March 31

Annie tickets were sent home today.  Please return as soon as possible as they tickets are available on a first come first serve basis.

We have started reading one of my favourite novels.  It is called Charlotte's Web.  This book ties in perfectly with our Small Flying and Crawling Animals unit.

Here are some pictures of the kids working hard comparing insects and other small crawling critters.

In writing we are working on comparing 2 different things.  Many students are currently comparing the similarities between winter and summer.  This writing project ties in nicely with our current Science unit.  

Today in math we started talking about and comparing 2d and 3d shapes.  Our next step will be to sort shapes using 2 different attributes.  We have finished talking about how to read a calendar (for now).  Please please practice this skill at home with your child.  Ask them questions such as:  How many is 2 weeks from today?   How many days was 1 week ago?  What day of the week will it be in one week etc.  Thank you for your support with this.

Mrs. Kinsman read us a book today called Going Places.  Tomorrow will officially be her last day.  We sure will miss her but we wish her good luck at her new school.

Next week we will be starting an inquiry project about bees.  This is going to be a lot of fun.  Stay tuned for more details.

Also, please check out our website.  I have added some new photos.

Gymnastics starts on Monday.  Swimming starts on the 18.  April 22 is Mr. S's last day :(  and also Sophia's birthday :).  I know Mr. S is going to miss us. 

Have a wonderful evening.

P.S.  Don't forget that tomorrow is April Fool's Day :)

Welcome Back

Great first day back after school.  We had an amazing time hanging out with Canada's most decorated Olympic athlete Cindy Klassen.  Not only is Cindy an amazing athlete she is truly a genuinely kind and caring person.  We spent part of the afternoon making thank you cards for Cindy.  I know she will appreciate them.

We have started talking about Small Flying and Crawling Animals.  This is one of my favourite units in Science.  It is a great time to start this as Spring is here and many little critters will be starting to move about.  

Next week we will be starting gymnastics.  Swimming starts on April 18.  One more swimming permission form will be coming home soon.

Have a wonderful day!

March 14

Today was our first day of our Reading Week festivities.  We celebrated by dropping everything and reading numerous time throughout the day.  Don't forget to wear your pajamas tomorrow.  No stuffies please.

At 9:00 tomorrow we will be watching Alexander's Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day.  Should be fun.

Pledge forms are due on Wednesday.

We started our talking about our wonderful weekends.  Sounds like everyone was very busy.

Today during Writer's Workshop we continued with our non-fiction writing projects.  We learned some new words today which included: Diet, Habitat, Appearance and Enemies.  Many students used these words to help them organize their writing.

In Math we continued to work on reading calendar and we also talked about Mathletics.

Have a wonderful evening.

March 11

That was an amazing assembly.  Thank you to all the parents who joined in on our celebration.  We knew we would bring Mrs. Kinsman to tears.  Thank you Cameron for being prepared with the box of kleenex.

This morning we had 3 guests in our classroom who came to observe us working during Daily 5 (they are from another CBE school).  I heard over and over from these teachers how amazing my students are.  They could not believe how well they work independently.  They even told me that there grade 3/4s could not do what these grade 1/2 students do.  I am so proud of these kids.

Today during writing we working on Non-Fiction description.  We chose a non-fiction topic, made a web of facts and then wrote a short paragraph.  We will be working on this over the next few weeks.

We are still working on reading a calendar and relating the number of days to a week.  Any extra practice at home would be great.

Have a wonderful weekend.

March 10

Wow!  What a windy day.

Very Important:  Tomorrow is our assembly. It starts at 11:10 not 11:15.  It is a short presentation of about 20 minutes.

Just a reminder that tonight is the final night of our Student Led Learning Walks. I will be attending tonight's event.

Next week is Read A Thon week.
Monday - D.E.A.R - drop everything and read.
Tuesday - Pyjama Day and Book and Movie Club.
Wednesday is Buddy Read - we will be reading with Ms. Handelsman's class.
Thursday - Mrs. Kinsman will be reading to us.

Please return gymnastics forms as soon as possible.  Also, swim forms were sent home today.

On the post prior to this one I attached a link to a calendar game we have been working on as a class.  Here it is again.

http://www.abcya.com/calendar_word_problems.htm

Have a wonderful evening.

Link to Fun Calendar Game

http://www.abcya.com/calendar_word_problems.htm

March 7

Good afternoon families.

Some important reminders:
1. Our assembly is on Friday at 11:10am.  You are welcome to attend.  Grace and Cameron along with 2 of our buddies will be hosting our assembly.  We hope to see you there.
2. Wednesday and Thursday evening are our student led learning walks starting at 6pm.  We hope to see you there.
3. Please book an appointment for Parent teacher conferences next week.
4. If you are still interested in buying your child's Tanga Art piece, they are for sale for $10.00.

Have a wonderful evening.  Book orders are due.  

March 1

I started to write the date for this post and I wrote February..... oh no...It's March already.  Wow time is flying.  We had a wonderful first day of March.

We had 2 rounds of Daily 5.  We talked about the letter C being a tricky letter because sometimes it says /s/ and sometimes it says /k/.  Please ask your child if they know when c usually says /s/ in the middle of a word. Hint: when c is followed by i, e and y.

Today in writer's workshop we continued to work on our re-tells.  We brainstormed a list of works to help us organize our events.  Some of these words include first, second, after,before, next, then and finally.

In math we worked on a project around the book 12 ways to get to 11.  This project will be on display next week during Student Led Learning Walks.

At the end of the day we worked with our buddies on our assembly.