A lego house

my friend and i made a lego house togther.  we hade to take 2 days to bilde it. it was fun to make it. we were happy to make it for 2 days. we liked to bilde it. we made it at school. 

Spelling lists 1 to 4

Sorry!  We have been a little behind posting our weekly word lists.  So, here are our first 4 lists.  Hopefully the students will be ready to start posting these on a weekly basis...really soon!

Week 1               Week 2             Week 3                Week 4

bad                     pin                     tan                       nap
sad                     win                    fan                       cap
add                     hot                     bet                       men
met                     lot                      set                       hen
wet                     dot                     leg                       fed
jet                      bug                     pig                       kid
are                     hug                     twig                     give
have                  come                   were                    live

Our high frequency (word card) words for the past few weeks are:

the
are
can
am
said
big
run
here
be
I
see
come
look
at
my

These words are sometimes known as "sight words" and are words the students are encourage to practice until they have learned to spell them correctly when they use them in their daily writing activities.

Orange Shirt Day

Orange Shirt Day (September 30th) is a day when we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and learn more about the history of those schools.

We listened to The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad.  


You can watch and hear Phyllis talking about her experiences here Phyllis' story
After listening to the story, the children were asked to do a "retell" of it to show their understanding.  Then each child was asked to think of a word or phrase to put on their orange shirt telling how EVERY CHILD should be made to feel at school.

Come and see the rest of our stories and shirts in the display case by the office and on the bulletin board outside our classroom.

Terry Fox Run

These past 2 weeks we have been talking about Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope - his dream to run across Canada to raise money for Cancer Research.  We talked about what our dreams are.  Here are a few...

Come by our classroom some time to read all our dreams!

On Friday, September 27th, we joined the rest of Waverley School for our annual run!  Everyone tried their best and would have made Terry proud!

A Brand New School Year!

We have been in school for just a little over a week now.  It has been a busy few days as we get back into routines, get to know each others' names and just figure out what Grade Two will be like!!
Some of the things we have done so far are:
-meet new people
-learn where things are in the classroom
-enjoyed stories, songs, exercise breaks
-music and gym time
-writing stories and reviewing math concepts
-learning poems
-making our names with "bubble letters"
-drawing self portraits

Here we are working hard on our self portraits using pastels....

We looked in the mirror to help us with the details of our faces!

We were all so pleased with our finished portraits!