Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to all the grade 2 families! We have had a great first half of the year and I look forward to the adventures ahead in the New Year. I sent this video link to your email but some kids hadn't seen it so here it is again. I would love for you to make one of your own and send it back to me!
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/1nxOPW3f0K63IzPJhPBI

Thank You Grade 2!

As many of you know, I am getting married on Friday! Today is my last day this week as I will be away Thursday and Friday for the wedding. Today my fabulous class brought me a gorgeous bouquet of flowers. THANK YOU! I can't wait for my wedding and to show you all how it went!
~Leslie :)

Gingerbread Man Hunt!

Today we had a gingerbread hunt! The gingerbread man in one of our stories ran right out of the book and left clues for us to find him. When we found him he was with his brothers in a container full of cookies! Each of us got to decorate a cookie and then we made a tally of where each child took their first bite. It was really fun.



This Week at School

We were very busy today with Daily 5, portfolios, snowflakes, music and buddy reading so we are doing TWAS together on the blog. We will also have a copy of this in our duotang so you can write back.

This week at school we got two more postcards. One was from Mrs. Claydon and one was from Brooke's Mom. Mrs. Claydon's was from Edmonton and Brooke's Mom's was from San Diego. We put a sticker up on the map where the postcards came from.

This week at school we started a Christmas Orange Tally. We put a tally for every orange we eat in December. So far we have 41 since Wednesday. Please count your Christmas oranges over the weekend and mark them in your agenda.

This week at school we made snowflakes out of pattern blocks. We put it on a paper. Miss Dent took a picture of it. We made our own and none of the snowflakes were the same. No snowflakes are the same and all snowflakes have six sides except a few have three.

From,
Miss Dent's Class :)

The Colours of Snow

Recently we did an art activity using bleeding tissue paper and snow. We think the results are awesome! You can see the artwork in the display case at our school and in the slideshow below.
~Miss Dent :)

Oobleck!

Today we did a Science experiment to test if a mysterious material was a solid or a liquid. Many of the kids wanted to show you at home so here is the recipe. I have also uploaded the pages we used today to my teacher site in case you want to do the tests. Have a great long weekend!

Oobleck
2 cups Cornstarch
1 cup water
Some drops of food colouring
Stir and test!

~Miss Dent :)

This Week at School

This week at school we got our frisbees from the recycled plastic bags. The frisbees are different colours. There are a lot of frisbees. We delivered them to each class. We went in pairs to deliver them.

This week at school we are doing an experiment today. We do not know what it is yet because we didn't do it yet. We know the topic is solids and liquids and gases. We think we will use some solids, liquids and gases.

This week at school it was Carter Y's birthday. He is turning 7 tomorrow but we don't have school tomorrow. We celebrated today.

~Miss Dent's Class :

Once it was a Plastic Bag

You have heard about our plastic bag project, we collected over 4800 plastic bags from our community and sent them in to be recycled. This week we got our bags back but... now they are frisbees! We have enough to give one to each classroom for recess equipment, 14 to the gym for Phys Ed classes to use and one for each of us to keep! Check them out.

This Week at School

This week at school we made plastecine poppies. We smeared plastecine to cover the paper. We drew a hole in the middle so we knew where not to put the red and where to put the black.

This week at school the big plastic garbage bags got picked up. There were two guys who picked them up. Miss Dent video taped them walking out the door.

This week at school we started Daily 5. We learned Read to Self and Read to Someone. Daily 5 is about reading and writing. When we read to someone we sit EEKK. EEKK means elbow to elbow, knee to knee.

~ Miss Dent's Class :)

This Scary Week at School

We ran out of time to write in our TWAS books today so we are posting as a whole group.

This week at school we counted a lot more bags. We had 1200 bags, now we have 4800 bags! We have 9 garbage bags full of plastic bags. Some kids from Mr. Lysack's class came to help us.

We started reading buddies this week. Our buddies are from Mr. Lysack's class. They read their reports to us.

This week at school we had a Halloween party and a parade. We got LOTS of treats! We carved pumpkins, counted seeds, tested the pumpkins to see if they float and did other experiments. We also had to clean the pumpkin out.

We also had a lockdown practice this week. We did great!

~Miss Dent's Class :)

This Week at School

This week at school we had an assembly. 6 kids from our class came up to talk about the Plastic Bag Round-up we are doing. Ms. Wasney's class did a song. The assembly was in the afternoon. Some parents were there. There was a video about UNICEF and a video about Plastic Bag Round-up in the assembly.

This week at school we collected more bags. We counted 1200 bags last week. So far we have lots of plastic bags. We are keeping a tally of the bags. We did not count more bags today, we will count them next week. We think we might have 1200 more that we haven't counted.

This week at school 2 kids lost teeth. It is kinda cool that they lost their teeth. They both just lost them today. One kid lost it outside and one kid lost it in Music. In grade 2, LOTS of kids lose their teeth. When they start losing their teeth it means they are growing up. 11 kids have loose teeth right now!

~Miss Dent's Class :)

David Art

On Friday we did an art project to create portraits of David, the character from "No David". We read the David books at the beginning of the year and also wrote our own book called "David Goes to Bird's Hill". Check out this video of our work!

This Week at School

This week at school we counted plastic bags. We made groups of ten and kept a tally. When we were done we learned to count by 50's. So far we have 1200 bags!
This week at school we learned a new math game for our Box Cars book. It is called Fill 'Er Up. We practice adding and subtracting when we play.
This week at school we started researching careers. We thought of all the jobs we know and asked Mrs Rutherford for books. We chose the career we want to learn more about.
-Miss Dent's Class :)

Our First Time Posting to Blogging Buddies!

Dear Sofia, Jessica, Amy & Mrs Malkose's Class,
Thank you for posting a message to us. Lots of the girls have Zhu Zhu Pets here. We had to explain what Zhu Zhu Pets were to Miss Dent, she had no idea what they were! At recess we play Star Wars, we go on the swings, we do gymnastics, we go on the spider web, we go on the monkey bars, we slide down the slide, we play house, we hang upside down, we run in the field, we play chase, we play army and we draw and write. There are 21 kids in our class. 15 kids in our class like school. 3 kids say they don't like school (but Miss Dent thinks they are joking). 3 kids are not here today because 1 is sick, 1 is in Mexico and 1 is in Florida! We think the kids who are away like school. Yes, we go to the computer lab on Day 6. In the computer lab we went on Miss Dent's Wiki www.missdentsclass.wikispaces.com to try Build Your Wild Self. We went on Word 2007 and learned to type, change font, save and print. We put fall words on Wordle to make a word splash.
What do you do in the computer lab? Do you have to do calendar in the morning? Do you have a class pet? How many recesses do you get? Do you have jobs? Do you have Home Reading? Do you have spelling? Do you have Writer's Workshop? Do you have to sell chocolates?
Sincerely,
Miss Dent's Class :)

This Week at School

Unfortunately, for now, students will not be able to do the posting on our blog. As soon as, and if, this is cleared up with the School Division we will start back up with student posts. For now, I will colaborate with a student and I will make the post. Thanks for understanding, I will keep you 'posted' on this (haha).

This week at school we had a fire drill. We were in gym. We were going to start to play a game. We had our first day of hot lunch. I had a cheeseburger and a slushy. We have a new October poem! We learn how to spell October.
Brooke & Miss Dent :)