Friday, January 19th

Hello Families!

Important Dates:
Monday. Jan. 22 - Friday, Jan. 26 - Lacrosse Residency
Monday, Jan. 29 - Thursday, Feb. 29 - Swimming Lessons (Grade 1 and 2)
Tuesday, Jan. 30 - Report cards available in MyCBE

Huge thank you to everyone for returning the swimming forms!  

Our learning:

Literacy:

• We read stories and brainstormed the different between stopping an event story versus an ending.  Ask your child the formula to writing an effective ending (HINT: topic + feeling)
• Then we used examples in story books and the formula to write effective endings to an event story.  Next we will be moving onto instructional writing. 
• We are also testing our comprehension of stories that are read aloud.  Ask your child about the books that were read this week and the lessons the main character were taught. 

Math:

• In grade 2, we are learning about the names and different attributes of 3D shapes.  Ask you child the names of the 3D shapes. 
• We learned the terms edges, vertices and faces and learned how to draw some of the shapes as well as identifying where we might see them in the environment. 
• In grade 1, we continued to explore 3D shapes. We learned to identify the nets of various 3D shapes and used those nets to create 3D shapes out of paper.  
• Today we used our knowledge of shapes and also learned how to slide, rotate and flip 2D shapes to create shape art.  (see pictures below)

Inquiry:

• We have been finishing up our prairie community inquiry and learned some interesting facts about the Prairie Dogs. 
• We also brainstormed all the facts and our understandings of the prairies to begin to create a visual representation of our knowledge. 
• In wellness, we have discussed following the group plan and this week we talked about including others and making connections.