Good afternoon! We had a great day in room 221 today! We started off by learning a new reading strategy called Backup and Reread the text. Ms. Gallant had to back up and reread parts of the Paper Bag Princess so that she could understand what she was reading. Taylor said if you are confused and do not back up and reread you will not know what the book is about! Well done Taylor, that is exactly what this strategy is all about! The class is building their stamina during read to self. Today the class read for 7 minutes without interruption! That certainly filled my bucket! In Math the grade twos worked on skip counting double digit numbers and also solved problems by reading a sandwich pictograph! After lunch we watched a short video about communities. What is a community boys and girls? (A place where people live and work together).  The grade two children are getting the hang of writing in their agendas each day. It is tricky copying notes from the SMART Board into their books but, I am proud that they are trying their best! There were 3 Scholastic book order forms that went home today. The due date for them to be returned is October 10. I hope you all have a lovely evening! The sun is shining so go out and enjoy it while you can!