Dear Parents,
Many thanks for practicing the poems for the Gala with your child.  The Poetry Unit was a huge success.  The children had memorized their poems and presented them to the class with great confidence.  I am SO proud of them!!!  Outstanding job Grade 2's!!! 
Now we are looking forward to our two Field Trips to Glenbow Museum and Heritage Park, both of which will be great educational experiences for the kids.

Dear Parents,

Some important reminders for the month of May:

Please check the Calendar that was sent to you last week with the important events for May.  Over and above those events, we have two important and exciting Field Trips coming up.  The first is on the 31^st of May at Glenbow Museum for the whole day where there will be two Social Studies workshops namely Our Community Our People and Discovery Adventure.  For this I will require 3 parent volunteers.  The second Field Trip is on the 7th of June at Heritage Park where there will be a Scavenger Hunt highlighting Our Community in the Past and the Present.  I will need Four Parent Volunteers for this.  We have 64 students and only one bus which allows a seating capacity of 72 students.  It will be greatly appreciated if a couple of Parent Volunteers could drive directly to Heritage Park and meet us at the entrance.  Thank you so much.

For the month of May and June we will be studying:

Science:  We are winding up the Boats and Buoyancy Unit with some additional experiments and general review.  We will be starting our new Unit of Small Flying and Crawling Animals.

Math:  The children have a good understanding of the Measurement Unit.  I am quite impressed with their estimations.  We are still continuing with some exciting activities in this Unit.  We will be doing Statistics and Probability and Telling Time.  Problem Solving will be ongoing.

French:   Story writing with a beginning, middle and end with interesting adjectives and expressions using the dictionary and vocabulary learned in class.  Comprehension passages and grammar.

English:  Spring Poems and English Story Writing.  Stuart Little and Comprehension Questions.

Religion:  Rosary   The emphasis this month is Mary and we are preparing for our Marian Liturgy.  The children every Tuesday morning have a religious presentation and they have the opportunity to say the Hail Mary and Our Father several times.

Art:   We have been integrating Art with Math and using Measurement for symmetry.  We will also be doing beautiful art projects with insects.

Health:  We will be looking at characteristics of friendship and effective strategies to resolve conflicts.

We look forward to seeing you at our first Marian Liturgy at 10 am on Friday the 10^th of May.