June 21, 2024

Important Dates and Information:

Community walk on Tuesday afternoon with both Sunrise and Glacier classrooms- we will need one parent volunteer from each class. Please contact your child’s teacher if you would like to volunteer. 

Please return all library and home reading books

Wednesday June 26th Spirit Day- wear red and white and Sports Day

Last day of school- Thursday June 27: half day, early dismissal

Check the EHS’s weekley connect for more information

Our Week:

In math, the Grade 1 and 2 groups have been continuing to learn about 2D and 3D shapes. We have been sorting, classifying and learning about specific geometry vocabulary. The grade 1s looked at symmetry this week and talked about “the line of symmetry” when looking at an image. 

In literacy, the students wrote about next year using the prompt “In Grade 2…” and “In Grade 3…” and thought about what they wondered, hoped, thought, and felt about next year. Mrs. Pelton’s class shared their writing during Author’s Chair. Glacier is getting to the end of The Wild Robot Protects and Sunrise finished The Wild Robot Escapes yesterday. Ask your child what the feather meant in the Epilogue. We have begun to read the third book, but won’t be able to finish, so it is encouraged that families finish the book as a read aloud over the summer as the students have adored the story. The Calgary Public Library will have opportunities for you to put the book on hold if it’s not available right away or take out the audio book. 

For Social Studies and Art, the students have been working on landscape pieces representing a national environmental park from each of the communities we have been learning about: Calgary, Saskatoon, Meteghan and Iqaluit. We have been putting them in a special folder that will be going home at the end of next week.

We can’t believe there is only one more week of school left. Lots of memories in Grade 1 and 2!

Happy Summer Solstice!

 Friday June 14th

Important Information and Updates:

-check the weekly connect newsletter for more information

-please return all library and home reading books

-last day of school is Thursday June 27th-half day only-dismissal at noon

-Wednesday June 19th Spirit Day-dress like you are going on a tropical vacation

-Wednesday June 26th Spirit Day-wear red and white

-Wednesday June 26th Sports Day-more information to come

-There are a few blue folder work samples that still need to go home next week.

Our Week:

Math: Both Grade 1 and Grade2 groups are working on Geometry (2D Shapes and 3D objects).  Grade 2's are working on building mathematical vocabulary (i.e. vertex, vertices, edge, face, corner, side).  Grade 1's worked on attributes and sorting 2D shapes.  Grade 2 students also worked on creating their own 3D object riddles based on the vocabulary learned.

Literacy:  We have been busy documenting and reflecting on our Coulee School week.  Lots of writing and painting!  Ask your child about their folders that have started.  They will also be on display today for the Celebration of Learning in the gym.  Glacier Group is about half way through the 3rd Wild Robot book.

Social Studies: Ask your child about the different communities and parks we have started looking at.

Have a terrific weekend!

 

June 7, 2024

Important Dates and Information:

Friday, June 14- Celebration of Learning between 1:30 and 3:30- come and see what your child learned at Coulee School!

Last day of school June 27th

Jun 20th - Papa Johns fun lunch 

Check the weekly Connect message for up to date information and dates

Our Week:

We had a wonderful week at Coulee school! The weather was great and we even had a very windy Tuesday that meant we had to find some trees!

Both Sunrise and Glacier classrooms enjoyed exploring different areas in the Coulee.  We also adventured to the duck pond and area. On Wednesday and Thursday, we had a guest teacher engage the students in Coulee art. Ask your child what they used to draw with (hint: something they found from the Coulee). Here are a few other things we did this week. 

-Nature scavenger hunts linked to literacy and math outcomes

-Sit Spots (find your own individual spot and be quiet and still with nature)

-Sketched and journaled what we saw- “look closely”

-Talked and journaled about what we wondered and how we felt

-Found native plants, insects and animals

-Open ended free play- especially by the stream

-Played Indigenous games

We are excited to share more with you during the Celebration of Learning next week.

Have a good weekend!

 Friday May 31

Important Information/Reminders:

-return all blue folders so we can send a new work sample home next week

-Coulee School starts next week.  Mrs. Pelton and I have sent a schoolmessenger with important and updated information

-June 27th last day of school

-check the School Connect weekly messages for further information/updates

Our Week:

-ask your child about Roots of Empathy (Grade 1 only)

-ask your child what is happening in The Wild Robot Protects, book 3 of the series

-today the Grade 3/4 team had their assembly (was fantastic!), ask your child about it

-Glacier Group/Ms. Disher's group has really been into dominoes and building, if any of you have dominoes you are willing to part with/donate, we would love to have more.  Sunrise Group is also starting to get into this.

-Math: Mrs. Pelton's group is finishing up measurement and Ms. Disher's Grade 2 group has moved onto geometry-learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects.  Most Grade 2's know a lot already, so we have moved onto some challenge tasks so they can apply what they know already about geometry.  For example, build a structure with 3D objects that has 5 flat faces, 10 flat faces, 30 edges or 50 vertices.

-Ask your child what they are doing for Inquiry/Social Studies: both groups have chosen to look at several parks and natural spaces in 3 identified Canadian Communities to learn more about animals, landforms, human interactions to see how they are all connected.  We will be comparing and contrasting this with the Coulee as a natural feature of the earth's surface-a landform!

Have a fabulous weekend!

May 24, 2024

Important Dates and Information:

Coulee School:

We have Coulee School from June 3rd to June 6th. We are looking for one volunteer from each class (Glacier and Sunrise) to help out. We will be sending out a School messenger message with the schedule this week. Please email/contact Mrs. Pelton (Sunrise Group) or Ms. Disher (Glacier Group) if you can join us. 

Check the weekly Connect newsletter for up to date information and dates, including our celebration of learning on June 14th.

Return blue folders that went home. We will be sending home a math sample next.

Our Week:

For math, ask your child what they have been learning about in measurement. The grade 1 students have been comparing the height and width of different objects and have been talking about what the word distance means.

In literacy, both classes have been focusing on what a noun, verb and an adjective are and practicing writing sentences with them. Knowing this helps the students understand how to write a good and interesting sentence. 

Mrs. Pelton’s class is getting to the end of The Wild Robot Escapes and Ms. Disher’s class is continuing to read The Wild Robot Protects. The students make many good personal connections to the stories and love to share their predictions as to what they think will happen next.

In Social Studies, we have started learning about different communities in Canada. Sunrise has started talking about Saskatoon and the prairies and Glacier has been looking at Meteghan in eastern Canada. The students have enjoyed looking at the map and looking up the weather in those parts and comparing the temperatures to Calgary. Ask your child what is a landform and what kind of landforms there are in Saskatoon and Meteghan. 

Have a wonderful weekend! We hope your families can get outside and enjoy Spring!

 Friday May 16th

Reminders/Information:

-We have Coulee School from June 3 to June 6th.  We are looking for one volunteer from each class (Glacier and Sunrise).  We will send out a schedule of when both classes are going to the Coulee next week.  It will be a mix of half days and a full day.  We are going on the full day Tuesday June 4th so we will need 2 volunteers for the day.  Please email/contact Mrs. Pelton (Sunrise Group) or Ms. Disher (Glacier Group) if you can join us.

-No school Monday May 20th

-check the weekly connect newsletter for up to date information and dates, including our celebration of learning on June 14th

-return blue folders with the writing sample that went home over the last 2 weeks, we will be sending home a math sample at the end of May

Our Week:

-Inquiry (Science and S.S.): Both groups released our painted lady butterflies this week.  Ask your child about their experience with this.  We have been learning about their life cycle, how to make scientific observations and the difference between facts and opinions.  We are starting to look at Canadian communities in S.S.

-Math: Ask your child what they have been doing in their Math Group.  Grade 2's are continuing to work on Measurement (standard and non-standard units of measure) and especially learning how to use a ruler to measure/compare objects in centimeters.

-Literacy: We continue to collect weekly writing samples to see how your child is progressing.  The outcomes that went home with the April blue folder list the main outcomes expected for Grade 1 and 2.  Students in both grades should be writing complete sentences, writing several sentences in a logical sequence starting with a topic sentence.  We expect kids to be able to write and draw for reasonable amounts of time (about 15 minutes at a time).

The Wild Robot Book Series: Glacier Group has now moved onto the 3rd book in the series: The Wild Robot Escapes.  Ask your child in Sunrise Group where they are at in book 2.

Have a fantastic weekend!

 Friday May 10th

Important Information/Reminders:

-Library is Tuesdays and Thursdays

-Both Sunrise and Glacier blue folders have slowly been sent home this week (a few each day) and a few more will be sent home Monday.  It has a sample of their most recent writing and a 2 Stars and a Wish self-reflection for you to review with your child.

-No School May 17th or May 20th

-Last day of school for kids June 27th.

-Coulee School week of June 3rd to June 7th.  We are looking for parent volunteers.  If you can join us for any of those dates, please let Mrs. Pelton or myself know.

Our Week:

Inquiry: We continue to watch as our caterpillars have now changed to their chrysalis form, stage 3 of their life cycle.  Kids are excited to do observations in their Nature Journals.  Ask you child about the questions/wonderings they have, what they have learned about Painted Lady Butterfly life cycles and any facts they have learned.

Math: Ask your child what they are doing in their Math group.  Both Grade 1's and 2's are working on learning about measurement-using both standard and non-standard units of measure.

Literacy: We did another writing sample that has gone home in blue folders.  Sunrise group is working on story retelling using the book, It Fell From The Sky.  Glacier group is working on parts of speech (nouns and verbs).  Glacier group was quite excited to learn about a book called The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsberg.  We looked at the pictures, titles for each picture and read the captions. We then did a piece of writing about one of the pictures: What do you see happening?  What do you think will happen next? etc.  The book is a real mystery!  Ask your child more.

Have a fabulous weekend!