Drumming Day (Friday)

We had a catch up morning today! We caught up on journals, making sure we had the date at the top, and 3 (grade one) or 5 sentences - if not, we tried to add more details. We checked on our family puppets to see if we could find them all and then put them in our folders to save for later (part of our All About Me project). After that, we could choose one person in our family to write about. We brainstormed a couple days ago some of the things we could write about - check out our poster all about it. 

We had recess outside because it was so nice and because it was Fresh Air Friday! The bobcat had plowed the snow off the courtyard, so there is lots of snow piles to play in.

Then we went to our Drumming performance. Actually, Mr. Roger said it was more like a "sharing" than a performance, because we are participated, not only the ones with the drums. It was neat to hear all the different patterns from all the different classes. We love drumming!

Thanks to those who returned the survey about our blog and for the comments. Mrs. Armour will try and be more consistent in posting the blog and adding more pictures. 

Have a great weekend!

LOOKING AHEAD: 

T/W/TH - Home reading exchange

Tuesday - Library day

Thursday, January 25th - report cards go home

Friday, January 26th - PD Day, no school

Thursday - Fun Lunch

Today the grade ones worked with Mrs. Armour on the carpet with white boards and 3 word families...at, an and ap. We are getting quite good thinking of words for "at". Ask us how many we can think of or find in a book that would fit in those 3 families. In Math, we stayed at the same centre as yesterday, so we would have time to record our patterns in our math books. Mrs. Boyer bought more beads for that centre so we have blue again!

Today was Fun Lunch! Some of us had Tim Hortons. Thanks to Trinity's mom and Logan's dad for volunteering...I think there might have been donuts! Trinity loves fun lunch and says she wants it every day.

In Music, Mr. Roger had a "didgeridoo" a wind instrument from Australia. He told us it is also called the "Devil's toothpick" This was the last day of drumming. Ingmar says Mr. Roger wished he could tell us tales about devils but ran out of time. He is a good story teller. We will have our performance tomorrow at 11am. You can come and hear what we have learned in only one week!

After drumming, we worked on our Animal research to make our "Who Am I?" posters. We thought finding the animals "sounds they make" the hardest category. Ask us some of the discoveries and interesting facts we made about our animal.

It was so nice outside we ran laps around the portable to get out some of our energy before coming inside for our jobs, blog, sharing and Old Man Coyote story. We had time for "Tea with Teach" today!

We are bringing home a survey about our blog. Please fill it out and send it back tomorrow or Monday so we can see how many are reading our blog and how we can improve.

Thanks!

 Shape Center

 Music

 Snap Cubes

 Beads and more beads

 Here is our target for our Poetry centres - Copy, Create, Perform a poem.

 Grade twos are working on long and short vowels

Wednesday, January 18th

Hello! This week Trinity, Ingmar, Georgia, Max, Birdy and Emmaline are helping with the blog. Ingmar, Trinity, Emmaline, Arthur and Lucas have shared about "trips." Thank you! Malik, Jared, Colin and Logan can share this week or next week about a trip they went on, whether to the zoo or Timbuktu!

We are doing lots of sharing lately because we are working on our PATTERNS and POETRY. We are working towards getting a special button that says, "I'm a poet and I know it!" Ask us how we can earn this button over the next few weeks!

In the morning, we played volleyball in the gym. We were practicing throwing the ball over the net. Then we tried sitting down, making a "window"shape with our hands and throwing the ball in the air and tried to catch it 2, 3 or 5 times in a row. This helps us with control of the volleyball. We played a quick game at the end just throwing the ball over the net until Mrs. Armour blew the whistle - whoever had LESS volleyballs on their side won!
We are practicing PACE, especially during gym time. P stands for participate, A stands for attitude, C stands for cooperation, E stands for effort!

During Math, we are doing different centres to discover lots of different ways to make patterns. In Beads and More Beads, we have to make patterns with beads. Today the blue ran out, so we think it is a favorite! We have to show patterns with different colors. Once we record our patterns in our math book, we can take home our bracelets or necklaces. Another math centre is Action patterns. One pattern Birdy thought of was, "clap, pat, whistle, stomp" or an ABCD pattern.

We only have one more day of drumming! Our drumming teacher's name is Roger - we call him Mr. Roger. He told us about West Africa and North Africa. Ask us how the drums are different and why.
(Hint: in the north, it's a desert and in the west, there is a forest.) He's super funny!
Parents and family are invited to come and hear us play on Friday at 11:00 AM in the gym. Come and hear what we have learned.

A reminder about the Coffin cares T-shirt tan colored sheet that went home. This was just to inquire how many are interested in ordering shirts or sweatshirts. If we have enough interest, another order form will come home that you can send back with money. Thank you! 

Tomorrow is Fun Lunch. If you have ordered one, your child will receive one. If not, you might want to send something a little "fun" in their regular lunch.

Just a reminder to read and send back Home reading. The students book will get exchanged Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. 

Looking ahead to Wednesday, February 7th. It is WINTER WALK DAY. We will all enjoy a walk together as a school and you are welcome to join us!

Very Fresh Air Friday

We decided it was a bit too fresh to go outside today - another Blue Day! It has been awhile since have had time with our Big Buddies from Room 6 and 7, so we met with them in the Library to read. Some of us played chess and other board games. It was really fun!

We joined Room 1 and 2 to share our beautiful amaryllis plant that now has three blooms and is 45.5cm tall. It has another stem that is 43cm and we are hoping to have more blooms next week!

We are looking forward to becoming zoologists as study the animals that live (or used to live) on Nose Hill. Mrs. Hamby shared some really cool pictures from her farm. We looked at the clues and tried to decided what had happened just like scientists. Then we read a story, Honey Paw and Lightfoot. Ask me some questions about what we discovered about bears and how they live.

We went back to the Clubhouse for a snack and indoor recess then came together again to find out our  animals and groups for researching. We are going to create a "Who Am I?" poster with at least 7 clues about their appearance, tracks, habitat, food, sounds, survival skills and family group.

Our new category for sharing is "Trips." Ingmar and Emmaline shared yesterday. Ingmar shared about his holiday to Oregon to watch the Eclipse in the summer. He also had sent us a post card when he was in The Netherlands over Christmas break, so it was really neat to get a letter addressed to The Clubhouse! Emmaline shared about her trip to Manitoba to visit her grandparents. It was really fun!
The weekend is a good time to look for pictures and talk about trips you may have taken so we can be ready to share sometime in January. If we are bringing pictures that are not in an album, please send them in a ziplock bag, so they are protected.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the Chinook!

Blue Day Wednesday!

Today was our first BLUE DAY at Dr. Coffin school....brrrrr! We stayed inside the whole day (except when we had to go into the school for the assembly, gym, lunch and music!) We had snack and played games or colored at recess and then at lunch recess we were in the Library coloring beautiful pictures of butterflies, transformers and pokemon. It was really fun!

We had our second "Coffin Cares" assembly this morning at 9am. We sang the school song and then Mrs. Polski recognized some students who have shown care to themselves, others or our school. Max and Samantha have been great examples this last month making great choices and being kind to others. Thank you!

Grade ones worked on the "an" family and had fun thinking of lots of words for a "super sentence."
One of our sentences was "The womAN rAN with a pAN all the way to JapAN!" The grade twos worked on short and long vowel sounds and used some Star Wars books to help them.

Lily threw the ball and hit the SHARE category of "TRIPS" so this month, we can be thinking of a trip that we made with our families, near or far and bring something like pictures or souvenirs to share with all of us. We can also just take a turn sharing about our trip if we don't have any pictures. (We can share about a trip to the Calgary zoo or a trip to Mexico, or to Edmonton, it's our choice!)

Most of us finished our COLOUR PAGE in our Art Journal this afternoon. We are trying to show all the things we discovered about colour. Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Warm, Cool, Tint, Shade are some of the words we used.

The weather is staying cold for a couple more days, so please keep dressing warm! I wonder if wearing yellow is warmer than wearing blue?

Thanks Lily, Carmen, Madalynn and Samantha for helping with the blog this week! Here are some pictures of us hunting for patterns around the school and creating patterns with our cube blocks.

Tuesday - Library Day

Today there were 3 blooms on the amaryllis plant! There is another stem, so we are hoping for more blooms.

It was a chilly, foggy day today. At recess it was so cold that everyone nearly turned into icicles! We needed to put on all our warm hat and scarfs and mitts.

We are trying to remember all the routines again - our indoor shoes, our Library books on Tuesday and Home Reading books for T/W/TH. We started home reading again - a few of us forgot our books, but we still got a chance to read.

We went hunting again for patterns around the school - we know if something is a pattern if it repeats and is in an order like ABCABCABC. Patterns can be shapes, colors or numbers.

We worked on our Title for our Colour page in our Art journals and tried to think of all the things we have discovered about colour.

On Tuesdays, we go back into the Learning Commons to work on Mathletics. We are getting faster on logging in and learning what steps to type our username and password. Mrs. Armour reminded us we can practice at home as well.

Tomorrow we will have another COFFIN CARES assembly. Please wear blue and green shirts if you have them.

Dress warm!

Happy New Year!

Hello! Today was a busy day. We had to look for our desks when we arrived. They are now in a big rectangle.
We wrote in our Journals and made pictures. We had a lot to say about our holidays. We tried to remember our Topic sentence, at least three details and then our closing sentence.

In gym, we had four stations to play at: Basketball, Hula Hoops, Skipping and Scoops. Every few minutes, Mrs. Armour would blow the whistle and we would change to the next station. It was a good review of some of the activities we have learned.

In word work we will be working on "word families" The grade ones started today on the "at" family. How many "at" words can you think of? We discovered there are a lot!

For Math we are starting to discuss patterns. What is a pattern? Are there different kinds of patterns? We went on a pattern hunt around the school to see how many patterns we could discover. Some of us found a few ABABAB patterns and some of us found ABCABCABC types of patterns. We will record what we found and share tomorrow.

In the afternoon we had quiet book time and then worked in our Art Journal. We are designing a page to share what we have learned about Colour! We glued our Colour Wheel in today and will work on the title and adding our key words during the week. Remember our "Guess Who" game with clues? We found those and glued them in our journal so we have them for our "All About Me" project.
Mrs. Armour "plant-sat" our Amaryllis and it is just blooming now and looks amazing! We will record the details in our plant book to see how many centimeters it has grown.

The weather looks like we are in for another cold snap Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Please remind us to dress warm in snow pants, hat, mitts and warm boots. 

A few of us forgot our indoor shoes today. Thanks for putting them in the backpacks for tomorrow!

LIBRARY Tuesdays.

Home Reading starts up again T/W/TH