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.

February 29

Happy National Cupcake Day!  This event was a huge success.  There were so many cupcakes donated that we will be selling them after school today.  Wow.  Great job families and thank you for your support.

Today is February 29.....it's a special day kids...Do you know why?  Please post your answers on the blog.

This morning we talked about our weekends and then we went on a re-fresher tour of the Learning Commons.  Please remember to return all library books.

This morning we worked with Mrs. Bowles on our Math Daily 3.  The grade 2s learned a new game called Double Dice addition.  To play this game, you have 2 different coloured die, you roll each one to make a double digit number and then you roll them again to make another double digit number and then you add them together.  This is a great game to play at home.

The grade 1s continued to work on solidifying their facts to 10.  They played a game with the power of 10 cards called "How many more to make 10".

During Writer's Workshop, we learned how to re-tell events.  We worked on writing and re-telling an event that happened this weekend.

In gym we played a game called Popcorn Basketball.  This was so much fun and we were all a sweaty mess.

At the end of the day we worked with our buddies.  It was our final day of videotaping for our assembly next friday.

Have a wonderful evening.

Cupcake volunteers

Cupcake Volunteers for Monday February 29th!

Thank you for volunteering to assist on Monday February 29th!  Parents will be dropping off their cupcakes first thing in the morning.  We will gather in the staff room at 9:00 am to begin organizing the trays of cupcakes.  Please sign in through the office prior to 9:00.

Each volunteer will be assigned a classroom to sell the cupcakes and gather the money.   Once each child has had an opportunity to purchase a cupcake, we will reload the trays and offer a second one prior to lunch break if they have brought another loonie.

cupcake day on Monday

Please post the following blog post to your blogs daily until Friday. Thank you so much for your help:

Monday February 29 is National Cupcake Day!

Cranston will be celebrating national cupcake day in support of the Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Alberta SPCA).

As a part of our Community Building work at Cranston School, students will have the opportunity to purchase one cupcake on Monday February 29^th for $1.00. All of the proceeds will be donated to the Alberta SPCA. 

Please have your child bring exact change ie. (loonies,quarters). We do expect that there will be extra cupcakes and students will be given an opportunity to purchase a second cupcake later in the day. A huge thank you to the volunteers who are donating cupcakes for Monday.