Dr. Seuss week was SO MUCH FUN! We celebrated all things Seuss, all week long. It was such a great opportunity to learn about rhyming words and word families, as well as see some of their creativity come out in their writing! Thank you for sending some of your child's favourite Dr. Seuss books to school. They enjoyed reading them with their book buddies!
We had some exciting news from Mrs. Foster during our library period on Thursday. She announced to us that the Grade 1 students won the "I Read Canadian" challenge! We read the most Canadian books in the school! She is working on putting together a Canadian Celebration day for us at the end of March. I will let you more details once plans are finalized!
Building
The students are really enjoying our building unit! Last week we built towers, musical instruments, and boats. We had a tower building challenge, we made little band with our instruments, and we tested our boats to see how heavy of a load they could carry before they sank. This week we are building bridges, doors and hinges, houses, and furniture. Each of these building projects goes along with a fairytale that we will read before our building challenge. I would like the students to bring a small figurine or small stuffed animal to school for Wednesday as we will need them for our house building project. Watch the blog for lots of pictures!
Leprechaun Traps
To go along with our building unit and to have a little St. Patrick's Day fun, the students have a homework project to build a leprechaun trap! This has been a tradition in grade one to try and catch a sneaky little leprechaun on St. Patrick's day. Keep it simple and let your child use their imagination! We brainstormed a few ideas that might help to lure that sneaky leprechaun like making the trap green, putting some gold in the trap, adding shamrocks or 4 leaf clovers on the trap and making a rainbow. I am excited to see what they come up with! Please send the traps to school on Monday, March 16. We will set them up over night to see if we can catch that leprechaun. Have fun!
The Wild Robot
Your child may have come home this week talking about the story "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown. If you have older children in this school, you will remember this book from our One School One Book project a few years ago. This year, our school is taking a break from OSOB and so we decided as a Grade One team to do One Grade One Book and read The Wild Robot to our students! It is such a wonderful book and the students are so excited and invested in this story. It is also a great opportunity to learn about important story elements such as characters, setting, and conflict. It really is amazing to see my little students listening so intently as I read this chapter book to them. They are asking such great questions and making predictions as to what they think will come next in the story. Our discussions are so valuable. We can't wait to find out what will happen this week in the story!
Gymnastics.
This will be our final week of gymnastics. The students have been working on developing strength, balance, and flexibility. It has been neat to watch them grow!
Report Cards
Report cards will be available for you to view online in PowerSchools on Friday, March 13. If you are not able to log in to PowerSchools, please talk to our admin assistants in the office. Formal parents/teacher interviews will be by request only and will take place on Thursday, March 19 in the afternoon. Students will be dismissed by 11:47 on that day. If you would like to request an interview, please email me. I will also have an interview sign-up at the Celebration of Learning.
We will be hosting a "pop-in" style Celebration of Learning on Monday, March 16 from 5:30-7:00. We would love to see all students with their families as they will have an opportunity to show off their work and showcase their learning.
What's happening this week?
We had some exciting news from Mrs. Foster during our library period on Thursday. She announced to us that the Grade 1 students won the "I Read Canadian" challenge! We read the most Canadian books in the school! She is working on putting together a Canadian Celebration day for us at the end of March. I will let you more details once plans are finalized!
Building
The students are really enjoying our building unit! Last week we built towers, musical instruments, and boats. We had a tower building challenge, we made little band with our instruments, and we tested our boats to see how heavy of a load they could carry before they sank. This week we are building bridges, doors and hinges, houses, and furniture. Each of these building projects goes along with a fairytale that we will read before our building challenge. I would like the students to bring a small figurine or small stuffed animal to school for Wednesday as we will need them for our house building project. Watch the blog for lots of pictures!
Leprechaun Traps
To go along with our building unit and to have a little St. Patrick's Day fun, the students have a homework project to build a leprechaun trap! This has been a tradition in grade one to try and catch a sneaky little leprechaun on St. Patrick's day. Keep it simple and let your child use their imagination! We brainstormed a few ideas that might help to lure that sneaky leprechaun like making the trap green, putting some gold in the trap, adding shamrocks or 4 leaf clovers on the trap and making a rainbow. I am excited to see what they come up with! Please send the traps to school on Monday, March 16. We will set them up over night to see if we can catch that leprechaun. Have fun!The Wild Robot
Your child may have come home this week talking about the story "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown. If you have older children in this school, you will remember this book from our One School One Book project a few years ago. This year, our school is taking a break from OSOB and so we decided as a Grade One team to do One Grade One Book and read The Wild Robot to our students! It is such a wonderful book and the students are so excited and invested in this story. It is also a great opportunity to learn about important story elements such as characters, setting, and conflict. It really is amazing to see my little students listening so intently as I read this chapter book to them. They are asking such great questions and making predictions as to what they think will come next in the story. Our discussions are so valuable. We can't wait to find out what will happen this week in the story!Gymnastics.
This will be our final week of gymnastics. The students have been working on developing strength, balance, and flexibility. It has been neat to watch them grow!
Report Cards
Report cards will be available for you to view online in PowerSchools on Friday, March 13. If you are not able to log in to PowerSchools, please talk to our admin assistants in the office. Formal parents/teacher interviews will be by request only and will take place on Thursday, March 19 in the afternoon. Students will be dismissed by 11:47 on that day. If you would like to request an interview, please email me. I will also have an interview sign-up at the Celebration of Learning.
We will be hosting a "pop-in" style Celebration of Learning on Monday, March 16 from 5:30-7:00. We would love to see all students with their families as they will have an opportunity to show off their work and showcase their learning.
What's happening this week?
Monday
-New sight words this week.
-Jr. Choir @ 10:30.
-Jr. Choir @ 10:30.
Wednesday
-Red registration forms due back to school.-Students need to bring a small stuffy to school for their house building project.
Thursday
-Library day.
Friday
-Popcorn Friday for those who ordered.
-Popcorn Friday for those who ordered.
-Exploratory!
-Report cards are available to view in PowerSchool.
-Report cards are available to view in PowerSchool.
Coming up:
Every Monday: Jr. Choir
Every Thursday: LibraryMarch 16- Scholastic book fair begins in the library.
March 16- K-2 Celebration of Learning from 5:30-7:00.
March 16- Leprechaun Trap project due back at school. (Information will be coming home this week!)
March 17- Happy St. Patrick's Day! Students can wear green today!
March 18- Jr. and Sr. Choir will perform at Sing for the Soup Kitchen at 7:00 at Southminster Church.
March 19- No School in the afternoon. Students will be dismissed at 11:47. Parent/teacher interviews by request in the afternoon.
March 20- No School.
March 20- School clothing orders are due today if interested. Probe Clothing
March 23- Rock Your Socks for Down Syndrome awareness.
March 25- Probe clothing spirit day.
March 26- Grade 4 BINGO night! All families welcome to attend.
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