Easter....

What a great way to celebrate Easter, "The decorating of the eggs"...

Spirit Week...

Once again the students at Taylor, celebrated the right of passage into spring break with the annual "Spirit Week." A week filled with crazy activities, estimating games,and of course finished off with the infamous "Staff vs Student" relay. A wonderful week was had by all.

Lucky Charms 2012

Our third on line project was once again hosted by Jennifer Wagner. As a GROUP -- we will be trying to prove that there are more GREEN CLOVERS (you might call them hats) than any other shape in a box of Lucky Charms. Students were each given a baggie of Lucky Charms. Their job was to sort the marshmallow charm shapes into the following categories: Pots of Gold, Clovers (hats), Horseshoes, Stars, Moons, Rainbows, Hearts, and balloons. Once sorted, students were asked to count their shapes using tallies. This data was then displayed in two different types of graphs. Students created a bar graph using paper and pencil crayons, then using this same data, they created  a bar graph electronically on the website "Create a Graph". We also tabulated all of the students data into a classroom data bank. The classroom totals were submitted to Jennifer. Wow, not only did the students have fun, but we sure did a lot of math too. Check out our slide show. Thank you to our Grade Five helpers, Jackson, Erica, Brianna, Emily, and Jalen. Just a note to parents, the gold is fake, the leprechaun pipe was cleaned between pictures, and all pictures were taken in good fun!!

Busy Month....

The activities continued as 'I Love to Read" month wound down. We enjoyed milk and cookies with our librarian Mrs. Perchuk, who also ran another very successful Scholastic Book Fair! We also had a special guest reader via a Skype conference call. Miss Leah Dewhurst, Reading Specialist with the Prairie Valley School Division in Regina Saskatchewan, read to us the book "The Cheese" by Margie Palatini. To finish "I Love To Read Month, we partnered up with Mrs. Potten's Grade four class for a session of "Read to Someone." All in all the month was full of fun and exciting reading activities.

These are two videos of our Skype call with Miss Dewhurst. Video was shot with my iPhone 4s in our rather dark classroom. Thanks so much Miss Dewhurst for Skyping in as our guest reader!!!

"We Love Our Librarian...."

The activities continue for February as "I Love to Read" month hits full stride. The library is such an important part of any school, and what makes our library even more special is our librarian Mrs. Perchuk. She is absolutely awesome according to Grade 2B, she reads us fantastic stories, and shows us how to find and sign out books, we love Mrs. Perchuk.   She even took a picture of us with our favourite book, and put us on display  for the whole school community to see! Mrs. Perchuk is so nice, she even invited our former librarian, Mrs. Bredin, to come back  and share a story with us. Thanks Mrs. Perchuk for all you do for us, remember Grade 2B Loves you!!!

Mrs. Perchuk