October 25

This morning we started our day off working with our buddies on an Original Artwork project.  We are making Fall trees and today we did a wash for the background.  Please ask your child what a wash is.  Kaitlyn is planning to show her mom and dad at home how to do a wash.  How fun!

After buddies Constable Mattice was in our classroom.  She read a book called How to fill your bucket.  After this story we reviewed our Emotions Scale.  I posted a picture of it last week.  Today we made our own emotions scale and drew pictures to represent each feeling.  On the back of the paper we wrote down a couple of calming down strategies that work best for us.  I have attached a picture of the strategies we came up with as a class.

After music we chose 3 students who will be part of the Book and Movie club.  Congratulation to Ruby, Madyson and Sophee.  Please return permission forms ASAP.

After lunch we worked on calendar activities and then straight on to math.  Today in math we worked on a very difficult math problem.  Here it is:

There are 7 chairs in a room.  There are 4 children in the room.  How many more chairs are there than children.  Show your work.  Can you use addition and subtraction to show your thinking?  The numbers were change to 11 and 6 for the grade 2s.  The idea around this problem is to use subtraction to compare to numbers.

We had a fire drill this afternoon.

We have started talking about the past in Social Studies.  We are reading a book called Ticket to Curlew.  After gym we worked on a page in our visual journals.  We created a suitcase and we added some "settler effects".  Please ask your child what this means.

Please see previous post about Jacket Racket.

This Thursday we will be celebrating Halloween in our classroom.  Please bring your costume to school as we will be changing in to them after lunch.  Please no masks or weapons.

Thursday evening is the Halloween Howler.

Friday there is no school.

Question of the day:  What is the difference between 8 and 12?  How will you figure this out?