Please Return Time Capsules

Hello everyone, I am noticing that quite a few time capsules have not been returned yet. I would like to keep adding items and progress updates to these throughout the year, so if you could return these that would be great :)

Ps. We are also missing a number of All About Me posters.

Please return ASAP

- Miss.Cox

Monday September 30, 2019

Today was another busy day. We started our day with ignite, students chose to go to another exciting option. Our room hosted lava lamp experiments using oil, water and seltzer. After ignite we had another All About Me presentation from Lydia. It was our first day trying writing without the sentence starter for this writing task. After gym we had our spelling test and then made growing patterns using bingo dabbers. Please look for 2 patterns you see at home and bring these ideas for tomorrow (try to look for a growing pattern).  After lunch we had our Orange Shirt day presentation from Ms.Harmony. We came back and wrote/drew ideas on a quarter circle of how we can create safe and caring schools. To end our day we had a walking field trip to bring awareness to orange shirt day.  A big thank you to Jacqui (Owens mom), Leisa (Lydias mom) and Melanie (Declans mom) for helping us out on our walk. Tomorrow we will be discussing aspects of community that we recognized on our walk.

Going Home tonight: Home reading for those who have returned home reading choice forms. If you have not done this yet, please do so ASAP.

Going Home tomorrow: Spelling lists/Spelling grades from September.

Walking Field Trip/Outdoor PE

Hello room 4!

Tomorrow is a bit chilly and very snowy. We will be spending time outside for both our walking field trip in the afternoon and phys-ed in the morning. Please dress warmly. I am hoping to see jackets, snow pants, mitts, boots and toques. Lets stay warm and enjoy the snow!

Have a wonderful night.

- Miss.Cox

September 27, 2019

Today we had our Pillars of Care Assembly. Congratulations to this months winner: Lydia, Ava, Owen, Chloe and Ginny. Also a big congratulations to all our punctuality awards winners, 14/19 students have not been late once this year! After our assembly we had reading buddies and then wrote our next All About Me page about Chloe. To end our day we learned how to draw eyes, to work towards our updated self portraits.

Going Home:
Our first month of Grade 2 time capsules! Please take a look, sign and return Monday. 

What to expect next week:

• For those who returned home reading forms, home reading information (logins or books) will begin being sent home Monday.
• 'ea' words spelling list, spelling test Monday/new words going home Monday
• Science- exploring liquids- mixing liquids lab 
• Social studies- Me, my community, my city, my province, my country, my world.
• Math- Increasing patterns/ skip counting
• ELA- Writing sentences without a sentence starter
• Orange Shirt Day Monday- please wear your orange shirt
• Walking field trip Monday at 1:30 pm - thank you to Owens mom Jacqui for volunteering to join us already. Other volunteers with security checks are more than welcome to come along on this beautiful fall walk! 

Check out some of our eye sketches so far: 

September 25, 2019

Today we continued our important thing about... writing. We are slowly moving towards doing this writing 100 percent independently (not even a sentence starter!). Owen presented his All About Me poster today and Joey presented yesterday.

In math we began learning about the difference between repeating and increasing patterns. We are slowly working towards identifying pattern rules in increasing patterns... but this is tricky for most of us.

In social studies we talked about what make a community and identified what communities we are a part of.

In science we tested the viscosity of liquids by pouring 4 liquids down the side of a bowl and observing the speed which they flowed.

Reminders:
- New spelling words went home yesterday 'ea' family
- BHS clothing order money is due Friday- parent pay, cheque or cash
- Orange shirt day Monday
- Pillar of care assembly Friday at 8pm

September 23, 2019

Today we started are our All About Me presentations. Hailey was our first student to present. After Hailey's presentation we wrote a sentence about what makes her important. If you have not returned your All About Me poster, please do so, so that you can present and get your important thing book to bring home. :)

In math today, we had our baseline assessment. We need to work on questions like: What is 2 less than 10.

After lunch we talked about what makes a hero and watched a video about Terry Fox. We are doing the Terry Fox run tomorrow. Bring toonies for Terry to try to get Mr.Shackelton to dress up!

We also talked about Orange shirt day and discussed what orange shirt day is and why it is important by reading the book When I Was 8. Orange shirt day is September 30, please wear your orange shirt.

Reminders:
- Please return digital citizenship forms so that we can use technology
- You have an extra day to study for your spelling test- be ready tomorrow :)

September 20, 2019

Thank you to everyone who helped out at or attended the Meet the Teacher night yesterday. If you missed this, I will be sending home information booklets to take a peek at.

We are entering our 4th week of school next week, heres what to expect:

- Monday spelling test on last weeks words.
- Tuesday new spelling words
- Terry Fox run Tuesday pm
- Pillars of Care assembly Friday am
- Baseline math assessment

- We will be working on increasing/decreasing patterns as well as our familiarity with the hundreds chart.
- We will be doing work around orange shirt day, reading the book when I was 8 and discussing how this has effected both indigenous communities from the prairies as well as the Inuit.
- We will be comparing the viscosity of liquids and testing how different materials . absorb liquids.
- We will continue our work on writing detailed sentences.
- We will look at Terry Fox's impact on Canada

Have a wonderful weekend and I will see everyone Monday!

- Miss.Cox

All About Me Project

This week students worked on their 'All about Me' posters. These are being sent home so that students can add pictures or drawings of things that represent or are important to them. These posters are due back Monday so that we can begin presenting them during calendar time.

Example Below:

Class Promise

Room 4 Class Promise

I promise to sit quietly, keep my hands to myself and sit in my spot at the carpet. 

I promise that I will be mindful of the voice level which we are working at.

I promise that I will be quiet, walk nicely and keep my hands to myself in line. 

I promise that I will I do my best and be understanding of the fact that everyone makes mistakes. 

I promise to use kind words and not to put hands on others.

I promise to take care of our classroom, school and supplies.

I promise to leave my toys at home.

September 17 2019

Yesterday we made pattern bracelets with Ms.Weber and did an activity to go along with the story, Ms.Nelson is Missing. In gym we are learning to use the new games spray painted on the compound.

Today we continued our work with the pillars of care, we have now covered each pillar and are excited for you to see this work at meet the teacher.

Going home:
- Class Promise
- Spelling Words this week we are doing spelling karate- everyone starts at level 1 and we try to move up to level 6 throughout the year. We will alternate between this and word families every other week.

Reminders:
Meet the teacher is Thursday night, please sign up asap :)


We have had a few students shoes go missing, so we will now be keeping our shoes inside on these shoe racks instead of in the hallway.

September 13, 2019

Yesterday we had an exciting science experiment which helped us compare liquids.

Today we had buddies and spent time with Ms.Harmony continuing our work with sharing circles while Miss.Cox did reading assessments. We had our first spelling test as well as our first fire drill. We will be working on our all about me posters next week as we were interrupted by the fire drill and didn't have a chance to go over this.

Going home: Setting up your CBE account booklets

What to expect next week:
1. New spelling words
2. More work with patterning, skip counting and comparing/ordering numbers including... pattern bracelets
3. We will begin making our own maps about Canada, identifying where in Canada our 3 focus communities are located (Inuit, Acadians and Prairie people).
4. We will begin looking at density in liquids and we will compare the density of a variety of liquids in another exciting experiment.
5.  We will begin a writing assignment and look flipping a sentence.
6. Miss.Cox will continue our reading testing so that we can begin our home reading program.
7. Meet the Teacher night- Thursday evening... see you there :)

Note: I will be away Monday so Miss.Weber will be joining us for the day.  I can be reached by email Monday or over the weekend at sajcox@cbe.ab.ca

September 11, 2019

Today we made a class promise about how we are going to behave. This will be posted in a separate post. After this we learned how to do magic word and magic number. Each week a new word and number are posted on our board. If we finish our work early we can work towards making as many words as possible from the magic word or finding as many ways as possible to add to the magic number. We also did a baseline writing assessment. These will be sent home in our first month time capsules at the end of this month. After gym, we had math and played less than or greater than with a partner to practice using our ‘alligator’ symbols. Before lunch, we read the invisible boy and talked about how we can include others. After lunch we mapped out our classroom. Check out some of our maps so far below! Then we watched a bill bye video on liquids so that we can make our exploring liquids KWL charts tomorrow.

Going home: 2 forms  (grey and blue)  from the office.

This weeks spelling list:
1. Chocolate
2. Chop
3. March
4. Chart
5. Chin
6. Much
7. Such
8. Chip
9. Chain
10. Chase

September 9, 2019

Today we had ignite. Ignite is a program where once a week we can go to another room for 30 minutes for an option. For example our room hosted students interested in science experiments this morning. Afterwards we spent some time working with Ms.Harmony our indigenous learning specialist learning about sharing circles while Miss.Cox started reading testing with some students. Afterwards we learned about sorting by attribute and identified different attribute for sorting materials. Ask me what an attribute is. After lunch we did some quiet reading to calm down and build our love for books. Then we looked at our first word family, the ‘ch’ family and worked on spelling our first word list.

Going home: word lists

Reminders: tomorrow is welcome back muffins/timbits hosted by parent council. See you in the gym from 7:30-8:00 am.

Also: PLEASE leave toys at home, we are having quite a few toys find their way to school. Toys that come to school spend the day on Miss.Coxs desk, so they are much better off at home.

Have a great night,

Miss.Cox

Meet the Teacher

Our meet the teacher night is scheduled for September 19th from:
6:00-6:45 (session 1)
6:45-7:30 (session 2)

I look forward to seeing everyone there :)

September 6, 2019

What a great week! We have been so busy settling into routines and getting to know one another.

Today we drew our first draft of self portraits for the year, we will be learning new skills and revising our self portraits so that we can track our growth over the year. We also had our first reading buddies meet up with our grade 6 buddies. We had our first assembly today, we will be practicing  our assembly manners next week to ensure we are ready for the next assembly . Ask me about my assembly manners today. We journaled about our favourite part of the week.

Going home: walking field trip form/notice. (If this is not in a blue folder please return folder/ paper work if not done so already).

What to expect next week:
1. Students will begin being assessed for current reading levels so that we can begin our home reading program.
2. We will be looking at patterns, sorting rules and continuing developing our number sense of numbers 0-100.
3. We will be working on writing a sentence. Identifying what makes a sentence as well as the difference between a question and a sentence. We will also learn a variety of ways to start a sentence.
4. We will be beginning our exploring liquids unit in science.
5. We will be looking at mapping skills and mapping out Canada.
6. We will be continuing our work on learning about the  pillars of care.
7. We will be making all about me posters to share with the class, these will be sent home to add pictures/ other details and each child will have a chance to share beginning the following week. I will post an example next week.
8. We will be recieving our first word list to practice for a spelling test at the end of the week. Please have your child  practice reading and writing the words on the list once sent home.

I look forward to next week and hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Miss.Cox

Ps. Our missing shoe was found by our wonderful caretaker Mr.Rak.

September 5, 2019

Today in math we learned how to use less than, greater than or equal to symbols to compare numbers. Ask me about the alligator trick. We also did journaling about our summer break. In gym today we had our first class with Mr.Sadowsky. We ended our day with a story called I like myself and writing about how we can show care for self.

We are missing the below shoe, please keep an eye out for this shoe.

Have a great night. 

Miss.Cox

September 4, 2019

Today we had a building challenge to see who could build the tallest structure out of spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. Check out some of our creations below. In math we  looked at what makes odd numbers odd and even numbers even. We used this information to identify odd and even numbers as well as to find the odd/even pattern on the hundreds board. We played a guessing math game using the words less than or greater than to find a mystery number. In language arts/ health we read the book All are Welcome and discussed how we can create a sense of  belonging in our classroom. We used this discussion to do a writing piece and to draw a picture to go along with it.

Please check backpacks for digital citizenship forms as well as a parent council newsletter.
*Digital citizenship  forms must be returned before your student can access technology (iPads,computers,etc..) at the school.

Thank you,

Miss.Cox

Our first day!

Welcome to the diary of a second grader! It was so nice to meet everyone today and I can already tell that it is going to be a fantastic year.

Please check backpacks for demographic forms, cbe calendars and contact magnets in a blue take home folder.

Today we did writing about our first day feelings, practiced our addition skills and, got to know our new classmates.

Please send back forms included in the take home folder ASAP.

Thanks so much,

Miss.Cox