Audio Recording of "Jingle Bell Rock.":)

 As promised, here is an audio recording of our class performing "Jingle Bell Rock." Click the link below, and enjoy! Merry Christmas:)

Mr. D:)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fuv2qNRbDYGA8svKpOu6wy1ndNVZ1j2A/view?usp=sharing

Merry Christmas Class!

          

Dear Students,

I want to wish all of you and your familes a very Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holidays, and stay safe!

Mr. D:)

PS. Congratulations on earning our first 10/10 (ten out of ten) day. I will annouce our reward in the New Year:) 

One More Day to Go: It's PJ Day!

 Dear Students, 

Don't forget that tomorrow it's PJs Day! While you are asked not to bring Stuffies or other stuffed animals to school with our COVID restrictions, it will be be fun to show off your PJs:)

Have a great night!

Mr. D:)

Well done students!

Dear Grade 3s and 2s,

You did a fantastic job performing our Hum-A-Long song “Jingle Bell Rock!” today. Well done! Mr. D is very proud of you:

Below are some Christmas interactive games you can do tonight and tomorrow since we don’t have homework assigned. Try them, they look like fun!

GRADE 2

https://www.mathplayground.com/holiday_games/holiday_puzzle_pics_addition_facts_to_20.html

https://www.mathplayground.com/holiday_games/holiday_puzzle_pics_subtraction_facts_to_20.html

GRADE 3

https://www.mathplayground.com/holiday_games/holiday_puzzle_pics_addition.html

https://www.mathplayground.com/holiday_games/holiday_puzzle_pics_subtraction.html

BOTH GRADES

https://www.mathplayground.com/logic-games/christmasmemory.png

Enjoy your evening!

Regards, 

Mr. D:)

Info about On-line Concert Tomorrow and Popcorn Order Form

 Dear Students and Parents,

POPCORN

Please see the link below for a copy of the Popcorn Order Form: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lqQNXFejqRx45XoxPtf_9LfWOC4Y2iZX6IWSZLLN148/edit?usp=sharing

TOMORROW'S ON-LINE CONCERT

Tomorrow it's an exciting day. We will do our Christmas "Hum-a-long" tomorrow as part of the Primary Christmas concert at 1:15 through Google Meet. Please join us! I am not posting our link publicly. Mrs. Lyonnais sent out the link through School Messenger earlier today. As well, I will send out the link to your e-mail accounts through School Messenger tomorrow morning. FYI, we are scheduled to perform first.

I encouraged the students to wear Red, with Christmas-themed hats, antlers, sweaters etc. for our performance. They are looking foward to performing for you!

Enjoy your evening!

Mr. D:)

Invitation for Your Parents

Dear Students, 

I hope you enjoyed our Craft Day today. You seemed to have a lot of fun doing them, and the you did a beautiful job on them. Well done!

Don't forget to invite your parents to come to our virtual Christmas Concert through Google Meet on Wednesday, December 16th at 1:15 for our Hum-a-Long. I will post the link for the show when I receive it. In the meantime keep working on practising humming Jingle Bell Rock. Here is the link to the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpxNNalLTB4

Have a great weekend!!!

Mr. D:)

"Jingle Bell Rock!"

Dear Grade 3s and 2s, 

We have been learning how to ""hum the Rock and Roll Christmas song called Jingle Bell Rock. Did you know that Jingle Bell Rock is the most popular song in our class? I know that because I collected data! Last week, we did an online survey of favourite Christmas songs, and Jingle Bell Rock was the preferred song over Jingle Bells, Silent Night and even Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Here is a link to the song Jingle Bell Rock so that you can continue to practise humming Jingle Bell Rock for our Christmas "hum-a-long." Give it a try!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpxNNalLTB4

Don't forget that we are doing Christmas Crafts tomorrow. Don't forget to wear painting and/or old clothes: the paint won't come off clothing. 

Mr. D is very excited about this special day; I'll see you all tomorrow:)

Mr. D:)

Good News About Friday...and "painting" clothes

 Good Afternoon Students,

Mr. D missed all of you, and it's great to be back! I shared some good news with you today. On Friday, we will be doing a few cool Christmas crafts in class.  We'll put on some Christmas music, work on the crafts, and enjoy the Christmas atmosphere! I wanted to remind you to wear old clothes and/or clothes for painting. We will be using paints that do not come off clothes, so in case of a painting "mishap" please avoid wearing good or special clothes. 

It should be fun! Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday:)

Mr. D:)

Try our first survey!

Dear Students, 

We have been learning about surveys and collecting data. Mr. D thought it would be fun for our students to try filling out a survey so that we can discuss and analyze the results tomorrow. Mr. D would like to know what the most popular Christmas song is in our Grade 2/3 class; so here is the survey question: 

What is your favourite Christmas song?

Click the link below and you can make your choice. I hope you enjoy doing this!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKUlsRZo87oj2cuwmvEVNCqgDAhOUmrPYz5yQ-gXqDYHcTnQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Regards,

Mr. D:)

Popcorn Friday Order Form

Dear Students,

I gave the students at school order forms if you are interested in ordering popcorn for Friday. They are due tomorrow for this week's sale. Here is an online version of the popcorn letter: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lqQNXFejqRx45XoxPtf_9LfWOC4Y2iZX6IWSZLLN148/edit?usp=sharing

Regards, 

Mr. D 

PS. Don't forget to copy down this week's Advent Words of the Week in your agenda from our blog!

Reminder: Tuesday, December 1 is Sock it to Hunger on Crazy Sock Day

  Every Tuesday during Advent, students and staff are invited to donate a toonie to participate in a spirit day activity. Don't forget it's "Crazy Sock Day tomorrrow.Mr. D has his crazy socks ready to go!

Regards,

Mr. D:)

It's the First Week of Advent!

 Good Afternoon Students, 

I hope that you enjoyed the mild weather this weekend. Mr. D was working very hard on getting his Christmas Lights up and his house decorated! As we discussed today, it is the first week of Advent as we prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas. Today you worked on coming up with an Advent Promise to bring Hope, Love, Joy and Peace to the world. Try to start working on your promises right away!

We have been talking about Symmetry in shapes. I found an extra cool interactive game to try which will help you to understand symmetry. Give it a try!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching 

Enjoy the rest of your day:)

Regards,

Mr. D:)

Weekly Class Trivia

 Dear Grade 3s and 2s,

I hope that you continue to enjoy playing in the snow! Today it was another busy learning day. We discussed Making Connections in Reading to help you better understand what you are reading. We also listened to some music from JS Bach, and discussed some of our observations about the music. Here is yet another fun trivia night for you:)

1. What do you call the kind of music JS. Bach wrote?

A. Rock music

B. Classical Music

C. Jazz

2. What is another name for a square corner? 

A.  A left angle

B. A right angle

C. A nice angle

3. At what time of the day is it most important to talk as quietly as we can?

A. Recess Time

B. Gym Time

C. Lunch and Snack Time

4. Which of the following stands for What Would Jesus Do?

A. J.W.W.D

B. W.J.W.D

C. W.W.J.D

5. Today we read the story about Andrew and Alina. What was the main idea of the story?

A. Forgiving

B. Hoping

C. Waiting

Good luck! We'll take up the trivia tomorrow:)

Mr. D:)

Info for Our Parents: Sacraments

Dear Parents,

St. Leonard Church has provided information about the Sacraments this year. Please click the link below for registration information about them. 

Regards,

John da Costa

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXjM7YZiiHdLqhXkZV_d_gSDL6kwV5Ir/view?usp=sharing

Happy Monday Class!

 Dear Students, 

I hope that you enjoyed playing in the snow today! It seemed like you were having a really good time building forts, snowmen snow, snow angels and many other things made of snow. 

As you know, we continued to explore polygons in class during another "hands-on" activity. Here is a study sheet on our different shapes I like to call the "Everything You EVER wanted to Know About 2D Shapes but Were Afraid to Ask" sheet! Take a look at it; you will see the names of the shapes and an outline of their geometric properties. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rf4XtZ-N2jBidAUwIedgoHtux8GV9euoBaEW1Z-_fsg/edit?usp=sharing

Have a great evening and we will see all of you tomorrow:)

Regards,

Mr. D

Remembrance Day Song:)

 

Mr. D finally figured out how to post our Remembrance Day song called, "Peace is flowing like a River.!" Share it with your families! I really enjoyed hearing our special song again:)

Mr. D

A Welcome and our Fun Quiz!

Enjoy your weekend!

 Howdy Grade 2s, 

We had a busy but successful week! Remember that tomorrow it is a PD Day, so there will be no classes. Enjoy your long weekend, and I will see you all on Monday. 

Regards,

Mr. D

PS. I'm still working on converting the song recording for "Peace is Flowing like a River" so that I can put it on the blog. As soon as I have figured it out, I will post it. You can keep checking:)

Well Done, Grade 2s and 3s

 Dear Grade 2s and 3s, 

Congratulations on your wonderful performance of the beautiful song, "Peace is Flowing like a River." during our Remembrance Day liturgy.  Mr. D received many compliments about your song throughout the day, and he is very proud of you! It was a great way to help commemorate and honour Canada's war and military heroes. 

Thank you to those parents who joined us. For those unable to join us or who had technical difficulties, we have a surprise: we sang the song again and recorded the sound; you will be able to hear our song! Mr. D will post our song here on our blog as soon as he has downloaded the file. 

Well done!

Regards, 

Mr. D

Reminder: Remembrance Day Liturgy at 10:45

Everyone has been asked to login at 10:40:)

https://meet.google.com/eum-xwwz-fue

Remembrance Day Information

Dear Students and Parents,

In the school newsletter, parents were invited to join us for our digital Remembrance Day Ceremony on Google Meet. Our class is going to be "humming" the song we have been learning in class, so please keep practising!

You are invited to wear a poppy tomorrow if you have one and to wear red. Your parents can click this link to attend.

Please use this link to attend. 

If you would like to donate to the Canadian Legion see this link.

Regards,

Mr. D:)

PS. A reminder to keep practising your special Remembrance Day W.W. list. Given it's a short week we will do our quiz on Thursday.

Some Cool Games

 Dear Grade 2s and 3s,

I hope you enjoyed the Spring-like weather today! Given our November Homework calendar begins week, I thought I would give you something cool to do with your extra time. Here are a few Shape Pattern online interactive games you are welcome to try. I hope you enjoy them!

https://www.abcya.com/games/shape_patterns

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

http://prek-8.com/games/schoolGames/patternGames3.php

Have a great evening:)

Mr. D:)

PS. Remember our W.W. Quiz tomorrow!

Wow, Great Spirit!

 Wow Grade 3s and 2s,

You showed lots of "sports" spirit today! Here's a list of all of the teams/sports that were represented by our students:  The Sens, The Leafs,The Tim Bits, The Capitals, The Penguins, The Dolphins, The Cowboys, The Dolphins, The Cowboys, The Canadian Curling Team, The Wildcats, The Figure Skating Team, The Raiders, The Oilers, The Canucks, and The Winnipeg Jets. That's a huge list of teams from many sports! Well done:)

Don't forget that tomorrow is Black and Orange Day. We are only one day away from Halllowe'en! Have a great night.

Mr. D

PS. Do you recognize this spooky door? Your Art Work was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!

Sports Shirt/Jersey Day and Other Info

 Dear Grade 2s and 3s,

Did you enjoy working on your “Disgusting Hallowe’en Recipes?” There were some great ideas. Mr. D is afraid to try those recipes! Keep up the great work:)

Don’t forget that tomorrow is Sports Jersey Day.

Back by popular demand, below is a fun quiz for you to try. These were the types of quizzes we did at the beginning of the year and students enjoyed doing. Have fun!!!

Regards, 

Mr. D

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Weekly Trivia Quiz 

1.  What is a Night Crawler?

1.  A large spider

2.  A large worm

3.  A large Halloween candy

2. What was our special Spirit Day on Monday?

1. Upside Down Day

2. Crazy Hair Day

3. Backwards Day

3. What do you call the things you need to make a recipe?

1. Ingredients

2. The Goal

3. The Steps

4. During a Fire Drill, what is the first thing you need to do when you hear the alarm?

1.  Put on your coat

2.  Stop what you are doing and leave

3.  Wait for the teacher to call your name. 

5. When should we wash or sanitize our hands at school?

1. Before we leave the classroom

2.  As soon as we enter the classroom

3.  Before we eat.

4.  We should do A B and C.

We'll take up the answers tomorrow:)

It's Halloween Week!

 Dear Grade 3s and 2s, 

It's Hallowe'en week! Our words of the week are Hallowee'n words that we often come across when we are writing about Halloween. Like the Thanksgiving List, they are "special" holiday words, so they are like bonus words and more challenging. Give them a try! 

Don't forget that tomorrow is Crazy Hair day. Like Backwards Day today, it should be a lot of fun.

Enjoy your evening!. 

Mr. D:)

Backwards Day and a Great End to Week1

 Dear Students, 

I hope that you enjoyed doing Halloween Art to end another great week. I wanted to remind you that there are a number of special "Spirit Days" planned for Halloween Week next week.    

Monday October 26th	Backwards Day Mix up your clothes!   Wear them backwards.
Tuesday October 27	Creative Hair Day How creative can you be with your hairstyle??
Wednesday October 28	Pattern Day Wear as many patterns as you can!
Thursday October 29	Jersey/ Sports Day Represent your favourite team!
Friday October 30	Orange and Black Day

We will be starting with "Backwards Day" this Monday. I'm looking forward to a fun week. Let's see how creative our students can be. Enjoy your weekend!

Mr. D:)

Good Afternoon Grade 3s and 2s

 Howdy Grade 2s! I hope you enjoyed our Clipboard Learning outside activity today. You came up with some fantastic questions using the “W5H” model: who, what  where, when, why and how. Mr. D was impressed!

We have been talking about Community in our Religion class. We have a chance to show Community by contributing food for the Manotick Cupboard Foodbank. More details are included included in the attached Google Doc. Grade 2 families are being asked to consider donating cookies or crackers. Grade 3 families are being asked to consider donating coffee or tea. Participating in this drive will help people in our community who are in need. Thank you for your support!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DrPC6UHHMLAaxbLcuwrZlAQUZAE8MuYmJ0PmwGGFC9Q/edit?usp=sharing

Regards,

Mr. D

Spirit Day

 Dear Grade 2s and 3s,

Tomorrow (Wednesday) is our Red and White Spirit Day! Let's see if we can try for 100% participation and show our school pride. I know a mascot who would be very happy if we all of us were wearing Red and White tomorrow; Lenny!

Regards,

Mr. D

PS. Don't forget to show your parents your W.W Quiz results tonight. Our students did very well this week, and Mr. D is very proud of you:)  

Happy Monday/Indoor Shoes!

 Good Afternoon Students, 

It's been a busy few days in class! Here are a few of the things we have been doing. On Friday, we got to livestream with Father Gerard as he explained the Rosary to us. We also learned more about Bus Safety and Fire Safety, and we will keep discussing both of these important topics. I know we enjoyed continuing work on our Fall art. 

Finally, today we learned about using our "Cubby" area in a way that respects social distancing. (You were each given a colour code to follow.) Having the cubby in the hallway area now means that you should bring your "Indoor Shoes" to school. These are not only the shoes you'll use in class, but also in the gym. Therefore, they should gym/running shoes. 

Have a grrrrreat evening students!

Mr. D:)

Lots of Learning and Reminders

 Howdy Students!

You seemed to really enjoy our outdoor "Clipboard Learning" activities today in the schoolyard and in the field. Grade 2s were recording their observations of animals and animal activity. Grade 3s recorded observations of different soil types. During our follow-up discussion of these observations, it was clear that a lot of learning took place during and Mr. D was impressed. I look forward to our next Clipboard Learning activity!

Below are some reminders for you:

October Homework: Many of our students were able to access the October Homework calendar on our Workspace. A reminder that for assignments on the homework calendar that involve writing on a Google Doc, you will find each exercise in the third column of the Workspace (coloured brown.) 

For tonight's assignment, it is a Reading exercise with some questions. No need to create a new Google Doc or share it. Rather, simply click on the assignment in the third column. When you are finished, click "input" and Mr. D will get the  completed assignment. (I apologize for any confusion last night; it's a learning process for all of us and overall it went well for a first try!)

PJ Day: Tomorrow Friday is "PJ Day." This special school activity should be a lot of fun for everyone. 

W.W. Quiz: A reminder that we will do our quiz for this week's W.Ws tomorrow. 

Have a great evening!

Mr. D:)

 

Happy Tuesday!

 Dear Grade 2s and 3s, 

I hope that all of you had a great Thanksgiving with your families! 

Don't forget that tomorrow is Red and White Day. Wear your red and white clothing to show your pride in our school!

Today I introduced our Monthly Calendar homework. I have now posted our October Homework calendar on Hapara Workspace. It will be great to have all of your assignments and exercises posted in one place on the calendar planner!

Here is more information for your parents on what it is and how to get on to it:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lVGt8ZCv5oNxAcaHZp2feVGdE0moPN-eY4yghOJ6EdE/edit?usp=sharing

See you tomorrow!

Mr. D:)

 

It's Almost Thanksgiving/Link to Sentence Game

 Dear Students,

I hope you enjoyed doing our "Number Talk" and our craft today. Remember to prepare for our W.W. Quiz tomorrow. Here is the link to the Sentence Game I mentioned today: 

GR.2

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/sentence-unscramble-second-grade.html

GR.3

https://www.turtlediary.com/game/sentence-unscramble-third-grade.html

It's only one more day until our Thanksgiving Day weekend, and tomorrow will be a fun day! See you then:)

Mr. D

Our first Spirit Day

 Howdy Grade 2s!

Today I noticed lots of students wearing our school colours Red and White for our Wednesday Spirit Day. Well done! 

For your quiz, here is a reminder of what to do when Mr. D sends the yellow quiz book home:

• Look over your quiz.
• Write out each word you misspelled three times. 
• Get your parents to initial or sign the quiz.
• Return the quiz book the next day.

We have been learning to skip count by different numbers using patterns. Your homework is to try a game the Board's MathUp program recommends:

https://www.mathup.ca/Games/Grade2/HopThePathcode=eyJVc2VyIjoiMTExMTM6Sm9obiBEYS1Db3N0YSIsIkRhdGUiOiIxMC82LzIwMjAifQ==

Have a good evening!

Regards,

Mr. D:)

A great day...and Red and White Spirit Day!

 I hope you enjoyed our "Clipboard Learning" activity today! It was fun to go out and do print impressions of different outside objects like leaves, sticks, tree trunks etc. You seemed to enjoy our new gym game "Spud" too. Your homework tonight is to continue learning and practising your W.Ws and to do a couple activities on Zorbits. See you tomorrow:)

For those of you new to St. Leonard, each Wednesday we try to wear our school colours which are Red and White. We call Wednesdays "Spirit Days." Let's show our St. Leonard pride tomorrow and each Wednesday!

Regards,

Mr. D

We Cleaned the Capital Today!

 

Great job Grade 3s and 2s!

Today we had a chance to pick up garbage in our school yard. This helps to keep our city and region more beautiful and help protect its environment. We also learned about what is safe to pick up, and what is not, and learned how to safely remove a protective glove. 

By the way, do you know why we call it "Cleaning the Capital?" (instead of something like "Cleaning the City.") Your homework is to find out why! Today was a great class-bonding activity for a great cause. Bravo students!

Mr. D:)

 

Great Sketches!

 Good Afternoon Grade 2s and 3s,

I hope you enjoyed our outdoor "Clipboard Learning" session today. You were supposed to position yourself close to a tree and sketch it. The sketches were very impressive! The sketching leads into our Art activity tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Regards,

Mr. D

PS. Don't forget about our W.W. Quiz tomorrow:)

Zorbit's Adventure Math!

 Dear Students, 

Zorbit’s Math Adventure has landed in our class! This game is a fun way to learn and apply your math! Today I showed you how to login through our blog. Remember that Zorbits only works on LapTops, Desktops and Chromebook/Notebooks. (You can play it on an Ipad but your parents will need to download the Paid App to do this. If  your parents are interested in getting the App I will need to give them your username and passcode.)

Enjoy the Zorbits adventure!

Regards,

Mr. D:)

Blog Changes

Thank you for your patience with the Class Blog tonight! Blogger is using a new interface, so Mr. D has had adjust its appearance and it figuring out how to do this. Because I am working on it, you may have had more difficulty accessing it tonight. It should run a lot more smoothly tomorrow. 

Regards, 

Mr. D 

A Few Reminders

 Dear Students,

It was a great day after all. We didn't need to do any indoor recesses! 

I just wanted to give you a few reminders:

• For those of you who were here last week, I gave you back your Quiz books. Your job is to show your parents your quiz, correct your words three times and get it signed.
• All of you should now have your List 3 Words for this week. We will do another quiz this Friday on those words. Now you have a chance to improve from last week. 
• Everyone should now have their RazKids information and password. If you don't have this for some reason. let Mr. D know and I will get you the information. 

Don't forget to wear you orange shirt tomorrow if you have one. 

Have a good night Grade 2s and 3s!

Regards,

Mr. D

PS. The Jays start their playoffs tonight! Go Jays!

Happy Monday!

 Dear Students,

One of the Math strategies we have been learning about is "fact families." Addition facts can help you find the answer to subtraction facts and the other way around! Here is a fun game you can try to learn and practise fact families. You can increase the skill level as well to do more challenging questions. Give it a try and enjoy!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Wow Class!

 Wow Class!

We had a beautiful morning to do our Terry Fox Run, and you made the most of it! After our warm-up exercises, we ran around the schoolyard five times. That works out to 2500 metres, or 2.5 kilometres. Some of the Junior teachers were impressed that Grade 3s and 2s could do that many laps, and Mr.D was proud of you. (We have some future Cross Country and Track and Field team members!)

It was for a great cause, and remember that families are welcome to contribute to the Terry Fox Foundation now that you have completed the Run. Terry Fox Foundation.

For those of my students who are at home and could not join us, we missed you and don’t worry: there will be other adventures to come that you’ll be able to participate in later in the year. Have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you again on Monday:)

Mr. D

If you look closely you can see some of our runners in the background!Add caption

Our first W.W. Quiz

Dear Students, 

On Tuesday, we received our second Words of the Week (W.Ws) based on the Short e sound. Hopefully you have been learning and practising them. If a student has been away for most of the week and comes to class tomorrow, they do not need to write it unless they got the words off our blog and have been practising. 

FYI (For your information,) during the year if you are away for a quiz, we don't do a "makeup quiz." There are so many quizzes during the year that you will get many chances to show off your hard work preparing on other quizzes!

Enjoy your evening!

Mr. D:)

PS. Out of all of the W.Ws activities I showed you where you get to "DO" the words to practise them, what has been your favourite so far? Mr. D's favourite is doing the words "Opera Style!"

Get Ready for our Terry Fox Run!

Dear Grade 2 and 3 Runners, 

We're almost there. One more day until we get to do our Terry Fox Run! We will begin at approximately 11:00AM.  This year we will be walking around our school yard instead of through the community. Grade 6 students will keep track of the numbers of kilometres we run or walk. Remember that if you are away tomorrow, you can still participate. With your parents' permission, consider doing some laps around your backyard!

Here are some things you should remember to bring:

• running shoes (or shoes good to run in.)
• hat and sunscreen
• a water bottle

We aren't collecting donations at the school this year, but your parents/family can consider donating directly to the Terry Fox Foundation.

Have fun!

Mr. D:)