Love Laugh Teach in Grade 2

Happy Winter break 2nd grade crew families. Wishing you all a wonderful Winter holiday, and happy new year ahead for 2025!  The Winter Concert was amazing and the students did so well!!! I am very proud of them all for their efforts during the concert, huge thank you to Mrs. Harris. December has been a very busy month for our Grade 2's. Some of our highlights were the hands on scientific methods experiments our classroom Elf Jingle Bells Fluffy Mittens has brought to the students daily throughout the month of December. Our learning intentions in Science were: Scientific method skills. I can ask questions and make predictions about science experiments the elf brings. I can follow steps to conduct and experiment and record what I observe. I can share what I learned from the experiment with my classmates. I can record my observations by writing, drawing, or using charts. I can compare my results to my prediction to see if I was correct. Light and Sound I can explain how light helps us...

Happy Sunday 2nd grade crew families, I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend together! We had a beautiful walking field trip to Fish Creek park on Friday and got to experience seeing Fish Creek park through a Winter lens this time, it was a gorgeous day. Here are some of the highlights that we have been working on in literacy over the last couple of weeks in class. ELA learning intentions: I can create written messages that align with a variety of purposes and audiences by: focusing and liming the number of details in a sentence organizing sentences in a logical sequence editing written work for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar incorporating images to enhance messages Students wrote about Winter. Students were given the choice to write a fiction story or a non-fiction story. During this process students were introduced to a graphic organizer called an idea web, this tool was used to help brainstorm or plan out their ideas first. Then students were given the oppor...