Friday, December 15th

Hello Families!

One more week before winter break!  The excitement is in the air.  Thank you to all the families who were able to donate to our Families Helping Families outreach.  We have such a generous community. 

Important Dates:

Friday, Dec. 22 - Last Day of Classes
Dec. 5 - Jan. 5 - Winter Break
Monday, Jan. 8 - Classes resume

Monday, Jan. 15 - Non - Instructional Day - No School

Last Two Week Spirit Days:

Monday Dec. 18 – Do You Wanna Build a Snowman (dress like a snowman or in silvery/blue colours)
Tuesday Dec. 19 - Mad about Plaid
Wednesday Dec. 20 - Tree Topper Day (festive hair or hats)
Thursday Dec. 21 - Wear your favourite pjs
Friday Dec. 22 - Dress like your favourite holiday character

Our learning:

Literacy:

• We have begun our targeted literacy groups this week.  Ask your child what they have been focusing on.  Some examples include CVC words, digraphs, consonant blends, vowel teams, comprehension strategies.
• In writing, we have moved from walking stories and started learning about event stories.  Ask your child what is included and not included in an event story. 
• We built our understanding by listening to the stories Jabari Jumps and Perfect Snow, where we worked as a class to retell the beginning, middle and ending of each story.
• Then we had the opportunity to map out our own event story. We will continue working on writing own next week. 

Math:

• In grade one, we started learning about 2D shapes and had the opportunity to do a scavenger hunt to find different shapes around our school. 
• We also began talking about the word symmetry.  Ask you child what this term means. 
• In grade two, we demonstrated our understanding of counting and representing numbers to 1000.  
• We strengthened our understanding of money and ability to count money using our knowledge of skip counting. 
• We also represented different amounts using a variety of coins and bills.  Ask your child if they can recall the names and amounts of each coin.  

Inquiry:

• As we had finished our building projects, each student had an opportunity to present their projects to the whole class or one on one to a teacher.  They explained the purpose of their project and the reasons why they used different materials.
• We have begun learning about prairie communities.  Ask your child the typical landscape of the prairies and what animals they might see. 
• We discussed the importance of  bison in the prairies and we followed a guided drawing to draw a bison.  
• We also created art work inspired by Van Gogh's Wheatfield and Crows. 
• Today, we worked with our grade 3/4 buddies to use the Indi Robots.  Ask your child how they were able to make their robot move.  

Thanks for reading!