/
You can work on these words at home by: reading the words out loud with your child (have them translate to verify their comprehension), have them spell the words (practice daily in the agenda), or have them use the word in a French sentence. You can also have the student practice identifying each letter in french and the letter sounds (phonemes).
For more ideas on how to practice sight words at home, see the attached below:
We will continuing to review poems (through shared readings) in order to practice learning new vocabulary, rhyming, our accuracy when reading, comprehension and fluidity together! We are slowly working on introducing our Daily 5 centers which include: reading to self, word work, writing, speaking and listening to reading (once we have our technology running).
Numeracy: We are diving deeper into our study of increasing patterns. We will be moving from non-numerical increasing patterns (involving shape, colour, etc.) to increasing patterns with numbers (ex: 2, 4, 6, 8). This will set students up to learn about skip counting! We will also be examining and describing patterns in art and cultural designs as we make our own rangoli patterns to celebrate Diwali.
Science: We will be continuing to wrap up our study of insects and small animals with a cross-curricular art project. Students will use their creativity to invent an imaginary bug which they will begin sculpting from clay. Students will need to ensure that the anatomy of their bug is accurate, as well as design an environment that meets all of their insect's basic needs. We are looking forward to seeing students' creations!
Social Studies: Students are working to learn to use maps to determine distance, use relative terms such as near/far, use cardinal locations, and use relative location such as using geological markers and landmarks to determine where people and places are! We will then take this learning, and be collaborating between all grade 2 classes to create a giant map of our community.
October:
October 17th - Grade 2 FI classes are skating
October 19 & 20 - Learning Conferences
October 20- Photo order forms are due
October 24th - Grade 2 FI classes are skating
Have a great weekend!
Thank you,
Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey
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