Pajama Day, Buddies, Scoop-Up Writing and States of Matter!

Reminder: Don't forget to celebrate the last day of Literacy Week please come to school dressed in your favorite pajamas (we will still go outside for recess and be playing so appropriate, comfy jammies only please!). Feel free to bring your favorite stuffy along as well as your favorite book to read during our DEAR time.

Literacy Week is so much fun!!

Yesterday our Guest Reader was Ms. Sparks! She read us a book called "My Very Last First Time" by Jan Andrews. It is the story of an Inuit girl who goes Mussel Hunting under the sea ice. 

It was great to listen to Ms. Sparks read us this story.

Today we had buddies. Mrs. Lagrana read one of her favorite stories: Stranger in the Woods by Carl R. Sams and Jean Stoick.

Mrs. Mercer read one of her favorite books: 

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch. 

Then we had some extra time to read with our Kindergarten Buddy. 

Writing

We have been working on identifying synonyms for words in order to generate juicy words that can make our writing more interesting:

We have been trying to "scoop" up our writing by identify the cone (noun) word and then adding double scoops (adjectives) with a cherry (adjective) on top to make our writing more elaborate.


Here is an example of the model we have been talking about:

Today we wrote three sentences using this model. We uploaded our work to IRIS so you can see it there and ask me how adding double scoops and a cherry on top helps my writing?


Science
States of Matter
One of the centres we have been exploring is about solids, liquids and gases. We watched a video about States of Matter. We talked about how temperature can cause a liquid in one state to change states. We looked at how water molecules look at act different depending on if they are a solid, a liquid or a gas:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=states+of+matter+grade+2&fr=yhs-invalid#id=12&vid=52fa6ff0767e03a90d71946cd1aa9bde&action=view