Reminders
Bike to School Week: May 27 – June 2
This year at BVE we will be having the “Bike Through The Hallways” exciting reward for participating in a healthy and active event.
- You can walk, run, scooter, or cycle to school. The idea is to get here using human power!
- If your class has a 90% participation rate (or higher) your class will get a POINT for that day.
- Students who live quite far way and will still be driven to school can request an 8th Street DROP OFF so they can walk to school. They will be counted as participants.
Language
Students have settled into their Daily 5 routine. They have successfully learned ‘Read to Self’, ‘Work on Writing’, ‘Word Work/Study’, ‘Read to Someone’, and ‘Listen to Reading’. Each day during our Daily 5 time, students choose the order in which they want to practice their literacy. Students generally have time for 3/5 options each day. I am able to conference individually with students or in small groups each day and set goals for reading and writing.
***WORD WORK/STUDY: word study work will be changing this term. Students will continue to work within their level on short vowels, blends, digraphs, long vowels etc. in class, but will also work on 8 specific high-frequency words each week that will be tested on Fridays. These 8 words will be written in their agendas each Monday so that you and your child can practice at home.
Grammar: During the spring term, students will be learning grammar and the parts of speech. Word study will continue, with words still coming home for practice as well as spelling check-ins on Fridays. Students have learned about nouns, articles, and adjectives. This week students will continue learning about verbs.
Writer’s Workshop:
Students have worked through the writing process to write their story and will produce a final copy that they will share aloud with their classmates.
Students are also working on writing a letter back to their pen-pal in Vancouver.
POETRY
We will be studying poetry for much of the spring term. Students will be writing, reading and sharing poetry. They will create a poetry booklet and hopefully our learning will culminate with a poetry tea party to celebrate!
Library: Tuesdays at 11:10am.
Read Aloud: We are reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets written by J.K. Rowling.
Math
Students have been working at their own level with the math materials. Some students are still practicing their subtraction skills, while others are doing dynamic addition into the thousands. Other students have started graphing and algebraic thinking. Some students are working beyond the grade 2 level and have begun learning multiplication.
Science
After our field trip to the Kingfisher Interpretive Centre, students will complete their learning of the adult Chinook salmon. Students will continue to study life cycles as we watch our caterpillars transformation.
Social Studies
We are continuing to study ourselves with the hope that understanding ourselves will lead to a greater understanding of the people in our community and the world. We have been talking about kindness and leaving our heart print in our community. Students have been learning about their social footprint and this week we are going to talk about the importance of community.
Trips to the Museum
June 14th: Students will piece together a timeline of the history of Revelstoke.
Students in our grade 2 class will be working with Mrs. Wall’s grade 3/4 class and a group of high school students on Monday and Friday afternoon to learn about indigenous plants and gardening in the community.
Arts Education
Music: Wednesdays, 8:30am with Mrs. Snider
Gym
Mondays (nature walk through the back woods with myself), Tuesdays (Mrs. Snider), Thursdays (Mr. MacKenzie): 8:30am
Classroom Community
This week we will continue Play is the Way. Students will be learning various games to support the core competencies outlined in the curriculum.