May 27 - 31st

Our week together flew by! We had lots of projects we were immersed in and enjoying learning about.

Science - this week we have been examining different lifecycles of animals and plants. Our learning intentions are to observe and describe the growth and development of animals and plants from early to more advanced stages as well as to predict the next stages in growth and development. Students have been engaged in learning about different lifecycles including the animal they are researching as well as others that we are able to witness while out on the land (including some baby geese while out on our community walk).



Students have also been learning how to take the information they have gathered about their research animal and have been learning how to create short paragraphs. Our next steps have been to learn the ins and outs of google slides and how to create a presentation to represent their learning. Students have been super engaged and excited to learn different ways to add to their presentation using the features of google slides. More to come about this!

Math - Decomposing Numbers to Represent Money Amounts

In Grade 2, students use coins and bills to represent money amounts up to 100¢ or $100. Each representation will use only one type of coin or bill so that students can use skip counting to determine the value. (They will learn to count mixed sets of coins in Grade 3.)


When students represent an amount of money with coins or bills, they are actually decomposing a number (the amount being represented). That means that they are breaking the number down into smaller parts.


As part of this learning we spent time setting up a shop in our class where students were able to "purchase" hand made items with "play money" to practice how to count out amounts of money using bills and coins. 








Journalling in Nature:








Upcoming events/Reminders:

Tuesday, June 4 –

  • Grade 2 to the Leighton Center

Wednesday, June 5 – 

  • Last library exchange 

Thursday, June 6 –

  • Volunteer Terrace Tea – 9:30 -10:30 - For Ramsay School Volunteers ONLY!

Friday, June 7 – 

  • PJ Day




  • learning to observe and describe the growth and development of living animals from early to more advanced stages 

  • I am learning to predict the next stages in the growth and development of living

  • learning to observe and describe the growth and development of living animals from early to more advanced stages 

  • I am learning to predict the next stages in the growth and development of living animals

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