2 Mah Update:

***Please send in a bag with your child tomorrow as we will be packing up and taking home a lot of school stuff.***

***Thursday is the last day of school for students.  Regular dismissal at 3:15.***

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: List 24 practice/word work/spelling practice.

• Started working on good copies of our pirate stories.
• Marvelous May scrapbook page.
• Literacy Centres

***I collected home reading on Wednesday.  There will be no more home reading for the rest of June.  Please return if you have not already.  Please continue to have your child read over the summer to keep up with their great progress.***

Math: Data Analysis - concrete and pictographs/tally charts/sorting using data to answer questions.

Science: Butterfly life cycle- /Important words/made a flip book - looking at other small crawling and flying animals.

Social: Looking at You - learning about Alberta/Cochrane

Health: Respect and good behavior.

Gym: Outdoor games - tag/soccer

Art: 3D butterfly

Upcoming:

June 17th: Blue bird presentation(2M only)

June 18th: Freeze Day

June 19th: Powwow Demonstration(1-1:45 - div 1/2-2:45 - div 11)

June 20th: Indigenous Peoples Day

2Mah Update:

Language Arts:  List 22 and 23 word practice/spelling test.

• Pirate paragraphs and comprehension questions.
• Fort Calgary writing
• Graphic organizer planning page for pirate story.
• Pirate stories using word webs and outlines

***List 24 spelling test of Friday, June 14th.***(This will be the last spelling test.  We will do word work with the last few lists but no spelling tests.)

List 24 - Superlatives

1. bigger        6. best

2. biggest       7. shorter

3. smaller       8. shortest

4. smallest      9. longer

5. better         10. longest

To celebrate the end of our Pirate Unit we will be having a Pirate Day on Monday, June 24th.  Students are welcome to dress up as a pirate as they will be reading their stories to the grade 1's and the kindergartens as well as participating in centres.  

Math: Measuring straight and round objects using nonstandard units like straws/paperclips and cube links. Learning about length, width and height.

• Data Analysis - learning how to organize using a sorting rule.

Social: Finished looking at work/good/resources of Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon.

• Looking at You 

Art: Finished Holy Spirit Art(Pen and Ink watercolour picture of school)

• 3D butterfly art - part 1

Health: Volunteerism

Religion: Looking at saints and how to do mission work at home/school and church.

Gym: Learning different stunts/twists/rolls.

Upcoming:

June 12th: Return home reading(Last day of home reading for the year-please return all books)

                  Freeze Day

June 14th: Library

June 15th: List 24 spelling test

                  Yearbook orders due

June 19th: Freeze Day

June 24th: Pirate Day(grade 2)

June 25th: Year end liturgy

June 27th: Last day of school

                  Progress reports go home

                  Talent show(pm)

Congratulations to everyone that received a sacrament this year!

Happy 25th Anniversary to Holy Spirit!  We had a special visitor on Friday.  

Welcome back Mr. Woitas!

Enjoy the drier weather!

2Mah Update:

Just a friendly reminder about yearbooks.  A sticker in students agenda's went home last week as well.

Yearbook to Celebrate our 25th Anniversary: Soft cover book is available for $25 and hard over for $30. This is a yearbook for the 2018-2019 school year with class and individual photos of all current students and will recognize the 25th anniversary. Limited quantities of the yearbook are available – order soon to get your copies. Order deadline extended to June 14th . 

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: Pirate Unit - read, 'A Day in the Life of a Pirate'

• Students made a mind map with pirate vocabulary that they will use for their pirate stories.
• Fort Calgary journal writing.

***List 22 & 23 spelling test Friday, June 7th.***

List 22 and 23 - transition words and self

1. first         9. until

2. then        10. finally

3. next        11. himself

4. last         12. herself

5. second    13. themselves

6. if             14. self

7. too          15. selfish

8. still         16. myself

Math: Measurement - skip counting with the calendar/measuring/comparing and ordering lengths using nonstandard units.

Science: Hot and Cold assessment - They will go home Monday.  please review/sign and return.

• Small crawling and Flying animals - students observed/recorded the final change in the butterfly life cycle in their journals.  We released the butterflies into the butterfly garden.

Social: Looking at Goods

• Fort Calgary Field trip - learning about Alberta's past.

Health: Helmet and bike safety/Volunteering

Religion: Learning about the rosary.  Students took a rosary home.

• Grade 2's are reading prayer this week - we will be practicing at school.

Gym: Tumbling/gymnastic movements

Art: Pen and ink watercolour picture of Holy Spirit

Upcoming:

June 3rd: Volunteer appreciation @ 2pm.

June 4th:  Sacramental Breakfast @ 7:45

June 5th: Return home reading

June 6th: Library

June 7th: Holy Spirit 25th Anniversary Celebration - students will get red t shirts to wear for our walk.

               List 22 and 23 spelling test

Summer is coming!

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: Finished Poetry Unit - students typed their favorite poem on Google docs and learned how to insert a picture.

• Shared Reading: Students have been sharing their books every day.
• Lobstering - students listened to a book on lobstering to complement our social unit and did some Journal writing.
• Nouns - learning about general nouns and specific nouns(proper).

List 21 spelling test Friday, May 24th.

List 21 - Quantity

1.  both               6.  most

2.  something     7.  little

3.  much             8.  few

4.  never             9.  many

5.  only

Math:  Review of addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers.Numbers quiz on Wed, May 22nd.  See study sheet and red math duotangs.

Science: The great meltdown Activity - Does snow/ice take up more or less space?

• Ice Boy story - learned about the water cycle through a humorous story.
• Caterpillar journals - students observed and wrote/draw about the next stage in the butterfly cycle - the chrysalis.

Gym: Skipping

Social; Learning about goods in the 3 Canadian Communities.

Art: Made lobster traps

Upcoming:

May 21st: Spring ohoto orders due

May 22nd: Return home reading

May 23rd: Library

May 24th: Fun Food Pizza Hut

Continue to support and remind you children to work hard and stay focused for our remaining 6 weeks of school.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: List 19 spelling practice/wonderful words/spelling test.

• Poetry - Acrostic name poems/Diamante poems

***List 20 spelling test Friday, May 10th.***

List 20 - A words

1.  again        5.  always

2.  almost      6.  another

3.  along        7.  any

4.  also          8.  after

***Students have started our shared reading activity.  Please make sure your child has their book to read to the class with the sheet completed.***

Math: Adding with and without regrouping practice

• Subtracting tens from 2 digit numbers.
• Math facts - adding 5's
• Math game - connect 4 using subtraction/addition

Science: Hot and cold - reading a thermometer (above and below zero)and learning common temperatures. Students practiced reading temperature in warm and cold water.

• Our butterfly larvae (Painted lady butterfly) arrived! - students have started observing them using a magnifying glass. They arrived as the size of a comma and have already tripled in size in 5 days.  Students will be observing and recording in their butterfly journal as they go through metamorphosis to a butterfly. This is to complement our Small Flying and Crawling creatures unit that will overlap as we finish Hot and Cold temperatures.

Social: Looking at Places quiz - please review/sign and return this week along with the blue duotangs if your child has not already.

Gym:  jump rope unit - working through different stations.

Art: See Earth Day art - students are working on something special for Mother's Day.  Please send in a small gift bag so they can bring it home safely on Friday.

Upcoming;

May 7th: Taco in a Bag

May 8th: Return home reading

May 10th: Library is Friday this week only.

                  List 20 spelling test.

                

Enjoy the week!