This week we re-visited the idea of being a classroom family. As a family we share a lot with each other and unfortunately sometimes that involves sad news. I am so proud of all of the students this week. I am surrounded by thoughtful, kind and intuitive little kids. They are all truly amazing and never fail to surprise me with their empathy and understanding. It is a privilege to be their teacher and our classroom feels even more like a second family. Thank you to any families that have reached out to offer support during this time.
This week I also shared some exciting (to me) news, as we do with our families. I am very excited to become an Aunt this summer as my oldest brother is having our family's first grandchild. I just want to clarify in case any students misunderstood who is having a baby...
We focused on words from the "-ag" family this week. And in math, we continued talking about doubles and near doubles.
We continued to work towards finishing up our winter animal self portraits. We talked a lot about feedback, it's importance, and how to give and receive feedback. We watched the story of "Austin's Butterfly" and paused along the way to discuss what kind of feedback we would provide to Austin. The students were very thoughtful in their feedback, and very kind. We talked about helpful feedback being kind and specific, but that telling someone "good job" does not help them improve. Students then partnered up and gave each other feedback on their portrait design. We also started working on our backgrounds for our portraits using different materials and textures and will finally finish up early next week! I will post final photos on Google Classroom as the end product will have students faces in them. Ms. Wuetherick also taught students about the importance of totem poles and animals. Students watched the story "Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox" and built their own totem poles.
Adding in some photos I originally forgot to share! (Feb. 29)
Here are some of the backgrounds we started today! The backgrounds had to fit with what type of animal students are turning themselves into - a migrator, hibernator or adapter.
Today, students were very excited for the Class Dojo store. Students had more points than in previous months and had to figure out what they could buy and how many points they would have left.
Today we also talked briefly about Bell Lets Talk Day and the importance of taking care of our bodies and our feelings. We discussed ways we take care of our bodies such as eating well, getting sleep and exercising. We then talked about ways that we cheer ourselves up if we are feeling sad or not ourselves. We watched a story called "Lucy's Blue Day" and watched the 2021 Bell Lets Talk Day commercial with Michael Buble.
Upcoming Dates:
Friday, January 29th - PD Day (No School)
Early February - Report Cards Available (specific date to come)
Wednesday, February 10th - Valentine's Day at school
Thursday, February 11th & Friday, February 12th - Teacher's Convention (No School)
Hello families, We made it through our first (almost) full week of school! We are focusing a lot on learning expectations and building classroom community. We’ve been enjoying starting each day in circle getting to know our classmates. The pictures will be a little limited for the first few weeks until we have photo release information! This week we talked a lot about carpet expectations. We read a story called “Whole-Body Listening at School” and learned about Listening Larry. Ask your child how many parts of our body we can listen with… it’s not just our ears. You can also follow up with “Whole Body Listening at Home” if this is something you are working on at home as well! I also like to use my cat, Eli, to show carpet expectations! Whole Body Listening at Home This week we started some introduction lessons to the UFLI literacy program. We’ve been learning how our mouth moves in different ways to make different sounds. We also started learning about “sky, grass, dirt” letters
Hello families, We had a very busy week getting ready for our winter concert and our Calgary Humane Society fundraiser! Students love baking and packaging treats, making posters, and some students were even challenged to learn how to curl the ribbon! On Friday we used our skip counting skills to count up all the money we've raised so far. We've raised $666.85 and are hoping to break our record of $700 from last year! All of this work is connected to our health and wellness curriculum (volunteerism), social studies, science, art, math and literacy! Wow! Math In math we've been continuing to work with number bonds. This week students learned how to determine the missing number in a number bond when given the whole and one of the parts. This is a pre-cursor to subtraction! We used manipulatives and drawings to help us with this work! We also re-invented our Spider Legs math game to make it Christmas themed! Instead of drawing a spider and adding legs, students used a tree an
Hello families! We had a great first week of school! I have a goal this year to be a little more concise with my blog posts. We'll see how it goes! This week we spent some time getting to know each other. We learned about sharing circles and have started both mornings in circle getting to know more about one another. We are learning the importance of listening to each other and giving everyone a chance to speak. We also read the story "You're Finally Here" by Melanie Watt. We enjoyed re-creating the main character of the story. It was great to see students' cutting skills and their ability to follow each step of the activity. We talked about how the eyebrows can convey different feelings and can really change the bunny's expression. On Friday we learned a math game called "What's My Number?" we played teacher versus students and they beat me! Next week, students will play the game with their classmates. Fun Lunch School Council organizes Hea
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