Hi Parents,
This week we worked on the letters P, O, D, and G. We are really improving our ability to identify whether the letter sounds are at the beginning or the end of the words. This week we also started using our letter knowledge to sound out whole words! We also continued to practice printing our letters and started doing word hunts around the room to find words that start with those letter. We even went on a whole school word hunt with our grade 2 buddies!
We worked really hard on practicing our words of the week this week.
We were introduced to our new words: at, on, said, you
We also had our first words of the week test where the words of the week were read to us and we had to try and write them correctly. We are getting so much better with the words of the week and we are going to keep practicing.
Our words of week for next week are are, be, for, we
In math this week we continued practicing our number sense and counting through calendar. We continued to count the number of days we have been in school. We have been in school 36 days already! We also practiced representing numbers in different ways.
We continued our work on subitizing and patterns.
In science we went outside to draw our "Fall Tree". Each season we will go and observe our tree and draw how it changes throughout the year.
In social studies, we continued learning about communities and discussed our school community. We talked about who is apart of our school community and how we help to make our school community a better place.
We finished our Todd Parr Self Portraits. Everyone did an amazing job, they look great! :)
Reminders:
The Halloween Howler is on Tuesday October 30th from 6:00pm-8:00pm in the gym and hub. Tickets are $5 and still available. Tickets will not be sold at the door. If you would like to purchase tickets you can do so online through Cranston.hotlunches.net/CODE CSHL
Wednesday October 31st is Halloween. Students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes to school. We just ask for no masks or weapons
Thursday November 1st is PJ day. This is the second event set up by our leadership club. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school. No stuffies or toys please.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018
October 19th
Hi Parents,
This week we focused on stories by Todd Parr. We read "It's Okay to be Different" and wrote our own version of "it's okay to...". We also read the story "The Family Book" and wrote about our favourite thing to do with our family.
In social studies, we discussed what "community" means. We also discussed how we are a part of many different communities and came up with different examples of communities. For example, home and school. We realized that we are at the center and all these communities surround us and slowly get bigger as we move farther away from ourselves. At home we may only have 5 people in our community but in our school we have over 500 people who are apart of our school community. We learned that in communities everyone works together and contributes. In our visual we wrote and drew pictures about ways we help ourselves and ways we help at home.
In science, we continued to learn about fall. We discussed how apples grow and are harvested in fall. We learned about the apple life cycle and then we made apple crisp with Mrs. Hardie's class. We also went on a fall walk and used 4 of our 5 senses to discover the signs of fall. Today we wrote about what we saw, heard, smelled and felt on our walk.
As we read our Todd Parr books we discussed how his illustrations are unique and what features tell us it is art done by Todd Parr. We then started to create our own Todd Parr inspired self portraits.
Our grade 2 buddies came and taught us a game to help us practice our words of the week called 4 in a row. You have to say the word of the week to place your counter on the square and you have to try and get 4 in a row before your partner. We read the Todd Parr book "It's Okay to Make Mistakes" and discussed how we might have made mistakes during the game, but thats okay because it helps us to learn!
We also got to buddy read with our Grade 3 buddies today.
Our words of the week this week were: he, of, that, was We will continue to work on these words next week, along with our new words of the week
Our words of the week next week are: at, on, you, said
In math, we continued to subitizing, number sense, and patterns.
Today was our first Club Friday of the year. We were all super excited and loved our clubs. We can't wait until its Club Friday again!
Have a great weekend!
From: Room 80
Reminders:
Thursday October 25th is Parent Teacher Interviews from 4:00pm-7:00pm
Friday October 26th is Parent Teacher Interviews from 8:00am-12:00pm
Sign up is now available through your powerschool account. If you are having any trouble signing up please send me an email
Friday October 26th -No School
On Thursday and Friday our book fair will also be running in the library
This week we focused on stories by Todd Parr. We read "It's Okay to be Different" and wrote our own version of "it's okay to...". We also read the story "The Family Book" and wrote about our favourite thing to do with our family.
In social studies, we discussed what "community" means. We also discussed how we are a part of many different communities and came up with different examples of communities. For example, home and school. We realized that we are at the center and all these communities surround us and slowly get bigger as we move farther away from ourselves. At home we may only have 5 people in our community but in our school we have over 500 people who are apart of our school community. We learned that in communities everyone works together and contributes. In our visual we wrote and drew pictures about ways we help ourselves and ways we help at home.
In science, we continued to learn about fall. We discussed how apples grow and are harvested in fall. We learned about the apple life cycle and then we made apple crisp with Mrs. Hardie's class. We also went on a fall walk and used 4 of our 5 senses to discover the signs of fall. Today we wrote about what we saw, heard, smelled and felt on our walk.
As we read our Todd Parr books we discussed how his illustrations are unique and what features tell us it is art done by Todd Parr. We then started to create our own Todd Parr inspired self portraits.
Our grade 2 buddies came and taught us a game to help us practice our words of the week called 4 in a row. You have to say the word of the week to place your counter on the square and you have to try and get 4 in a row before your partner. We read the Todd Parr book "It's Okay to Make Mistakes" and discussed how we might have made mistakes during the game, but thats okay because it helps us to learn!
We also got to buddy read with our Grade 3 buddies today.
Our words of the week this week were: he, of, that, was We will continue to work on these words next week, along with our new words of the week
Our words of the week next week are: at, on, you, said
In math, we continued to subitizing, number sense, and patterns.
Today was our first Club Friday of the year. We were all super excited and loved our clubs. We can't wait until its Club Friday again!
Have a great weekend!
From: Room 80
Reminders:
Thursday October 25th is Parent Teacher Interviews from 4:00pm-7:00pm
Friday October 26th is Parent Teacher Interviews from 8:00am-12:00pm
Sign up is now available through your powerschool account. If you are having any trouble signing up please send me an email
Friday October 26th -No School
On Thursday and Friday our book fair will also be running in the library
Friday, October 12, 2018
October 12th
Hi Parents,
It was a short but very busy week this week!
We used all the letters that we've learned so far (m,f,s,b,t,c and a) to try spelling words and we also learned about the letter R.
Our words of the week this week were: to, in, it, is
We went on word hunts to find the words of the week in our books, we also tried to find them in poems. We started to realize that the words of the week show up a lot in our books and we see them in lots of different places. We also practiced printing our words of the week.
Next week the words of the week will be: he. of, that.was
We started home reading this week. We are really liking being able to practice reading at home.
We also had our first fun lunch and it was McDonalds
On Thursday we had stuffy day. We loved being able to have our stuffies at school! We read to them, we sketched them, we sorted them and we wrote about them. Some of us wrote stories about what our stuffies would do if they were at school when nobody was there, some of us wrote about what our stuffies looks like and some of us wrote about what we like about our stuffies.
In math, we continued practicing our subitizing and counting. We also practiced our sorting by cutting out buttons, sorting them into groups and telling Ms.Hill our sorting rule.
Our grade 2 buddies, helped us learn about making 10 with cards. We had to find two cards that made ten and then we traced them and drew them into our visual journals.
In music, we learned two new songs called "The Ten Little Pumpkins" and "Hey Jack!"
In gym we leaned about teamwork and played with the parachute. We were the first class to ever use the new parachute.
Reminders:
Our library day is Thursdays. Please make sure your child has returned both their books by Thursday so that they can get two new books to bring home.
We are a peanut free classroom!
It was a short but very busy week this week!
We used all the letters that we've learned so far (m,f,s,b,t,c and a) to try spelling words and we also learned about the letter R.
Our words of the week this week were: to, in, it, is
We went on word hunts to find the words of the week in our books, we also tried to find them in poems. We started to realize that the words of the week show up a lot in our books and we see them in lots of different places. We also practiced printing our words of the week.
Next week the words of the week will be: he. of, that.was
We started home reading this week. We are really liking being able to practice reading at home.
We also had our first fun lunch and it was McDonalds
On Thursday we had stuffy day. We loved being able to have our stuffies at school! We read to them, we sketched them, we sorted them and we wrote about them. Some of us wrote stories about what our stuffies would do if they were at school when nobody was there, some of us wrote about what our stuffies looks like and some of us wrote about what we like about our stuffies.
In math, we continued practicing our subitizing and counting. We also practiced our sorting by cutting out buttons, sorting them into groups and telling Ms.Hill our sorting rule.
Our grade 2 buddies, helped us learn about making 10 with cards. We had to find two cards that made ten and then we traced them and drew them into our visual journals.
In music, we learned two new songs called "The Ten Little Pumpkins" and "Hey Jack!"
In gym we leaned about teamwork and played with the parachute. We were the first class to ever use the new parachute.
Reminders:
Our library day is Thursdays. Please make sure your child has returned both their books by Thursday so that they can get two new books to bring home.
We are a peanut free classroom!
Friday, October 5, 2018
October 5th
Hi Parents,
Monday was Orange Shirt Day. To honour Orange Shirt Day we wore our orange shirts. We also each create a leaf that represented where we belong and how we feel when we belong. We drew pictures and words on our leaves. They were then put up with the other leaves that were made by each student in the school. Keep an eye our for our leafs in the hub! We also wrote about all the different places we belong, such as home, at school, with our family and with our friends.
We started our words of the week this week. Our four words of the week were a, and, I, the
We also started guided reading this week. We are practicing our reading stamina by doing read to self and we are also working with Ms. Hill in small groups to read "Just Right" books.
Our letter of the week this week was the letter "a".
We also continued our printing practice by printing the letter "A" and our words of the week.
In math, we continued working on subitizing, sorting and patterning through centers. We also played Higher or Lower and Go Fish with ten frame cards to help us subitize 10 frames. We played a new subitizing game on the smart board, where we answered subitizing and counting questions. With each question we got right we slowly cracked open an egg and a monster popped out. We loved this new game!! We also created patterns in our math books and we had to circle the core and label the type of pattern (eg. AB pattern, ABC pattern, AAB pattern).
This week with our grade two buddies our buddies showed us how to use the computers. They showed us how to get the computers, how to hold them, how to log on, use word, log off and put the computers away.
We also met our grade three buddies today and did some buddy reading with them.
In celebration of Thanksgiving we talked about what it means to be thankful. We also read "The Thankful Book" by Todd Parr and wrote in our writing journals about what we were thankful for.
We did some Thanksgiving art this week. We created hand print turkeys and coloured a thanksgiving picture.
Have a wonderful long weekend!
Reminders:
Our library day is Thursdays. Please make sure your child has returned both their books by Thursday so that they can get two new books to bring home.
Monday October 8th is Thanksgiving. No School
Thursday October 11th is Stuffy Day. This is a day put on by our leadership club. Students are invited to bring a stuffy to school. Please put your child's name on the tag. Also, we would suggest not bringing stuffy's that are very special to your child.
We are a peanut free classroom!
Monday was Orange Shirt Day. To honour Orange Shirt Day we wore our orange shirts. We also each create a leaf that represented where we belong and how we feel when we belong. We drew pictures and words on our leaves. They were then put up with the other leaves that were made by each student in the school. Keep an eye our for our leafs in the hub! We also wrote about all the different places we belong, such as home, at school, with our family and with our friends.
We also started guided reading this week. We are practicing our reading stamina by doing read to self and we are also working with Ms. Hill in small groups to read "Just Right" books.
Our letter of the week this week was the letter "a".
We also continued our printing practice by printing the letter "A" and our words of the week.
In math, we continued working on subitizing, sorting and patterning through centers. We also played Higher or Lower and Go Fish with ten frame cards to help us subitize 10 frames. We played a new subitizing game on the smart board, where we answered subitizing and counting questions. With each question we got right we slowly cracked open an egg and a monster popped out. We loved this new game!! We also created patterns in our math books and we had to circle the core and label the type of pattern (eg. AB pattern, ABC pattern, AAB pattern).
This week with our grade two buddies our buddies showed us how to use the computers. They showed us how to get the computers, how to hold them, how to log on, use word, log off and put the computers away.
We also met our grade three buddies today and did some buddy reading with them.
In celebration of Thanksgiving we talked about what it means to be thankful. We also read "The Thankful Book" by Todd Parr and wrote in our writing journals about what we were thankful for.
We did some Thanksgiving art this week. We created hand print turkeys and coloured a thanksgiving picture.
Have a wonderful long weekend!
From: Room 80! :)
Home reading will be starting next week. You will receive a letter home with information about reading with your child at home and information about our words of the week. A reminder that it is okay to read a book more then once, home reading books do not need to be returned each day. They will be switched every second day or so. If you have any questions, after reading the information sheets, regarding home reading or words of the week please let me know.
Reminders:
Our library day is Thursdays. Please make sure your child has returned both their books by Thursday so that they can get two new books to bring home.
Monday October 8th is Thanksgiving. No School
Thursday October 11th is Stuffy Day. This is a day put on by our leadership club. Students are invited to bring a stuffy to school. Please put your child's name on the tag. Also, we would suggest not bringing stuffy's that are very special to your child.
We are a peanut free classroom!
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