Halloween Happenings

Another busy week here in grade 2!  This Friday, we have a slightly modified schedule with the Halloween activities.  You are welcome to come join us for the afternoon's festivities.

9:00 - 9:30 - Highwood High Theatre Presentation: Monster Soup

10:45 am - Preschool costume parade to our classrooms

12:10 - 12:25 - Lunch

12:25 - 12:45 - Lunch recess

12:45 - 1:00 - Put on costumes (Parents, you are welcome to come in and help with this part!)

1:05 - 1:30 - Costume Parade in the gym

1:40 - 3:00 - Halloween activity centres

3:15 - Dismissal!

Research!

Today was a great day!  We found out more and more about insects and other creatures in our research and we are almost ready to present our information.  Some people are already ready.  We will start presenting tomorrow.  

In gym we played a new game called "Mansions".  

We also wrote in our Math Journals for the first time.  It was all about equal and not equal.  Do you know what that is?  Ask me all about it.  

Fun Day!

Parent-Teacher Conferences are today and tomorrow from 3:30 to 6.

We had a good day today because we did lots of Math.  We got to finish some things and do some new things about equal and not equal.

Today we had lots of fun at gym.  We played What Time is it Mr. Werewolf and Dog and Bunny.

We read to ourselves for 12 minutes during Read to Self!  That's a record!  We also did listening to reading with RazKids.

We started filling our portfolios today too.

Fun in Gym

We had a guest P.E. teacher today. We are working on our Science projects. We had a lot of fun.

Tomorrow and Thursday are Parent-Teacher Conferences.  

We will start our Home Reading Program this week using RazKids.  Our field trip is two weeks from today!

How High River was Made!

Today we got to see Mr. Holmes who was a guest speaker.  He told us about what happened when High River was made.  There were only three buildings in High River when it started in 1886, 129 years ago!  High River was named because of the high trees at the river.  High River has lots of names from its history.

Some people had show and tell today.  

We have to remember to bring our Student-Teacher Journal and our take home folder back to school tomorrow if we forgot it today!

See you at Parent-Teacher Conferences on Wednesday and Thursday.

Whew...Friday!

Today we got to vote like adults do on Monday.  We went to the library and had our name checked off and then we marked our ballots and put them in boxes.  

We also worked on our Science projects to try to find answers to our questions.  Lots of us found some answers, but we also found out that sometimes it's hard to find answers.  Mrs. Leavitt thinks our questions are interesting.

Have a good weekend!

Tomorrow we have to bring our Student-Teacher Journal back.  Hot lunch is tomorrow too!  Yay!

Next week is Parent-Teacher Conferences.  Be sure to sign up!

Lots of us in class love to be on the swings and got to do that today at recess.  We had lots of fun at recess.  In math we got to build houses for a trick question.  In Social Studies we got to act out what it was like in the olden days.

We are working on being proactive which is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.  We are pretty good at it, but still need to do a bit of work.  :)