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):
