Be a buddy not a bully day was awesome. Thank you to Sophee who made a wonderful pink buddy cake. I have a attached a picture for all of you to enjoy.
This morning a group of grade 2's worked on making a video using the green screen. They are reporting on things they have learned about avalanches from their guided reading group. Good job Ruby, Sophia and Noah. All students will get a chance to do a green screen video in the next few weeks.
During writer's workshop, we continued to work on creating discussion texts. Tomorrow Mr. S. will brainstorm with the class other topics they can "discuss".
Today in math we worked with Mrs. Bowles on Math Daily 3. We learned 2 new games for Math by Myself. These games are called In and out and Race to ____.
In gym we are working on our basketball skills. We ended the day off working with our buddies on our video for the upcoming assembly.
Have a wonderful evening.
Welcome back Mr. S. We are so happy you are back and looking forward to our time together until April 22 when you will be fully qualified teacher.
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Anti-bullying day. Please wear pink if possible.
Thursday is our Tanga Art sale from 6-7:30. Our projects will be displayed in the Link hallway right outside of our classroom door.
Grade 2's are working on double digit addition. Here is the process we are following.
53+21
53 + 20 = 73
73 +1 = 74
or
50 + 20 = 70
3+1 = 4
70+4 = 74
These are only 2 suggestions. If your child creates a strategy that works for them and they are able to get the right answer ...... that is great! All I ask is that they are able to represent their thinking.
Grade 1's have been working on domino addition.
Today we started working on writing a "discussion text". Our topic of discussion was "Children should not do homework". This was the title of our discussion. We then came up with arguments for and against this. We started talking about our opinion and how it is also important to see things from another person's "point of view".
At the end of the day we had Roots of Empathy. We talked about being sad and what things make us feel better.
Have a wonderful evening.
Happy Friday!
Just a reminder that our Tanga Art Sale will take place next Thursday from 6:00-7:30. All our pieces will be available for $10.00. We are raising money for a school in Tanzania Africa. In the past our funds have purchased a new roof, repaired the floor and bought school supplies for both teachers and students.
Today we read part of a book called Ready or Not, Here I Come. This book is about a group of girls who are playing hide and seek and are looking for the quickest way to count to 100. We are reading a variety of math literature as we get ready for our Student Led Learning Walks in March. The theme of the evening will be Math and Literature.
February 29 is Buy A CupcakeDay. Cupcakes will be available for $1.00. We are raising money to support programs at the SPCA.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Oh my I cannot believe it is the 100th day of school. I am very happy with what we have accomplished thus far in the year. We are well set up for the last 5 months.
Today we celebrated 100 day. We made a post card and a 100 day collage. We also learned what an acrostic poem is and each student wrote one using the word "HUNDRED". I was so impressed with the ideas they came up with. Tomorrow we will work on a few other 100 day activities as we did not get to all of them today.
Our assembly has been changed to March 11. We have been working hard on 2 songs and a video with our grade 3/4 buddies.
All parts for the Annie Musical have been filled and Mrs. McBride will be letting us know by Friday who has landed each role. Stay tuned :)
Next week some exciting things will be happening. Mr. S (our student teacher) will be returning for a 9 week practicum. With my guidance he will be teaching 90-100% of the time. Next week I will be teaming up with Mrs. Bowles to introduce a new way of teaching/organizing math lesson sin the classroom. It is similar to Daily 5 but this program is called Math Daily 3. This way of teaching math is new to us and that is why I have asked Mrs. Bowles to help introduce this program. I am super excited for this to get started.
Have a wonderful evening.
What a great day. We have been working very hard preparing for our Peace Assembly. We are learning a new song called Don't Laugh at Me. Here is a link to the video and lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Dej4Gfkmc We are also in the process of creating a video to go along with our School Song.
Wednesday February 24 is Anti Bullying. We are asking all staff and students to wear pink in support of ending all types of bullying. www.erasebullying.ca
I also want all families to know that I will be away next week. My Uncle passed away very suddenly on Tuesday and I will be traveling back home to Manitoba to attend his funeral. Mrs. Amy Mann will be teaching my class for the entire week.
Monday February 8 we will have a Lion Dance presentation in honour of Chinese New Year.
Wednesday February 10 is Carnaval. Please dress appropriately for the weather. Not sure if we will have snow or not but we will adjust accordingly.
We will have our Valentine's celebration next week. I have not yet decided which day but I will let you know very very soon. Here is a list of all the kids in our class in case you are planning to give our Valentines: Trevor, Hanna, Jamie, Grayson, Eden, Cameron, Kale, Liam, Dexter, Sophee, Hayden, Reid, Kaitlyn, Finnah, Ruby, Noah, Madyson, Sophia, Grace, Landyn, Mathew, Yahia.
Have a wonderful evening!
Can you believe it is almost half way through the school year. On February 17 we will celebrate the 100th day of school.
This morning we went on a half hour winter walk. This is an initiative celebrated by many schools throughout Alberta. It was beautiful morning and we enjoyed our time outside.
This morning we also had a presentation from Laura Oh who is a Speech and Language Pathologist who works at Cranston School with many students. Today she talked about Good Communication Skills. We learned how to use an appropriate rate of speech and volume, to always look at the person we are talking to and how important our body language is.
In math we started talking about shapes. We looked at a variety of shapes and played a "Guess the Shape" game in partners. Please ask your child how we played this game.
At the end of the day we started to explore our Magnet centres.
Book orders have been sent home and are due on Monday.
Happy Friday Families. Looking forward to spending some time outside while the warm weather lasts.
We had a fabulous day. We started our day with Daily 5. We have been working on goal setting this week and many kids have uploaded their goal into IRIS along with other artifacts. You are able to log into IRIS at home using your child's CBE ID number and their password is the last 4 digits of their ID number. Please have a look on IRIS.. The website can be accessed on the Cranston School Webpage.
This morning we had an assembly based on bravery. It was wonderful. After our assembly we learned about Chinese New Year which is happening on February 8. We are in the process of making a fire works art project. Fire works are a very important part of the Chinese New Year celebration.
Just a reminder there is no school on Monday. It is a professional development day for teachers.
Have a wonderful weekend.
