This week we have been enjoying spending extra time outside! We are challenging ourselves to spend at least 30 minutes outside each day! Here's what we did this week!
On Monday, we enjoyed mindful colouring and reading our Junie B. Jones story in the garden.
On Tuesday, we brought some of our work period outside! Students worked on a fraction and "er" activity. They did awesome and the weather was beautiful!
On Wednesday, we had a snack picnic outside and talked about mental health. We read a story called The Boy with Big, Big Feelings.
On Thursday we enjoyed having PE outdoors with some of our big buddy class! Students enjoyed using some different equipment and playing soccer! We will likely enjoy a little more time with some of our grade 3 buddies in the upcoming weeks while the grade 4s participate in special health lessons!
The grade 1/2 team is documenting all of our outdoor time in the hallway! If you do something fun outdoors on the weekend, please send me a photo and we can add it to our display! :)
This week in math, we continued working with addition and subtraction word problems in our morning tasks. We also continued working on fractions. Students are working on a fraction pizza project!
In science, we have been enjoying designing, building and testing boats! Thanks for your help with sending in materials!
We also started our learning about small crawling and flying animals and the needs of animals! We reviewed what we learned last year about bees and what we learned at the kindergarten sharing assembly about bees! We watched a video and students did some sketch-noting to record what they learned.
In social studies, we began learning about the Inuit communities of Canada. We will be continuing with this learning next week!
We also continued learning about money and finances! We learned about the difference between needs and wants and learned that we need money for both. To responsibly use our money, we should buy our needs before our wants. We also learned about ways to purchase goods (cash, debit and credit). Students enjoyed learning about the different coins as well. I enjoyed sharing "Canada in my Pocket" with them as it's a song I remember from elementary school!
Grade 1/2 Singing Club
Grade 1/2 students have the opportunity to join singing club. This club will run on Wednesdays during lunch recess. If your child is interested in joining, they are committing to attending every Wednesday from May 3rd– June 7th. Students will be preparing a song to sing for our LBS Volunteer Tea.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Kawchuk or Ms. Midgley.
Thank you!
Netball
Our class will be participating in netball on Tuesday, May 9th, Thursday, May 11th and Tuesday, May 16th from 10:20-11:00am.
Upcoming Dates
Every Monday - Card Club & Drama Club (for those who have signed up)
Friday, May 5th - PD Day - No School
Thursday, May 18th - Subway Fun Lunch
Thursday, May 18th - Honey Merchant In-Class Field Trip (8:15-9:45am) 1 or 2 volunteers needed - please email!
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