May 27-31-Special Visitors and Spelling

Well hopefully by now you have heard about our "visitors"-butterfly larvae. We put each larvae into it's own little container along with some food. Once there they will grow and form a chrysalis. Once this is formed we will transfer them into a large mesh like container and wait for the butterfly to emerge from the chrysalis. I was very relieved to get to school this morning and see the larvae are all still moving and have grown! Many have almost doubled in size. We are studying animal groups and life cycles in science so this was a great start to get us excited about the unit.

Today we learned about the various jobs that ants do. Ask your child about what they would be doing if they were an ant!

And just to remind me of another animal group, I came across this little guy on my way home from school today. He was just on the hill path in the park across the street from the school. When I came up close to take the picture, he curled up his tail up over his body. Grade Twos-why would the salamander do this?

We are back to having a spelling list this week.
Group 1-able  table  simple  people  grumble  bubble
Group 2-able  table  simple  people  grumble  bubble  single tangle double sample turtle
Group 3- adore/adorable, like/likable, love/lovable, remove/removable, value/valuable,  disable, vegetable,  
               This group will be studying how adding the suffix able can change the meaning of a root word. We
                are also gaining experience in identifying which words have a root word.


Just one note about our year end excursion to Regent Park Pool. If you haven't been there before, it is a safe place to take younger children swimming. The pool starts at paddling depth (8 inches??) and gets progressively deeper. This way children that are not yet comfortable swimming can relax and enjoy the water. Children that want to go down the slide must prove that they can swim the whole width of the pool. The lifeguards are very strict about this.