Here's our weekly update! We had to switch up our plans for this week with so many absences - there were lots of activities I didn't want so many students to miss!
Science
We had a great time at Fish Creek on Thursday! We were on the hunt for signs of animals and signs of positive and negative human interaction with the park. The students were excited to see lots of red squirrels and black-capped chickadees.
Checking out the creek!
Animal Evidence (Dogs?)
Negative human interaction - bird feed
Animal evidence - Red squirrel drey (nest)
More Red Squirrel dreys- in the same tree which is unusual!
Fungus on a Choke Cherry Tree
Animal Evidence - Beetles!
Animal Evidence - Red Squirrels (shells from pinecones)
Animal Scat - we thought deer or hare
Animal Evidence - Woodpeckers!
I'm going to share my Google Slides about animal adaptations so if you're child missed an animal and they'd like to learn about them at home, they can!
We learned about the long o sound with a bossy e (o_e).We also reviewed "a_e" "i_e" and "o_e." We did a poem called "Joe's Bone." We also started looking at the "e_e" sound on Friday. We will review this again on Monday!
Students practiced this skill independently when working on a "fix that sentence" activity.
Words for next week:
Math
We practiced representing addition with tally marks (gr 1) and open number lines (gr 2) as these appeared to be the most difficult for students.
During math groups a few students started learning about greater than and less than symbols! We also did our March calendar.
Health & Wellness
In gym, we had fun incorporating science by learning about life cycles and predator and prey!
We had a lot of absences this week so we decided to focus in on germs and how we can help protect ourselves from getting sick! "We watched The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie" where Ralphie gets sick and they get to see how his body fights the bacteria. We learned about white blood cells, the bloodstream, antibodies and infections! We brainstormed ways to practice personal hygiene and students drew and wrote four examples of how to do this in their sketch books.
Art
On Friday we learned about Pablo Picasso and did a first attempt at a cubism self-portrait! We talked about how Picasso does not use a lot of symmetry in his art.
Upcoming Dates
Tuesday, March 5th - LBS Goes to the Opera (virtually) 9:00am
Thursday, March 7th - Opa Fun Lunch
March 18-22 - Book Fair
March 21st (PM) & March 22nd (AM) - Student-Led Conferences
Hello families, Here's our weekly update! This week students were working hard on a summative assessment for our patterns unit! Students had fun creating pattern art and used a checklist to make sure they were using specific types of patterns in their art. They also had a peer check their work to make sure they were including the correct patterns. On Monday, students planned their art, and on Tuesday they completed their art using crayons and watercolour paint. They look awesome!! We worked on some skip counting a bit this week as well, including counting by 5s and 10s. This was pretty tricky for a lot of students and might be something we come back to after solidifying our understanding of place value. Here are the skip counting expectations for each grade: Grade 1 1s to 100 starting at any number Backwards from 20 to 0 by 1s 5s to 100 starting at 0 10s to 100 starting at 0 2s to 20 starting at 0 Grade 2 1s to 1000, forwards and backwards starting at any number ...
Hello families, If you haven't seen our LBS Family Literacy Day video - check it out here! You can also add to the LBS Community Writers Padlet here. In math, we are continuing to practice our doubles and doubles +1 using games, songs and activities. We are also still learning about 2D shapes and did some sorting with 2D shapes this week. We learned a new math game called Matho (similar to Bingo) and we played an addition game that got us up and moving on Friday! In literacy, we are continuing to work on vowel sounds. Next week we will start learning about digraphs (letters that go together to make one sound, i.e. sh, ch, th). We are still doing Daily 5 twice per day which I have been loving! In our small groups we are working on a variety of things such as building words, working with word families, reviewing letter sounds, reading books, and this week we played some "sight word bingo." Sight words are sometimes referred to as "heart words" because we nee...
Hello families, Here's our weekly update! In literacy, we reviewed the letters R with the characters Rosie Racoon and Rhino Ralph, and the letter L with characters Lonnie Lion and Lizzie Lamb. We also learned about r letter blends (gr, fr, cr, tr, etc.) We learned how to put words in alphabetical order and we learned about syllables. We talked about the clapping trick for finding syllables as well as counting how many times your chin drops when you say the word. Students were reminded that how many sounds or letters in a word is different than how many syllables are in a word. Now that we've learned many ways to practice our high-frequency words, students can use the choice board to decide how they would like to practice them each morning during Opening Task. Here are the words for next week: In small group work during during Daily LA, we've been talking about rhyming words and working with different word families. Students are practicing their decoding skills to...
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