It was wonderful to see many of you during our Welcome Back BBQ.  I hope everyone enjoyed their tour of our classroom.  Were you able to guess where your child sat?  From what I could tell, alot of students were so excited to show you their hard work that limited guessing was needed.  If you did not get the magnet that was placed on your child's desk, please send a note in the agenda.  We hope that placing this on your fridge will help you to keep track of all of the ways we will be recording our learning journey this year. 
This week we focused on continuing to establish classroom rules and routines.  Please encourage your child to use our class generated anchor charts to make good choices in the classroom.  In math, we explored different ways to conduct a survey without using a paper and pencil.  We learnt that when conducting a survey, we are not looking for a winner but rather which choice received the most responses.  In language, we completed two pieces of baseline assessment so I could see what skills students have coming into grade 2. 
Every week in science, our class will be joined by Mrs.St.Louis's grade 2s.  This week we watched an introductory Science Max video on Simple Machines.  In groups we discussed what we thought we knew about our upcoming focus.  We tracked this understanding on sheets of paper and will continuously refer back to them as we make our way through the unit.
Students were excited to get to the gym this week.  Our gym time is shared with Mrs. Walker's grade 2's.  We discussed safety rules and played some cooperative games.  Next week we are very lucky to have jungle sport in our gym. Talk a look at the following link to learn more about this exciting opportunity that our students will get to enjoy. http://www.junglesport.ca/  Please remember to sign and return the consent form on Monday.