Popcorn Friday

Popcorn Friday

Parent council will be selling bags of Kernels Popcorn at school on Friday, June 24 in the morning.  There will be four flavors to choose from: Buttersalt, Dill Pickle, Cheese, and Caramel.  They will be selling for $2.00 each to take home on Friday. If you would like your child to purchase a bag please send a toonie to school with them on Friday morning.  In addition, any popcorn that is left over, will be sold on the school compound starting at 11:45 am on June 24^th.

June 20

Tomorrow is the first day of summer but as Reid says "School is not over"!

Even though there are only 5 more days of school, we continue to work hard here in Room 73.  Our routines are the same and we have many things on the go.  During Writer's Workshop we have been working on writing letters to our future selves, making goals for the summer and writing about our plans for the summer.

Today the grade 2s reviewed representing double digit numbers and the grade 1s worked on math daily 3.  Last week the grade 2s also made a board game to help them with their double digit addition strategies.

This afternoon we went outside for gym and had a few extra minutes to play in the sun.

Just a reminder:  Thursday June 23 is our field trip to Telus Spark.  Please return your field trip form.  We are leaving the building at 11:30 and will return around 2:15 - 2:30.  The program we are participating in is called Math in Motion.  We will be learning about numbers and patterns using our bodies.

Thursday evening from 6-7 is our Celebration of Learning.  Come out and see all the amazing work we have done on our "If I were a bee" projects.

Report cards go home on Friday!

It is Sports Day on Monday June 27.  We will be participating in sports activities in the afternoon only.  In the morning we will do fun activities with our buddy class.  We were hoping to play some board games and/or watch a movie.  Ms. Handelsman and I were thinking of Zootopia. If anyone has this dvd that they are willing to lend us for that day, please send me an email at klsloane@cbe.ab.ca.

Have a wonderfully warm evening.

Field trip date was wrong.

I am so sorry that I typed in the wrong date for our fieldtrip to Telus Spark.  The date is actually June 23.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

June 7

We have started our soccer residency this week.  Thank goodness our gym time was changed to the morning as it sure would have been hot this afternoon.

On Thursday we will be working with an Artist in Residence named Jenny Dale.  We are making something special for our Dads.

Also I have booked a field trip to Telus Spark on June 21 for the afternoon.  We will be doing a program called math in motion.  I am just waiting for confirmation that a bus is available.  I am looking for 3 parents who would be willing to accompany us on this trip.  We would leave the school around 11:30 and return around 2:30.  Please email me if you are available.  All volunteers are welcome to ride the bus with us.

The afternoon of June 21 is also our Celebration of Learning.  Our class will hopefully visit the other classrooms in the morning.  Parents are still welcome to come in the evening.  For this celebration we are working with our grade 3/4 buddies on a project which represents our inquiry statement "If I were a bee I would want you know.....".

Have a wonderful evening.  Keep cool:)

May 31

Today is the last day of May.  Can you believe that tomorrow is June?

We are working on writing riddles about objects or places that we know.  We are writing 3 detailed clues in hopes that others will be able to make a guess.

In Math, we worked on writing word problems.  This was a lot of fun as they kids became very creative.

Today in gym we played scooter hockey which was so much fun and good exercise.

I am sending home a copy of our class picture.

May 27

Happy Friday Families!

This morning we had our final visit with baby Nova, her Mom Megan and Dad Jack.  We are so that this is our last visit but we look forward to seeing her on the playground with her brothers and watching her grow.

Your child will be coming home with a Roots of Empathy Certificate.

We had an assembly this morning and we learned a lot about bugs.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Garden Bed Planting with Eco Team

A Message from the EcoTeam, regarding our Garden Bed Planting event:  Our special event on Saturday willl need to be postponed due to rain. The forecast reads a very high Percent of Precipitation, and the rains are expected to go all weekend.  With that in mind, planting will be very difficult.

So, because of the rain,  we will be inviting students to help us plant, instead, on Wednesday at lunch time and after school.  If families and members of the community want to join us, they are welcome to stop by at 11:15, but they must let Ms. Goldberg know.    

Please contact Ms. Goldberg at amgoldberg@cbe.ab.ca .

May 26

Today was a great day.  I have finished my reading tests and am back doing guided reading.  Today we learned about the saying "I have a bone to pick".  We listened to a story balled Big Al and then we wrote about something like and then we had choose something we did not like about the story or something we would change. 

We had music this morning. Hayden and Kale got to choose a song to listen to as a way of celebrating their recent birthdays.  We also learned a new song called Hey Brother.

After lunch we learned a new math strategy which we call in the middle.  Here is the question.  Please ask your child how they would use the strategy in the middle to solve this question.  6+8.

We went outside for gym and played kickball and then we worked with our 3/4 buddies on our Bee projects.  We are starting a project called "If I were a bee I would want you to know........."  

Tomorrow is our final visit with baby Nova.

Have a wonderful evening.

May 25

Yellowfish Road painting project was a huge success.  Thank you to Mrs. Hanney, Mrs. Herbert and Mr. Gugojl for volunteering today.  After a little bit of practice we definitely improved our artistic creations.  Please check out our classroom webpage for pictures.

Kindergarten and new family orientation in gym tomorrow at 6pm

Friday is trout release day at Sibbald Meadows Pond at 2:30pm.

Eco Team event on Saturday.  Here is a message from the Eco Team:

The EcoTeam is excited to invite you to our next event, to inaugurate our garden beds, this Saturday!   We plan to plant the plants, and water the garden. We invite families, and members of the community, to join us.  We thank The Calgary Foundation Neighbour Grants for this opportunity to see our wish, of growing vegetables to serve the community, come alive!  Please let Ms. Goldberg know if you are able to attend or lend a hand in any way – amgoldberg@cbe.ab.ca. Bring a hand shovel and a small watering can, if you have one!  The event will probably last only 1 hour, or so, so please arrive on time! 

In gym we are learning to play kick ball.  This is a lot of fun and it sure is great to be outside.

Have a wonderful evening.

May 17

This afternoon we had a practice lockdown.  It was a surprise lockdown which I did not know about.  The kids did amazing.  They moved to our safety spot quickly and quietly.  

For writer's workshop we will be working on writing responses to stories we hear.  I read the book Say Hello to Zorro and the kids are working on creating a spinning wheel that discusses the characters, setting and plot.  We are working on summarizing stories and writing about the main events that take place.

This afternoon in math we did Mathletics.  This was a huge hit!

Family dance is Thursday evening.

No school Friday or Monday.

June 9, 13 and 14 we will be working with an artist in residence Jenny Dale.  Dads, please note.  Your father's day present will be a few days late :)

May 16

We had the most amazing experience today.  We had the opportunity to skype with my brother in law who is currently working in Fort Mac.  We were able to ask him questions about the destruction he sees and what it is like being there to help.

This morning we talked about our amazing weekends.  We are still working on poetry writing during writer's workshop.

In music we practice our song that we wrote about Fort Mac.  Hopefully we will be able to record it and showcase it on our school website.  Last week I added some new pictures to our classroom website.

After lunch we worked on our math.  Grade 2s are still working on double digit additon and subtraction.

In gym we started to learn the rules for Kickball.

Just a reminder there is no school this Friday or Monday.

Have a wonderful evening.

May 11

Tomorrow is our in school field trip with Teacher's Pet.  We will be making butterflies out of soap.  Cannot wait.  This is going to be so much fun.

This morning we also had a presentation from Yellowfish Road.  The kids did a great job listening.  The presenter told me she was able to do things with my class that she is not usually able to do with kids so young.  They were so amazing that she decided to take things to the next level using costumes and props.

Today we had our spring pictures taken.  We had both individual and a group picture taken.

We are currently working with Mrs. McBride on writing a song about Fort McMurray.  We are changing the words to the song He Hoy by the Lumineers.  Mrs. McBride is so talented and I heard the song for the first time today.  I may have had a few tears in my eyes :)

Also we are still collecting Change for Change for Fort Mac.  We are also starting a bottle drive with all proceeds going to the Red Cross.  Please bring in any bottles that can be returned to the recycling depot.  Also, please make sure the bottles are well washed.  Thank you for your support.

Have a wonderful evening.

Message from the eco team

The EcoTeam is excited to invite you to our next event, to inaugurate our garden beds, on Saturday, May 28, 2016, at 1:00 pm.  We plan to plant the plants, and water the garden. We invite families, and members of the community, to join us.  We thank The Calgary Foundation Neighbour Grants for this opportunity to see our wish, of growing vegetables to serve the community, come alive!  Please let Ms. Goldberg know if you are able to attend or lend a hand in any way – amgoldberg@cbe.ab.ca. Bring a hand shovel and a small watering can, if you have one!  The event will probably last only 1 hour, or so, so please arrive on time! 

May 10

Tomorrow is picture day!

Tomorrow at 8:30 am we have our yellowfish road presentation.  So far we have 2 parents who are able to volunteer for our painting day on May 25.

Today we had a practice evacuation.  We left the building quickly and quietly and walked over to the church.  The kids did great!

I have started testing everyone's reading as I get ready to write report cards.  Its hard to believe that there is only 32 days of school left before summer holidays.  If you have any questions about where your child is academically at this point in the year please do not hesitate to email me.

Grade 2s please please practice adding 10's, 20s etc to double digit numbers.  Please explain to your parents, "what happens to a number when you add 20 to it.  For example how will the number 32 change when you add 20 to it".

We have been working on writing 2 word line poems.  They kids seems to really be enjoying this poetry unit.

We are collecting change for the red cross and the Fort McMurray evacuees.  Any contributions are welcome.

Have a wonderful evening.

Volunteer Tea

Thursday, May 19^th

10:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Cranston School Gymnasium

We love our volunteers and want to make sure they are celebrated and know how much they mean to us! Without volunteers, there are many, many things that could not happen in our amazing school.

If you are able to attend on Thursday, May 19^th please R.S.V.P. to cranston@cbe.ab.ca  

Yellowfish Road information

YFR Blog Post: 

Over the next few weeks our classroom is going to be participating in the Yellow Fish Road Project.  This non-profit organization seeks to educate students and their communities about the effect of pollution in the storm water drainage system upon the river ecosystems that surround us.  As part of our work in this Canada wide initiative we will going out in our community and painting "Yellow Fish" on the storm drains as a reminder to everyone, that what we put down the storm drain goes straight out to our river water.  In order to do this project we will require approximately 4 volunteers on the afternoon of May 25 to help lead small groups of students in carrying out the painting and distribution of Yellow Fish Road door hangers.  If you are available to help us, please let your child’s teacher know as soon as possible.  Thank you!

If you are interested in volunteering please email me at klsloane@cbe.ab.ca.

Thank you.

May 5

I was away this morning but I got an amazing report from the substitute teacher.  The kids were great.

This afternoon we worked with our grade 3/4 buddies on making posters to send our thoughts to the people in Fort McMurray.  We will post pictures of our posters on twitter.  We also brainstomred a list of ideas for things that we can do to help the people who have been evacuated.

We also did a guided drawing this afternoon and labelled the parts of the plant.

Picture day is Wednesday May 11.  A form was sent home today.

Also today is arbor day.  All grade ones will be coming home with a tree.

Have a wonderful evening.

May 2

Happy May.  We sure are enjoying the warm weather.  We had lots of fun playing frisbee bocce outside this afternoon.

It was great to hear about everyone's weekend.  Sounds like there was a lot of outside time.

Today during writer's workshop we learned about Haiku poems.  We reviewed syllables as this is extremely important to know when it comes to Haiku poems. Can you write a Haiku poem and post it on the blog.  Remember the syllables are 5-7-5.

At 10:30 we started our Music Monday celebration.  We met outside on the compound and sang peace songs.  At 11:00 we sang the music Monday song We are one.

We had an Annie practice this afternoon.  We are ready for our performances tomorrow.  For the evening performance please remember to drop your child at 6:15 at the teacher parking lot doors.  After the performance (whether you are staying for it or not) you will need to pick your child up at the classroom.  When you drop your child off at 6:15 they are to come straight to the classroom.

In math we are still working on equals and not equal.  Today we reviewed strategies for figuring our addition and subtraction questions.  We talked about using what we know and building on that.  For examples:  using the doubles, using doubles plus 1, using subtraction for addition (Eden's favourite), and counting on or back.

It is going to be very hot this week and our classroom is a bit warm.  Your child may want to have shorts in their backpack that they are able to change in to.

Wednesday is Wear a Hat day in support of Mental Health. Please feel free to have your child wear their favourite hat to school that day.

Have a wonderful evening.

Important Annie Information

Annie information:

• Kids who are on stage are asked to arrive at 5:45 and head to the music room for costumes etc. 
• Students in the Chorus are asked to dress nicely and head to their classrooms at 6:15 pm –
• Reminder of the date and times of the shows – Afternoon at 1:30 Evening at 6:30.
• Doors will open for seating 15 minutes prior to show ( 1:15 / 6:15)
• Students are asked to enter the school through the TEACHER doors – anticipating large line ups at the front of the building.
• Tickets are currently still available for all shows

Please let me know if you have any other questions.  

I am really hoping everyone can make it to the evening performance on May 3.  Today when I asked how many kids were coming and only 5 raised their hands.  Please let me know if you still need tickets.  If you don't have the Annie sheet you can write down your child's name and performance you want tickets for on a piece of paper.  

Have a wonderful evening.

This morning we had a Hope Wing Annie practice.  We did amazing.  Please remember to buy your tickets.  We perform in one week from today.

The kids really enjoyed talking about their weekends however it was a bit of a somber start to the day without Mr.S.  We sure do wish him luck in the future.  Here is a message that Mr. S wrote: Hello Parents/Guardians,

As most of you know I was in your child’s class for a large portion of the school year. For 6 weeks back in November-December and another 8 weeks from February-April. I wanted to send you a little message in regards to my experience. It was an honour and privilege getting to know each one of your children. They are all excited and eager. Each one of your children has so many gifts and talents that are bound to take them far. To my friends (the students), I want to thank each and everyone for the time of my life. You have taught me so much, and without you none of this would have been possible. I want to thank you all for letting me into your classroom, your excitement in the class and your positive energy. Without a doubt, I will be there to come visit since I will miss you all too much and I want to know how all of you are doing. Even the day’s I am not there, I want you all to remember that you are all important and to Bee Yourself!

Mr. S (Jan)

Today during writer's workshop we talked about Personification.  Please ask your child what this means and how we are going to apply it to our poetry writing.

In math today, we discussed ordinal numbers.  Please ask your child about the game we played.

We had a special presentation by Hanna and Moe today.  Hanna did a great job introducing us to one of the Puppy Pals name Moe.  I have included a few pictures.

At the end of the day we watched a bit of the Annie movie.  The kids are loving this.

Have a wonderful evening.