Friday, September 28

Agenda Message: Read the Blog every weekend.

Teacher Message: Please make sure read Home Reading DAILY and send back every day.

Language Arts: This week we are beginning Home Reading. For the Grade 2's they should be well on their way. Please start at the assigned level that is posted in the Home Reading Data book. Read daily and return every day.
For Grade 1, Home Reading may be new or an intimidating experience. The book they take home should be 'fairly' comfortable and they should show confidence in reading it.
Important habits when reading a book (for the first time):
- do a picture walk (look through the pages - from beginning to end - and talk about pictures and any new vocabulary that your child may not know
- show how to read the title by pointing to each word as you read them aloud (and your child should practice this right after you show them)
- as your child holds the book (NOT ADULT) the child should continue to try to point to each word as they read (show by example when necessary)
- your child should look at the pictures for clues or look at the initial letter of the word
- give your child time (around 5 seconds) to get an unknown word. The unknown word can be given by the parent

This should be a START for reading at home. ALWAYS PRAISE YOUR CHILD FOR DOING THEIR BEST - IT'S HARD WORK

Math: Use the curriculum for Patterns below (choose correct Grade and find patterns around your house). Anytime your child tries additional work at home, they are welcome to bring it into class and post on the whiteboard.

Grade 1

Grade 2

Patterns from the Environment. Here are some pieces of work from Grade 1. They are continuing to work on keeping their patterns in an organized fashion.

Mini-Math Assessment - ask your child how they did when they were asked to print the numbers from 1-20. If they found it difficult, please post these numbers at home and review every day. 

If your child had a reversed number, please have your child practice at home. Some children need additional practice at home and a copy of 1-10 was sent home to post at home and review daily. 

Science:   We've begun our NEW Science Unit - Exploring Liquids. Here is a video that you and your child can watch together. After the video, walk through your house and identify whether the matter is a 'solid' or 'liquid' and remember to recall the definition outlaid - a liquid takes the shape of the container. A solid is matter that has own shape. Here is the youtube video (PLEASE ALWAYS WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH YOUR CHILD) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzjg5nRMOg

Here are the Scientists at work:

Students are learning that Scientists need to be safe in the lab and remember rules to make our experiments successful. Such rules are walking, talking and liquids NEVER go in our mouth. 

We reviewed some of these expectations and what Scientists do: 

Here were some of our conclusions from our experiment with water. Please review with your child.

Social Studies: We've begun exploring how Canada began and were introduced to Aboriginals and touched on the subject of Residential Schools. Again here is the Government of Canada Website explaining Canada's beginnings (page 7 and 8 YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE WORDS) - https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada/read-online/who-are-canadians.html PLEASE SIT AND LISTEN TO THE AUDIO AND

TAKE THE TIME TO STOP AND TALK. Here is also a child friendly explanation of Residential Schools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NueIHENCckw&index=5&list=PLDgXXEmtNfrZDGlSwSIujdg3Uvo5Mce-f
Here is a great story about Residential Schools - please watch together with your child. Take the time to talk about the story and any questions that your child might have - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBrkJn3NeI PLEASE ALWAYS WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH YOUR CHILD.

Art: We are learning to sketch what we SEE. We sketched outside this week in the school yard. We sketched things we ENJOY. Doing things you enjoy is a way to stay healthy. Ask your child what they sketched and did they add details to their pictures (that they saw!)

Terry Fox: We've been learning about Terry Fox and his goal to fight cancer. As we talked more, we learned that he had many goals. Some mentioned were:

Terry wanted to...

- never give up

- raise money for cancer research

- dip his leg in the Atlantic Ocean and finally the Pacific Ocean

- try his best to be healthy to run across Canada

- be determined

- run across Canada (one side to the other side)

- fight cancer

- us to continue the Terry Fox Run and raise money

Ask your child what goal they want to achieve. See written goals in the hallway. Ask your child what plan they would make to achieve their goal. 

Gym: We practiced our warm up song for the Terry Fox Run. We are learning routines for our Movin' and Munchin' Social.

Schedule:

Friday, Oct.  5 - Family, Friends welcomed to have fun with us -
                                A MOVIN AND MUNCHIN' SOCIAL!
Come through the front doors at 10:45,  sign our Guest Book and meet us at the Gym. We'll have fun and move, then socialize over some healthy snacks. Come join us! PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN WATER BOTTLE.

Wednesday, Oct. 10 - Heritage Park Field Trip (Volunteers: Mrs. Coulton, Mrs. Massey, Mrs. Zong, Mrs. Ursulescu and Mrs. Dutchak). Please be ready for weather and pack a hearty lunch and water bottle.
For our field trip, we are planning on wearing some 'olden' day clothes. Girls in dresses and boys in a dress shirt. See photos below

for some ideas. Please don't feel that you need to purchase clothes. Please contact me and we'll look at our 'dress-up' clothes at school for your child. 


Monday Oct 22 - Thursday, Oct. 25 (and Dec. 5) - Vivo - https://www.vivo.ca (website). We will visit this site to explore our question - Is this a healthy habit? See Vivo video - vivo generation h on YouTube (ALWAYS WATCH VIDEO WITH YOUR CHILD). 

Here is a tool to help each child to become more independent when others are 'bugging' them and they want to be in charge of their own learning and success. Feel free to print off for home. 

OF COURSE, IF SOMEONE IS HURTING YOU, YOU NEED TO SEE AN ADULT RIGHT AWAY.

Look at a Proactive Leader - a student in charge of their learning (reading a book!)

Terry Fox Run - 

Here is our class photo for Orange Shirt Day! Here is a 2 minutes video http://www.orangeshirtday.org(from Orange Shirt Day website) about why we call it Orange Shirt Day and it's significance.

PLEASE COME TO OUR MOVIN'AND MUNCHIN' SOCIAL -