Last week the students created “painted paper” while exploring ways to blend red and yellow with orange, and also added white to create lighter tints of orange. Stay tuned to see the beautiful artwork they created with this “painted paper”!

Our beautiful pumpkin patch! Because of the painted paper, everyone’s pumpkins look a little different.

Happy Halloween!

Reading with our witchy fingers! 🧙‍♀️

The grade 1 and 2 classes worked hard and did a wonderful job with our Remembrance Day ceremony today!

Our poppy art - exploring foreground, background and using a horizon line.

We’ve been working on patterns in math - exploring repeating, growing and shrinking patterns. We even made patterns in a phys ed game!

Looking at the life cycle stages of different animals and putting them in order!

Everyone loves buddy reading!

It’s always such a fun surprise when Mr. P and his helpers set up some amazing obstacles for the classes in the gym!

We began our measurement unit this week by measuring using different non-standard units (ex: cubes, paper clips, toothpicks).

Moving on from non-standard to standard units of measurement: the class had so much fun using benchmarks to search for items around the school measuring about 1 centimetre or 1 metre!

The students are so happy the snow has arrived: it’s fort-building time!

Last week we combined measurement with technology, as we drew lines with specific lengths for the Ozobots to travel along. Then the students were able to use coloured dots to add a code along the path!

The students added white and black paint to their blue base to create tints and shades in their beautiful nativity art.

It was so lovely to have family members join us this week for our Christmas craft and song!

We’ve learned many ways to sort, collect and display data by rolling dice and counting Christmas items. This week we spun spinners to see what colour of Christmas ornaments we should use to “deck the halls”, displayed the data in bar graphs and answered questions about our data!

The students had some interesting ideas about what they think I might like for Christmas this year! 😁

We had an awesome first day in Grade 2 today!

Everyone was so excited for our Terry Fox Run today!