Jitter Juice

No matter how old you are, and whether you are the teacher or the student, everyone always gets those first day jitters!!!! So today we read a book called "First Day Jitters" and talked about what we felt nervous about today! Then we had "jitter juice"!!!! The kids loved it and it totally got rid of all of our jitters!!!! It was like magic - and delicious too!!

Can't wait for another day with all of you tomorrow! :)

Mrs. Murray

Happy Summer

Wow can you believe it? Summer vacation is here and we had an absolute blast in Grade 2! Thank you to the kids and parents for the support and all of your hard work this year! Thank you for the wonderful presents you are so thoughtful! 

Have a safe and fun-filled summer and I look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces in the hallways next year!

Mrs. Murray

Math in the Sun

Can you believe it is June already? We have a busy month coming up! Just a few reminders:

Please send back African Lion Safari trip form and money ASAP!!

Also send back the trip form for Linden Park as well!! 

Here's a picture from our math lesson today! It was way too nice to do our work inside!!!! 

Mrs. Murray 

Koda our Hero

Yesterday we had a K-9 Officer and Koda the police dog - our community heroes teaching us all about how they keep our community safe! We had a blast with them and learned a lot! Check out how handsome Koda is!!!!

It's the Matter of Fact

Check out our new science door!!!! Our Grade 2's are really getting good at our solids, liquids and gases unit!

Dinner Talk: Ask your child today about our experiment with ketchup, syrup, mustard and a few other mystery liquids! 

Here is a link to a few science games you can play online! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/science_8_9.shtml

Abstract Artists

Today we were lucky enough to have a professional artist come into our classroom and teach us some really great things! We then got to make our own masterpieces!!!! They look fantastic!! 

Mrs. Murray

3-D

Wow, I was super impressed with the 3-D shapes my Grade 2's made! Don't forget our key terms: Edge, Vertices, Base, Face! 

Have a great weekend and Happy Mothers Day! :) 

Mrs. Murray 

Liquids and solids and gases oh my!!!!

Today we did a science experiment and examined different states of matter! We described how the solids looked and how they felt! I see some potential scientists in here!!!! Ps. The best kind of experiments involve chocolate, don't you think? :)

Duck or Rabbit?

Ask your parents their point of view.

Is it a duck or a rabbit?

Have fun!

Mrs. Murray

Prodigy

Here is what you all have been waiting for!

Have fun with this amazing math game!

Prodigy:

https://www.smarteacher.ca/

Happy Earth Day

Thank you to my wonderful grade 2's for doing your part and helping save our Earth!! We spent time today picking up garbage and recycling- one of the many ways we brainstormed today about how we can help the Earth! We also worked with the lights off to save energy!

Here is a sample of our Lorax art we did today! Remember: "unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

We Care for Icecream!

We have finally earned our Icecream party that we have been working towards for a long time!! Tomorrow we will be having our peanut free icecream sundae party! Wahoo!! And yes you can bring your "stuffies" along for the celebration!!

Congrats on a well deserved party!!

Mrs. Murray

What I Am

We have been talking about being true to ourselves, and loving us for who we are! To help us we have been singing along to Will.I.Am and his Sesame Street crew!! The kids love singing along to it and it has a great message! Sing along with your family at home (the link is below) and the words will be in your B.E.A.R books on Friday!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVzjoj96vs

Mrs. Murray

Curling

Today we were taught all about the sport of Curling! We even tried it ourselves! I must say we might have some professional "curlers" out there!!!! Hope you kiddies had fun!!!

Spring

We are finally starting to feel some spring weather! It is about time! We discussed what spring looks like and what types of things we see! Someone mentioned that we see the snow melt, so we decided to make "Spring Snowmen" to celebrate the warm weather!

Happy Tuesday!

Mrs. Murray

Maps

We've been busy learning all about maps! Directions, legends, continents, countries, the equator, the hemispheres, the poles, and lots more! We've been having a contest who can complete the puzzle map the fastest! There has been huge
competition! So far Blerta is in the lead!

Happy Weekend!

Ps. We have stared time in math, please make an extra effort to look at the clock and tell time with your child!

Symmetry

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! I sure did!

We learned about Symmetry today! Here is a fun game you can try at home!

http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/wallovers.htm

Have fun!

Mrs. Murray

Happy Easter

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend with their family and friends! Thank you to Zak for taking care of Lightening for us! I hope he doesn't stay up too late partying ..haha!!

Take a look at our stained glass artwork we did for Easter!

Dinner talk: Ask your child to show you their Holey Cow Fractions Are Fun booklet! It sure was fun!

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a great March Break! This week we have been busy inferring! We are using our schemas and making great guesses! This wall helps us be the best book detectives we can be!

Have a great weekend and enjoy your B.E.A.R books!

Have fun at the movies tonight!

Ps. Sub money is due on Monday and chocolate bars on Tuesday!

Mrs. Murray

Happy March Break

Thank you to Erin and Laurel for frog-sitting Lightening over the March Break! I told him to be good and not make too much noise!! Hehe

Have a fantastic March Break! You all deserve it so much! You have been working so hard and making me proud every single day!

See you in a week!

Mrs. Murray

Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

We have been inferring up a storm! We just read this book and did a fantastic job inferring why certain animals shouldn't wear clothing. We couldn't stop laughing!

Dinner Talk: Ask your child why shouldn't a snake wear clothing? Or why shouldn't a porcupine? Or a possum? Or a giraffe? Or a chicken?

Have fun!

Mrs. Murray

Here is the book online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seCw76LuGDE

Literacy Bags

Don't forget to bring back your Literacy Bags tomorrow with everything put back neatly! I hope you enjoyed them. I have heard great feedback.

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist....

Weekend talk:

Read the book on youtube "Never Take a Shark to the Dentist" (the link is below), and talk about other things NEVER to do! We had a so much fun making them up in class over the past few days. We are working on inferences, and they have blown me away with their incredible inferring skills! Keep up the great work detectives!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVboJoN-s8 - Never Take a Shark to the Dentist


Don't forget to read your B.E.A.R book and don't forget your SCIENCE PROJECTS are due on MONDAY!!!!

Have a nice weekend! See you on Monday!

Mrs. Murray

Simple Machine Inventions

Don't forget your Science projects are due this Monday, February 25th!

Happy 100th Day

HAPPY 100th DAY GRADE 2's!!!!!!!!!!

We have had a very exciting day today - filled with lots of 100 activities and even some cake to celebrate! The students feel very proud that they have been working hard for 100 days! It is great to see this excitement on their faces! Thank you everyone for completing your 100th day homework! You all did a fantastic job!


Dinner Talk: Today we made a pizza cutter. Explain at dinner what type of simple machine a pizza cutter is!

So proud of you all!! :)

Mrs. Murray

Simple Machines

Here is the link to the Simple Machines activity online that you all loved today!

http://edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/

*Challenge yourself with Compound Machines!

Word Problem Wednesday

Don't forget it is Word Problem Wednesday! Bring in your math homework for a BUGS sticker tomorrow! Solve the addition problem the same way we did in class today. Either use the 100's chart, or show your 10's and 1's.

SCIENCE: If you have a toy car at home - please bring it in for our next science experiment!



Simple Machines

We have been learning all about simple machines in Science!

Here is a game to play online to help you learn the names of "simple machines!"

Have fun!

Ps. Don't forget to "raise the roof" for Twitch! :)

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Murray

http://www.msichicago.org/fileadmin/Activities/Games/simple_machines/

Welcome Back

Welcome back everyone! I hope everyone had a great two weeks off and got to enjoy spending lots of time with your family and friends! I sure did!


Just a few reminders:

Next Wednesday we will be starting "Word Problem Wednesday"! Your child will have a math word problem to complete at home using pictures, numbers and words! Bring it back on Thursday and get a BUGS sticker!

Also, every morning I have my students do a simple activity during announcements and the first 15 minutes of settling in, attendance and agendas! I have been noticing some students socializing and not getting started right away! So I have made a new rule! If you do not get finished in that 15 minutes it will be homework! I will send it home with "Homework" in highlighter so you know it needs to be returned! Needless to say, after I told them the rule today I had a lot more handed in! Haha!

Also, I will be sending home some work from Term 1. As we get ready for report cards and Term 2, we will be doing some housekeeping and cleaning up!

Thanks so much!

Mrs. Murray :)