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!