April 12

Happy 7th birthday Liam!

Just wanted to let you know that our school is getting a wireless internet update.  This means we will not have access to the internet tomorrow.  If you need to contact me please call the school rather than email.  Thank you :)

Tomorrow during Writer's Workshop we will be learning about poetry.  This week we reviewed what good writing looks like:
- leave spaces, print neatly, use punctuation, include sound and action words and use your senses to describe the setting.

In math today we reviewed the 3d shapes.  We talked about the faces, vertices, edges and points.  After lunch we continued on with math and 3d shapes.  We made a variety of 3d shapes using marsh mellows, toothpicks and plasticine.  So fun.  

At the end of the day we learned about bee baths.  Please ask your child about this.  We will be making our own bee baths in the near future.  Tomorrow the kids will start planning their own bee bath.

Please return swimming forms by Friday.  

Have a wonderful evening.

April 11

Tomorrow is an important day across Canada.  The spouses of the members of the RCMP are asking us to wear red to show support for all RCMP families across Canada.  This something that is near and dear to me.  With my husband as a former Mountie and now a member of CPS, my father in law a former Mountie and my brother in law a current Mountie in Manitoba, I would like as many students as possible to wear red tomorrow.  Here is a link discussing this initiative.

http://victoriabuzz.com/2016/04/spouses-rcmp-asking-wear-red-tuesday-april-12-rcmp/

Today we talked more about bees and planted seeds that will eventually grow into flowers that we can plant to help save the bees.  Here we are planting.  So fun.

In math we are currently working on sorting 3d shapes.

Don't forget to send in your money for Annie tickets.

Have a wonderful evening.

April 7

Just a reminder that I will be away tomorrow for Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training all day tomorrow.

Please remember to buy your Annie tickets ASAP.  Our performance date of May 3rd is quickly approaching.  This is going to be an amazing performance.  I am so impressed with how well the kids are doing.

Today during Math Daily 3 we continue to work on identifying the vertices, faces and other characteristics of 3d shapes.  We also worked on a word problem:  I have an object in my hand that is able to roll.  What might it be?  How do you know?  The next step in math will be to sort 3d objects by 1 and 2 attributes.

During Writer's Workshop we continued working on writing our fairy tales.

We are having a lot of fun in gymnastics.  Today we did a number of different circuits.

At the end of the day we worked with our grade 3/4 buddies on our bee projects.

I have booked an in school field trip on May 12 at 9:00am with Teacher's Pet.  We will be doing soap stone carving.  We are making butterflies.  Stay tuned for more information as I will be needing some volunteers.

Have a wonderful weekend!

April 6

Happy Wednesday.  We had a great day.  We are still working hard on our fairy tale writing.  It's awesome to see how the kids are changing a traditional fairy tale and making it their own.

Some guided reading groups are working on contractions.  Please post the answer to the following.  Please write the contraction for the following words:  I am, I will, I have, do not and will not.

In music we are working hard on our Annie songs.  Please check out Mrs. McBride's blog and don't forget to purchase your tickets.  The entire school is involved in this musical.

In Math we are working on 3d shapes.  Our new vocabulary words are: edge, vertex, face and base.  Please ask your child what these words mean.

At the end of the day we worked on our Bee inquiry project.  Mr.S has some cool things planned for us.

We would also like to say congratulations to big sister Kaitlyn whose baby sister arrived on April 3.  Welcome baby Hailey.  We can not wait to meet you.  We really enjoyed seeing your picture. 

Have a wonderful evening.

April 5

What a great day!  During our small group reading instruction we have been talking about contractions.  Any reinforcement with this concept at home would be greatly appreciated.  

During Writer's Workshop we are looking at Fairy Tales.  We listened to the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.  We talked about how this story is written from the wolves perspective.  Our job was then to write a story similiar to the three little pigs but using different characters.  This was so fun.  Everyone loved this challenge.

Today we did making words and talked about the following word families: ear, ears, each.

After lunch we looked at the word problem we started yesterday.  We talked about the number of faces on the following 3d objects: cube, cylinder, cone, sphere and pyramid.

In gym we continued with our gymnastics program.

At the end of the day we got together with our grade 3/4 buddies.  We are starting an inquiry project on bees.  We watched a video and began a very rich discussion about being helpful and how to bring back the bees.  Please watch this quick video.  Post your thoughts in the comments on this blog.  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbMQUVYuRQ

Have a wonderful evening.

April 4

Happy Monday!  Just reminder that all students at Cranston School will be participating in our Annie musical.  Students who do not have a specific part in the play will still be involved as a member of the choir.  We are performing on Tuesday May 3.  Please plan to have your child available to perform that night.  I have posted on my previous post, information about Annie the link to Mrs. McBride's website.

Gymnastics started today.  We learned all kinds of new body positions.  Some of them included a stork stance, straight stand, straight sit and straddle sit.  

In math we continue to work on 2d and 3d shapes.  We started working on a problem this afternoon which was quite challenging.  Here is the word problem.  I have 3d shapes in my basket.  Altogether they have 8 faces.  Which shapes do I have?  Please post your answers on the blog tonight so we can talk about it tomorrow.  

We had Roots of Empathy this afternoon and we started to make a nursery rhyme book for Nova.  This is perfect timing as we are going to be talking about Fairy Tales in writing starting tomorrow.  

I will be away on Friday as I will be going for Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training.  Mr. S will hold the fort down with a substitute teacher named Mr. Chapman.  

Family Movie Ticket information went home today.  Please return as soon as possible as this event traditionally sells out very quickly.

Have wonderful evening.

Annie Kids - Very important

Annie Kids

Parents, our class is participating in the the production of Annie Kids on Tuesday  May 3.   There is an afternoon show at 1:30pm and an evening performance at 6:30pm.  Please note that the tickets are issued in a first come – first served basis.  As stated on the order form, there is a wait list for both afternoon and evening tickets if you may require more than your allotted number.   All students were given a copy of the lyrics required to practice for the musical.  Please encourage your child to take some time to practice at home.  We appreciate your support of our music program and are excited to share "Annie Kids" with all of you!

Here is the link to Mrs. McBride's blog/website where important information about Annie is posted.

http://cranstonmusic.weebly.com/blog