February 18-27

Hello families! 

It's been awhile... 

Ms. G (and Ms. Kassam who used to teach at LBS) and I had a great time at the Reading For The Love Of It conference in Toronto. A highlight was meeting author, Melanie Watt! Here are some photos! 


 

Here is a recap of the last little while! 


On the 18th we had fun celebrating the 100th day of school! Students enjoyed participating in an estimating activity! Ask your child how many of each item were in the jars. 

 

 


Also in math, we worked on some subitizing skills and learned how to represent addition with pictures! Subitizing with dice is a good start but we want to be able to subitize with tens-frames or random dot assortments. 


 

In literacy, students have been continuing to learn about digraphs. Last week students worked on the wh and ph sounds and this week we learned ng and nk. We also learned how to make an acrostic poem for Pink Shirt Day using the word "kindness." 

Words for next week (red list is not from the high-frequency list but is working on the sh digraph!): 

In social studies, students began learning about urban and rural communities! 

In science, students learned about the parts of the ear and wrote about their favourite sound. 

We also enjoyed some time outside observing signs of spring! 

 


In honour of Black History Month, we have been learning about artist Charles McGee. His artwork includes a lot of contrast, lines and patterns. We learned about complimentary colours and incorporated all of the elements in a shared art piece with all of the other grade 1/2 classes. 


In PE we've been working on badminton skills! 


Upcoming Dates
  • Friday, February 28th - PD Day - No School
  • Thursday, March 6th - SAM Centre Field Trip - PLEASE DO NOT ORDER FUN LUNCH FOR THIS DAY!!
  • Tuesday, March 18th - Room 9 & 11 Sharing Assembly 9:30am
  • Thursday, March 20 - A&W Fun Lunch
  • Thursday, March 20 - First Day of Spring 
  • Thursday, March 20 PM & Friday, March 21 AM - Student-Led Conferences
  • March 24-30 - March Break 

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