2Mah Update:

Language Arts: List 16 practice/wonderful words/spelling test

• House Tour Expository Writing- Body - students worked on the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs using descriptive words to describe 2 of the special places in their houses.
• Daily Five

***List 17 spelling test Friday, April 5th.***

List 17 - Nouns II

1.   water       5.   story

2.   land         6.   job

3.   sky          7.   animals

4.   table        8.   food

Math: Review of numbers unit - tests went home - please sign/return after the break.

Science: Floating Sinkers activity: The students were challenged to alter or add to a non-floating object(rock and ball of Plasticine) so that it will float.

Social: Looking at People in Meteghan, Saskatoon and Iqaluit - culture and flags.

Religion: Students finished up crosses with Lent promises.  Learning about forgiveness.

Health: Volcano activity - recognizing when we interrupt and what strategies can we use to prevent interrupting others.

Gym: Finished basketball unit.

Art: Learning about painting in the style of Ted Harrison.

Upcoming:

April 1st: school reopens

April 3rd: Return home reading

April 4th: Library

April 5th: Byblos Food Presentation(grade 2's)

                 List 17 spelling test.

Enjoy the rest of the break!

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: Daily Five/Literacy Centres

• Expository writing - The House Tour - writing an introduction and conclusion using topic sentences and including 2 main ideas.  Learning how to use a question to grab the readers attention.  Started on the main event - the body paragraphs.  Students are writing about 2 of their favorite places in their house.

***List 16 spelling test Friday, March 22nd.***

List 16: Nouns

1.  fish           5.  Calgary

2.  Canada     6.  Alberta

3.  class         7.   page

4.  car            8.   paper

Math: Adding 1 and 2 more/subtracting 1 and 2 less.  Students practiced using different strategies when adding and subtracting.

• Make 10 strategy  

• Adding with doubles and doubles plus 1 and 2.
• Math fact practice - adding 3's

Numbers assessment on Thursday, March 21st.  (See study guide that went home Friday.)

Social: Looking at the people of Meteghan/Saskatoon and Iqaluit

Art: Leprechaun hand-print art/students decorated our door Leprechaun style.  Students built leprechaun traps with their grade 6 buddies.  We will see Monday if we are lucky enough to catch a leprechaun.

Religion:  Lent promises

Gym: Basketball skills and drills practice/learning about team work.

Health: Read, 'My Mouth is a Volcano'

Learning about taking a deep breath and thinking before we blurt/interrupt.

Upcoming:

March 20th: Return home reading

March 21st: Library

                    Math numbers test

March 22nd:  Last day of school before Spring Break. Return on Monday, April 1st.

Have a great week!

2 Mah Update:

Language Arts: List 15 spelling practice/Daily 5 Literacy Centres

• Expository writing - Forming and writing opinions/sentence analysis of fairy sentences - nouns/verbs/capitalization and punctuation.

***No spelling words this week as it is a short week.***

Math: Daily fact practice - adding 2's and 3's.

• Comparing numbers using subtraction sentences.  Using math language: 4 more /difference

Science:  Sinking Floaters activity - students constructed floating structures and added weight(pennies) to make them sink.  Learning about water displacement due to added mass.

Social: Come travel with us!  Students presented travel brochures.

Religion: BFG(big family groups) - Shrove Tuesday/Lent/Selfishness - students thought about what they could give up or improve on for Lent. Students had pancakes in the gym for Shrove Tuesday.

Gym: Basketball

***Progress reports went home.  Please sign envelope and send back this week.***

***Students will be building Leprechaun traps on Wednesday this week.  There will be a few basic supplies in class (paper, stickers tissue paper,tape)  Please see sheet going home tomorrow about some suggestions for students to bring in by Wednesday(ie/box, shiny things, anything green, toliet paper roles etc...***  Feel free to search the computer with your child to get ideas.  We will be building them with our 6E buddies.***

Upcoming:

March 13th: Return home reading

                     Scholastic book orders due.

March 14th: Library/Spirit Day - Wear Green

                     Parent/Teacher interview - 4;30-8pm

March 15th: Parent/Teacher interviews - 8:45 - 11  12 - 2;30pm

Only 2 weeks until Spring Break!

2Mah Update:

Language Arts: List 14 practice/Wonderful words/spelling test

• Literacy Centres
• Homonyms and Antomnyms lesson
• Scrapbook Writing - Fantastic February

• Learning about Expository Writing - writing to inform.  We looked at 2 samples of writing describing different kinds of houses and learned why one piece was better than the other.  Learning about: Paragraphs to separate our main ideas/introductions and topic sentences/conclusions.

***List 15 spelling test - Friday March 8th***

List 15 - th - words

1.  thanks            5.  them

2.  those              6.  think

3.  these              7.  through

4.  their               8.  thought

Math: Solving subtraction problems with missing parts. Learning to solve using addition as our strategy.

• Math fact daily practice - Adding using o, 1 and 2's.

Science: New Unit - Buoyancy - learning about the new words buoyancy, float and sink.

• Sinking or Floating activity - predicting and observing what floats and sinks.

Social: Completing rough copies of our travel brochures.

Religion: Learning about the 7 sacraments - matching activity.

Health:  Ryan Laird presentation - 'Bigger Than That' - learning about believing in yourself, being positive and working hard to achieve our goals.

Gym: Basketball - scrimmaging/rules

Upcoming:

March 4th: BFG(Big Family Groups) @ 1pm - Shrove Tuesday/Lent/Selflessness

March 5th: Shrove Tuesday(Pancake breakfast - Please bring your own plate and cutlery to be environmentally friendly.

March 6th; Return home reading

March 7th: Library

March 8th: List 15 spelling test

                   Fun Food Little Caesars(no meat)

                   Progress reports go home

Keep warm!