Jack About the Beanstalk

Jack About the Beanstalk is a play that came to our school on April 3.
They were from Big Kid Entertainment. After the play. Ryan, one of the
actors came to our class.

Then we wrote a retell about the story.

In the beginning of the story, They talked about how Jack had stolen the
golden hen and he decided to give it back. His daughter did not want to
give it back. She wanted to be like Sharpey on High School Musical.

In the middle of the story, Jack and his wife were trying to teach their
daughter how to be kind to others. Jack Climbed up the beanstalk to get
give back the golden hen.Jack met the Giant. He tried to give it back,
but the Giant did not want it. He said to give it to someone who needed
it. Jack climbed down the beanstalk. Jack talked to his daughter and his
wife. His daughter wanted to keep the golden hen but Jack said she had
to give it to someone who needed it. She said that she would try to give
it to someone, but if they didn’t want it, then she could
keep it.

At the end, She tried to trick her parents into letting her keep the
golden hen by offering it to the Giant again. The Giant still didn’t
want it. Finally Jack’s daughter offered the hen to the Giant as a new
friend. Jack’s daughter was nice to others. She gave the Golden Hen to
the giant.

They all sang a song about being kind and responsible, called A
Person of Good Character

You can click on the picture to hear them singing the song.
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Grade 1 Agenda Week of: March 31-April 4

Sharing this week u… as in use or up

Monday March 31:

Song Books Back to School Today

Fast Start Poetry Books go home today.

Gym Today

Sharing Today: Hayley, Jaida

Tuesday April 1, 1908

Sharing Today: Jake, Jefferson,

Wednesday April 2

Sharing Today: Meagan, Michael

Thursday April 3:

We have a special presentation of Jack About the Beanstalk by Big Kid
Entertainment in the morning.

Pizza Day: $1.50

Sharing: Nicholas, Rachel

Friday April 4

Fast Start Poetry books back to school

Song Books go home to be returned on Tuesday March 24

Sharing: Sierrra, Sillis

Sharing on Monday April 7 : y as in consant year or vowel
day : Abbie, Brittney

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Thursday: Pizza Day $1.50 slice

Please return Jump Rope for Heart form by Friday April 18.

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May Newsletter

Dates to remember in our class

Monday: Poetry books back to school, Gym

Thursday: Gym. Library—Bring your library book.

Friday: Poetry books go home.

May 3: Hands on Science: Activities in the Gym. The cost for this
program is being covered by the school

May 9: Seussebration in the gym. 2pm

May 21: Victoria Day—No School.

Science

After we complete our unit on simple machines and movement, we will do a
unit on Animals. Your child will be studying the different classes of
animals, their habitats and the effect that humans have on wildlife.
Your child will also complete a brief research project about a specific
animal. We will include the information from their research project on
our class web page.

Language Arts

During the month of April, we have been doing an author study of Dr.
Seuss to prepare for a special primary literacy celebration on May 9 at
2pm in the gym. You are welcome to attend for a presentation of
readings, songs, and skits with a Dr. Seuss theme.

Math Chapter 13- Probability

Probability is the likelihood or the chance that something will happen.
In Grade 2, students predict whether things are likely or unlikely to
happen. We will be making predictions about outcomes of games or
experiments, trying them out, and then checking the results. Students
will learn to use what they have observed to help make predictions about
what might happen if they tried the same activity again. Try some of
these activities with your child:

• Look for ways to use probability language at home. Take turns
completing sentences that start with “It’s impossible that …,” “It’s
unlikely that …,” “It’s likely that …,” and “It’s absolutely certain
that ….” Other probability words are possible, chance, and probably.

• When you’re reading together, consider events in the story that are
likely and unlikely to happen and ask your child to explain why.

• Choose a number from 1 to 6, and have your child do the same. Take
turns rolling a die or pulling number cards for 1 to 6 from a bag. Keep
track of how often your number comes up. The first number to come up 10
times wins the game.

• Make predictions about what is about to happen. Predict who is more
likely to walk through the door next, or the likelihood of hearing a
certain song on the radio. Encourage your child to provide reasons for
his or her predictions.

Chapter 14- Patterning

In late May, our focus in mathematics will be on exploring patterns with
shapes and numbers. Your child will flip, turn, and slide shapes to
create visual patterns and explore skip-counting patterns (e.g.,
counting by 2s, 5s, 10s).

Try some of these activities with your child:

• Find shape patterns on curtains, wallpaper, bedspreads, floors, and so
on. Ask your child to tell you how each pattern works. If it’s a
repeating pattern, ask what part repeats. If it’s a growing pattern, ask
how many things are added each time the pattern grows.

• Look for examples of patterns where things are arranged in equal rows
(e.g., eggs in rows of 2 in an egg carton or cans in rows of 4 in a
case). Ask your child to show you how to use skip counting or adding to
figure out how many things there are in the pattern.

• Give your child some loose change to count. Show your child how to
sort the coins first, and then how to use skip counting to see how much
each set is worth.

• Do craft activities that can include patterns, such as stringing beads
or using stickers or ink stamps.

• Use building toys for patterning. Try building a series of shapes in a
pattern and asking your child to show you what comes next. Or let your
child make a pattern and cover part of it so you can guess what’s hidden.

500 Book Challenge

In the last 2 months, the grade 2 students in Mr. McGaughey’s class have
read over 250 books at home. We are going to do this have a popcorn
party after the class has read 500 books (or chapters) at home. Each
child may record 1 or 2 books (or chapters) in their reading log
nightly. Everyone needs to have at least 25 books on their reading log
to participate in the popcorn party.

Current Events

Remind your child to bring their current events scrapbook home weekly to
write their article in and to reread old articles with you. Please
encourage your child to write in complete sentences. If they want to
skip the W’s and write a paragraph about their news story, that would be
even better.

Monday: Colter, Jaden,

Tuesday: Alexis, Rebecca Brendan, Colton

Wednesday: Jared, Shaelyn, Carter, Danny

Thursday: Jordan Sam, Chevy

Friday: Gage, Nicholas, Simon

December 8 Agenda Note

• There are several new additions to our Class Website:
http://par.scdsb.on.ca/classes/McGaughey

• Show and Share next week December 11-15 e… as in eat or elf

December 18-22 No Share and show this week

• Take your poetry book home—Bring it back Monday!

• Take your word search home to help you study for your spelling test.
You can leave it there.

• You all did a good job with your graphing project. Take it home to
show your parents, get it signed and bring it back.

• Notes: Ski Club, Gift Table, Museum

• December 12: Class Picture Retakes

• December 13: Last Day of Skills for Living program with Mrs. Cooper.
We will have our final celebration at 1:35 pm. Parents are welcome to
join us.

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Easter

By Nick, Samantha, Alexander and Andrei

Easter is very fun. You find the chocolate and get to eat it. The whole
family gets to find Easter eggs. You get chocolate bunnies and eggs. We
get Easter eggs. My family gets prizes. We sleep in on Easter.

Dance-a-Thon

By: Chelsey, Abby, Liam and Matthew

On March 11, we went to the gym for a Dance-a-thon. We all won a prize.
The boys had to sing YMCA. The girls had to sing “He was a Skater Boy”.
It was fun! Liam was the old Spiderman. Chelsey was a poodle. Abby was a
poodle. Matthew did not go. He was on vacation. There were bubbles.
There was a lot of music.We all won a prize. The boys had to sing YMCA.
The girls had to sing “He was a Skater Boy”. It was fun! Liam was the
old Spiderman. Chelsey was a poodle. Abby was a poodle. Matthew did not
go. He was on vacation. There were bubbles. There was a lot of music.

Our March Break

By Mikayla, Trevor and Jamie

We had nine days on the March Break. It was a break because we could
rest and do anything with our families. It was fun on the March Break.
We came back to school on the twenty-first. Only three people handed in
a reading log. I don’t think anybody wanted to come back.

Simple Machines

By Brennan, Alex and Ketura

We all made fantastic machines. It was fun. Alex made a mouse trap and a
garage.

Brennan made a space car. He used lots of time. Ketura made a mouse
trap. We all made fabulous machines.

The Snowstorm

by the whole class. Typed by Mr. McGaughey

Today is November 2, 2006. It was very stormy and snowy at lunch recess.
It looked like a blizzard. Some of us stuck our tongues out to catch the
snow. Others ran around in the snow. There was a soccer game going on.
In the soccer game, everyone slipped a lot.

November 2  Snow