Hi Parents!
This week was an exciting week of learning. We have been focused on our 5 senses and how each one of them support each other to help us experience the world!
We have done smell tests and tried to guess smells without being able to see the items! We were able to have one of our visually impaired students share their world with us and explain how we experiences his day when he learns. We also got to do taste testing!!!
Our sense are so important and we've certainly realized that each one helps the other one out and when one is missing the others take charge to help you out!!!
Later this week we started using the wonderful materials you all shared with us!! We made plans and created structures with different items! We look forward to continue building and experimenting.
Reminders
Monday April 15 is spring picture day.
There is no school Thursday and Friday this week and Monday next week!! Parent teacher interviews are Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. They will be student led with a window of time available to talk with your child's teacher.
Sunday, 14 April 2019
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Spring break times
Hi Parents!!!
Well it's better late than never, sorry for the late post!!
Our week before break was exciting! Mr. Scout came to our room and taught us how to make Bannock. We watched him mix the ingredients and we all got an opportunity to knead and make our own bannock piece. When he fried them in oil, we were able to go watch and see how the bread changed!
When it was done, we enjoyed some peppermint tea and our bannock. We all tried our meals and loved experiencing something new!!
We started the season of Spring before we left!! We had a great conversation about all the things we want to do now that the weather is changing! As well as all the changes we will begin to see in nature!
We have really been working on our writing and set some new goals. We wrote about what we would like to do on break and then spoke with the teachers about what things we could do to improve our writing and what things we wanted help with.
Things are going to get really busy when we get back from break!
Reminders:
Please let us know about where your family is from! We sent a sheet home before break and want to know where all our families might have come from. We have a big world map that we will pin our places too.
We will also start building our communities. Please bring items that are needed in the email that was sent home!
Hope you are all enjoying your break!! Sorry the post is late!
Well it's better late than never, sorry for the late post!!
Our week before break was exciting! Mr. Scout came to our room and taught us how to make Bannock. We watched him mix the ingredients and we all got an opportunity to knead and make our own bannock piece. When he fried them in oil, we were able to go watch and see how the bread changed!
When it was done, we enjoyed some peppermint tea and our bannock. We all tried our meals and loved experiencing something new!!
We started the season of Spring before we left!! We had a great conversation about all the things we want to do now that the weather is changing! As well as all the changes we will begin to see in nature!
We have really been working on our writing and set some new goals. We wrote about what we would like to do on break and then spoke with the teachers about what things we could do to improve our writing and what things we wanted help with.
Things are going to get really busy when we get back from break!
Reminders:
Please let us know about where your family is from! We sent a sheet home before break and want to know where all our families might have come from. We have a big world map that we will pin our places too.
We will also start building our communities. Please bring items that are needed in the email that was sent home!
Hope you are all enjoying your break!! Sorry the post is late!
Saturday, 9 March 2019
Artifacts, Art and Storytelling
Hi Parents!!
What a fun and exciting week we had.
Thank you to all of those that have brought artifacts from the past to share. We have explored old cameras and learned how film was used and how we just "couldn't see the picture" until it was developed. We saw typewriters, phones - (did you know you used to have to turn a dial to make a phone call?) irons and even an Apple 2 computer!!!
As we continue to explore the past, we created a beautiful art project using plasticine! We got to choose what kind of landscape we wanted to create. They turned out beautifully!!
We were honoured to have Mr. Scout in our class this week to tell us the story of Napi and The Rock. We learned how stories are passed on from generation to generation. Ask me to tell you the story about how the rock in Okotoks got there!
We learned a reading strategy for when two vowels are together in a word. "When two vowels go a walking, the first one does the talking and says its name." Words such as 'soap', 'eat', 'ear', 'rain' ......
This strategy helps use to read these words properly because sounding each vowel out won't work! Help me use it at home!
List #5 of my popcorn words came home last week! Please help me practice them!
We continue to work on subtraction in math and have been using various strategies to help support our learning. Counting backwards, using fingers, manipulatives just to name a few. Our math centres have helped reinforce our learning and helped us to use our strategies!
REMINDERS
We are swimming next week! Please make sure your child has a towel, bathing suit and other items they need. We will not have time to shower and shampoo hair so please do not send any of those items. Your child will need to be independent in dressing themselves and be responsible for their items. We will have some parent volunteers to support.
What a fun and exciting week we had.
Thank you to all of those that have brought artifacts from the past to share. We have explored old cameras and learned how film was used and how we just "couldn't see the picture" until it was developed. We saw typewriters, phones - (did you know you used to have to turn a dial to make a phone call?) irons and even an Apple 2 computer!!!
As we continue to explore the past, we created a beautiful art project using plasticine! We got to choose what kind of landscape we wanted to create. They turned out beautifully!!
We were honoured to have Mr. Scout in our class this week to tell us the story of Napi and The Rock. We learned how stories are passed on from generation to generation. Ask me to tell you the story about how the rock in Okotoks got there!
We learned a reading strategy for when two vowels are together in a word. "When two vowels go a walking, the first one does the talking and says its name." Words such as 'soap', 'eat', 'ear', 'rain' ......
This strategy helps use to read these words properly because sounding each vowel out won't work! Help me use it at home!
List #5 of my popcorn words came home last week! Please help me practice them!
We continue to work on subtraction in math and have been using various strategies to help support our learning. Counting backwards, using fingers, manipulatives just to name a few. Our math centres have helped reinforce our learning and helped us to use our strategies!
REMINDERS
We are swimming next week! Please make sure your child has a towel, bathing suit and other items they need. We will not have time to shower and shampoo hair so please do not send any of those items. Your child will need to be independent in dressing themselves and be responsible for their items. We will have some parent volunteers to support.
Monday, 25 February 2019
Fort Calgary and living in the past!
Hi Parents!
What a great week last week!! Our trip to Fort Calgary was amazing!
We learned about how people dressed, the peoples that were Indigenous to Calgary and how the settlers and NWMP made there home here as well. We were able to touch artifacts from the early 1900's. What toys kids played with, what household items looked like as well as what the NWMPolice used to keep people safe. We also learned about Sod Houses that the settlers made looked like and why they used Sod for their roofs. As well as how the Indigenous lived in teepees and moved to follow the Buffalo.
Ask me who took care of the teepee and what did I build using team work!
In math we started working on Subtraction. We are learning different strategies to help us understand how to make a number smaller. We can count backwards, use counters and sometimes our fingers work too! Subtraction can be a tricky concept, so we will continue to practice and develop ways that work for all of us to understand it!!
We have been developing our writing and working on capitals, lowercase and starting to use punctuation. We realize that using finger spaces really make it easier to read our work and most of us are using them consistently. Over the next while we will be making sure that our popcorn words are spelled correctly by using our word wall and editing our work. We are also working on explaining the 'WHY' when making a statement such as 'I like to play __________ because_____'
Help me at home by practicing printing my popcorn words as well as reading them!
Reminders
Swimming is the week of March 11-14.
Literacy night is March 7!
What a great week last week!! Our trip to Fort Calgary was amazing!
We learned about how people dressed, the peoples that were Indigenous to Calgary and how the settlers and NWMP made there home here as well. We were able to touch artifacts from the early 1900's. What toys kids played with, what household items looked like as well as what the NWMPolice used to keep people safe. We also learned about Sod Houses that the settlers made looked like and why they used Sod for their roofs. As well as how the Indigenous lived in teepees and moved to follow the Buffalo.
Ask me who took care of the teepee and what did I build using team work!
In math we started working on Subtraction. We are learning different strategies to help us understand how to make a number smaller. We can count backwards, use counters and sometimes our fingers work too! Subtraction can be a tricky concept, so we will continue to practice and develop ways that work for all of us to understand it!!
We have been developing our writing and working on capitals, lowercase and starting to use punctuation. We realize that using finger spaces really make it easier to read our work and most of us are using them consistently. Over the next while we will be making sure that our popcorn words are spelled correctly by using our word wall and editing our work. We are also working on explaining the 'WHY' when making a statement such as 'I like to play __________ because_____'
Help me at home by practicing printing my popcorn words as well as reading them!
Reminders
Swimming is the week of March 11-14.
Literacy night is March 7!
Friday, 8 February 2019
February is here!
Hi Parents!
First of all, my apologies for missing the last blogs!!!!
The new year is in full swing!! We have a lot of things happening in February and March. Many forms have gone home, please ensure that you send them all back in ASAP if you haven't already!
Over the last week we have been working on how to describe a character in a story. What features do they have, what do they look like and how to they act and feel inside. We read the Paper Bag Princess and worked on describing the Princess and the Dragon in our writing journal as well as Moira from the book Moira's birthday. We are getting much better at understanding how we need many ideas to describe a character and put that to work, by beginning to create our own! We have started the planning stages and made sure we add all the features we need to so that our words match our drawings! Next week we will put all our ideas together to write about our created character!
Tech day was a huge success! We got to use our dash and dot robots as well as code with the ipads. We had fun working with Ms Redwoods class.
In gym we started hockey!! We have learned how to use sticks safely and pass the puck to a partner. Friday we got to play small games! It was a lot of fun.
We had a great time celebrating CHINESE NEW YEAR!! It is the year of the PIG! We made Dragon masks, talked about the Zodiac, had rice and made Chinese lanterns.
Much of January and February we have focused on WINTER. Reading lots of good books, coming up with ideas about "I know it's winter when" and writing them down. This week we started a winter tree project using paper.
Reminders
Fort Calgary is Feb 20!!
100's day and Valentines exchange will be on Feb 13
Please hand in forms for Swimming and Fort Calgary ASAP
Swimming is March 11-14
STAY WARM!!!!
First of all, my apologies for missing the last blogs!!!!
The new year is in full swing!! We have a lot of things happening in February and March. Many forms have gone home, please ensure that you send them all back in ASAP if you haven't already!
Over the last week we have been working on how to describe a character in a story. What features do they have, what do they look like and how to they act and feel inside. We read the Paper Bag Princess and worked on describing the Princess and the Dragon in our writing journal as well as Moira from the book Moira's birthday. We are getting much better at understanding how we need many ideas to describe a character and put that to work, by beginning to create our own! We have started the planning stages and made sure we add all the features we need to so that our words match our drawings! Next week we will put all our ideas together to write about our created character!
Tech day was a huge success! We got to use our dash and dot robots as well as code with the ipads. We had fun working with Ms Redwoods class.
In gym we started hockey!! We have learned how to use sticks safely and pass the puck to a partner. Friday we got to play small games! It was a lot of fun.
We had a great time celebrating CHINESE NEW YEAR!! It is the year of the PIG! We made Dragon masks, talked about the Zodiac, had rice and made Chinese lanterns.
Much of January and February we have focused on WINTER. Reading lots of good books, coming up with ideas about "I know it's winter when" and writing them down. This week we started a winter tree project using paper.
Reminders
Fort Calgary is Feb 20!!
100's day and Valentines exchange will be on Feb 13
Please hand in forms for Swimming and Fort Calgary ASAP
Swimming is March 11-14
STAY WARM!!!!
Sunday, 20 January 2019
January 14-18
Hi Parents!
It was as great learning week. The weather was a bit colder brrrrrrr but we got through it. Reminders that students go out at lunch and for recess even in temperatures that are a bit chillier than they have been. Please make sure to come with mitts and hats!!
Our literacy centres are in full swing and we've been practicing our writing and listening skills! In math we continue to work on different strategies to support our addition skills, using counting on, counting the dots on dominos, and adding manipulatives.
As we continue to talk about community, we brainstormed what things were important to us about our home and our school. We wrote about the things we do there and what things make it important to them.
Looking forward to a great week!!
It was as great learning week. The weather was a bit colder brrrrrrr but we got through it. Reminders that students go out at lunch and for recess even in temperatures that are a bit chillier than they have been. Please make sure to come with mitts and hats!!
Our literacy centres are in full swing and we've been practicing our writing and listening skills! In math we continue to work on different strategies to support our addition skills, using counting on, counting the dots on dominos, and adding manipulatives.
As we continue to talk about community, we brainstormed what things were important to us about our home and our school. We wrote about the things we do there and what things make it important to them.
Looking forward to a great week!!
Sunday, 13 January 2019
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
Hi Parents!!
What a great week back. It was so nice to see so many fresh and rested faces after the break. We were all ready and raring to go!!!
Our new year saw us introduce new Literacy and Math centres this week. We are working on developing our writing and learning about word families and how they help us spell. In math we are working on addition and reinforcing numeracy to 20.
We started working on Community and the different places we can consider a community where we belong. Our highlight of the week was learning all the places that are in our Cranston Community and how we all have 2 things in common in our class. We all live and go to school in the same community. We used Google Earth to help us understand how our big our community is and we even used it to find our houses! It was fun to see how close we all are to each other!
Swimming
This week we got our swimming dates. We will be swimming at Canyon Meadows pool sometime in March. We will send out our times to parents in an email. We are looking for parents to help in the dressing rooms, in particular we will need DAD's!! Please make a note and look for an email shortly.
Reminders
Home reading is still being switched daily. We have all made so much progress.
We also sent out list 3 of our Popcorn words. Please continue practicing! Putting stickies around the house with the words on them and asking your child to find them is a fun way to learn!
Our Residency for Gymnastics is starting this week. Reminders to have girls hair tied back, no frilly or flowing tops or dresses as well as small studs in the ears so they don't catch on clothes.
What a great week back. It was so nice to see so many fresh and rested faces after the break. We were all ready and raring to go!!!
Our new year saw us introduce new Literacy and Math centres this week. We are working on developing our writing and learning about word families and how they help us spell. In math we are working on addition and reinforcing numeracy to 20.
We started working on Community and the different places we can consider a community where we belong. Our highlight of the week was learning all the places that are in our Cranston Community and how we all have 2 things in common in our class. We all live and go to school in the same community. We used Google Earth to help us understand how our big our community is and we even used it to find our houses! It was fun to see how close we all are to each other!
Swimming
This week we got our swimming dates. We will be swimming at Canyon Meadows pool sometime in March. We will send out our times to parents in an email. We are looking for parents to help in the dressing rooms, in particular we will need DAD's!! Please make a note and look for an email shortly.
Reminders
Home reading is still being switched daily. We have all made so much progress.
We also sent out list 3 of our Popcorn words. Please continue practicing! Putting stickies around the house with the words on them and asking your child to find them is a fun way to learn!
Our Residency for Gymnastics is starting this week. Reminders to have girls hair tied back, no frilly or flowing tops or dresses as well as small studs in the ears so they don't catch on clothes.
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