Happy First Day of School!

We had a wonderful first day of grade 2!
It was very exciting to meet everyone and see some friendly faces.

This morning we worked on creating our own name-tags for our coat hooks, working on self portraits and talking about classroom expectations for the year. We talked a lot about respect and how we can show respect towards others, learning and items within the classroom. This afternoon we read a story by Al Yankovic about a little boy with a big imagination and how it gets him into trouble with his new teacher. We liked hearing all of his stories and deciding whether they were true or poppycock (a new word from the story).

Some of our favourite things from today were:
- Learning a lot
- Writing
- That Ms. Binks has Minecraft books
- Reading Pokemon with Seth in the tent
- Making our helping hands
- Teachers
- Sorting the books
- The classroom tour
- Making ourselves in our self portrait
- Everything!

We sent home important forms in our purple home folders today. The forms need to be signed and returned by Friday September 4. Students need to return their purple folders tomorrow (and each day) to make sure that forms can be sent home.

Many students brought similar or the same lunch kits to school today. As a result, a few students mixed up their lunch kits. Please make sure the student's name is written clearly on the outside of the lunch kit to make sure the right kit is going home with the right person.