Check out my tree!


Merry Christmas! I hope you are all enjoying the holidays! Remember I promised to upload a picture of my Christmas tree? Here it is! I hope that Santa was good to all of you and that you have all been enjoying time with family and friends!

I have posted a few fun links for you to check out:

Elf School

Elf Holiday Sing-a-long

Elf Theater

Have fun!

Ms. I
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Merry Christmas!

Dear Grade 2's,

We have had a wonderful first term, and I have really enjoyed working with all of you! I feel that this term was a very successful one, and I'm really looking forward to helping you all learn lots of new and interesting things in our second term of school. I hope that you are all looking forward to it too!

I have assigned your book report to be done over the holidays. I really hope that you choose a great book to report on. They will be due your first day back. If you're not sure of what book to pick, have a look at some of the recommendations made by your friends on the blog. There are lots of great choices! Remember:
  • Setting: Where the story takes place.
  • Plot: What happens in the story from beginning to the middle to the end.
  • Protagonist: The hero in the story.
  • Antagonist: The bad person in the story.

I mailed our letters to Santa a while ago, but I also sent him a card myself to tell him what a wonderful class I have. Santa ended up sending me a video response that I want to share with all of you:

Santa's Video Response

I was so excited when I received it! I really hope you enjoy his video!

I also just wanted to send you a special Christmas card. Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Christmas with your family and friends! Please enjoy this card and make sure your speakers are turned up! I'll make a few posts over the holidays and I might even show you a picture of my Christmas tree :)

Ms. Iogna's Christmas Card

See you in 2011, and don't forget to feed Paschal!

Ms. I
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Social Studies Homework Reminder...




This is just a reminder for your social studies homework due this Thursday.

You need to pick two of the following places and write how you would adapt to the environment. You also need to draw a picture of yourself adapting to the environment:
  1. Arctic Region
  2. Desert
  3. Rain forest
  4. Mountains
Also, just a reminder that only a few of you have given me book recommendations on the blog. It would be great if we could have everyone recommend a book, that way you could check out some of the favourite books of your friends over the Christmas break. You might even want to use one of the recommendations for your book report.
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What a Dramatic Day!

Our drama workshop was fantastic! We really had lots of fun dancing and pretending to be all kinds of animals as we performed Little Red Riding Hood. I really hope that you all enjoyed each activity!


We will be continuing our unit on place value into the new year, so make sure you check the website over the holidays so that you're ready in January. For now, make sure you play with some of the place value links I posted previously.

I will be assigning a book report over the break for you to work on. We'll be discussing parts of a book report next week, and I'll hand out your booklets next Friday. Now would be a great time to start thinking of a book you might like to read for your report. For now, have a look at the Starfall library to read about different folk tales, explore comics, and read plays.

Starfall Library

We will still be looking at communities for our social studies unit. For our test, we focused on mapping and communities, but for next week and more into the new year we'll focusing more on actual communities. I will have the social studies tests marked and ready to hand back by early to mid week next week.

I would also like to ask that each of you bring in one box of tissue for the new year. We're already down to our last one, so please remember to bring one in next week.

Remember to check out the links on the left hand side for math and language, and also check out this fun interactive advent calendar:

Advent Calendar


That's all for now!

Ms. I

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A New Story Bird!

Today we worked on a new story bird called A Christmas Tale. You can view it by clicking on the link here, or on the left side of your screen under Story Birds.

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Great Math Links!

Hi everyone!

I was recently doing a search online for more awesome math games and I found these great place value links for you to check out. They're great practice for the unit we are working on now.

Place Value Penguins

Different ways of writing numbers

Base Ten Bear

Base Ten Blocks

Shark Pool Place Value

Have fun exploring!

Ms. I
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Christmas is just around the corner...


There's only two more weeks of school left before we break for one of my favourite holidays! I'm very excited about Christmas, and I hope you are too! We've been working on our letters to Santa in our writing books, and I hope to have all of the good copies done in class by Tuesday so that we can send them to the North Pole.

Speaking of the North Pole, we will be having our social studies test on Thursday December 9th. You need to know the following to do well on the test:
  • Locate all 7 continents on a map (North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and Antarctica).
  • Parts of the globe (North Pole, South Pole, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere)
  • Locating places on a map and using a map (Picture Map)
If you review the social studies links from my post last week, you should be just fine for the test. I will send a review sheet home the day before to help you prepare.

For math, we have started our unit on place value and have looked at the place value for 10's and 1's. Have a look at some of these links to help you better understand place value:

10's and 1's

Up to 100's

Value of underlined numbers 1o's

Value of underlined numbers 100's

If you really feel like a challenge, try these links that look at place value up to 1000!

1000's

1000's again

Which place value?

As for language, have a look at the lovin' literacy links on the left side. There are lots of great games you can play to help you develop strong reading and writing skills.

In regards to skating, our first trip to the arena will be in the new year. I will post skating dates on the calendar. If there are any parents who would like to accompany us, we would be more than happy to have you.

That's all for now! Have a great weekend!

Ms. I
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