Animal Projects (Part 2)

Here are the rest of our animal projects! Students have been working so hard on these since October. What a challenging and exciting unit of study it was!

Below the pictures, each student shared what the most interesting thing they learned or their favourite fact about their animal.

Wow - what amazing researchers we have in room 113 and it's a good thing because we need students like these who have such compassion and empathy for animals. We discovered that now more than ever, animals need our advocacy and help to protect their habitats and the environment we share with them. We want these animals to be able to exist in the word for many years to come.

Rou'a studied lions - Les Lions



Sam learned about snakes - Les Serpents
 

Jaida studied frogs - Les Grenouilles
 

Austen studied cheetahs - Les Guépards


Caleb studied wolves - Les Loups


Lynn studied arctic foxes - Les Renards Arctiques

Jasmine studies dolphins - Les Dauphins
 

Renae studied zebras - Les Zèbres
 

Symone learned all about cheetahs - Les Guépards


Trinity studied her favourite animal, elephants - Les Éléphants
 



Favourite new discoveries about the animals we studied....

Sam - I learned that snakes can be venomous.
Renae - I learned that zebras can break a lion bone.
Clara - I learned that wild horses can be trained by people.
Jillian - Pandas are eat ten times a day.
Rou'a - I learned that lions are faster than cheetahs.
Symone - I learned that people used to have cheetahs hunt with them and have them as pets.
Austen - I learned that cheetahs can run 130 kilometers per hour.
Ava - I learned that if you go too close to a narwhals and they squeak or squeal, you can become deaf.
Garrett - I learned that monkeys can jump 20 feet tree to tree.
Olivia - I learned that narwhals can poke you.
Jaida - I learned that frogs have sticky feet.
Owen - I learned that crocodiles have sharp teeth so they can bite their food hard.
Jasmine - Dolphins can also eat a lot of different things other then just squish, fish and octopus. They sometimes even eat other dolphins.
Trinity - I learned that elephant's trunks are 2 meters long.
Mya - I learned that pandas sleep at night for 2 hours.
Ruby - I leaned that deer are calm even with kids around, but are not calm with grown ups around.
Lincoln - I learned that orcas eat sharks.
Lynn - I learned that arctic foxes change colour in the springtime and summer.
Caleb - I learned that wolves are the largest canine in the world.
Abby - (she will share when she's back)











December News

Animals Projects (Part 1)


Congratulations to these students for completing and presenting their animal projects in French.
More to come this week!

Lincoln studied Orca Whales - Les Orques
 
 Olivia learned all about Narwhals - Les Narvals

 

Ava also learned all about Narwhals - Les Narvals
 

Mya studied Pandas - Les Pandas 
 

Clara learned all about horses - Les Chevaux
 

Jillian also studied Pandas - Les Pandas 
 

Owen learned a lot about Crocodiles - Les Crocodiles 
 Garrett had a lot of fun studying Monkeys - Les Singes

 
Abby learned so many interesting facts about Gorillas - Les Gorilles 
 

Ruby learned all about Deers - Les Cerfs/Les Biches

 

Weekly Words and November Partner Appreciations

Weekly words for November 2-5 (Quiz will be on Monday, Dec. 9th)

December News will be posted by tomorrow evening ☺

At the end of each month, the students switch table spots and partners. This way, by the end of the year, students will have had the opportunity to work closely with 10 of their peers. At the end of each month, we take a moment to reflect on the month of working together and each student is given the opportunity to share with their partner something that they appreciated about working with them. 

This is one of our favourite classroom traditions that helps build a strong and respectful learning community. Here are our appreciations from November:

I appreciated that/when you…
I liked when you….
It made me feel _____ when…
I like…

Lincoln- I like when Olivia makes me laugh
Olivia- I appreciated Lincoln because he made me happy
Ruby- I appreciated when Jaida made me feel happy
Jaida- I appreciated that Ruby made me laugh
Mya- I appreciated that Abby would be nice to me and cheer me up when I’m sad
Abby- I appreciated Mya because everything that I let her borrow she asked nicely and was grateful
Garrett- I appreciate that Owen is nice and funny
Owen- I liked working with Garrett because he helped me with word work
Ava- I appreciated that Austen listened quietly when I read to him
Austen- I appreciate Ava because she’s a nice friend
Clara- I appreciate Jillian because she makes me laugh and when I didn’t understand what to do, she would help me understand
Jillian- I appreciated Clara because when I needed help spelling words, she helped me
Rou’a- I appreciated Caleb because he would help me understand words
Caleb- I appreciated Rou’a because she made me happy and she made me laugh a lot
Trinity- I appreciate Symone, because at lunch we would just sit together and talk
Symone- away
Jasmine- I appreciated Renae beside me because she always liked to play “Crunchy Ice”
Renae- away
Lynn- I appreciated Sam because he would make me laugh
Sam- I appreciated Lynn because she helped correct my work before I go up


Weekly Words and our New Novel Study

Weekly Words for November 25-29
French: è (eh - accent grave)
English: Remainder of sight words from list A, next week we will combine list B sight words and word family words


We have been enjoying our Grade 2 novel study: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
On Friday, we celebrated our fifth earned PAT time with a pajama party and some peach juice and popcorn while we read chapters 7-8. 

At Home Conversation Prompts to Support our Novel Study:
-Ask your child to retell the main events of the story thus far
-Ask you child to name and describe some of the main characters in the story thus far
-Ask you child to share with you his/her prediction about who or what was calling James from inside the peach (at the end of chapter 10)


Working With Words: Nov 18-22 and Our French Play

Last week, we assigned roles for our French play "Les Trois Petits Cochons" and today, the students got into their groups to start rehearsing. We've been talking a lot about group work and the trials and triumphs that can arise when working with others. We talked about some the the key factors that influence the success of the group overall and the students were involved in a self-reflection following their first initial rehearsal.  Pictured below are some very on-task groups - we will keep up the good work and see what can be accomplished when a group works hard on these main goals:

1. Respecting all group members
2. Doing your fair share of the work
3. Addressing challenges with kind words and "I feel" statements
4. Staying with your group for the entire work period and keeping conversation on-task


French: sound et (pronounced "ay"
English: sight words starting with I






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