How the weeks are flying by.  So much going on in the days/weeks to come! Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and students will be grouping together in the gym second block for our Ash Wednesday liturgy.  Ash Wednesday coincides with our Reconciliation preparation we began last week.  Despite if your child will be receiving their sacraments this year, everyone will be completing all the preparation tasks as this is also a component of our grade 2 religion program. 
A thank you to all those who have returned their sacraments information form.  For those of you who have yet to return their form, please do as soon as possible.   The church needs these forms in order to prepare for upcoming sacrament dates.  A question that a number of parents have had concerns the enrollment masses the weekend of february 27-28.  You only need to attend one of the three possible mass times.

Last week, students sold their bookmarks as part of our npdl Joy project.  They worked so hard on their creations and as a result, the demand from St. Anne students was high.  As a grade 2 whole, students raised over $600!!!  We are so proud of our students!  Stay tuned to hear how students have decided to spread 'Joy' with their fundraised money. 

In Math, students are wrapping up their patterning unit and will begin exploring two digit addition and subtraction.  Although the standard algorithm will be used, students will also be encouraged to explore other ways to use mental math strategies to complete the same task (ie. using friendly numbers, open number lines...).
In language, we will be starting our unit on procedural writing.
In science, students continue to explore air and water in the environment.  Ask your child about our bean experiment that we will be starting on Thursday.

A reminder to please bring in a shoe box or empty kleenex box for our valentine's craft.

For those of you who are interested in giving out Valentine cards, here is a list of students in our class...
Sebastian                      Zachery
Ry-Ann                         Toby
Olivia                            London
Raeghan                        Jordan
Kieran                           Benjamin
Mikayla                         Maxim
Sophie                           Victoria
Heidi                              Michael M.
Ingrid                             Noah
Brianna                          Michael P.
Melissa