Happy Sunday evening 2nd grade crew families,

I hope you have all enjoyed this beautiful hot weather we had this week. The students have loved having extra learning time outside this week.














Some of our learning intentions for our week were in ELAL. 

Students started working on comic strip writing this week.  Our learning intentions for that were:

  • I can think of a fun or interesting idea for my comic story.
  • I can plan the beginning, middle, and end of my comic.
  • I can decide what happens in each panel.
  • I can write speech bubbles and captions that match what's happening in the pictures.
  • I can use exciting of funny words to make my comic interesting.
  • I can add sound words like "BOOM" or "SPLASH" to make it interesting.
  • I can draw pictures that help tell my story.
  • I can use facial expression and actions in my drawings.
  • I can use capital letters and punctuation in my writing.
  • I can share my comic with a friend.








Another exciting thing we took part in this week was a LitCon session with Peter Brown our favourite author of The Wild Robot series. In our grade 2 classroom we have read both books and are half way through the 3rd series. Our learning intentions for this ELAL activity were:


















  • I can listen to and read stories by Peter Brown.
  • I can notice the characters, setting, and what happens in the story. 
  • I can write or draw about what I liked in The Wild Robot.
  • I can write or draw my own story about robots, animals, or the forest.
  • I can make connections between the story and my own experiences.
  • I can share how Roz the robot and the animals work together.
  • I can think about how the story shows caring for the land and nature.
  • I can ask questions about the story and about Peter Brown's ideas.
  • I can listen to others and share my own thoughts about the book.
  • I can join in discussions about how stories help us learn about the world.















"I thought it was interesting to see the real guy who made all the wild robot books, I thought it was amazing." Isabelle

"I thought it was interesting that he showed us the WHOLE stage of how created the wild robot books from the start." Norah

"It is so crazy to find out he wrote all my favourite books like Creepy Carrots and the Creepy Crayons series too I had no idea." Ayesha

"I wonder why the Wild robot series all stared with a robot in the tree." Nathan

"I like how he made a picture books about the wild robot that is coming soon called The robot on the island for kids that cant read chapter books yet like us." Walker

"I wonder how his book career all stared ?."Frederick

"I liked that Peter Brown used his IMAGINATION to make all of his stories come to life." Liesel

"I liked how he told us that he studied first all about robots and nature before he was able to make the wild robot books." Halle

"I like that there is a movie made about the wild robot (there was parts of the movie he liked how they did it and parts he did not). "Jill

We also took our learning outside this week! The students absolutely loved being in our learning grounds.

"I liked that it was so quiet in nature and we could read with out anyone else talking." Chris

"I loved being able to sit on those big rocks in the learning grounds." Isabelle

"I liked listening to the birds while I was reading outside and the sun on my face." Lucy

"I heard the birds chirping, wind blowing it was such a hot day and I loved having our classroom outside." Walker


Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday evening friends, see you Monday morning!

Ms. Craik




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Good evening families, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Just a reminder that our in class talent show will be this coming Monday in the afternoon. We were super excited to have seen the mural finally come to LIFE in our gymnasium. We know that there was a lot of work that went into this masterpiece with Justin and Mrs. Scarrow (and the teacher committee), we also appreciated that ALL students voices at Andrew Sibbald had an opportunity to contribute to this.  "I am happy he recognized that Justin added the parts we wanted to see in it." Norah "I liked that he added holding hands with each other, and the different colours because we all have different skins." Jill "I liked that he added the book, because we are good learners here at Andrew Sibbald School." Liesel We had a great week together full of some wonderful learning in our classroom. One of our highlights this week was in math, our learning intentions for Data Analysis and Graphing were: I can...
Read more
Image
Good evening families I hope this weekend has been wonderful for you all. Wishing all the Mom's a very happy Mother's day, I hope you found some time this weekend to enjoy some time for you! Thank you again to all the volunteers who were able to join us this week at the Zoo. The students had an amazing day! Our highlights for our week together was our field trip. Our learning intentions for this were: ELAL I can create written messages that align with an intended audience or purpose I can organize sentences in a logical sequence to create written messages I can collect ideas that are inspired by a variety of experiences I can apply creative thinking to create representation of messages I can include adjectives and adverbs to add interest and detail to writing I can use organizational tools to record or categorize information Science I can discuss ways to respect plants and animals while interacting in various environments.  I can explain positive and negative impacts of human b...
Read more
Image
Happy Sunday families, I hope you all have had a lovely weekend. What an exciting week we had together! We kept ourselves very busy during multiple blue days, and were VERY excited to have our guest visitor Mr. Jeff Stockton join us at Andrew Sibbald this week. Our learning intentions for Mr. Stockton's story telling session for the week were: English Language Arts (ELA): Listening and Speaking: I can listen attentively to stories and share my thoughts about them. I can retell a story I heard, including important details and events. I can ask questions about a story to understand it better. Reading and Comprehension: I can identify the main idea and key details in a story. I can describe the characters, setting, and plot of a story. I can make predictions about what might happen next in a story. Writing: I can write my own short story with a clear beginning, middle, and end. I can use descriptive words to make my writing more interesting. I can revise my story to add more details o...
Read more