November 25 - 29

Student Learning

• Our words of the week are: came, can, could and came. Practice finding these with your child in the books you are reading together. 
• We read the lovely book, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein. In our Visual Journals, we sketched and labelled four things that the tree gave the boy. Ask your child to share their thoughts on this story. 

• In gym, we played floor hockey games. 

• In math, we have started to talk about the teen numbers and what it means when a number is made up of two digits. We talked about which of these pictures is easier to count:
  
  
  
  
• Ask your child to share which one they find easier to count and why. 
• We also started to talk about the = sign. Ask your child to share what this symbol means. 
• In writing, we worked on describing apples using the sentence frame, "Apples are ..." Ask your child to share some of their observations and wonders about apples. 

Classroom Updates 

• Thank you for all of your apple donations! We are still accepting apple donations as we continue our inquiry next week. We will have an apple tasting on Monday, December 2nd where we will try different varieties of apples.  If you would not like your child to participate, please email your child's teacher. 
• The weather is supposed to warm up next week. Weather permitting, we will go on a pond walk on Wednesday, December 4th in the afternoon. 
• See the poster below for some important information regarding the upcoming grade one and three Christmas concert! 

November 18 - 22

Student Learning

• In math, we have been learning and practicing the game, "Dotty 6". This is to practice subitizing as well as planning ahead. If you would like to try the game at home, please see this link: Dotty 6 
• In math, we also talked about different ways objects could be measured. We made a T-chart in our math books to compare our pencil's height to different objects in the classroom. 

• Ask your child to compare the heights of different objects at home and describe the heights using shorter and taller. 
• In Social Studies, we have been using "The Important Book" to tell the most important thing about our home community. Here are our ideas about the most important thing about home: 

• We also described the most important thing about our classroom community. 

• This learning helped us to create our classroom art. 

• Ask your child to share their most important thing about the classroom community. 
• On Thursday, we took part in a webinar hosted by Beakerhead. The webinar featured the Calgary artist Jeff de Boer. 

• More information about the artist can be found on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JeffdeBoerSculpture/
• Here are some of the ideas that we pulled from the webinar: 

• We will connect back to the webinar for important ideas about how to approach our learning. 

Classroom Updates 

• Thank you to all the families for coming to Parent-Teacher conferences. It was great to see everyone. 
• There is no school on Friday, November 29th. 
• Thank you to everyone who sent in apple donations. If you are able to send in an apple donation, we will be taking them until Monday. 
• Have a lovely weekend! 

November 12 - 15

Student Learning

• In Social Studies, we have been talking about community. We read the book, "This Is My Home, This Is My School" and drew a picture of our home. We connected this book to "The Important Book" and wrote about what was the most important part of our home. 

• In math, we have begun working on the following outcomes from the Alberta Program of Studies: 
• Subitize (recognize at a glance) and name familiar arrangements of 1 to 10 objects or dots.
• Represent and describe numbers to 20, concretely, pictorially and symbolically
• Using two dice, we showed our understanding through pictures, tallies, words and dots. This is a skill that we will continue to practice throughout the year. 

Classroom Updates

• Booking for conferences is open on November 17th. Please log onto Power School to book a time to come in on Thursday evening or Friday morning. 
• Due to conferences, Thursday, November 21st is an early dismissal day. Students will be dismissed at 12:00 and there is no school on Friday, November 22nd.    
• Book orders are due on Friday, November 22nd. 

November 4 - 8

Student Learning

• In gym, students had a chance to work on the climbing wall! 

• The grade ones collaborated to create a multi-media poppy. Our Remembrance Day assembly was today. The grade fours did a wonderful job. Please ask your child to share what they have learned about peace, freedom and Remembrance Day. 

• We sketched the life cycle of a pumpkin. 

• We went on our pond walk and observed late fall seasonal changes. Ask your child to share some of the changes they have noticed at the pond from early fall to late fall. 

Classroom Updates 

• There's a toy problem! Please remind your child to leave the toys at home so they are safe for them to play with later. This includes chunky jewelry, rainbow loom elastics and Pokemon cards. 
• We are going to start an inquiry around apples. We are requesting kind donations of various apples for Monday, November 18th. 
• There is no on Monday in honor of Remembrance Day.

October 28 - 31

Student Learning

• These are the sight words we practiced this week: 
• away 
• back 
• be 
• Look for these words in the books you read together. 
• In math, we worked on sorting our pumpkins from largest to smallest. Thank you again for all of the donations! 

• We talked about the different ways that pumpkins could be measured. We used the non-standard unit of unifix cubes to measure the height, weight and circumference of our pumpkins. 

• Ask your child to share what it means to measure the height of a pumpkin. Ask them to tell why the yarn was a useful tool to measure the circumference. 
• We also worked on counting the seeds in our pumpkin. Thank you again to the lovely volunteers who made this possible. 

• Here were the final numbers for the pumpkin seeds: 

• The numbers in black squares were our estimates and the numbers in red were the actual number of seeds. Ask your child to consider why it helped to make groups of ten when trying to count how many seeds were in a pumpkin. 
• We tried the pumpkin cookies at snack time on Thursday. Ask your child to share what they thought of the cookie. Many described it as "chewy" and "like a cake". 

Classroom Updates: 

• Our planned pond visit on Monday was cancelled as it was quite cold. We would like to do our pond walk on Thursday, November 7 th instead. Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather. 
• Our Remembrance Day Assembly is on Friday, November 8th. We will be collecting poppy donations over the next week to support Veterans and their families. 
• Students that are in service clubs such as Beavers, Cubs, Brownies, Sparks, Cadets, CGIT, etc. are invited to wear their uniforms for our service on Friday. 
• Thank you so much for your donations to our "We Scare Hunger" campaign. Our final food count was 267 items of food. We beat our goal twice! Amazing!
• Book orders went home on Thursday and are due on November 22nd. This will be the last book order before Christmas. 
• We have created a signup for reading and classroom volunteers. If you are a cleared volunteer with the CBE and you have not received the link for the signup, please email your child's teacher.