Friday February 23/24

Important Dates/Reminders:

-return blue folders that went home February 9th, we will be sending home another work sample on March 8th

-return home reading folders when ready for a new book

-Field trip to Telus Spark is March 11th, all forms due March 6th, we still need volunteers to come with us for the day, please let us know if you can volunteer by the 6th.  If we don't have enough volunteers by the 6th, we may have to consider cancelling the trip.

-Pink Shirt Day is Wednesday February 28th.  Wear pink!  This is completely voluntary.

Our Week:

Grade One Math: 

-working on part part whole addition, moving into understanding subtraction

Grade Two Math:

-continuing to work on missing addends and subtrahends (i.e. ___+5=12, 15-___=4)

-continuing to work on 2 digit by 1 digit addition and subtraction

-continuing to use base ten blocks to work with 2 digit by 1 digit and 2 digit by 1 digit addition and subtraction (with and without regrouping)

Literacy:

-continuing to work on writing stamina, using adjectives for nouns, writing in complete sentences and adding detail to our writing, adding writing to our loose parts pictures to describe the setting of a story, ask your child what "setting" means (hint: the place, time and environment of a story, the setting affects what happens in a story, the setting can change, characters react to the setting, look for clues in the words and pictures)

-literacy groups will resume on March 4th with a focus on reading fluency, in addition to phonics

Science:

-Art is almost complete that accompanied our book study on Over and Under the Snow.  See the link for a short video of the book.  Talk with your child about the animals in the book and how they adapt, migrate or hibernate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYUQzzULHg4

Have a fantastic weekend!

Friday, Feb. 16 2024

 

Important Dates and Information:

 

Family Day on Feb. 19- No school.

 

Blue home folders: If you have not returned this folder, please do so. You can keep your child’s work that was in the folder.

 

Upcoming grade 1/2 field trip to Telus Spark for Ms. Disher, Mrs. Pelton and Ms. Lloyd’s classes on March 11. Forms will be sent home on Tuesday Feb. 20 and they will be due on March 6. If you can volunteer, please contact your child’s teacher and let them know. We are needing 6 volunteers per class and if we are unable to find this number, the field trip will be cancelled. There will be a volunteer form that will need to be filled out and sent in. Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Our Week:

 

On Wednesday Feb. 14, we had an enjoyable sharing of Valentine’s Day cards and we also talked about what friendship means. For Social Studies, we are talking about all the people that make up the community of Tuscany and friends are an important group of people that are in our school community as well as in our neighborhood community. We will continue to look at the community of Tuscany in different ways in the next while.

 

For literacy, Ms. Disher’s class focused on understanding setting in story while writing about The Wild Robot and Ms. Pelton’s class has started procedural/how to writing. Both classes will continue this next week.

 

For math, Mrs. Pelton’s grade 1 group focused on understanding addition through the part-part-whole model and continued to play math addition games to reinforce skills learned. Ms. Disher’s grade 2 group continued to work on addition and subtraction of 2 digit by one digit numbers. The students played a fun Snakes and Ladders game to practice this skill.

 

Both classes continued to work on different parts of our science and art project about hibernation, adaptation and migration. The students are super excited to learn more about the different animals we have been reading about in The Wild Robot. Ms. Disher’s class has begun the second book in the series: The Wild Robot Escapes. Mrs. Pelton’s class is nearing the end of The Wild Robot.

 

We hope everyone has a wonderful Family Day long weekend!

 Friday February 9th

Updates/Important Information:

-No school on Thursday February 15th or Friday February 16th

-Conferences are the end of March

-Have your child return their Home Reading folders when they are ready for a new book

-Blue Folders sent home today:  You child took home the blue communication folder that was shared in the EHS Connect.  They have a sample of writing and a handout with "2 Stars and a Wish" (2 things your child feels they do well and one "wish" or an area they want/need to improve in).  All students were given 10 minutes of discussion time, 10 minutes to "plan" their ideas with pictures and 20 minutes only to write.  Please review both handouts with your child and then return just the folder to school school.  Let us know if you have any questions.

-We will be exchanging Valentines cards on Wednesday next week.  Please see the blog for more information.  Each child brought home a list of student names this week.  We ask that food/treats are not brought to school due to allergies, personal preferences, etc.

-Grade 1 Math Group: focused on adding as joining together 2 groups of objects, pictures, etc.  They also focused on word problems that involve addition of numbers up to 20.

-Grade 2 Math Group: focused on addition with 3 addends and addition/subtraction of a 2 digit number and a 1 digit number.  For example, solving 64+3, 64-4, 10+5+5, how can we solve these equations?  (hint: making groups of ten, making ten, using place value, counting up, counting back, finding patterns in numbers)

-Thursday February 8th was our last day for literacy groups.  We will start up with new groups in 2 weeks.  Ask your child what they did in their group and who their teacher was.

Have a fantastic weekend!

 Feb. 2, 2024

Important Dates and Information:

Valentines Day is coming up: If your child chooses to partake in giving Valentine Day cards to students, we ask that you have enough to give one to each student in the class. If you wish to give Valentines cards to students in another class, you are not expected to give one to everyone in that other class. Please ensure the name of the student is on the card. We ask there to please be no food or candy due to food preferences, allergies and culture. A paper letter and a list of names in your child's class will be sent home next week.

Roots of Empathy February dates for grade 1: Feb. 13, 20, 27.

Teachers Convention Feb. 15 and 16- no school

Family Day Feb. 19- no school

Fun Snack Feb. 8- Tim Horton's

Our Week:

We had a wonderful week swimming. The students had the chance to learn new skills and be brave for trying something new if it was their first time. Ask your child what they enjoyed most about swimming. 

In literacy, Ms. Disher's class continued to work on the "How to" writing they have been working on and Mrs. Pelton's class worked on their loose parts writing project. We will be sending home a piece of writing next week to share your child's progress in writing.

The grade 1s worked with the grade 2s to explore and do challenges with the Sphero Robots. There is so much learning and fun to be had with these little cars. Ask your child how they make the Shpero Robots move how they want them to move. 

In math, the students continue to work on addition and subtraction. Ms. Disher's grade 2 group learned about 2 digit by one digit adding and subtracting and Mrs. Pelton's grade 1 group learned how to use a number path when adding two numbers between 0 and 20 together. 

We have began an art and science project focusing on hibernation and migration. We read about these topics in the book the Wild Robot so now it's exciting to look at this in more depth. Ask your child the two kinds of art mediums we used in our winter scene piece we started.

We hope you have a restful weekend!