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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Update December 15, 2015

ELA--Home Reading Logs are due each Monday.  The students have been working on writing stories and their journal.  We have done some extra work on capitalization and talked about nouns.

Math--Grade 2--will complete Unit 3:  Addition and Subtraction to 18.
Math--Grade 3--will complete Unit 2:  Numbers to 1000 including place value.

French--We continue to practice the days of the week and are beginning the months of the year.

Science--We continue to complete experiments to test stability and strength of structures as well as describing materials, joints, frames, etc.

Decorating Ornaments for the Advent Trees




 
Toothpick Structures
 





 
Snowflake Bulletin Board
 
 


Monday, November 23, 2015

Update November 23, 2015

Student Led Conferences--November 24 & 25

ELA--Home Reading Logs are due each Monday.  The students completed new Spelling Sorts today with a Spelling Test on Friday.  We had a Bullying Presentation this morning presented by Constable Budahan.  Stories and discussion will follow our presentation for the next few days.  We will be busy preparing our portfolios as well as completing some Religion about the Robe of Righteousness.

Math--Grade 2--are working on Unit 3:  Addition and Subtraction to 18.
Math--Grade 3--are working on Unit 2:  Numbers to 1000 including place value.

French--We have begun practicing the days of the week.

Science--We continue to complete experiments to test stability and strength of structures as well as describing materials, joints, frames, etc.

Testing the Strength of Straws



Poppies for Remembrance Day
 


Sunday, November 8, 2015

Update November 8, 2015

A big Thank-You to our snack parents: Yan, Andy, Brianna, Ben , Jace and Cole as well as to Mrs. McBride for helping out at our Halloween Party.

Please remember that there is No School November 11, 12 & 13.  We will be having our Remembrance Day Service at 10:45 on Tuesday, November 10.

HOT LUNCH DAYS - SNACKS
Please remember to send a snack with your child on the Hot Lunch Days.  They will still be having a snack time before first recess.


ELA--Home Reading is due each Monday.  Please send it back to school on Monday morning so that I can check student progress and then I'll send it back home for the rest of the week.  There will not be Word Sorts/Spelling Test this week.  We continue to work on 5 word sentences with capitals and punctuation.  The students have written a story about October using some sentence starters given to them. This week we will be focusing on Remembrance Day activities.

Math--Grade 2--have completed Unit 2 on Numbers from 0-100.
Math--Grade 3--have completed reviewing Borrowing and Carrying 2-digit Numbers with addition and subtraction.

French--We have been practicing our questions/answers for Term 1 and preparing for our portfolios.

Science--We have talked about stability and strength of structures as well as that all structures are made of materials and have a purpose.

Spider Webs for Halloween






Sunday, October 25, 2015

Update October 25, 2015

Reminders - Picture re-takes on Monday, October 26 (only if you are registered)
HALLOWEEN PARTY We will be having a Halloween "Pumpkin Party" on Friday, October 30.  The children will be able to dress up for the afternoon on that day.  Please do not send your child in a scary, bloody, gory, weapons, etc... costume.  This is a Christian school and we have many young children in the building.  They do not have to dress up if they do not wish to. Please send the costume in a plastic bag that morning and they can change after lunch recess.
SNACK PARENTS - Yan, Andy, Brianna

HOT LUNCH DAYS - SNACKS
Please remember to send a snack with your child on the Hot Lunch Days.  They will still be having a snack time before first recess.


ELA--We have settled into an ELA routine nicely.  Home Reading is due each Monday and all students received a Green Duotang with the entire year of log sheets.  Please send it back to school on Monday morning so that I can check student progress and then I'll send it back home for the rest of the week.  Word Sorts are being completed at school.  The students are expected to take them home to study their words for a Spelling Test on Friday. (If there is no school on Friday the test will be on Monday.)  We have been working on sentence writing and will begin writing stories this week.  We are building our stamina for Read to Self each day and will be reading in groups as well.

Math--Grade 2--are completing Unit 2 on Numbers from 0-100.
Math--Grade 3--have been reviewing Borrowing and Carrying 2-digit Numbers with addition and subtraction.

French--We are continuing to work on conversations using a question and answer technique for:  Greetings, each other's names and how are we doing? We are adding "Quel age a tu?" to our set of questions.

Social Studies--We have reviewed the rights and responsibilities of citizens, protecting our environment, elections and will be completing our unit by talking about Peace. 

Science--We begin our first Science Unit this week on Material and Structures.

Religion/Chapel--Our new backpack item for our Journey with Jesus is water.  We have talked about several bible stories that included water and God leading us to heaven.
 
Parting the Red Sea and following the path to the Promised Land!



Monday, October 12, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!

Terry Fox Walk--We went on our Terry Fox Walk on Friday afternoon with the entire school.  We had a beautiful day for this event and had fun walking with our Reading Buddies.  Thank you for your help with the "Tasks for Terry" fund raiser. 

Spirit Week--Thank-you to all the students for participating!!!  It was certainly a "Wacky Week" and everyone participated!
 ELA--All students have been placed in Spelling Groups based on their Spelling Assessments and we will start Working with Words this week.  The students have also all met with Mrs. Schnarr for Reading Assessments.  We continue to work on sentence writing, capitalization and punctuation.  A Home Reading Log will be sent home this week as well.

Math--Grade 2--have begun a new unit on Numbers from 0-100.
Math--Grade 3--have competed their Patterning unit and will have their assessment this week as well as begin a review unit on Borrowing and Carrying 2-digit Numbers with addition and subtraction.

French--We are continuing to work on conversations using a question and answer technique for:  Greetings, each other's names and how are we doing?

Social Studies--We have been using our previous knowledge to discuss "What makes a good citizen?"

Religion/Chapel--We talked about Thanksgiving and will be discussing a new element on our journey this week in Chapel.

Scholastic New Payment Option--Scholastic book order due October 14!  I hope to get it back in time for Halloween!  Follow the link to find out more about Parent Pay:  http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/images/parentpay/ParentPayIntro_PL.pdf

 
Falling Leaves--Left Rubbings for Fall
Leaves are like thumb prints--no one is the same but beautiful in their own way.
 
 
Morning Meeting--Everyday we review these classroom rules.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Update September 27, 2015

ELA--We have begun working on creating good sentences and have set up some goals for our sentences. We will continue with sentence writing this week as well as Spelling assessments.

Math--Grade 1 and 2 will finish their units on Patterning this week.

French--We are working on greetings and a question and answer series starting with asking each other's names and replying and this week are adding how are we doing to our questions and answers.

Social Studies--We continued our talk about rules and responsibilities and discussed laws and how they keep us safe.

Religion/Chapel--We continue to read bible stories about God leading his people.

Scholastic New Payment Option--Follow the link to find out more about Parent Pay:  http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/images/parentpay/ParentPayIntro_PL.pdf

Picture Day is Monday, September 28. Do not wear solid green!
 
Working on our Chapel Poster--Compass
 
Working on our Chapel Poster--Compass
 
Looking Back At Summer--Glasses

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Update--September 20, 2015

It was great to see some of you at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church today.  We have all successfully made it through a full week of school and are adjusting well to routine and structure again.  The students are re-acquainting themselves with each other and learning about me and my classroom expectations.  I am learning an immense amount from all of them and am enjoying all of their enthusiasm to learn.

ELA--We have been completing various reading, comprehension, listening to directions, and talking about the initial steps of Daily 5. 

Math--We have been reviewing addition and subtraction strategies as well as both Grades have begun their first unit on Patterning.

French--We are working on greetings and a question and answer series starting with asking each other's names and replying.

Social Studies--We have talked about communities, rules, and responsibilities.

Religion/Chapel--We have started a new chapel theme for this year.  It is called "Journey With Jesus".  We started the year talking about what they might pack in their backpacks if they were going on a long hike.  Each month Pastor will talk about the object they find in the backpack and how these objects are like taking Jesus along on their "Life Journey".  The first object was a compass that points to the "True North" and leads you in the right direction.  The children were very excited to share their own thoughts and ideas.  Pastor and Mr. B even wrote a theme song for the school to use this year.  We also read several bible stories about God leading his people.

I sent out the Scholastic Book orders on Friday.  There is a new payment option with Scholastic.  Follow the link to find out more about Parent Pay:  http://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/images/parentpay/ParentPayIntro_PL.pdf