Picture Day

We had very nice smiles on our faces when we went to get our pictures taken. The background on the pictures was the same as last year. Tomorrow we will have our Terry Fox Run. On Friday, we are supposed to have our first snowfall. We learned more about Rocks and Minerals and how they erode. We watched some movies about Rocks and Minerals. Magic School Bus was better than Bill Nye. This is not a consensus but majority of students think so.
Homework: Practice adding 2 digit by 1 digit or 2 digit numbers. Challenge yourself.

Open House Night

At open house parents are invited to come see our work. You can come from 4:30 till 6:00. We want to show you our slideshows and art. We hope to see you all here tonight.

Sincerely,

Room 72

Ripping Paper

Today we ripped pieces of water color paper into strips. We used these for a new art project. When reading The One and Only Ivan, we were introduced to a new character named Ruby.  Ruby is a baby elephant that is so small she can stand right under Stella.  Lydia thinks that Ruby is very cute. Emily thinks that Stella is going to be a good mom for Ruby. Dylan thinks that Ivan is a little jealous of Stella because she gets to care for someone. Lucy remembers that Bob really likes Ruby and thinks she is cute. In Math we continued working with numbers by arranging in different patterns. We began looking at meters and it's relationship to number.

Ivan Says... Part 2

Today we had our first spelling test. Some of us have finished our Mandala art. We all went to music. The student we have been waiting for has arrived. Now we are 25. 26 including Mr. Bhachu. Our room is feeling full. Our new student's name is Valentina and she was in Mexico. We worked on a second part of Ivan says after reading The One and Only Ivan. We finally got to go to the learning commons and now we all have books to read. We have one volunteer for next Monday.  Thank you. We still need 3 more volunteers if possible. Now we are writing the blog and we will go home soon. We have 4 minutes of school left. Now it is 3 minutes of school. I guess we can get ready to go home.

Scientists in School

Dear Parents and Guardians,


Grade 2/3 students are looking forward to a visit from Scientists in School. As part of our learning about rocks and minerals, students will become a geologist as they learn about geological forces while making a metamorphic rock to keep.


The cost for this workshop is $7.00. Please return payment no later than Thursday, September 19, 2019. Payment can be made in cash (exact change please) or debit through the office.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher at 403 777 6259 or via email. In accordance with Administrative Regulation 3027, “no eligible student may be denied participation on the basis of the inability to pay.” Please contact the school Principal for information on financial assistance.


The schedule for our classes is as follows:


Monday September 23 AM Bhachu
Monday September 23 PM Boyton
Tuesday September 24 AM Ashacker
Tuesday September 24 PM Baker
Wednesday September 25 AM Sanders
Wednesday September 25 PM Penonzek


Each class will need 5 volunteers to assist with activities.
Please contact your child’s teacher if you are able to volunteer in the classroom or complete the reply slip below and return it to your child’s teacher.



Grade 2/3 Team

Happy Friday

Today was a very busy day. We had lots of work to do. We had a new auction so we have new jobs. Some people got 2 jobs. It was fun and we did a lot of math in our heads. After recess we used computers to finish our Ivan slideshows and to research about rocks. We answered questions on google docs. To finish we reviewed as a class. Have a good weekend. Remember that we need volunteers for the morning of Monday the 23rd.

Auction 2	September 13th	BB 15
Whiteboard Person	Keyn	BB 15
Blind Person	Dylan	BB 1
Attendance Person	Adam	BB 15
Lights Person	Brayden	BB 13
Computer Cart Person	Fallon	BB 7
Handout Person	Emliy	BB  8
Banker 1	Ace	BB 16
Banker 2	Daniel	BB 17
Line Leader	Bilal	BB 15
Auctioneer	Nathan	BB 16
Smart Boarder	Lucy	BB 16
Recycler 1	Keyn	BB 6
Recycler 2	Lydia	BB 16
Phone Attendant	Nora	BB 24
Door Person 1	Benjamin	BB 15
Door Person 2	Aliyan	BB 16
Teacher Assistant	Chloe	BB 20

Ivan Says

We used computers in the morning and afternoon. In math we solved to word problems that required addition to solve. Mr. Bhachu drank tea while helping students with computer log in issues. Remembering new passwords is difficult at first. Everyone was able to send an email to Mr. Bhachu. This was the first email sent in many student's lives. Students can access their email and google programs from home. Students learned how to create a slide show on google slides and used it to start a slide show about a character from the novel we are reading.
For homework: Try logging into gmail from home.

New Student Today

Today we had a new student. We also read a book called I'm new here, which many students connected to. We became better at logging into and out of our classroom computers. All students can now log in and out of school computers as long as they remember their numbers and password. Our new student's name is Brayden. In math we did some tests for Mr. Bhachu to know how well we know addition and place value. We also worked on art from Friday. It was our picture of us saying something. In music we worked on a song that we are doing for Terry Fox.

National Assembly Day

Today we began the day with a Thank You Circle. We said thank you to others in our classroom that did something that we want to recognize. After we worked on completing new portraits of ourselves saying something. Today we had music for the first time. We learned a new song. Next we had an assembly. To end the day we began work on our Auction for next week.

Becoming Buddies

We took pictures of ourselves posing on a rock to say something about the world. We tried to think of body language and what our body might be saying in the pictures we took. After we printed the pictures in black and white and then used coloring pencils to add color to our pictures. The final step was to cut out a speech bubble and write the thing we wanted to say to the world.

We also completed our first auction. In auction we all received BB 10, and then we had to pay Mr. Bhachu BB 1 for our pencils and erasers. So we all had BB 9. We then used our BB to buy classroom jobs. It was fun. We all did lots of math in our heads. Here is the list of our classroom jobs, who bought them and how much they paid.

Auction 1	September 5th/19	BB 10
Whiteboard Person	Daniel	BB 6
Blind Person	Keyn	BB 2
Attendance Person	Benjamin	BB 8
Lights Person	Fallon	BB 1
Computer Cart Person	Lucy	BB 1
Handout Person	Nathan	BB 1
Banker 1	Easton	BB 8
Banker 2	Trevor	BB 8
Line Leader	Aliyan	BB 8
Auctioneer	Tristen	BB 4
Smart Boarder	Olivia	BB 8
Recycler 1	Ace	BB 8
Recycler 2	Kayla	BB 8
Phone Attendant	Bilal	BB 8
Door Person 1	Dylan	BB 1
Door Person 2	Adam	BB 1
Teacher Assistant	Rozerin	BB 8