Friday January 26th

Important Dates and Information:

Swimming starts Monday:

-We leave the school at 9:05 a.m. SHARP.  We cannot wait for students as the bus needs to leave right away.

-Please send your child to school with their bathing suit under their clothes as well as a smaller separate swim bag with a towel and underwear in it.

-Send goggles if your child needs them.

-We will not be at the school during our morning snack time as we will be swimming.  It is important that your child eat a good breakfast and bring a snack to school that they can eat before 9:00 in the classroom OR after we get back from the pool.  The bus leaves to take us back to school at 10:45 so we will not be back until close to lunch.

Our Week:

Grade 1 Roots of Empathy: Ask your child what they learned about baby Mario!

Grade 2 The Wild Robot Project and Coding: If your child finished their robot then they have been sent home.  We will finish the rest next week.  Coding: The Grade 2's are learning about coding using the Sphero Robots.  It is an important part of the Grade 1 and 2 Science (Computer Science) curriculum.  The Grade 2's will be teaching the Grade 1's how to use the Sphero Robots.  If your child is in Grade 2, ask them what they did this week!

Mrs. Pelton's Class: They have been working on a writing and loose parts project for our class read aloud, The Wild Robot.  Ask your child what they have done so far!

Ms. Disher's Class: Ask your child about what we read and drew today for The Wild Robot.  Ask your child about their "How to" writing.  For example, each student started their drawings and sentences with 4 words: First, Next, Then, Last.  This also ties into the Science outcomes for coding where students have to be able to give directions and use directions to create something.

Math: We are working on equality/inequality and addition/subtraction.  Ask your Grade 1 child what they did this week with Mrs. Pelton.  Ask your Grade 2 child what they did with Ms. Disher (hint: YOU Be The Teacher! What does the equal sign mean?-it's not just about where the answer goes!)

Have a fantastic weekend!

 Jan 19, 2024

Important Information and Dates:

Grade 1s have Roots of Empathy two times next week (Tues and Thurs)

Lacrosse starts next week

Grade 1s continue to work hard on their government testing for reading and mathematics

Swimming is from Jan 29 - Feb 1- please contact your classroom teacher if you have any questions or concerns

Our Week;

In math, the grade 1s have started to work on addition. To get them thinking about addition, we have been engaging in different games. Ask your child about Race to 100 and Bump it. The grade 2s have been continuing equality/inequality, reviewing single digit addition strategies and doubles and focusing on fact families. 

In literacy, we have been looking closely at the characters in the Wild Robot- understanding who are the main characters and what are the personality traits of each character. We continue to enjoy drawing, discussing, predicting, inferring and questioning while we read. The students have many wonderful insights and connections to share. Ask your child what Roz did to help the animals on the island stay warm. 

The grade 2s, on Thursday, had the opportunity to play with the Sphero Indi Robots that are new to EHS. We are starting to talk about coding (plugged and unplugged) as part of the computer science curriculum. The students were very excited to try out the robots and in the future they will be able to share what they have learned with the grade 1s. 

We had another week of cold weather, but next week looks warmer. Please ensure your child comes to school with snow pants as there is lots of snow on the school grounds to play in. Have a great weekend!

 Friday January 12th

Important Information/Reminders:

-no school Monday January 15th (PD Day)

-all swim forms are due as soon as possible (today or Tuesday)

-if you can volunteer for swimming, a school messenger was already sent with the information or you can email us

-Grade 1's have Roots of Empathy next week

-Grade 1's have been working hard on their government testing for reading and mathematics

-Lacrosse starts January 22nd

-Swimming starts end of January 

Our Week:

-ask your child what has been happening in our class read aloud, "The Wild Robot"

-ask your child about buddy time with our grade 3/4 buddies (hint: Raz kids reading program, Incredibox)

-ask your child what they have been doing in their math groups (hint: numeracy)

-we will be starting equality/inequality, as well as addition and subtraction next week

-we worked on our family portraits this week for Social Studies

-we talked about New Years and what that means to different people/different cultures (video will be attached soon in Google Classroom)

-ask your child what they have been working on in their literacy groups (Ms. Disher's group is working on short vowel sounds and blending 2 sounds for a word-vowel/consonant)

Have a fantastic weekend and stay warm!  See you all on Tuesday!

 Friday December 22

Important Information and Dates:

Thank you for those who contributed to Families helping Families. It was a great success!

Check the Google Classroom for activities, resources, etc.

Raz Kids is a great way to keep up with the reading over break

Classes start Monday January 8th after the winter break

Our Week:

In Math this week, the Grade 1 and 2 students learned about how to gather data and then transfer that information into two different kinds of graphs: a pictograph and a bar graph. Ask your child about who their favourite character is from the Wild Robot. We started to graph the results.

In literacy, we continue to work on how to write a proper sentence and have been focusing on making sure our sentences all relate to one topic. Drawing a four part picture plan has been helping the students with this.

For our Social Studies Inquiry on community, the students have been working on a rough copy of their family portraits. They have been thinking about how they can draw the face in a realistic way. Trying something new and learning some new drawing techniques has been a good challenge. We are going to start the final copy after the break. 

We hope everyone has a safe and restful holiday season. See you in 2024!

 Friday December 15th

Important Information and Dates:

-return your home reading when you are ready for a new book

-library book exchange is Tuesday and Thursday each week

-check the Google Classroom for activities, resources, etc.

-last day of school before the break is Friday December 22nd, we finish at 12:00

-classes start Monday January 8th after the winter break

Our Week:

-ask your child about what has happened in our class read aloud of The Wild Robot

-Grade 2 Math students continue to work on skip counting using money (i.e. counting by 5's using nickels) and place value (representing numbers to 500 in different ways: base 10 blocks, numerals, number words, standard form and showing hundreds, tens, ones separately-5 hundreds, 3 tens, 5 ones=535)

-Grade 1 Math students are working on creating a classroom number line- 1-100 (each group got to work on part of the full number line)

-Roots of Empathy baby visit for Grade 1 students-saw how baby Mario has grown and talked about what to do when he is upset and cries

-We started new literacy groups with a continue focus on phonics, ask your child what group they are in and what they are working on

-Writing: we did another writing sample with the kids to see where they are at-10 minutes of class discussion on a topic, 10 minutes to plan using drawings and 20 minutes to write

-Inquiry (Social Studies): we continue to talk about our family communities and our school/neighborhood communities, kids are working on a portrait of their family community

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dec. 8, 2023

Important Information:

Roots of Empathy Program for the Grade 1’s will be Dec 12 and 19 of this month

Dec. 14 - Fun lunch, Papa John’s

Last day of classes for Winter Break- Friday Dec. 22

Winter Break- Dec. 25- Jan 5. Classes resume on Jan. 8, 2024

Report cards will be available at the end of January.

This Week:

Both Sunrise and Glacier continue to work on writing stamina during journal writing. This week, Sunrise was given the prompt “If I had a superpower it would be…” and Glacier was given the prompt  “I want to tell you about…” and “My favorite game is…” We also worked on making sure our sentences relate to these topics instead of diverting into new ideas. 

In math, the grade 1’s continue to work on understanding place value with ones and tens in two digit numbers. We have played games and worked with base ten blocks to explore this concept. The grade 2’s have been working on expanded form when looking at three digit numbers. For example the number 483 can be written as 400+80+3= 483. They have been engaging in “What’s My Number” and Number of the Day to explore and dive deeper into number concepts. 

Both classes have begun a new and exciting Social Studies inquiry about community. We asked the students the question “What makes your community of Tuscany a good place to live?” The students worked in groups to draw and label on large chart paper what makes up the community of Tuscany. They came up with some excellent ideas. The schools, family, friends, people caring for one another, the fire station, the duck pond were just a few ideas. We have started to focus on all the different people who make up different communities. This past week, we started to look at our family communities and what that looked like. We did some guided drawing practice where we focused on drawing realistic heads, necks, eyes, and lips. The students’ will soon use their new face drawing skills to create a family portrait. 

Congratulations to the choir students for their wonderful performances on Thursday afternoon and evening! The performers displayed much enthusiasm that was enjoyed by all!

 Friday December 1st

Important Information and Dates:

-send your child's Home Reading folder back when they are ready for a new book

-Library book exchange is Tuesdays and Thursdays

-Families Helping Families-it will be sent via School Messenger as it can't be attached to the blog message.  It is voluntary.

-No school December 8th

Our Week:

-Ask your child what they did in Wellness today with Mrs. Watterson (hint: the group plan, picnics).

-Ask your child about what has happened next our Read Aloud, The Wild Robot.  Ask your child who Chitchat is and who is Brightbill.

-We have Roots of Empathy next week with the Grade 1's.  The Grade 2's will continue to work on their robot projects...ask them about their designs and what makes their robot special or helpful to others.  We could use small boxes to help with our building.  If you have any boxes smaller than a shoe box that we can have, please send them to school with your child.

-Journal Writing:  Both groups are working on building stamina-being able to write/draw for 15 minutes.  Today Mrs. Pelton's group wrote about places in the world they would like to go.  They shared their work.  Ms. Disher's class wrote about what they were excited about (i.e. hockey tournament, Christmas, vacation, birthdays).  Ask your child what they wrote about today.

Math: We continue to work on numeracy as that is such a foundation leading to other math concepts.  Grade 2's are using base ten blocks to make numbers with groups of hundreds, tens and ones.  Check the Google classroom for a game to give you a better idea.  Grade 1's are starting to work with these blocks for groups of tens and ones.  

Have a fantastic weekend!