Friday Dec. 16, 2022

 Dear spectacular families,

This week: 

* We have been doing the countries of the world quiz on sporcle.com . The first time we got 38/197. The second time we got 57/197. Today we got 68 countries! For next time, we are going to try to remember: Singapore, Morocco, Georgia, Samoa, Taiwan, Belgium, South Korea, Cuba. L.T. just randomly called out the country Nigeria. She has no idea how she knew it!

* Today is our last day before the Winter Break. Today is pajama day. We have a movie planned this afternoon and we can bring pillows, blankets, slippers and a stuffy.

* Yesterday we decorated Christmas Trees with candy. There was A LOT of candy!

* Last Tuesday we watched the Naden Band at the Royal Theatre.

* On Tuesday was our dress rehearsal. Wednesday afternoon we had a concert, and Thursday night we had a concert. We sang "Rock and Roll Snowman" and "When the Holidays Come".

* Today we finished our printing books. In January the grade 3s are going to start handwriting. The grade 2s can choose if they want to do handwriting.

* We have been working on our life cycle projects. We started off with papers and books, and now we are putting our information on iPads. Some people did the same animals and other people did a different animal. When we are finished Mrs. Marta puts them on the computer and we watch them together. When ours are finished, Mrs. Marta can send our families a link to see it. Yesterday we started to watch the life cycle projects of people who are finished.

* We didn't get any postcards this week, but we sent one to Japan. If you know anyone who can send us a postcard from somewhere in the world please ask them to send us one!

We hope you have a fantastic, snowtastic, wonderful, fabulous, snowy, spectacular, sparkly, beautiful and delightful winter break.

From,

Mrs. Marta's super grade 2/3 class

Friday December 2, 2022

 Dear fabulous families,

This week:

* We started a life cycle project. You get to choose an animal and do research. Next week we are going to use Book Creator to make books.

* We have been practicing for our winter concert that is in two weeks.

* In Social Studies this week we have been learning about Vietnam. We learned that they make art with eggshells, sand and mud. People in Vietnam ride more motorcycles than cars. People in Vietnam have soup for breakfast every day. There are 97 million people that live in Vietnam. Traditionally, Vietnamese people wear hats that are shaped like a cone.

Some customs in Vietnam are that you can not touch anyone's head and you can't refuse a gift. Another custom is that you also need to pass things to people with two hands. Another custom is that you don't start eating until the oldest person at the table starts eating.

* This week we got five postcards! They are from: Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, U.S.A. and the Netherlands. The one from the Netherlands had 6 mini Christmas Cards in it.

* In Gym today we did stations. The stations were hoops, balls, skipping ropes and scoops.

* In Art we made snowmen and showed what they do at night. Ask me what my snowman was doing!

* This week we did GoNoodle. We really like the Roar! one. We pick it all the time.

* We learned about some different types of sentences. We did some short one word sentences like hi, hello, stop or bonjour. We also did some list sentences. Here is an example: We think you are fantastic, caring, fabulous, sparkling and amazing.

* In Science we learned about things that eat plants and things that eat animals. We learned the words decomposer, producer and consumer. The decomposer was gross. We saw a dung beetle eating poop. 

We hope you have a fabulous day and a special weekend!

From, 

Mrs. Marta's shining, hard-working, fabulous grade 2/3 class