Pink Shirt Day

We can all do our part to stop bullying.

Everyone is welcome to join into our games.

The Pink Shirt Day Story...watch it here

Spelling List 22

Here are our new words for the week...


or
more
store
horse
forget
forgot
even
ever
never
every
dear
year


practice spelling words

UBC Readig Week

Reading week is traditionally a week where university students across the country have the week off to catch up with school work, prepare for exams or just have a mid-term break.  But many students take this opportunity to connect with their community by volunteering for various projects and activities!  For the past 3 days our class, along with 9 other classes at Waverley, participated in a variety of multicultural activities led by an enthusiastic group of 40+ young volunteers from UBC!    We were so fortunate to have them join us to share some of their stories and cultures with us.

Here are just a few of the activities...

Learning songs in Mandarin!

Listening to stories and drawing about them.

Tasting foods like dragon fruit...

and mochi

We looked on the map to see where some of these foods are from.

We had a mystery bag with various fruits and vegetable in them.  "Can you tell what it is?"

We tried calligraphy.

We learned a bit about India and henna painting.  Then we made designs on our own "hands".

We did origami - here is a rat!

We learned about the Filipino star.

And we learned some board games  which originated from different countries...

This is a version of Chinese checkers.  The leaders told us that this game originated in Germany! 

This is a version of "connect four".  Our leaders said this is a game that came from America. 

Ludo is a game from India

This is snakes and ladders.  It too came to us from India.

We also made and played a Korean game called Ddakji and we smelled and tasted tea from around the world!

After each activity we took some time to reflect and write about what we did.  Then at the end of the 3 days, we had an assembly to celebrate our learning!  It was a great week for all.

Thank you to all our UBC volunteers!

Spelling List 21

Spelling test not until next Friday.




candy
sandy
today
tonight
dish
fish
miss
sister
winter
other
brother
beside

Happy 100 Day AND Valentines Day!!!

Our 100th day of Grade Two landed on February13th!  And, as there was a professional day on Valentines Day this year, we combined these 2 days with a GRAND celebration - a celebration of kindness, and friendship, AND a celebration of 100 days of LEARNING!

Our valentine bags were overflowing with lovely messages and goodies from our friends!  It was heartwarming hearing the students go around thanking each other for their cards. 

And the FOOD!    
We enjoyed sharing the treats everyone brought to share!  We started off with some fruits and vegetables!  These were devoured so quickly!

So much to choose from!  "What will I try??"

We also played some games!  This one was "Pass the Hearts".  First we used our spoons to transfer the heart from person to person. 

Each heart was worth 10 points.  We needed 10 hearts to win!!

On the 2nd round, we made the game a little more challenging!  We had to put the spoon in our mouth and transfer the heart from spoon to spoon!!  THAT was NOT easy!!  But we did it!  WHAT FUN!

Thank you everyone for your generosity and for making this day special for all of us!

Heritage Projects

For the past month we have been working hard learning about our heritage...where are we from?  Our parents helped us with our homework! The gave us the first bits of information we needed -our countries of origin; our language; interesting facts about our countries; and some traditional foods!

From there we went to the library, and with the help of Ms. Nijjar, we did some research using books and the computers.  We learned about note-taking and citing sources.  We learned about taking the information we read and summarizing it in our OWN words.  

When we had all the information we needed, we went through the writing process - planning, drafting, revising, editing, and finally publishing!  

Last week, we were finally ready to share our work with our classmates.  In small groups each of us had the chance to teach our friends a little bit about our heritage!  This was such a powerful and proud moment!  Well done everyone!

A Map of My Heart

What are things that are important to you?  What do you love?  What is in your heart?  This activity gave us a chance to share with each other what is "important to each of us".

We took time to look at one another's hearts.

We listened carefully as each of us shared.

Next we decorated our hearts

If you have a bit of time, come and read what is in each of our hearts!

ADST Challenge - Force and Motion

Our latest ADST challenge was to work in teams to design and build a game that incorporated a push and a pull in it!  We had just finished talking about forces and motion and this was a great way to show our learning!  After breaking off into groups, the teams discussed "design" options and made a list of materials they needed. Then, it was the "build" stage!

It was great listening to everyone give their suggestions as to what they should do!

The teams worked well together!

We tested and retested our games and made adjustments.

We learned to divide up jobs.

More testing!

And finally...time was up!    Here are our inventions...

There were balls and ramps!

Board games with things that you had to push and pull!

Board game with spinners and swings!

Catapults and balls!

Our own version of "pac man"!

And "knock-them-down" games with sling shots!

Some inventions were more successful than others.  But in the end what was more important was the process we went through.  We learned some valuable lessons in planning, designing, testing, team work and cooperation!  We are now ready for the next ADST challenge!  What will it be???