TWAS April 27

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying the amazing weather!! I'm sorry to report that with clubs, assembly and finishing up tasks we completely ran out of time for quotes.  The children all did write and bring home their TWAS letters.

The weather was so beautiful that we were able to enjoy much of our math outside this week.  We rotated through stations, addition and subtraction regrouping with chalk on the compound; graphing the compound geometric shapes, chalk drawings of geometric shapes and building structures with 3D objects.  The children also independently completed the following 2 math problems (all grade 2's completed the same problems and 73 did very well):

Our class had 27 pencils and then Mr. Scout gave us 18 more. 

How many pencils do we have now?

I have 24 marbles. Some are blue, some are red, some are white. There are two more blue marbles than white. What combinations of marbles could I have?


 Science:  we finished up our liquids unit with Jeopardy — so fun!!  The teams worked together so beautifully.  We also started our new unit "Mr. Potatoe Head" unit on senses. 

 Language Arts:  We've begun our persuasive writing work arguing which medium best tells the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story: the novel or the movie. 

 Art:  We've begun a new perspective water colour, multi-media perspective piece. As luck would have it, the focus of the piece, butterflies, is perfect because we just found out that we will be enjoying the life cycle of the butterfly in our class . . . I'll let your children explain.

 We also worked on "sensing spring" with our little buddies, and continued with skipping in gym. 

 I think that that covers most of the basics.  

 Sewing club for the rest of the grade 2's (that includes 73) begins Monday!

 I'll leave you with Ms. Thomas's weekly message and wish you all the best over the weekend.
Genre of the Week

This week we will be exploring the genre and cultural phenomenon of Hip Hop. We will be taking a look at the five cornerstones of the Hip Hop movement: MCs, DJs, Break Dancing, Graffiti Art, and Knowledge. 


Mrs. McArthur



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