Friday, November 24th

 Hello Families!

Important Dates

Friday, Dec. 8 - Non-Instructional Day - No School 

Friday, Dec. 22 - Last Day of Classes

Dec. 5 - Jan. 5 - Winter Break

Monday, Jan. 8 - Classes resume 

*If your child is registered for choir, please click the following link to be added to the choir Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI5MTE0OTUwNTA0?cjc=2dt3ivw

Important Information

We sent home a form for FoodImpact, please return on Monday, November 27th. We will be starting the program on Monday.

We will be starting a building project in the next couple weeks and need a variety of different materials. If you have any of the following materials please send them with your child to school. We really appreciate your help with this!

• boxes (about the size of a tissue box, cereal box, or  
• pipe cleaners 
• popsicle sticks
• any recyclables found in your house (nothing bigger than a cereal box) 
• straws 
• tin foil 
• clay 
• any materials that you have around the house that you won't need that would be good for building 

Our learning

We had an amazing week of learning this week. We had so much fun exploring the book fair.    

Literacy:

• We read a short excerpt, then charted the simple sentence on the SMART Board. We talked about the subject and predicate parts. The students wrote their own sentence and highlighted the “who/ what” section of the sentence (subject) and the “doing/describing” (predicate) part of the sentence.
• We learned about how we can add details to our writing and we also introduced the concept of punctuation, specifically periods between sentences. We practiced this skill by writing about something from our "Memory Pocket".
• Next week we will continue to work on adding details to our writing, and will complete some word work activities. 

Math:

• The grade ones have been continuing to practice skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. We also practiced counting backwards and counting by starting and stopping at any number between 1 and 100 (e.g. start at 57, stop at 62). We also practiced our estimation skills and practiced estimating the amount of objects shown in a variety of different pictures.  
• The grade twos practiced skip counting by 20s 25s and 50s and continued to represent numbers up to 1000. They also started to count backwards from 1000 by 5s and 10s. They were introduced to writing numbers in expanded form (e.g. 578 = 500 + 70 + 8).  
• Next week we will continue to practice our data collection skills and transferring that information into a bar graph.

Inquiry:

• We learned about the difference between malleable and not malleable and drew a chart in our visual journals showing different malleable and non-malleable materials.
• We watched a video about how marbles are made. We talked about the properties of a marble and what kind of material it is made out of.
• In Social Studies, we are learning about different communities and compared the difference between an urban community and a rural community. We did a wonderful job drawing an urban area. Ask your child what buildings they included in their urban area.  

Thanks for reading!