Ms. Sullivan | Nelson Rural School

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Weekly Report With Texas-October

Posted: November 11, 2014

Each week we do a live report through Skype, with our friends in Dallas, Texas. We have 3 students to do the reports, which are weather, class and poetry reader. We are comparing our weather and are noticing many differences. The students have done an excellent job for the month of October.

Halloween Fun

Posted: November 11, 2014

The students had fun working on Halloween themed reading, writing, math and word work activities on Thursday Oct. 30th and Friday Oct. 31st. Friday was black and orange day. There were lots of great pumpkins entered in the school Pumpkin Carving Contest.

Posted: November 9, 2014

Grade 2 News November 10 - November 14

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a good weekend. Make sure you are dressed for the weather. Remembrance Day Service Our school Remembrance Day Service is on Monday November 10th at 10:00 am. Please join us if you can. Students are asked to bring a donation for the poppy. Remembrance Day Remembrance Day is on Tuesday November 11th. Please take time to remember the brave men and women who have helped to give us the freedom we enjoy today. Phys. Ed Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday, Thursday and Friday. Library Our library day is on Wednesday. Make sure you bring your book back. Scholastic Book Orders If you would like to order a book from the November Book Club, please have your order in by Friday November 14th. Math We are working on our unit on Numbers to 100. This week we are focusing on estimation and 10s and 1s. Keep working on counting in different ways at home. Homework/Borrow-A-Book Please make sure you are reading your book each night and recording it on your log sheet. The homework for the week is listed in the orange folders. The spelling words this week focus on the /ar/ sound. Class Project With Texas Autumn, Austin S., and Carson did a great job as our reporters and poetry reader. Our friends were very surprised to find out that we had some snow already. Our students were very excited to recieve their first letters from their pen pals. We will start working on our letters to mail back to them this week. Have a super week!

Posted: November 9, 2014

Book Orders Due

Date:

Thu, Nov 13/14 8:00 pm

Posted: November 4, 2014

Skating

Posted: November 3, 2014

Grade 2 News November 3- November 7

Hi Everyone I hope you had a good weekend and a fun Halloween! We had our first snow and some colder temperatures, so please make sure you are dressed for the weather. Phys.Ed Our Phys. Ed days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Library Our library day is on Wednesday, make sure you bring your book back. Food Bank Our school is collecting items for the Food Bank during the month of November. Please bring in some items if you can. Math We are continuing to count in different ways and working with numbers to 100. Keep counting with money at home. This week we will be working on estimation. Homework/Borrow-A-Book The homework for the week is in the orange notebook. Our spelling words this week focus on the short /u/ vowel sound. Please make sure you are reading each night and record your book on the log sheet. Class Project With Texas We met with our friends on Thursday. Alyssa, Madyson and Zoe did a great job as the reporters and poetry reader. They had their Play With Your Food Art Show last week and they sent us some pictures. Their letters are on their way to us. Remembrance Day Service Our school Remembrance Day Service is on Monday November 10th at 10:00am. Skating Our first skating day is on Thursday November 6th. Ice time is 9:45 - 10:30am. Students will need skates and a CSA approved helmet. Parents and Grandparents are invited to join us if you are available. Have a great week!

Posted: November 3, 2014

Remembrance Day No School

Date:

Mon, Nov 10/14 8:00 pm

Posted: November 3, 2014

Remembrance Day Service

Spooky Halloween Scenes

Posted: October 27, 2014

The students had fun creating these Spooky Halloween Scenes. First they used red, orange and yellow paint to make the sunset. Then using black paint they made some different things we see at Halloween. Spooktacular Work Grade 2!!

All About Ghosts

Posted: October 26, 2014

We are working on the 6+1 Writing Traits. Our focus was on Ideas. Having a main idea and staying on topic. With this in mind the students wrote details they know about ghosts and then made their own ghost to go with their writing. Nice work Grade 2! Great work with staying on topic!