Mrs. Janisse Grade 2!

  March 19, 2026 Unfortunately our leprechaun traps were unsuccessful! That sneaky leprechaun did sneak and steal our gold . He also played some tricks on us with our shoes!                   Language Arts Talked about the sounds of ‘oo’ Made a plan to trap a leprechaun and did some writing about “How to Catch a Leprechaun” Put our ideas from our brain web about why school is amazing into a paragraph making sure we had a topic sentence, details with adjectives and adverbs, and a closing sentence Math Continued to explore strategies to make adding and subtracting larger numbers easier. For adding we made 10 and went up by the next multiple of 10. For subtraction we took away the ones to get down to 10 and subtracted the rest  .   Social Studies Had a great discussion about how the Prime Minister makes decisions that affect all of us Talked about voting and had a thorough mock election about what we should do on our last day...

  March 13, 2026 Language Arts Reviewed all of the vowel teams we have learned over the past few weeks  Continued to talk about verbs and adverbs and practiced writing some sentences to make a story Learned about the parts of a paragraph and began planning and writing our own paragraphs Math Reviewed some math strategies to get us ready to start 2 digit addition and subtraction Talked about decomposing 100 into groups of tens Learned about the associative property Social Studies Talked about the 3 levels of government (federal, provincial and local) including what items they are responsible for and who is the leader of each level Discussed the importance of voting  Looking ahead During Parent-Teacher Conferences on Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 , we invite families to place a colourful push pin on our world map located in our Learning Commons to show where their family comes from. Together, we’ll create a vibrant picture celebrating the diverse backgrounds that...