Ms. Meier and Ms. McBride's Grade 2 Class!: Week 6

BREAKING NEWS:

Please remember there is no school on Friday, October 11th or Monday, October 14th. Enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend with your families! 😊

Congratulations to Ms. Meier and her newly adopted dog, Hudson! We have been with Ms. Meier through every step of the foster process, and it became very clear to her in the first few days that she would be his FURever person! The adoption is official and we can't wait to hear all her doggie stories and watch him learn new tricks throughout the year.

In LITERACY we have been continuing to write compound sentences by using the word "and." We have also been revising and editing our work and our teachers' work to check for punctuation, capitals, sight words and clarity.

Our sight words for next week are:
-away
-could
-friend
-favourite
-school

In MATH we have been exploring patterns with 3-5 repeating elements.We used color patterns to decorate fall leaf art and they turned out beautifully! We also learned what the word attribute means. We sorted different manipulatives by different attributes (colour, size, etc.), and used attributes to create repeating patterns.

In SCIENCE we are continuing to develop our skills as meteorologists. We have been checking the daily temperature and filling in a thermometer by degrees celsius. We have also been exploring how weather changes affect people (like how we needed our warm coats, mittens and boots this week!), and animals (Ms. McBride's dog, PB, sure loves the snow!)

In SOCIAL STUDIES we continued our inquiry on Calgary in the Past on our Heritage Park Field Trip. We had an amazing time exploring Calgary's history. We learned about Calgary's First Peoples, the Blackfoot, and the early European Settlers. We visited a real trading post and made and tasted traditional Bannock. We played with toys and dressed in clothing from 100 years ago! Some of us even got thrown in the old jail! It was a cold day, but we learned so much and can't wait to continue our inquiry.