Merry Christmas and Enjoy your winter break =;)

Good afternoon Room 19 students and families,

THANK YOU SOOO VERY MUCH for all the wonderful and thoughtful gifts!  You truly made my day and I appreciate ALL of you!  I am very PROUD of the effort you are putting in and you deserve the break over the next couple of weeks.  Please take some time to enjoy your family and friends but also remember to keep up with your RAZKIDS (reading) and MATHLETICS (math).

We will see you on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 when school begins again (regular uniform on this day).

Below are some fun pictures from our Grade 2 CAROLING:

Thank you for being such an AMAZING group of young students!  You make me PROUD each day, thank you =;)

Your teacher,

Mr. Engel

Week of Dec. 6 - 10, 2021

Good morning everyone,

Thank you for working so well on your SCIENCE MAGNET GAME/ACTIVITY!  You did a fantastic job and I appreciate your hard work on your TWO write-up pages on how you created your project and then your reflection piece (how it could have worked better).  Remember, in Science we make predictions and sometimes they are correct and sometimes we have to fix them - this is why we do the experiments to test what we think and then correct them in the end (THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD).  Below are some of the projects we began using and playing with on Friday - we will continue our exploring on Monday:

Please remember that next week is our last week before the winter break and each day has a special clothing to wear to celebrate Christmas/Winter.  Please see our Monthly Agenda for these specific clothes/hats to wear!  Enjoy and stay safe =;)

Mr. Engel

Week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2021

Good afternoon Grade 2 Students and Families,

Thank you to ALL the very GENEROUS families who are helping our school support the FOOD DRIVE!  If you are able to, please bring in some non-perishable food items to help others here in Calgary - it is much appreciated!  Also, please take note of the next couple weeks of school as there are some fun days scheduled especially with what we are going to wear in order to show our Winter/Christmas spirit.  Have fun with these and we look forward to your festive attire =;)

Please take some time to share some of the learning we did this past week:

Indigenous Learning - making connections to our LA writing, Science and Social Studies environments and people:

Science - sorting Magnetic items and Non-magnetic items:

Literacy Centers - small group work on reading:

Outside Fun:

Week of Nov. 22 – 26, 2021

Good morning everyone!  I wanted to send you ALL a great big “THANK YOU” for the wonderful conferences we had on Thursday evening and Friday morning!  I greatly appreciate all of your support in our students learning and in believing in them as well!  They truly are a pretty amazing group of young people and have so much to offer!  Like all of us, teachers included, we have strengths and areas to work on (Mr. Engel is STILL working on his “spelling” skills and still uses the strategy of STRETCHY SNAKE).  Keep up the GREAT WORK you are doing and please continue to read with them (asking them the 5 Ws for comprehension and in correcting their DETAILED SPELLING SENTENCES by using Adjectives and Adverbs).  With the work we do together, at home and at school, we can work as a TEAM to help our young minds grow and reach for the stars =;)

PLEASE NOTE: 

1) LA WRITING – we will be writing about a CELEBRATION that you and your family celebrate together.  We will write about the TRADITIONS (things you do as a family during the celebration) in order to describe the exciting activities you celebrate together.  Please begin discussing this with your child so they are able to write about it at school (HINT:  use our Story Strip for our Walking Stories to help you organize your thoughts and ideas):

2) MAGNET GAME/ACTIVITY – our upcoming Homework #11 will be asking our Grade 2 students to create their own magnet game or activity to share with their classmates.  You will be provided TWO magnets to create this at home and then we can all play with them once they are brought back to school.  You will have 2 weeks to complete this activity but you can begin brainstorming your ideas now.  Each student will get the magnets this upcoming week.  Please do not just print a maze/activity from the internet and use this as your project – I am encouraging you to research some ideas but please create your own project, thank you =;)

Have a wonderful weekend and thank you so much for the great conferences this week!  You are doing a fantastic job and I enjoy working with your children and families as we are a TEAM =;)

Your teacher,

Mr. Engel

Please take some time to share some of the learning activities we have done over the past week:

Math Games and Centers:

Science - Animals and Magnets:

LA writing, Science concepts, and Social Studies connections - showing Indigenous Learning by appreciating our land, environment, and nature:

Week of Nov. 15 - 19, 2021

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all staying busy with your RazKids reading and Mathletics programs - these are to help support our learning in both reading and math skills.  Please keep working on these as our reading levels do move up (Literacy Centers work at school) and so should the reading levels/letters in your RazKids reading.  Also, for Mathletics - we should all be working on our Numbers to 100 as the other sections should now be completed.  Thank you to all the families who continue to work on these in order to strengthen our reading and math skills!  You are doing a FANTASTIC job on these and I thank you for your hard work =;)

Please Note - this upcoming week is a short week due to our PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES on Thursday evening and then on Friday morning.  I hope you are able to join us to hear about all the great work your child is doing and to discuss areas to work on.  We all have things to improve on and I thank you for trying your very best in all things you do!  Keep up the great work and always believe in yourselves, Grade 2 students =;)

Below are some exciting activities we are working on.  Please take some time to share these learning activities with your family and show them the wonderful ideas and connections you are making in class:

Colouring our school walls due to construction - building our school community and working together with others (SCHOOL SPIRIT):

HIP HOP DANCE - working with an amazing dance teacher and working as a whole group:

Below are some educational activities we have been working on.  Please ask your child what they were doing and why they were doing these activities.  As we do in class, we always discuss the importance of our learning (WALT - WE ARE LEARNING TO... - WHY?):

SCIENCE - VENN DIAGRAM:

MATH - ORDINAL NUMBERS:

SOCIAL STUDIES - Glossary Work:

LA - LITERACY CENTERS - Riddles - creating hints about our spelling words:

Have a safe and wonderful weekend!  Remember to keep working on RazKids and Mathletics, thank you!  Hope to see you at our upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences =;)

Your teacher,

Mr. Engel