Treat Tuesday

Thank you so much to all who brought treats to share with Dr. Coffin family today! I apologize if there was any confusion around bringing a treat for Treat Day and bringing a "taste of home" to share with our class and talk about how this food is important to your family. The timing was a little confusing! We are all enjoying the snacks whenever they come.

Today grade 1's continued working on printing. We are almost done the whole alphabet and are excited to move on to combing letters into families and more words. Did you know that the sentence,
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  has all 26 letters of the alphabet? This is a great sentence to practice at home to see which letters are easy and which are tricky and need more work.

Grade 2's have been printing days of the week, months of the year and number words one to twenty. We have been trying to print them from memory and are doing well. We want to be able to write the date independently in our journals and writing. 

For math grade 2's are working with Ms. Boyer on the computers learning to how make a graph and discover how to read the data.
Grade 1's are taking our surveys and discovering who would like to have our information. What was the purpose of our questions? We are writing a letter to see if we can meet with the recess supervisors and let them know what we found out. We are also learning to read graphs and getting information from them. Today we read a graph about "favorite winter sports". Guess which one was the favorite?

Our new centres are festive for the next 2 weeks! We can create and write cards, make a snowman or do a Santa picture puzzle.

We are making decorations with coffee filters by coloring them with markers and then adding just a bit of water - they are looking quite beautiful!

We are also working on "stretching our sentences" to make super descriptive sense sentences about winter. "I see snow." becomes "I see glittery snow falling on a sparkly, friendly snowman."

Tuesday afternoons are a bit long without music, so we are scheduling some computer "Mathletics" time - this is time to work on our numbers and patterns. We might need some reminders that we can work on our avatars and "live mathletics" at home.

There is so much going on it is hard to sit down to write a blog and get our regular jobs done. Sorry we have missed a few days again.

Today was library and home reading. Thank you for reminding us to read with you every night and then sending our home reading back tomorrow.

We are looking forward to Music Wednesday and Thursday.

We are hoping to go to NOSE HILL for FRESH AIR FRIDAY. If you are available to volunteer - please send Mrs. Armour an email. We will be starting around 9 and plan to be back around 11:30-11:45.

Thank you!!