Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2024

 Hello Families,

Bake Sale 
Wow! Thank you to our incredible Grade 5 and 6 students who organized treats for the bake sale to raise money for mental health. Your treats were delicious and a great addition to Pink Shirt Day! 

Pink Shirt Day

Students were excited to share their understanding of Pink Shirt Day and friendship. They created torn paper pink shirts and wrote about it in their TWAS journals. Check out their bulletin board art below. 

Puppet Residency

Thank you so much for joining us at our Grade Two puppet show. Students were so excited to share their learning. If you were not able to attend please see some of our puppet show curricular slides below. 

*I can listen to, discuss, and express views about a wide range of story connections. 

*I can discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related.

*I can recognize recurring literary language in stories and poetry.

*I can discuss and clarify the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.

In our final lesson, students looked at how each emotion is described in the book, and together used this structure to create a similar section for the feeling of love. 

"It makes you feel good and wonderful."

"It makes you want to make friends and play with them."

"It makes you feel safe from fear."

"It makes you want to spread it with everyone."

"It makes you want to play and dance."

"It makes you feel very proud of yourself."

"It makes you feel you are better."

"it makes you want to dance and be creative."

Math

We engaged in a variety of Leap Year math centers this week! Students worked together to bring movement into math tasks. We continued to work on reviewing together and practicing kindness. 

Our centers included:

1. Lily pad leaps (Can you throw a beanbag at a lily pad number target and add the numbers together?)

2. Longest leaps (How far can you jump? What was your shortest distance? What was your longest distance?

3. Leap to 29 (Create 10 different ways to make the number 29, tallies, pictures, number sentences etc). 

4. Flycatcher (Can you create a bar graph to measure how many times your leapfrog jumped into a fly cup?)

*I can compose a sum in multiple ways.

*I can compare and order measurements of different lengths measured with the same non-standard units, and explain the choice of unit. 

*I can record data in a graph. 

Gym (Ringette)

*I can develop physical literacy through movement and active living that supports well-being.

*I can maintain enough pressure on my stick to keep the ring with me while moving in my area. 

*I can move the ring side to side while traveling across the gym.

*I can pass the ring SAFELY to a partner.

Students were excited to start ringette this week and look forward to playing again next week.

Have a wonderful weekend!