Our apple picking adventure was so much fun! The children enjoyed learning about the life cycle of an apple tree. Our morning was divided in three parts: apple picking, education on the life cycle of an apple tree and a wagon ride around the orchard. Here are a few pictures from our morning:

We will continue our learning journey this coming week… Reading, writing, numeracy, organized talking (group work) and a few surprises are planned. Thank you so very much for making our children read at home every day. I am seeing some very positive results. Furthermore, you will find a duotang with words- this is only for the children to read. Please try to incorporate the reading of the words with the small book reading. You may help my by placing a small check mark next to the words our children are able to read automatically – these are high frequency words in French that we don’t decode. Don’t forget that homework is only 10 minutes.

Have a loving week and enjoy this great weather!

Talk soon 🙂

Monsieur Terry

We started our Writing Workshop and our children are doing really well. We are writing! It is all about sharing our thinking with others in class. It is so exciting to see them talking about how words are spelled, if their story is missing something…

This coming week is full and really busy… On Wednesday, we are heading to Arlington Apple Orchard. Every one needs to wear RUBBER BOOTS! It is a request by the owner. The area may be very wet in the morning therefore we don’t want the children to have wet feet. Furthermore, you will get a letter on Monday asking for money to pay for this… I am covering the cost for our field trip therefore you don’t need to send any money.

On Thursday, we will have our Terry Fox Assembly to kick off our afternoon walk. Our school has set a $500 goal. We are hoping the reach it. Please consider sending in $1 or more to help us out.

Here we are preparing our Birthday book for one of our classmate.

As you know, this Friday is a PD therefore the children don’t have any school.

Have a great weekend and talk soon 🙂

Monsieur Terry

You can actually see the engagement and concentration of the children working on their wonderful creation… They were task to create a new zoo with all the necessary details. This is/was the first group work – we are learning some very important social skills like cooperating, negociation and sharing. It goes without saying that working with a partner is not always an easy task.

This week, we are going to start writing our first story. We are reading daily and starting on Monday our children will be doing their book exchange – please check to schedule on our blog. Furthermore, here are a few important dates and events:

Sept 16th (Monday)

• Breakfast programs starts, hot lunches and milk program (.50 for white and .75 for chocolate milk). I will show our children how to order their milk daily. Please keep in mind that you need to order the hot lunches on line before midnight Sunday. If you are paying cash, please tell your child to bring the money to the office as soon as they get to school.

• Bus evacuation today

Sept. 17th (Tuesday):

• lock down practice

Sept. 20th (Friday):

• School Picture Day
• School Dance for K-3 after school. This is a fundraiser for our playground. The cost is $5. Please send in money before Friday if your child will be going. I will e-mail more information once I get it.

Please continue reading daily. It is the most important learning in their schooling at this point.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the warm weather! 🙂

This coming Sunday is also Open Farm Day

Monsieur Terry

Working hard on writing and drawing pictures for their first entry in their learning book.

We had 2 great days… I am able to see a lot of great learning happening in our class. I do need your help with one very important issue. Most of the children are not speaking in French. Please encourage them daily on the importance of speaking in French all the time in class. It is mandatory in grade 2 to speak the language. They have it! It is there… They need that little daily encouragement to go for it.

We will be starting our homework routine next week… It is all about reading. Our children should read for 10 minutes every night. Please set them up to read daily. It is the most valuable learning they can do. You don’t need to understand what they are saying to know if it sounds right. Please get them to talk about their reading. What is happening in the book? Who is the most important character? If they liked or didn`t like the book and why?You will also find all of the happening events at school on the homework sheet. I want you to be aware of what is happening at school. Please sign the homework sheet. That is one way of me knowing that our children have read. Thank you for your support and you will see the academic growth happening.

Enjoy your weekend and stay safe!

Talk soon and hoping to see you on Sept. 11th@ 6 PM for our meet the Teacher night.

Monsieur Terry 🙂

Good evening all and welcome to our 2B classroom blog!

You will find everything you need to follow our children’s learning and daily activities. I will be posting weekly our new homework sheet, some pictures taken in class/outside of our children at work or play… I do encourage you all to become a follower.

Talk soon
Monsieur Terry 🙂