Dear Parents,                 
Tomorrow is the Big Day!!!  I hope to see many of you for this celebration of Grade 2!  The kids have done a fantastic job and they need your encouragement.

Tuesday the 25th is the Year End Mass.  Please let me know by Monday the 24th, if you can volunteer to walk with the kids to Church.
Many thanks and look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Mme Amrita

Dear Parents,
This message is of high importance!!  The Grade 6 Farewell has been moved to the 24th of June.  We will therefore have our Big Show on the 21st of June at 1 pm in the Gym.  I de apologize for the inconvenience and I look forward to seeing you all!!!
Have an excellent day!
Mme Amrita

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.

Good morning Parents,

We hope that you got the chance to see the printed version of the St. Luke Weekly on the weekend.  There are a lot of important dates in May.  Our very first Liturgy is on the 10th of May at 10 am.  We shall be delighted if you can make it for an hour.

I will send you more information in the first week of May.

Have a good week!

Mme Amrita

Dear Parents,

Many thanks for helping your child make the impressive boats. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing them float or move in water. We look forward to testing more boats next week.

On the 25^th of April we are doing an impressive project with clay. I would appreciate 3 or 4 Parent Volunteers at 9am.  Please let me know at your earliest convenience if you can volunteer your time.

We were lucky to get a Parent Volunteer for the bat projects. If any of you could come and help for an hour next week, It would be great.

Thank you very much and have an excellent weekend!

Mme Amrita

Thursday, April 4th, 2019

News

Dear Parents,

It was great to meet with most of you during parent-teacher conferences! Here is the update about our learning goals in April.

French: We will begin reading and reciting spring poems.  We are also learning how to write stories with a clear beginning, middle and end, using descriptive words. Reading comprehension and grammar practice will also be ongoing. 

Please remember to practice your poem for the Gala Oratoire  

Math:  We are working on our unit, “Space and Shape Measurement” where we learn about 2D and 3D shapes as well as using non-standard units (blocks, paper clips, string, etc. )  to measure objects.  Two great websites to introduce 3D objects and 2D shapes include:

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ShapeSorter/ 

https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1/name-the-three-dimensional-shape 

Problem solving is ongoing.

Science: We are learning about different liquids and will also learn about objects that sink and float in our Boats and Buoyancy Unit.

Social Studies: We will learn about the goods and natural resources in Meteghan, Saskatoon and Iqaluit. Students can enhance their learning about goods and natural resources of each community by going to: http://engagingstudents.blackgold.ca/index.php/division-i/soc-d1/social-studies-2/2-1-canada-s-dynamic-communities/

Art: We will be completing a spring art project. 

Music: We will connect rhythms to the melody of songs. We will also learn and use different musical instruments. 

Health: We will continue to learn about friendship as well as how to have positive interactions with others. An important focus will also include strategies to resolve conflicts between peers. 

English: We are learning about the lives of bats. We will also continue to learn how to write stories with descriptive words. Please continue to practice reading in English. 

We have started a new novel study;

Stuart Little by E. B.White, the same author as Charlotte’s Web.  The children will be able to make a comparison with the two books.

Religion: We will learn about the season of Easter and will begin discussing the sacraments, with a focus on the Eucharist. 

Gala Oratoire: 

Back by popular demand, French Immersion schools will participate in another Gala d'art oratoire. The Gala d’art Oratoire is an opportunity for every student to showcase the skills they've gained over the years.  

Your child will be coming home with 2 poems. I ask that they choose and memorize one of the poems to present to the class on Friday, April 27^th.

A representative from each grade level will be selected to participate in the final school presentation in May. 

Important dates in April:

9^th April     Danceworks   10am  

16^th April   Provincial Elections

18^th April   Lenten Liturgy

19^th -  23^rd April   No school for students

24^th April     Due date for Jump Rope Enveloppes

25^th  April    Spirit Day with a BLING theme/

                     Pizza Day