December 6th

Hi Parents,

We discovered that we have an Elf on the Shelf in our classroom. He has been moving all around our room and even left us two notes!  We named our Elf Oreo! :)

In social studies, we continued our learning from last week about maps and created our very own map of the classroom. We also started learning about landmarks. A landmark is on object or feature that helps you know where you are. They are easily seen and can usually be seen from far away. In Cranston our landmark is the Cranston Windmill. In our community of Calgary, we have two landmarks, which are the Saddledome and Calgary Tower.
We read the story "Goodnight Canada", which helped us learn a little bit more about the provinces of Canada.

We learned about the sounds "ch" "er" and the letter "y" when it makes the long "e" sound at the end of words and practiced sounding out words with these sounds.

In writing, we wrote about our best day ever or what our best day ever would be.

Our words of the week this week were: come, look, me, what
Our words of the week next week will be: big, can, little, went 

In math, we continued working on our math centers.

We also went and watched the kindergartens perform Christmas songs for their Christmas Concert. They did an amazing job!

In  gym this week, we learned about what our bodies do when we are exercising and did fitness stations.

In music, we have been working really hard on getting our Christmas concert ready for next week.  We are getting super excited about performing for our families! :)

Reminders:

If you would like to contribute to our Christmas gift bag initiative to support less fortunate students at two CBE schools please have your gift bags in by Monday December 10th as we will be preparing the bags next week.

Friday December 7th is a PD day. No School.

Monday December 10th is Christmas Sweater day. Students are invited to wear their Christmas sweaters/shirts. If you don't have a Christmas sweater students can wear green and/or red.

Wednesday December 13th is our Christmas Concert. The dress rehearsal is at 1:00pm, no tickets are required. The concert in the evening is at 6:30pm, students were sent home with their 2 tickets today. Doors open at 6:15pm.

Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home

Thursday December 20th is Movie/PJ day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching in the afternoon.

Friday December 21st last day of classes before winter break. It is also Club Friday.