Letter to Ava

Here is a copy of the letter that we wrote to Ava.  She is a 9 year old girl who lost her home due to an explosion that occurred on Apple Lane.  


October 13,

Dear Ava,

We are so sorry for what happened to your house.  We understand that you must feel sad so we are giving you a gift card to Toys R Us. J We wanted you to be able to pick out anything you wanted to buy for yourself.  Maybe you will get to have a new home soon.

From Team 25 at Strathmillan School

The Big Taste-Test

The most exciting thing we did at school this week was a "taste-test" experiment for Science.  We were examining the properties of various liquids with our eyes and tongues!  There were 6 mystery liquids for students to taste with popsicle sticks.  They later discovered that these were syrup, Coke, pizza sauce, Five-Alive, chocolate sauce and honey.  The expressions on their faces were priceless when they tasted the honey!  Everyone watched as I also poured each mystery liquid into a cup so we could evaluate it's "viscosity"…..new word!

We examined maps and learned about legends and compass roses in S.S./Workshop.  Then we designed maps for Scaredy Squirrel to find his way to a new BFF.  It was lots of fun!

Everyone got to show off their artist talents by painting fall trees.  The art work turned out beautifully and we didn't even make too much of a mess!  Way to go guys.

The Terry Fox Run

We have 2 weeks of grade 2 behind us.  This week we wrote about being "Master Team Builders".  Each student described what they do to make our team run smoothly such as, showing good listening, sitting "ten, fold and hold", having "fish lips" (ask your kids about this!), cooperating, etc.  We also started our Scaredy Squirrel Community Study.  Scaredy Squirrel is quite a worry-wart and has a lot of fears about leaving the comfort of his nut tree.

During math this week we did an activity called "Spill the Beads".  It helped to teach us how to count in a more efficient way using a ten frame.  On Thursday, we figured out place value number puzzles and then got to make some puzzles of our very own.

We started watching a video on Solids, Liquids and Gases during Science but we haven't finished it yet.  We are looking forward to all the upcoming experiments related to matter!

It is also important to mention that we had library on Tuesday and that our books are due back to school on Wed., Sept. 24th, day 5.

It was another great week at school!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Shabaga

The First Week of School

This week at school we made Lego Avatars.  We liked designing our own faces.  We also wrote about our Avatars.  As a class we made a chart of our Classroom Beliefs.  Something funny we did for a body break was dancing to videos because we had been working so hard.  Taylor T. said she liked the "Gummy Bear" song.  Ethan, Ryan and Declan said they liked the "Kung Foo Fighting" song.  Max pointed out that we got a cheat sheet for our new French unit.  During art class we made placemats with our GIANT names on them. We poked balloons for science class.  One had water in it, one had ice and the other had air in it.  We screamed when the water went everywhere!  Some splashed in Jai's face!  This was our introduction to Solids, Liquids and Gases. Throughout the week we did photo shoots where we dressed in a hard hat and a big construction vest because we are working on a Lego movie theme. This week was an awesome week!

From,
Team 25

GRADE 2!

We've discovered that in Grade 2……"Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of Team 25"!  We can't wait to share all of our learning experiences with you this year!

Farewell Grade 3s!

I was hoping to post our Year End Video on our blog but I've been having problems with my YouTube account.  Once the problem is resolved, the link to our 2013-2014 video will appear on this post.  Good bye grade 3s!  I will miss you.  Good luck in grade 4 and don't forget to come visit!