We Remember

Today we had a Remembrance Day liturgy in our school's gym. We remembered those who died and those who had to go to war to fight for our country. A police officer named Constable Salinas spoke to us about the importance of being a peacekeeper. He said he gets to be a peacekeeper each day and its his favourite part about being a police officer. He said that his brain and his heart are the most important tools we can use to be peacekeepers in our community. He left us with a question: What can you do to help your community? How can you help keep the peace in your community? Talk to your child today about  how we can do these important things. If we work together, we can all be peacekeepers!

Students also got to hear a few peace songs and listen to Jesus' gospel about love and peace.





Our Word Wall Words for this week:

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How will you show you remember? We used the Twitter hashtag #werememberocsb to share some ways we can show peace and remember on Remembrance Day. Ask me about this today!

Remembrance Day Visualizing

In class today, we talked about Remembrance Day to prepare for our mass on Monday morning.  We started by reading the book A Poppy is to Remember.  We learned about the war from a long time ago.  We talked about why soldiers had to go to war.  We talked about peace and freedom and what they mean to Canada.  Ask your child about what they learned about peace today.

After reading the story we wondered: Why do we need to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day? Below are our word collage answers:

We also watched a video that shows how the soldiers who were Canadian in the war are heroes... here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsCVlM1CSPU

We also read the poem In Flanders Field. The students were not shown any photos of the poem but used their imagination to visualize and picture what the poem might look like! When we visualize we picture in our minds what a story looks like. We recorded AudioBoo samples to share what we visualized. Follow the links to hear our visualizing pictures!

CW: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713213-cw-visualizing

EC: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713210-ec-visualizing

FF: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713205-ff-visualizing

DL: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713181-dl-visualizing

CO: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713178-co-visualizing

MD: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713169-md-visualizing

RC: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713166-rc-visualizing

HH: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713168-hh-visualizing

AO: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713157-ao-visualizing

WN: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713159-wn-visualizing

AB: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713146-ab-visualizing

NN: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1713155-nn-visualizing

Place Value

We continue to work on identifying place value today. We are working with ones, tens and hundreds! Thank you to Naisha for teaching us that we use Base 10 Blocks to help us figure out how to represent a number! We are making a Place Value chart to help us as we work with numbers. 

Today we worked with partners to figure out how to make numbers with our snap cubes. We had to determine if the number needed a hundred, how many groups of 10 and how many ones. Students are using counting by 10's to help them get their answer. A lot of great team work today. 

We will review this again tomorrow and talk about how we can represent more numbers using place value and base ten blocks! Ask me about place value and see what I can remember tonight!

Place Value and Skip Counting

In class today we worked on identifying place value in numbers.  We have a good idea of how to represent a number using ones and tens.  We are working to represent hundreds on our place value chart too!

We also practiced skip counting by 2's and 5's today. We even skip counted backwards.  We need to practice this a lot more.  At home today, you can practice skip counting forwards or backward by 1's, 2's, 5's or 10's with the help of our hundreds chart. Enjoy!

Using Adjectives to Describe Animals

In class today, the students finished working on a describing animals activity. We continue to use adjectives and visualizing to describe animals in the stories we read.  

Students worked together to describe features of country animals such as raccoons, deer, mice, foxes and even skunks. We referred to our 5 senses to help us describe.

The students got the chance to read with partners. They also got the chance to add to our Padlet thinking using an iPad. We are using so many different adjectives to describe animals. Take a look at our  Padlet Thinking: http://padlet.com/wall/describeanimals

Raspberries Visualizing

On Friday we began talking about our new reading comprehension strategy...Visualizing! We recalled what visualizing means as a class and created this chart to help us. When you read, you visualize by creating a movie in your head! We use our 5 sense to help us visualize.

To help us understand how we can visualize, we used raspberries to help us. The students worked in partners to describe raspberries using their 5 senses. We wrote our ideas and posted them to our raspberries chart. Visualizing helps us to describe! We can do this while we read as well. We will continue to work on this reading strategy over the next few weeks.

AudioBoo for Fluency

In class on Friday we worked on a friend interview. The students worked with a partner to ask questions to find out new information about each other. It was great to watch the students work so well together. After we finished our friend interview, the students created an AudioBoo recording.We are starting to use the AudioBoo app to capture student thinking and to listen to our reading fluency. 

Have a listen to our reading on the AudioBoo iPad app:

HH: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700576-hh-new-friend

MD: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700574-md-new-friend

FF: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700566-ff-new-friend

DL: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700569-dl-new-friend

AO: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700337-ao-new-friend

WN: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700332-wn-new-friend

EC: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700327-ec-new-friend

NN: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700322-nn-new-friend

AB: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700319-ab-new-friend

CO: https://audioboo.fm/boos/1700314-co-new-friend

Pumpkin investigation continues

Fun day in grade 2 today. We spent much of our day working on Halloween activities. We worked with the grade 3 class on a math activity using our pumpkins. We worked together to count how many seeds in our pumpkins. We divided our seeds into groups and had to use counting strategies to count how many seeds we had. We needed to determine which class had more seeds in their pumpkin....Grade 2 or Grade 3!

The students used counting strategies like counting by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's to figure out how many seeds they had. In the end, we learned that the grade 3 pumpkin had more seeds! Great team work today friends! At the end of the day we enjoyed a fun Monster Mash dance party. Happy Halloween everyone!

Shared-Learning Video Chat!

We enjoyed a fun treat today. A grade 2 class in our city chatted with us on Twitter! They are also using pumpkins to count and describe. They asked us to guess how many seeds we thought were inside of their class pumpkin. Have a read at some of the tweet guesses we sent Mr. Robinson's class!

Mr. Robinson's class called us over Google Hangout. Google Hangout is a video chat that we used to do a shared read aloud. They started to read us the story...How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? It was so great to hear their grade 2 class read this story to us. Our class was really excited. They had many connections to the story today and we got to share one of them. We told their class how we cleaned our pumpkin yesterday. We had to separate the goop and the seeds!  We ran out of time and they will call us again tomorrow to finish the story! Ask your child about this neat opportunity!

Pumpkin Pumpkin

We continue to work on descriptive writing. Today the students focused on exploring nouns and adjectives in more detail. We used our Halloween word wall words to help us come up with fun ways to describe. We also talked about other nouns or adjectives that we can think of. Have a look at the list we came up with!


Next, the students used a pumpkin to help them come up with words to describe. Words that describe a pumpkin are adjectives. We used our eyes, our hands and even our nose to come up with some creative adjectives to describe both the inside and the outside of the pumpkin. 

Have a look at some of the adjective words we came up with today. We are using our pumpkin to help us with some pumpkin investigating. Tomorrow we will add to our investigation by estimating and counting the features inside and outside of the pumpkin! We will also get to work with the grade 3 class on a fun math activity. Don't forget to wear black, orange and have crazy hair!