Surrey, British Columbia

Today we got our first letter in our letter exchange.  It came from a place called Surrey that is close to a big city called Vancouver.  Surrey is a city that is bigger than High River!
We read a book about the 3 little pigs when we looked at the pictures we thought it was going to be different that the story but it wasn't.

Fire Safe!

Today the firefighters came to visit to teach us about fire safety.  They told us we need to call 911 if we need a police, ambulance or firefighters. The firefighters put on all their stuff.  They need to wear a jacket and pants that are made of material like oven mitts.  They have their boots so they can get ready really fast.  They also wear an air tank so they can breath nice clean air not smoky air. We got to go inside the fire trucks and we saw that their were air tanks hooked up to the front seats so they can get to the fire quickly.  They told us that our homework is to talk to our parents about our two ways out of our house and what our meeting spot is in case of a fire.  They also told us we need to know our address and our phone number in case of an emergency. 


Today the Grade 2's did a math activity about how much money if would be to get our names on our Joe Clark shirt.  If the names has 4 or less letters they would be $2 if they had 5 or 6 letter it would be $3 and if they had 7 oir more letter is would be $5. 

How do we feel?

We did all 5 rotation of Daily 5.  One was listening to reading when we did Raz Kids.  In work on writing we wrote what we are thankful for and in word work we made words from the letters in Thanksgiving
We talked about emotions that we feel with Mrs. Kellogs and we made a picture of ourselves when we feel good.  She told us this is what we look like in the green zone
We read a book called "The Bad Mood and the Stick".  We talked about how we get to choose to be in a bad mood or not.  In the story a man made a lady wash his pants but she choose not to get mad.  We talked about how it is OK to be mad but it is not OK to be mean or then you give your bad mood to someone else.

Whole body Listening.

Today we did some weaving with paper.  To weave we just go over and under but it was very hard for some of us. 
We made a video of what  our body looks like when we are doing whole body listening.  Some of the things we do when we are whole body listening are being quiet, and sitting on our bums with our hands in our basket and not touching others.  We read a book called the Lemonade hurricane that talked about the importance of being calm and how when we are not calm how that affects others. 
We got a new seating plan so we can sit beside new friends.  We learned  the difference between bullying and being unkind.  Please ask us the difference tonight.