*Due to technical difficulties, Friday March 15th post could not be posted until now.

Important Dates and Information:

Student Led Conference March 21 and 22

Eric Harvie School will be hosting our student-led conferences the evening of Thursday March 21 and the morning of Friday March 22. This round of conferences will be 21student-led and will provide each learner a chance to show what they have learned as well as provide time for families to engage with the classroom teachers. Families will be asked to sign up for a 30 minute time block to allow for ample time for students to show-off their learning, and as well to provide time for conversation.

The Sign-up for conferences will open Saturday March 16th at 8:00 am and close on Wednesday March 20th at 4:00 pm. Please sign up for a 30 minute time slot under your child’s team of teachers. 

Please bring back blue home folders.

Upcoming Scholastic Book Fair- March 20-22

March 21 Subway Fun Lunch

Mon, Mar 25 - Mon, Apr. 1: Spring Break- NO SCHOOL, classes resume Tues, April 2

Our Week:

We had a wonderful time at Telus Spark on Monday. The students were fully engaged in learning and exploring various aspects of science. Ask your child what they enjoyed the most.

In literacy, both classes worked on writing about their experience at Telus Spark which they will share with you at Learning Conferences. 

Ms. Disher’s grade 2 math group and Mrs. Pelton’s grade 1 math group began learning about fractions this week. Learning new vocabulary about fractions is important. Ask your child what a whole and a half are. How many halves make up a whole? Both groups will continue working on addition and subtraction as we learn new math concepts.

The community walk down to The Tuscany Club was fun and it was nice to have no ice on the side walks! Ask your child why The Tuscany Club and the shopping center area is located in the middle of Tuscany.

We look forward to talking with you at Learning Conferences and having the opportunity for the students to share all their hard work.

 Friday March 8th

Important Dates and Information:

-Thank you to everyone for returning their field trip forms for Monday's trip to Telus Spark.  Please refer to the letter that went home regarding what to bring for the trip (i.e. dress for the weather, pack a lunch, snack and water).  The bus will be leaving at 8:35 SHARP from the school.

-Blue Folders: a March sample of work went home in your child's blue folder today if they were at school.  The work is for current Math learning and has a reflection page attached to it with the learning outcomes your child has been working on. Your child has also shared "2 Stars" (things they do well) and "1 Wish" (something they wish to get better at/work on).  The work is yours to keep.  Please return the blue folder.

-Student Led Conferences: Thursday March 21 in the evening and Friday March 22nd in the morning.  More information to come.

-No school Friday March 22nd - students back to school after spring break April 2nd

Our Week:

-We started new literacy groups.  Ask your child who their teacher is and what they have started working on.

-Ask your child about our class read a-louds, The Wild Robot Escapes: who are the main characters and what is the setting?

-S.S.: Ask your child about our community walk today.  Ask them what a "landmark" is and to give you an example.

-Science: We started talking about matter and energy.  Our trip to Telus Spark is the start of the unit.  The kids are really excited to go!

Have a great weekend!

 Friday March 1, 2024

Important Dates and Information:

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 Monday March 11. Permission forms are due March 6. Here is the link to the Telus Spark website. Ms. Disher's class is still looking for volunteers for her class.

https://www.sparkscience.ca/

Community Walks both Sunrise and Glacier classes- Friday March 8 and Friday March 15 from 10:45-11:30am. Please refer to the School Messenger email that was sent out for more information.

Our Week:

For literacy Ms. Disher's students shared their Wild Robot setting writing with each other. Their loose part Wild Robot art pieces turned out very well. Mrs. Pelton's class continued to work on procedural writing. 

In math, the grade 1 students focused on learning about subtraction as taking away and looked at the friendly numbers of 10 with subtraction. We learned that addition goes hand in hand with subtraction because if you know that 4 + 6 = 10, then you know that 10- 4= 6.  The grade 2 students worked on thinking of addition for subtraction and vice versa to help with missing addends/subtrahends. 

For Pink Shirt Day on Feb. 28, both classes watched the wordless picture book on the Smartboard I Walk with Vanessa written by Kerascoët. The students engaged in conversations about kindness, empathy and inclusion. For Wellness the rest of the week, we continued our talk about kindness by reading and writing about what a true friend is all about and thinking of powerful positive words to write with pastel. 

For Social Studies, we continued to look closely at Tuscany community and started to learn about the word landmark and where the landmarks in Tuscany are located. 

Have a good weekend everyone!

 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!