Have a great summer Grade 2s and 3s!

   

Dear Students,

Thank you for sharing your awesome talent with Mr. D and the class. Thank you as well for making it a great last day together! By the way, you can still send Mrs. Hicks and Mrs. White your well-wishes until Wednesday using the link below to Padlet:

Mrs. Hicks

https://padlet.com/john_dacosta/4142o74o4xl2do9b

Mrs. White

https://padlet.com/john_dacosta/1gzbllnld5kt3izk

I have really enjoyed being your teacher this year. I was a different year but we made the most of it. I have great memories of our Terry Fox Run, our St. Paddy's Day Party, our Jingle Bell Rock hum-a-long, our Winter Carnival, playing Iron Man for you, our Jeopardy and Kahoot Games, Peace is Flowing Like a River, Hey Hey Get Out of my Way, Kyle's Wild World....and I could go on and on and on!

Thank you for making this such a special year for Mr. D. I will never forget this year or any of you. Have a wonderful year, and make sure you stop to say hello to your "old" Grade 2/3 DA teacher. 

Have a great summer and God bless!

Mr. D

   

PS. Mango says to have a great summer too!:)

Things to Remember this Week!

Dear Students, 

I hope that you enjoyed doing some of the Probability situations we did today. (Some of them were quite funny!)

Here are few things that you will want to remember this week:

1) Rock: Remember to have a rock ready for Friday's activity. (See Monday's post.) 

2) Talent Show: If you are sharing a talent for the Talent Show, please make sure that you open the Talent show slideshow on Hapara Workspace for details. (It is now at the top.) Here is the link you can use to record your Flipgrid Video:

https://flipgrid.com/934caf9a

Please share it by this Friday, and we will do the Talent Show on Monday morning. Mr. D is really excited about our show!

3) Christmas in June!

Our theme day this Friday will be Christmas in June! Wear your Santa Hats, reindeer antlers, Christmas sweaters and shirts to make it feel like Christmas has come early. If your Christmas items are all packed away, you can always wear Red and Green. (Notice the colours I chose for this post.) Get ready for some Christmas music and games:)

4) Slideshows: 

For our Liquids/Solids (Gr. 2) and Plants (Gr. 3)  slideshows, you will continue to get time to work on them on Thursday and Friday. The idea was to give you experience with Google Slideshows, learn about Science concepts and practise some reading and writing... all at the same time. As I mentioned today, students are not expected to present them to the class so don't worry about that. While you will have time to finish them, with less time than we expected it would not be fair to expect all of our students to be ready and prepared for presentations. Presenting them to the class is optional;  you are welcome to present them Friday if you are ready and would like to. Just let Mr. D know:)

Have a great night!

Mr. D:)

             

                     

Happy Monday! (and something you need for Friday)

Dear Class,

I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Can you believe that this is our last full day of school?

For Friday, we will be doing a special activity with a rock. (not for the Dads' eyes or ears:) Here's the type of rock you need:

•  a rock a little bigger than your hand. 

• light colour

• clean it/soak it (the more time the better; it needs to be dry for Friday though)

• the flatter the better

Some other things you need:

• markers (a permanent sharpie-type marker good for writing will work best)

• light coloured non-toxic paint and brush (if possible; you can use just the markers)

• sparkles (optional)

• strong stickers (optional)

It should be fun! Here is an example of a good rock for the activity:

          

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A Great Day Today, Talent Show Changes

 

Dear Students,

I hope you enjoyed your day learning about slide shows, Motown music, elephants and Eur 2020 (some great soccer 

begins today!) 

Our Talent Show will now be held on Monday, June 21st in the morning. (That's two Mondays from now.) That means that I will need your videos submitted next Friday, June 18th. I can't wait to see all of your talent!

Enjoy your weekend!

Mr. D:)

Happy Monday Grade 2s and 3s!

 Dear Students, 

I hope that you are trying to stay cool during this heat wave. (Maybe you need to persuade Mr. D that this is the best type of weather:)

Start to think about what talent you are going to show for our Virtual Talent Show on Wed. June 23rd.  

Have a great evening!

Mr. D:)

Enjoy your Friday and Weekend!

 Dear Students,

Mr. D is still in shock after you beat him 2600 to 0 in Superhero Jeopardy. I couldn't get Superhero Art to work, but the Jeopardy was fun and now we can look forward to doing the Art next week!

I hope you enjoyed the Super-Hero themed week. I know Mr. D had fun. Enjoy your well-deserved time off and I'll see you all on Monday. 

Regards, 

Captain D:)

PS. I wonder what our Theme will be next week?!

Superhero Day

   

Dear Grade 2s and 3s, 

Can you believe that tomorrow is already the end of our school week? Thank you to the Grade 2s and 3s who continue to stay on camera during our meetings and have been earning participation points!. Mr. D enjoys having all of our students able to join fully in our learning activities. (It’s also helping that you are getting your parents’ and Mr. D’s permission ahead of time to be off camera when needed) Thanks as well to Grade 3s and 2s who join our Meets right at the beginning of class and let Mr. D know if they need to be late or leave early. (When you do that it makes it so much easier for you and your classmates to learn well!)

Remember that tomorrow is a Superhero-themed day! Dress as your favourite hero using items from home. Don’t go out and buy anything for it; you don’t need to. You can make your own outfit (You can even use a sheet to make your own cape with your parents' help.) We will do some Superhero games and trivia, and get ready for another virtual field trip. Remember that we saved the Math exercise from today for tomorrow. Instead of starting with a Language activity during 1st block as we usually do, we will do the Math lesson and exercise during 1st block  in order to get to the Superhero activities and field trip 2nd Block. 

Have a great evening:)

Mr. D:)