Friday, November 3rd

Hello Families! 

Important Dates:

Thursday, Nov. 9 - System Indigenous Education Professional Learning - No School

Friday, Nov. 10 - Tuesday, Nov. 14 - Fall Break - No School

Wednesday, Nov. 15 - Classes Resume

Thursday, Nov. 23 - Parent Teacher Conferences - Evening

Friday, Nov. 24 - Parent Teacher Conferences - No School

*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

There is going to be a Remembrance Day assembly on Wednesday Nov. 8th.  Your child is welcome to bring a donation for the Veterans' Food Bank.

Jacket Racket:  Jacket Racket is beginning on Monday.  Your child can bring any gently used winter clothing (ie. coats, gloves, hats, etc.) to be donated to children across the city.  

Our Learning:

In your child's communication they should have received their Gmail (@educbe.ca) and their password (we have reset all passwords). They will use this to access our Google Classroom as we are working on putting in some links that you can use at home.  We will let you know when it is ready to use.  

We had a beautiful assembly today to honour the incredible Ms. Coulson in winning the inaugural YYC Music Educator of the year.  The Bowness Jazz even performed!  

Literacy:

• We continued working our targeted literacy groups.   Ask your child the skills that are learning in their group (ex. letter sounds, digraphs, vowel teams, prefixes, etc.)
• On Monday we really focused on writing a clear sentence and how each of our sentences need a who (subject) and a doing (predicate)
• We then wrote a complete sentence with a capital only at the beginning and period at the end. 
• In continuing our work around making our writing more interesting we discussed adding interesting details.
• Ask your child what the magic words are (HINT: When, If, Sometimes, Once)

Math:

• In math we are strengthening our understanding of representing numbers.  For grade ones they need to understand and represent numbers to 100 and grade twos to 1000. Ask you child to skip count for you by 2s, 5s, and 10s.
• We have also begun building knowledge of skip counting and using that knowledge to solve problems. 
• We will continue working on skip counting and patterns within the 100 chart next week. 

Inquiry:

• As we are working through the Matter unit in science we continued to compare objects by length, mass and flat space (area)
• This week we made predictions then compared objects around the room and then documented our findings. 
• Ask your child what we used to compare (Hint: string, blocks, etc.)
• Next week we are moving into the different properties for a variety of materials. 

Thanks for reading!