Our last field trip AND last post of the Year

Yesterday our class went on our last field trip of the year.  It was an exciting day as we got to ride the AquaBus to Granville Island! 



here comes a boat



At the water park getting wet!

Just hanging around

running around and around

Me and my friends at granville island. I was having fun!

our classmates are  hugging  each other



Good-bye Grade Two!



Some Reflections of Grade Two

This year was a special year.  What I like in grade two was writing and doing math.  The book that I really like was Flat Stanley .  My favourite field trip was VanDusen garden because we got to look at bugs with nets.  What I really like to do in grade two is to do art because you get to draw and look at stuff.  My two best friends are C.F and A.L. They are my friends because C.F. plays with me and A.L. brings me to the bathroom when I have to go or when I ask her she will say yes every time I ask her.  Who I  will miss in grade two is going to be Ms. Quon, Milarosa, C.H., A.L., C.F., M.D. and M.G.  My favourite thing to do is P.E in the morning because you can do a lot of outside thing like frisbees, jump ropes, run and you can get fresh air outside.  I am still on favourite things still - spelling and Growing chefs - because for spelling you can put it in your spelling homework book so you can do homework at home.  For Growing chefs because you can plant stuff and water it and eat it when it is ready to eat.  I am going to miss this classroom and all my friends.  By C.W.

My Year - by M.G.
This is my year in Grade 2.
I liked the newspapers because I liked the
hot chocolate. 
My favourite field trip was Grouse Mountain because we got to go to the top of the cabin and pretend to sleep.
My favourite things to do are P.E. because it is fun, math because it's problem solving, art because you're learning how to shape things, science because you're learning what happens in the world, and socials because you're learning new things.
But my favourite, favourite thing to do is reading.
Some of my special friends were:  C.H., K.M., A.C., M.D., and A.L.
What I will miss in grade 2 is...
ALL OF GRADE TWO!


I Will Miss Grade Two - by A.Y.
My favourite trip was Van Dusen.  I went to the maze and I have fun.  My favourite book is Let Me In.  My favourite story is "The Three Little Pigs".  My favourite thing to do is gym.  Why?  We need to run.  My favourite thing to do is Growing Chef.  Why?  We need to chop.  My special friend is R.R. because R. R. play with me.  I will miss Ms. Quon and Milarosa.  I feel sad.

More Reflections of our Year...

Remembering Grade - by M.C.

I'm here to write about a fantastic year.  Can you guess which Grade this is?  Well just in case you didn't know... it's Grade 2!  I liked Grade 2 because it was fun.  My favourite part was choosing and field trips.  the trips we went on were Science World, Van Dusen Gardens, Grouse Mountain, skating.  I liked all of them the same though.  The first field trip we went on was the one when we went to Grouse mountain.  We went on the gondola and saw bears (Grinder and Coola) there.  The second field trip was skating.  In skating I zoomed all over the place.  It was really fun.  My third field trip was science world.  In science world I played lots and learned science.  My fourth field trip was Van Dusen Gardens.  By the way, on June 21st, 2012 we had a potluck.  We  ate lots in the potluck.  The day after was June 22nd (today).  I can't tell you what happened on that day because that day's today!  I have one more thing to say "BYE - BYE" GRADE 2!


My Year - by C.H.

I am going to miss Grade 2.  What I liked the most about grade 2 was the classroom and the field trips.  The best I liked about the classroom because there are so many books to read that I love to read.  My favourite book in grade 2 was Itchy, Itchy, Chicken Pox.  My favourite field trip - I went with my class was going glow-in-the-dark-bowling at Grandview bowling lanes.  That was about my 25th time going bowling there.  I am going to miss all my special friends. They are : A.L., K.C., M.C.   I like K.C. and M.C. because basically every single day they come to the library with me to get my holds.  Another of my friends are A.L. because she takes me to the office when I am hurt. I wish I had everyone in my class right now to be in grade 3.


Memories- by M.D.

I just found out in grade 1 I could not read my writing.  There was no spaces and no periods (but only 1 time).  Ms.Quon has been teaching me for two years now and now I can do so much.  In grade 1 I could not read.  But now I can read.  In grade 1 I could not write.  But now I can.  If I could not write I would not be doing this right now.  And now I have  spaces and periods and capitals too. In grade 1 I only did 35 letters.  Now  in grade 2 I need 3 pages to write on.  But it is fun to write all the time.  And to read too.  It  was great being in grade 1 and 2.  I think I am going to be good in grade 3.


Our   Year  -  by   J.E.

I  am  going  to   miss  grade  two.  I   love  math.   I  learned  to  do  plus and subtract.  Plus   is   easy   for  me   now  and   subtract   was  hard  for  me  but  now  it  is  not.  My   favourite  field  trip   was  VanDusen  Gardens because   I like  the  maze.  When  I go   there  I can  find  my  way   through.  My   favourite  thing  to  do  is  reading,  art  and   playing.  I  like  reading   because  it   teaches  us  how  to do  writing  and  it  makes  you  think.  And  art  makes  you  imagine  things  like   dinosaurs  and  cavemen  and  bugs.  And  play  is  learning  to  share  things  like  books  because  if  you  have  too  many  books   to   play  with  you  can  give   them   away.  When   I  am   going  away  to   grade   three  I  am  going   to  miss   M. D.   who  is  one   of   my   best  friends  because   she  is   generous  to  me  and  dependable.  And best of all is she is kind.  M.G. is one of my friends because she is dependable and kind to me.  I will miss Ms. Quon and Milarosa and M.D. and M.G. and the field trips and choosing and jobs.

Our Year – by A.L. 

I am sad I am going to grade three.  My favourite thing to do is doing math because you will learn add and take away. My favourite trip was Van Dusen garden because there is a big maze and you will get lost.  I like was eating lunch because there are different food .  My special friends are C.F and C.W because they care about me and always play with me and when I get hurt they take me to the office.  The most I will miss is my teacher because Ms. Quon was my favourite teacher and she teaches me math , writing , spelling , reading, art, science, and social studies.  When I am in grade three I hope I remember all the thing I did in grade two.

By R.R.

I am in grade two and it was cool.  I am about to leave grade two.  I liked math.   I learned to do takeaways. They are easy now.   My favourite trip was Britannia.  I went skating.  I can skate backwards and forwards.  At school my favourite things to do are math and reading  and art.  I know how to read and paint.  My special friends were Anthony and Max and Joey.  I like them because they are my friends.  I will miss choosing a lot!!  

The Maze

On June the 14th we went to Van Dusen Gardens.  First we took a picture with the class.  Then we went into this weird place and we had a snack there.  After that we were ready to head off to the maze.  When we got there Ms.Quon said "go into the maze".  We ran into the maze like crazy and pushed each other.  When we were in the maze we ran as fast as we could into different parts of the maze.  We got stuck again and again until we went to the exit.  Then we timed each other and raced each other. 

One kid ran through the maze in 49 seconds!  It was a fun     experience!  It was so fun, when Ms.Quon said'' time to go'' everybody said AWWWWWWW!  Then we went to pond peering at pond peering we had two groups.  In pond peering we laid our bellies on the mats and we started pond peering. Some people found dameselfly nymph, some blood worms and some elastic bands.  Boy, no day can get any better than this!  When we left we were really sad.  All we wanted to do was go back.  That was the best day of my life!

Van Dusen Gardens

                                                   Yesterday, we went to Van Dusen Garden with our class.  We went to the maze first.  I had a hard time going into the maze at first. When we went in a couple of times we felt confortable with  it.  We timed each other with the adult's phones.  My friend  made it all around in 49 seconds but I made it 2 seconds later. Do you know what time it was?  One of our longest times was 4 minutes at first. Once I crashed into a bush when I  was not watching the dead end while I was running. (It hurted a lot and I think I got a sliver.)  I always called'' Dead End''!!!  Basically everywhere I went there was a dead end.

One of our other things we did  was Pond Peering.  We have two group leaders, they were Jacky and Susan.  First you had to fill your small container half way  full of water.  Then you had to dip your net that the leaders gave you and do a 8 in the water and then scoop the net back up. After you do that, you flip the net inside out and then shake it. When you are done, you look and find your bugs that you caught. We found: a boatman, a damselfly nymph, dragonfly nymph,  mosquito larva, and nematode.  Would you like to go to Van Dusen Garden?

Splat the cat

Today Cristine from B.L.G came to read to our class.  The book that she read to us was called "Splat the Cat". The perfect present for Mom and Dad.  The book is about Splat the cat and his sister and his brother made a present for Mom & Dad.  Splat made little fish and his sis made a flower with a pin on it and his brother made a castle.  Then they thought they could do better.  If you want to read the whole book you need to get the book.  

The Growing chefs

Today the Growing Chefs came to our classroom. There was a new chef named Chef Wouter. He was very tall. Later on we made stirfry and soup. The ingredients that we need are mushrooms, broccoli, spinach, peas/pea shoots, beans, dill, peppers, oil, carrots, celery, onions, garlic and the most inportant one is LOVE. Some people liked it and some people don't like it that much. You should taste it. First we chop the vegetables up. But we had to make a tiger claw. So we don't cut our own fingers. When we finish chopping the vegetables we get to put the vegetables in the pan and it smells very Good! After that we get to eat it with the whole class and it was very  very very very very tasty! It was exciting and surprising day.  We hope you enjoy it and  if u make it you might enjoy it!

Stirfry and soup

Today, was a very special day because the Growing Chefs come every other wednesday but today there was a guest chef. His name was Chef Wouter. Chef Wouter is very very tall. He can almost touch the top of the door and he is super silly because he turned the chair the other way and sat down with another chair on top of the other chair.  Anyways, we made stirfry and soup.  It took a long time for us to make the soup and the stirfry.  There was four stations. It was a cutting station, harvesting station, peeling station and cracking peas station.  My favourite station was the cutting station. 

Maps of Canada

This is one of the maps that we made of Canada.  Canada has ten provinces and three territories.  The provinces are:  British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and the three territories are Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut territories.

Our Garden

Our class has planted some beans with the 
Growing Chefs.  We had to water them
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  We
had to sing to the plants when we watered. We had to wait and wait until they became beans.  Today we will be eating and
cooking the beans.  Also we are going to
chop them up.  We think it would taste crunchy.  We can't
wait to eat them up (yum yum)!

  

Unit 27 spelling words

These are the class spelling words:

school

children

how

after

now

teacher

love

happy

brown

town

catch

These are the challenge words and kid words...

owl

shower

heart

change

chalk

Wow!

Hi!

Hey!    Please practice these words for the spelling test!!!!!!!!!!

Growing Chefs' Salad

On Wednesday May 30th the Growing Chefs came to my classroom.  First we do the garden talk of course!  Next we were learning about vitamins.  Carrots has vitamin A.  Vitamin A helps your eyes see very good in the dark.  The next vitamin is Vitamin B.  Vitamin B helps you have strong muscles and even helps you have a very good memory.  Third is vitamin C.  Vitamin C helps you to stay healthy.  The fourth one is Vitamin K.  Vitamin K helps us grow tall.  The very last one is sunflower seed.  Sunflower seed gives you energy.  B, C, K.  Try to guess what are the vegetables are!  When we finished the vitamin, my whole class ate lettuce, carrot, spinach, beets and sunflower seed.  Some people liked it but some people didn't like it.  I only liked it a little bit.  My favourite vegetable was sunflower seed.  When my class finished eating the vegetables some of my classmates brang some of the vegetables home to share it with their family.  I never had a fun day like that before!

Chef
Today we learned about vegetable vitamins. Carrots have vitamin-A. We made salad. I put in carrots and seed and spinach. I ate it.  I don't like it because the purple vegetable tasted disgusting.  I like growing chef in our classroom.







Now... another clever tale of our growing chef's day...

"Today the grow..... wait.... you should know what their name is if you read our blog.  And you probably read our blog so tell me... WHAT!  You don't know!  OK, fine.  I'll tell you their name - it's GROWING CHEFS!!!!  Now, where was I.... shhhhh!  I'm thinking.  I might be a little slow but still do not disturb me!  Okay, thinking, thinking.  GOT IT!!  Today the G-R-O-W-I-N-G  C-H-E-F-S, and in easier words, "Growing Chefs" came to our classroom.  Today we did something veeeerrrrrryyyyy special.  The first thing we did on this "special" growing chef day was learn about different kinds of vitamins.  Did you know that plants have vitamins inside them?  Well now you do!  Shocked aren't you.  How could plants possibly hold vitamins?  THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY HANDS!!!  Now I'll tell you what all the vita-zzzzzzzzz, snore zzzzzzz snore.  Is my story really that boring??! (Sigh)  I knew having a pretend audience was a bad idea!  Now I'm go - zzzzzz snore - CUT, CUT, CUT.  I'm sorry video reporter.  We have to cut because this guy keeps falling to sleep!  Now - 3, 2, 1, let's turn on the video camera - BOO!  Ow. Stop throwing tomatoes at me.  Okay, I'll be a vitamin explainer instead of a comedian... YAY!!  You're hurting my ears.  Chill audience, chill!  If you give me a chance to talk about gardening I would.  That's better.  All quiet except for the guy sleeping in the second row.  Now, who's ready to talk about vitamins.  WE ARE!!!!  That's the spirit.  What vitamin do you want to start with?  Vitamin A!  Good choice random person!  Let's talk about vitamin A and no screaming.  I'm getting a headache.  Do you know what vitamin A helps you with? NOOOO!  Shhhh!  I don't want any more exclamation marks in this story!  Wait, you're writing a ... Now, let's talk about vitamin A (I plug my ears because I don't want my pretend audience to yell "yeah" right in the middle of the story, but they didn't say anything.  All I could hear was a cricket so I unplugged my hands from my ears).  That's it!  I'm closing the curtains.  That's it, no more show for you audience.  There, it's going to be a lot easier without an audience.  Where was I?  Oh yes, I'm about to tell you what vitamin A does... well I will tell you what all the vitamins do.  Vitamin A is good for your eyes, vitamin B makes your memory better, vitamin C makes you healthy,  Vitamin E gives you energy and vitamin F isn't next.  Vitamin K is, and vitamin K makes you grow and that day wasn't over yet!  We made special salad too.  I will tell you the ingredients - 1 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 cup red wine vinegar, 1/4 cup liquid honey, 1tsp dijon mustard, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper and that's the salad's special dressing called "Honey vinagrette salad dressing and you don't need to know the salad because you can make any salad you want and put the dressing on it!  Hope you enjoyed my story!"

Lost in London

Today Jennifer read us a book called The dog detectives lost in  London.   In the beginning the six ravens played hide-and-seek with the bats.  Thor was the best hider.  The ravens were good at hiding too.  All of the ravens had a different spot.  One was at the clock in London (the real clock), the other one was at the castle, the third one was at the park, the fourth was at the Trafalgar Square, the fifth one was at the biggest dome called St. Paul's Cathedral.  Oh and we almost forgot, Thor was at the Tower of London.  We are going to tell you the hardest riddle:  "What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has a T in the middle?"   Not telling! 

unit 25

These are the words for this ...week.
put
thing
friend
airplane
lived
looked
played
let's
can't
asked
truck

Here are the challenge words .  Try to study the words .

puzzle
nothing
stayed
friendly
skated

Landforms of Canada

We have been learning about Canada.  Today we made some landforms like peninsulas, valleys, hills, mountains,
lowlands and islands.
We made landforms out of play foam.

Kate & Pippin



Today  a new BLG reader came. Her  name is Rosie.  She read us a book called Kate & Pippin.  This book is about a deer lost in the woods. But one day a  dog owner brought her home.  The owner gave the deer  a name because the owner Isobel thinks  that the deer will stay for a while.  So  Isobel named her Pippin. When Isobel fed Pippin at first  she bit the bottle. After a while she knew how to drink the milk from the bottle. Now Pippin and the dog Kate are best friends.  Did you like the book?



Spelling Unit 26

We are doing unit 26 this week.  Next week we will go back and do unit 25.


Here are our words this week.  Please practice them.


-named


-over


-liked


-mad 


-could


-very


-would


-into


-who


-what


-why


and these are the challenge words...


surprised


excited


which


whose


ready

Our food with moods!



This is my pepper.   It is green.  My pepper is happy because she .... has friends.

 Yesterday  we made a face on a pepper. We had red, orange, yellow and green peppers. First we got a pepper and we sat at our desks.  On our desks there were toothpicks, macaroni and lots of lettuce.  We used it to make a face on a pepper. Look at those colorful peppers. Enjoy!


My pepper is a capsican.  She is feeling happy because it is always sunny.

I am happy but I look mad.

 I am happy because I am in the sun.




My pepper is  feeling mad because someone hit me and it  fell on my arms.  Now my arms are broken.





My pepper is very mad.  When he is mad, he can hit a pepper!.



My pepper is mean .

Why our moms are special...

"My mom is special because...

- she takes care of me

- she hugs and kisses me

- she helps me

- she tucks me in

- she took me to Legoland

- she sometimes tucks me into bed when I sleep

-she  takes  me to school

-she  reads  with   me

-she  makes breakfast for me

-she cooks for  me and my sister

-she tells me stories

-she helps me with my homework

-she takes me to school everyday

-she helps me in  math for homework

-she buys me  yummy food

-she gives me stuff to survive

- she helps  me when I'm sick"




Happy Mothers' Day!!!



flowers for our moms

Kale Chips

Today we made kale chips.

First we got our kale.

 Then we ripped the kale up into pieces.

 Next we put the stem into a bowl to compost it.

After that we put the kale into a bowl and Ms.Quon added some oil. 

Last but not least we put it in the oven.

Milarosa and Gerri watched them while we worked.

When they were done we ate them.

They were DELICIOUS!! 

 

Spelling Unit 23

We are learning about contractions...

-when

-where

-morning

-I'm

-don't

-it's

-didn't

-that's

-said

-found

The challenge words this week are...

who's

where's

says

answer

groundhog

Unit 22 spelling

Here are the words for this week...

was

with

were

riding

are

coming

plays

likes

swimming

for 

Unit 21

We are learning about base words and ending words

fishing

walking

playing

going 

comes

makes

live

give 

then

them

These are the challenge words ...

talking

goldfish

speaking

whispering

asks

feels

tastes

smells

Please practice these spelling words.

Unit 20 spelling words

Unit 20

This week we are learning about compound words.  Compound words are words like 'something' - they have 2 words that yo can put together to make a new word...


outside
birthday
sometimes
mouse
his
her
house
yesterday
something
today

The challlenge words this week...

sombody
underneath
outdoors
butterfly
lighthouse

Randy Riley's Really Big Hit

Once there was a boy called Randy Riley.  He was at the park  playing  Baseball.  He was very bad  at playing Baseball because he did not practice.   Then he went  home on his bike because he did not like it.  He was playing in his room pretending that his robots were playing baseball  with him.  Then he discovered that a 

meteorite  was heading their way.    Then the next morning Riley got up bright and early and built a robot.   His mother and father heard the news on the radio and spilt their breakfast.  The robot went  down the street and ripped the chimney off a building, whacked the Meteorite, ka-boom back into space.  Then all the people in town were thankful for Riley and his robot.

unit 19

Here the words -


-this


-come


-there


-fish


-that


-some


-wish


-look


-their


-took

These are the challenge words ...

-brook
-fisher
-somewhere
-these
-third

Easter in the classroom

About 2 weeks ago we made our Easter baskets and we planted grass. Ms.Quon gave us a cup to stick pieces of paper on it. We have planted our grass for a long time. Look how big it is now!  It is going to be good.  The stuff in our baskets are:  Marshmallow peeps, Easter eggs, chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies.   Ms.Quon put them there.  I think the children are going to love it.  Do you think?

piggy bunny

Today Jennifer read a story called Piggy bunny.  It was about a pig named Liam that wanted to be the Easter bunny.  All the  people in his family said that he couldn't be the Easter bunny.  Liam practiced how to be a bunny. One day he visited his grandparents and his grandma ordered him a bunny suit off the internet so he could be the Easter bunny.  At the end he was good at it.

Growing Chefs

Growing Chefs

Today our class is starting to plant food to eat . 

Three chefs helped us planted peas, beans, lettuce, beets, arugula, radishes and shingiku . When we started growing chefs we were very  excited!  We were very excited because we got to plant a garden with food that we can eat!  We had to poke a hole in the dirt so we can put a seed in.  After we had to water it so it will grow!  Our plants need time to grow.  Also sun and fresh air like us.  It is very fun to have a garden because you can grow food in it and eat it!