Celebrating international #DotDay 🔴🟠🟡🟢🟣

Our Meet the Teacher Night/Welcome BBQ at @StBonifaceCES was a huge success! Thank you to all the families that came out and popped by our classroom! 🍿😃

Celebrating the end of EQAO ✅😃

We became soil investigators to find different types of soil on our field 🔎 We were looking for loam, sand, silt and clay soils

Wishing all those heading back into the classroom today the best of luck and an amazing year! 🍎 ✏️ Back to school looks a little different this year 🤓

Took our learning outside today to measure objects around the yard in centimetres 📏 It was a beautiful day for some outside learning 🌞

Started our measurement unit today and explored various non-standard units of measure to measure various objects 📎 ✏️ 🖊️🖍️ #wcdsbNTIP

The winner of March Madness is in! For the second year in a row “Balto” is our winner 🏆 students found a new appreciation for non-fiction books and are inspired to read more 📚 #wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Tomorrow is the last day of our March Madness competition! Fiction goes head to head with Non-fiction. Which book will win, “Balto” or “Pig the Slob”?! 🏆 @StBonifaceCES #wcdsbNTIP

Check out these leprechaun traps 🪤 These 2’s have been hard at work planning, designing, and creating traps to catch a leprechaun while incorporating a simple machine into their design. Good luck catching those leprechauns! 🍀 #wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Two mystery readers today!📕 Our admin assistant Mrs. Weachter read us The Good Egg🥚and our librarian Ms. Hart ready us Enemy Pie 🥧 These two books tied with votes!! After a round of 🪨, 📄, ✂️’s the winner was The Good Egg! #wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Our second mystery reader was our awesome Spec. Ed teacher Ms. Becker! 🤩 She read to us The True Story of Balto which took the crown for this round🥇

Half way through the first round of books 📚 we had our first mystery reader today! Thank you Mrs. MacMillan for reading us the Invisible Boy. Even though it got eliminated we loved the message in this story #wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Working on multiplication using the equal groups strategy. Students loved using manipulatives during this game of Scoot to show their thinking✖️#wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Our March Madness reading competition has officially begun in our classroom! 📚 Fiction vs. Non-fiction books. Who will be the winner?!🏆 #wcdsbNTIP @StBonifaceCES

Today we went on a classroom mall shopping trip! 🛍️ We had so much fun shopping and calculating how much money we spent and how much we had left over 💵

Learning to edit our writing by ourselves and with a peer, using an editing checklist ✅

See you in the new year Grade 2’s! Have a fabulous break everyone 🎅🏻❤️🎄

Thank you to the parent council who gave our students a pancake lunch today 🥞

Some fun activities practicing creating symmetrical designs 🔺🔸▪️