February 10-12

Hello families, 

Can you believe that Tuesday will be the 100th day of school?! Where has the time gone! 

Here's what we got up to during our short week of school! 

On Monday we had fun exploring loose parts again as a pre-writing activity. Students were asked to build something that they did on the weekend. After some building time they shared with a buddy or two to practice their oral story telling skills. Some students also shared what they did with the whole class. Next, students used their building to draw a picture of what they did over the weekend. Lastly, they wrote about what they did. We were working on generating more ideas and adding more detail to our writing! 

 










Grade 1 example

 
Grade 2 examples

Also in literacy, we learned the 'ch' digraph. Students worked on a 4 square activity to practice their writing of ch words and sentences. 


 

Here are the words for next week (February 18-21):

And here are the words for the following week (February 24-27):

In math we continued practicing addition and subtraction! Students worked on some Valentine's Day themed addition and subtraction and grade 2s practiced a bit with place value.  We also learned a little bit about estimation and students had fun doing an "Esti-Mystery." 


To celebrate Valentine's Day, we learned about the artist Wassily Kandinsky. We observed and noticed things about his works of art and specifically looked at his artwork called "Squares with Concentric Circles." We made our own artwork inspired by him with concentric hearts using water colour! 

 

Students also made personalized Valentine's Day cards for their big buddies and we delivered them on Wednesday afternoon! 💗

Thanks to the TD Grade One Book Giveaway program, grade 1 students brought home the book "Violet Shrink." 


The online payment of $13.63 is now available on your My CBE account. 
Forms will be coming home next week! 

Upcoming Dates
  • Wednesday, February 12th - Valentine's Dance hosted by School Council
  • February 13-14 - Teacher's Convention - No school for students
  • Monday, February 17th - Family Day - No School
  • February 19-21 - Ms. Midgley away at a conference 
  • Thursday, February 20th - Opa Fun Lunch
  • Friday, February 28th - PD Day - No School
  • Thursday, March 6th - SAVE THE DATE - SAM Centre Field Trip - PLEASE DO NOT ORDER FUN LUNCH FOR THIS DAY!!

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