Week of Oct. 25 - 29, 2021

Good morning everyone and Happy Halloween,

Thank you for a very productive week and in completing some very nice work over the past week.  I have added some pictures so you can share with your family and please have a FUN and SAFE weekend if you do celebrate Halloween.  We have continued with our work on numbers and Place Value (all numbers have a place that they belong to - Ones, Tens, Hundreds).   We have also created some fun activities and games to play in order to build different numbers and even create them in our Math Journals.  Also, we are working very hard in our Social Studies and in figuring out where our 3 communities are located.  Once we discovered where they were located, we then figured out that the land can tell us some very important facts about the community - like their NATURAL RESOURCES, ACTIVITIES, GOODS MADE, etc.  These are helping the students make deeper connections like Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World relationships.  In LA, we are finding more Juicy Words (words that describe our Nouns) and we had a very funny but educational activity but with the use of Toilet Paper - each square that was picked by a student was then used as an ADJECTIVE to help describe themselves.  The students then gathered up their amazing courage and came up to the front of the class to share themselves with others - this was an excellent activity as the students had fun and continued to learn the importance of descriptions AND in believing in themselves by coming up to the front and sharing their ideas.  AMAZING WORK AND EFFORT, GRADE 2 STUDENTS!  With this said, we also read some fun Scholastic Books with scary stories - I read with expression, pausing at punctuation, and acting a bit in order for the students to see and understand the power great story telling can have on their readers.  Remember, these stories were all FICTION - not real =;)

Keep up the great work and please share the pictures below with your family.  You are doing amazing work and I hope you are very PROUD of your efforts!  Thank you, Grade 2 students and families for your continued support in our learning - YOU ROCK!  =;)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, GRADE 2 STUDENTS!

Week of Oct. 18 - 22, 2021

Good afternoon AMAZING Grade 2 students and families,

Thank you for an excellent week in working so hard on your lessons AND in always PERSEVERING (trying your best just like, "The Little Engine Who Could").  While reading as a class and in our small Literacy Center groups, we are now learning how stories, although enjoyable, but how they teach us a life lesson (the Theme of the story, the Moral of the story).  In "The Little Engine That Could", it is allowing us to see how some things in life are challenging but that we can always keep trying and eventually we will succeed.  I have posted a video link to the story if you would like to explore it further!

"The Little Engine That Could" video link - click HERE for the video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2EhWYGbi5o

Also, please remember that the Grade 2 students will be taking part in our upcoming Remembrance Day Assembly in November.  Please practice your O'Canada singing and sign language as we will try to film this for our assembly this upcoming Monday (as we will be in our Formal Uniforms).  Use the link provided on our Home Page, thank you for your continued support and effort =;)

Below are some pictures from some activities we took part in over the week.  Please take some time to share with your family and maybe you can teach them something new that you recently learned!  Have fun and thank you for trying your very best!

Adventure Running - PE and Social Studies (following our Compass Rose directions)

LA - Walking Story writing (Story Strips and Describing a NOUN)

MATH - working with numbers and creating numbers (Place Value and Base 10 Blocks)

ART - Line families, Abstract Art, Personal Crest

O'Canada Sign Language - upcoming Remembrance Day Assembly

Dear students and families,

As the Grade 2 students will be putting on our upcoming Remembrance Day Assembly in November, our class has been asked to do O'Canada (WITH sign language and singing) and then Salute to the Flag.

Below is the link we will be using to practice and use in the assembly.  Please take the time to practice this at home as we will be filming this on the next 2 Monday's while students are dressed in their FORMAL UNIFORMS. 

Thank you so much for your help and in practicing this for our Assembly =;)

O'Canada Song and Sign Language:

Click HERE to access the youtube video or copy the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TB7fW5p9R0

Week of Oct. 4 - 8, 2021

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your day off today and remember, you also have Monday off as well due to a very fun-filled and delicious holiday - THANKSGIVING DAY!  Please take the day to enjoy your family and friends and to remember how very lucky we all are here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  Much like we are learning about our NEEDS and WANTS for our community in Social Studies, we have much to be THANKFUL for!  I am very THANKFUL for such an amazing group of Grade 2 students and I know we will continue showing what an excellent community we are here at school.  Stay positive and remember to always believe in yourselves!  You guys ROCK! =;)

Enjoy your weekend and THANK YOU for being YOU!

Your teacher,

Mr. Engel

PS. Please remember to bring at least TWO (2) extra face masks to keep in your backpack in case one gets lost, thank you!  Stay safe everyone =;)

Wed., Oct. 6, 2021 - STUDENT EXTRA FACE MASKS

Good afternoon Grade 2 families,

Thank you for your continued effort in staying safe during these times.  I am asking that you provide your child with TWO (2) extra face masks that they can keep in their backpacks in case they misplace the mask they wear to school.

Thank you for your help and in staying safe,

Mr. Engel

Week of Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, 2021

Good morning Grade 2 students and families,

Thank you for an excellent week as we continue to learn our school and classroom routines as well as working with one another as a COMMUNITY (much like we are learning in our Social Studies and our 3 amazing communities - Saskatoon, Meteghan, and Iqaluit).  This week we took part in a Teacher's Pet in-school field trip that focused on one of these communities - Meteghan and the people who moved there (Acadians - from France).  The students had the opportunity in learning how the people of France moved here and then what took place once the British came to Western Canada.  As we learn to make connections between subjects, other texts, ourselves, and even the world around us, the students were able to see what took place to the First Nations as well.  We acknowledged these challenges by wearing our ORANGE shirts and learned about what took place in the past.  It has been wonderful to see our students make such great connections as well as understanding the unfortunate events that the First Nations people had to endure.

Please take a moment to share the wonderful learning we are doing in our classroom and thank you to ALL students who showed their support by wearing our ORANGE shirts that day.  Also, a great BIG "Thank You" to our TWO amazing parent volunteers this week - you did a fantastic job and we thank you for taking the time to learn with us, thank you =;)

Have a safe and relaxing weekend and I will see you on Monday =;)

Keep up the GREAT work, Grade 2s!

Your teacher,

Mr. Engel

LA - 5 Senses and describing our Nouns (Walking Stories):

Math - working with number lines, skip counting, even/odd numbers, etc.:

Orange Shirt Day: 

Teacher's Pet - Acadia (Social Studies in-school field Trip) AND Thank You to our two wonderful parent volunteers: