Mrs.
Boekhout - Classroom 2
Open House September
Open House is such a wonderful time!
Amost all the students and their parents come to visit!
The children do a fantastic job of introducing their parents to their
Grade 2 teacher, Mrs. Boekhout.
The parents are excited to see all the hard work that the children have
done in less than one month of school.
...and... of course, all the pets and the stuffies have a grand time as
well!
Here's your chance to take
a second "walk" through the classroom!
These are some of the things you might have seen (every year it's a little
bit different).
Our Classroom
We are in Classroom #2. Welcome to our Classroom door!
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Terry Fox Run
One of our first whole-school activities is to learn about Terry Fox and
then do the Run!
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Calendar Time
Every day we do activities in the "Calendar
Corner"
There are lots of different ways to record the date and the number of
days of school.
We also have Missing Tooth poems, songs,
and charts here.
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Here is our Pet Centre.
In the classroom we have anole lizards, tropical fish,
several kinds of walking sticks, fire-bellied newts,
and our three leopard geckos (Spotty, Speedy, and Lucy take turns coming).
We raise mealworms to feed the lizards and we often have visiting animals
like caterpillars.
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Stuffie
Shelf
Our stuffies are an important part of the classroom.
They read with us and write and more!
Some of our classroom stuffies have been all over the world!
They even have their own website!
http://www.teacherwebshelf.com/canozconnection/
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Sometimes we have
special visitors... in 2008 Mrs. Lawson came all the way from Australia!
She brought Wilbur Wombat to visit us, as well as some other Australian
mini-stuffies.
Haida Bear has gone to Australia to meet HER class!
Computer & Ornithologist
Center
We have two computers, a PC and
an iMac, so this table can squish in two people at once.
Mrs. Boekhout has a PC computer of her own too, so she can show things
to the whole class.
Our Ornithologist (Bird) Center is here too. We belong to Canada's BirdFeeder
Watch program.
We watch the birds that come to our bird feeders and put their pictures
on the whiteboard.
We put up seeds and suet in our tree and we have a window feeder with
shelled sunflower.
We are learning to recognizedifferent birds
(chickadees, juncos, starlings, crows, Stellar's Jays, flickers, downy
woodpeckers and more!)
Horticulturist and Theme
Center
Our Classroom Horticulturist takes
care of the plants in the classroom.
We have a special plant gro-light on a timer.
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Displays go on the counter under
the window.
Our Fall Display has lots of seeds, cones,
leaves, and gourds.
We will learn to recognize different cones (like Douglas Fir, Pine, Spruce,
Alder)
and leaves (like Broadleaf Maple, Vine Maple, Tulip Tree, Alder, Chestnut).
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The Sanctuary
Our School has a special outdoor
courtyard called the Sanctuary.
We will help to keep it beautiful by planting bulbs and flowers.
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"Nestor Pride"
Motto
Our School has a special motto.
Be... Be... Be... eNcouraging, rEsponsible, Safe, Trustworthy, hOnest,
Respectful.
We also learn how to use our WITS.
W - walk away, I - ignore, T - talk about it, S - seek help
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Meteorologist Center
Every day our Meteorologist records
the weather, temperature, cloud cover.
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Message Board
There are always messages for us
on the whiteboard.
We also work on different language
and spelling skills every day.
Message Center
We can write letters to each other,
to Mrs. B., and even to the Stuffies!
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Word Wall
Every week we learn five new "Word
Wall Doozers".
At the end of the week these words go up on the Blue Word Wall.
We are NEVER allowed to spell those words wrong again in Gr. 2... because
they are right on the wall!
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Mrs. B. Box
Mrs. Boekhout has a box on her desk
for special notes from home or field trip notices and money..
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Desk Map
We try to take time to tidy our
desks just like the Desk Map.
If you put everything in the right place, you can find it without even
looking!.
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Monitor Jobs
After we learn about all the Monitor
Jobs, we will start taking turns doing them.
Everyone will get a whole week doing each and every job.
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HRC - Home Reading Club
Every time we have read for 20 nights
we get a certificate.
When we get to 100 nights of reading, we get to pick a book!!!
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Hallway Displays
We're a Rainbow of Personality!
We got to make a big display in September!
Everyone wrote a little fact sheet about themselves
and drew a "Me in September" picture.
(This is last year's display.)
Who
Am I?
This display was really fun to create!
First of all, we took a good look in the mirror to check out our faces.
We were amazed to find out how many parts we needed to cut out just to
make an accurate eye!
(white eyeball, coloured iris, black pupil, eyelashes, and eyebrows!)
Then we wrote clues about ourselves on a "Who Am I?" sheet...
Division
9 Loves School!
We all wrote about our favourite activities at school in KidPix at the
computer lab.
Then we coloured in the pictures back in the classroom.
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Nutrition!
We know that you need to eat nutritious foods to stay healthy and be smart
in school!.
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Isn't Classroom 2 a BUSY place!!!
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