Hi! We decided last week was a busy week - so even though our helpers wrote notes for the blog, Mrs. Armour only posted a couple days! We will try and get most information on Mondays and Wednesdays and then if anything is really important - we will post it with pictures!
We hope everyone enjoyed their MOTHER'S DAY CARDS! We worked hard to sketch and paint and write for you. Thanks for all you do Mom!
Friday - We had a cool, breezy day of bird watching and listening and learning how to record our sightings on eBird. We will practice again and thanks for all those who are "birding" at home!
Monday - Summer! Calgary weather always is up and down...Thank you for sending us in cool clothes with a sweatshirt for the mornings in our Clubhouse and our water bottles so we stay hydrated.
Our blog helpers this week are Lily, Samantha, Kashia and Georgia. Thank you! We have had some great movie reviews and are looking forward to some more this month. It is great practice to think about how to tell the group a few of your favorite parts without giving the ending away.
WRITING - We wrote in our journals today and then found a buddy to share with to see if they could find the "who, did what, where and when?" in our writing! Grade twos shared their "ing" words and then tried to think of other endings like "ed" Grade ones were finishing up any "in" or "ick" printing.
MATH - We started new math groups today. We will all be working on adding and subtracting whichever group we are in. Ask me which teacher I am with and what we did today!
DIORAMAS - Most of us are finishing up our Dioramas, thinking about all our research we did and trying to include as much detail as we can. We will be writing up "Did you know?" facts on the computer so we will be ready to share with anyone who asks about our animal and it's habitat.
Mrs. Armour is away tomorrow, so Mrs. Lysak will be teaching us tomorrow. We are excited to share our Dioramas with her!
TOMORROW (Tuesday) IS TREAT DAY! Bring 25 cents to buy a treat at recess. Thanks to Room 7!!
Mrs. Kidd is away tomorrow, so we will have Library on Wednesday this week.
Our first Sketching Residency begins this week. Thanks to a donation of sketching supplies and funds from our School Council, we are able to welcome Ms. Ryder Richards, a sketch artist, who will be working with our students over the next 14 days.
The Victoria Day long weekend is next weekend. There are no classes for students on Friday, May 18 and Monday, May 21 is the holiday.
Monday, 14 May 2018
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Tuesday/Wednesday
Tuesday we had Library and Mrs. Kidd read us a great story about Humpty Dumpty - but not the one you are thinking of...this story is what happens after...ask me about it!
Gym was outside on Tuesday playing running games "Coloured Eggs" and "Deer and Antelope" and relays using skipping ropes, balls, frisbees!
Today we were in the gym with the huge Parachute. We found out it is really important to cooperate when we play "popcorn" and "mushroom" to make the parachute dance or fly! Then we played "cat and mouse" where we learn to to be aware of our bodies and those around us when we can't see very well and stay away from the cat!
Printing - grade ones worked on the "ick" family and the grade twos worked on the "ing" endings. We are finding and noticing more and more of these words now when we read our books!
Today we worked on a special writing and sketching project...that's all we can say because it is a BIG surprise and you will have to wait and see!
We also worked on our Dioramas and animals out of plasticine...we are learning to ask a friend for specific feedback so we can make our projects even better.
Thanks to Colin, Madalynn, Tessa and Malik for helping with Blog this week! Thanks to Ingmar and Georgia for sharing and reviewing their favorite movies!
Mrs. Armour is starting a "RUN FOR FUN 2K Club" on Wednesdays at lunch starting next week running for 6 weeks. There was a meeting today and an information and permission form coming home if your child is interested in joining. Our goal is to increase our stamina, have fun and add up all our km!
Mrs. Armour says she is getting spoiled by all the treats and notes for Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you everyone!
Gym was outside on Tuesday playing running games "Coloured Eggs" and "Deer and Antelope" and relays using skipping ropes, balls, frisbees!
Today we were in the gym with the huge Parachute. We found out it is really important to cooperate when we play "popcorn" and "mushroom" to make the parachute dance or fly! Then we played "cat and mouse" where we learn to to be aware of our bodies and those around us when we can't see very well and stay away from the cat!
Printing - grade ones worked on the "ick" family and the grade twos worked on the "ing" endings. We are finding and noticing more and more of these words now when we read our books!
Today we worked on a special writing and sketching project...that's all we can say because it is a BIG surprise and you will have to wait and see!
We also worked on our Dioramas and animals out of plasticine...we are learning to ask a friend for specific feedback so we can make our projects even better.
Thanks to Colin, Madalynn, Tessa and Malik for helping with Blog this week! Thanks to Ingmar and Georgia for sharing and reviewing their favorite movies!
Mrs. Armour is starting a "RUN FOR FUN 2K Club" on Wednesdays at lunch starting next week running for 6 weeks. There was a meeting today and an information and permission form coming home if your child is interested in joining. Our goal is to increase our stamina, have fun and add up all our km!
Mrs. Armour says she is getting spoiled by all the treats and notes for Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you everyone!
Monday, 7 May 2018
Monday
New table groups! New jobs! Ask me who I am sitting with now and what my new job for the week will be. Emmaline, Madalynn, Lucas and Colin have shared some of their favorite movies - thank you for letting us know what parts you like, what characters are interesting and how many stars out of 5 you would give it. We thought we could look in our public library if we were interested in watching them!
Today we wrote in our journals about our weekend. We are trying to edit our work and share with a friend before checking with Mrs. Armour. We are looking for the who, what, where, when, why and how of our story to add more detail!
Some of us needed to finish our math problem and some of us played Race to 100 or other adding and subtracting games like snakes and ladders.
We all sat in a circle on the carpet in a grade one, grade two pattern then we took turns writing "ing" words, or "ick" words - tomorrow we will practice finding words in books with "ing" and "ick" and printing them.
After lunch and quiet reading, we read about "Mickey" the metal bird in our library. It was given to the brand new Dr. E.W. Coffin as a gift in 1968. Ask me where the artist came from and where Mickey was put in the school. We wrote down some facts and added those and the sketch of Mickey to our book bags.
Gym was outside today and we played "Deer and Antelope tag" If Mrs. Armour said "Deer" the deer had to run "home" and the antelope chased them, but if she said, "Antelope" they had to run and the deer would chase them. It was a little confusing, but it teaches us to listen and respond quickly!
LIBRARY TOMORROW and thanks for continuing to do HOME READING - please let Mrs. Armour know if you have lost your Home Reading bag or need more challenging books!
Looking ahead -
Friday, May 18th and Monday, May 21st Victoria Day - non-instruction days
Fresh Air Friday, May 25th all the grade 1/2 classes will be going to visit the Medicine Wheel on Nose Hill with Saa'Kokoto - if you would like to join us, please let Mrs. Armour know.
Save the date - Thursday, May 31st we are planning to have our Learning Celebration to show off what we have learned in song and skit. Details to follow!
Wednesday, June 6th Heritage Park field trip - we will need volunteers, so if you can save the date to join us, we would love to have you!
Today we wrote in our journals about our weekend. We are trying to edit our work and share with a friend before checking with Mrs. Armour. We are looking for the who, what, where, when, why and how of our story to add more detail!
Some of us needed to finish our math problem and some of us played Race to 100 or other adding and subtracting games like snakes and ladders.
We all sat in a circle on the carpet in a grade one, grade two pattern then we took turns writing "ing" words, or "ick" words - tomorrow we will practice finding words in books with "ing" and "ick" and printing them.
After lunch and quiet reading, we read about "Mickey" the metal bird in our library. It was given to the brand new Dr. E.W. Coffin as a gift in 1968. Ask me where the artist came from and where Mickey was put in the school. We wrote down some facts and added those and the sketch of Mickey to our book bags.
Gym was outside today and we played "Deer and Antelope tag" If Mrs. Armour said "Deer" the deer had to run "home" and the antelope chased them, but if she said, "Antelope" they had to run and the deer would chase them. It was a little confusing, but it teaches us to listen and respond quickly!
LIBRARY TOMORROW and thanks for continuing to do HOME READING - please let Mrs. Armour know if you have lost your Home Reading bag or need more challenging books!
Looking ahead -
Friday, May 18th and Monday, May 21st Victoria Day - non-instruction days
Fresh Air Friday, May 25th all the grade 1/2 classes will be going to visit the Medicine Wheel on Nose Hill with Saa'Kokoto - if you would like to join us, please let Mrs. Armour know.
Save the date - Thursday, May 31st we are planning to have our Learning Celebration to show off what we have learned in song and skit. Details to follow!
Wednesday, June 6th Heritage Park field trip - we will need volunteers, so if you can save the date to join us, we would love to have you!
Bird Walk Pictures!
Friday, 4 May 2018
Fresh Air Friday
We had a great morning with CPAWS - Citizen Science - we discovered more about the importance of healthy biodiversity (Ask me if I remember what bio-diversity means?)
We were in the first group so walked to the amphitheater by Whispering Woods and played a few games that helped us learn more about habitat, family and survival.
We played a new version of "rock, paper, scissors" where you add "bird" on the end and if you win, you become the next stage of a bird - we start as an egg then grow to a hatchling then a fledgling then a grown bird. We learned that in real life at each stage, sometimes the bird doesn't make it and sometimes it does depending on getting the essentials of water, food, shelter and space.
We played a new version of "Simon Says" with the words "CPAWS says" using actions for water, food, shelter and space. Ask me what the actions for each are!
Remember the game, "Red, light, green light"? We heard a story about the Peregrin Falcon and how it was on the "at risk" list because of the food cycle of mosquitos eaten by spiders eaten by ducks eaten by peregrine falcons - and how a little bit of chemicals in the mosquitos affected each in the cycle a little bit more. We played the game where we were all wolves working together to get the Falcon's egg - we had to be sneaky because the Falcon has really keen eyesight!!
Then we had a quick break and snack and then it was our turn to go Birding with Vlad - he was our guest who is an expert "birder" and can hear and see birds really well. We had to be in "stealth" mode so we could listen and observe lots of birds.
Here are some of the birds we saw - ask me how many I saw! Robins, Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Ravens...Mrs. Armour will add pictures of our walk on Monday.
We all gathered in Room 2 to see how to add our list of birds on the eBird website - Mrs. Armour will send home more information on how to do this on Monday. We will share the list with everyone, so you can see all the birds we saw. Stephanie told us tomorrow, May 5th, is Global Big Day so if you want to go on to
www.ebird.org
and submit your findings, you will join with thousands across the whole world who are birding at the same time!
What a beautiful day to go birding!!
Next week we will be continuing on Math word problems, adding and subtracting, the "ick" family for grade ones, the "ing" rules and words grade twos, sketching and writing about "Mickey" our mascot, and working on our dioramas and animals.
Have a wonderful weekend. Be watching for your focus bird!
We were in the first group so walked to the amphitheater by Whispering Woods and played a few games that helped us learn more about habitat, family and survival.
We played a new version of "rock, paper, scissors" where you add "bird" on the end and if you win, you become the next stage of a bird - we start as an egg then grow to a hatchling then a fledgling then a grown bird. We learned that in real life at each stage, sometimes the bird doesn't make it and sometimes it does depending on getting the essentials of water, food, shelter and space.
We played a new version of "Simon Says" with the words "CPAWS says" using actions for water, food, shelter and space. Ask me what the actions for each are!
Remember the game, "Red, light, green light"? We heard a story about the Peregrin Falcon and how it was on the "at risk" list because of the food cycle of mosquitos eaten by spiders eaten by ducks eaten by peregrine falcons - and how a little bit of chemicals in the mosquitos affected each in the cycle a little bit more. We played the game where we were all wolves working together to get the Falcon's egg - we had to be sneaky because the Falcon has really keen eyesight!!
Then we had a quick break and snack and then it was our turn to go Birding with Vlad - he was our guest who is an expert "birder" and can hear and see birds really well. We had to be in "stealth" mode so we could listen and observe lots of birds.
Here are some of the birds we saw - ask me how many I saw! Robins, Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Ravens...Mrs. Armour will add pictures of our walk on Monday.
We all gathered in Room 2 to see how to add our list of birds on the eBird website - Mrs. Armour will send home more information on how to do this on Monday. We will share the list with everyone, so you can see all the birds we saw. Stephanie told us tomorrow, May 5th, is Global Big Day so if you want to go on to
www.ebird.org
and submit your findings, you will join with thousands across the whole world who are birding at the same time!
What a beautiful day to go birding!!
Next week we will be continuing on Math word problems, adding and subtracting, the "ick" family for grade ones, the "ing" rules and words grade twos, sketching and writing about "Mickey" our mascot, and working on our dioramas and animals.
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Wednesday
Today was "Hats On for Mental Health" Day - We discussed how it is important for us to eat healthy to keep our bodies strong and to think healthy to keep our minds strong. We have mini erasers with positive sayings on them here in the Clubhouse. We sat in a circle and read them out loud and thought about an example of what it would look like if we...
"Choose to smile"
Say "I am strong"
"Learn from my mistakes"
"Always are a friend"
"Choose to be happy"
"Choose to be the best we can be"
"Respect others"
"Choose to be kind"
"Believe in our dreams"
"Never stop learning"
Word Work - grade ones thought of "in" words (our favorites were Colin and Coffin:) How many can you think of? Grade twos tried to find as many "ing" words in their books and decide which rule of "ing" they followed.
Writing - In our All About Me books, we tried to remember when Dr. E.W. Coffin was first built (Do you know?) and added that into our books. Tomorrow we will learn the story of our mascot!
Math - Now that we have practiced a few math problems all together, today we had to solve a new math problem on our own - see pictures below!
Gym - Today we had played Fruit Salad and King's Gold outside. We all tried to remember how to be a PACE player (Participate, Attitude, Cooperate, Effort) so everyone has fun!
Music today! Ask me what we are working on.
Animal Research - today if we were finished our research "must-haves" we were able to start to create our animals out of plasticine. We could look at our tear art animals on the walls or check an iPad so the colors are accurate.
http://ebird.org/home
This is the eBird website to go to and click "create account" Mrs. Boyer worked with all the grade ones and created their new password "coffin123" so hopefully everything works smoothly. We want to all be ready with our accounts for this Friday when CPAWS return and help us learn how to record our bird sightings!! THANKS FOR RETURNING THE BOTTOM OF THE FORM to Mrs. Armour.
Tomorrow the grade 3/4's are presenting their Learning Celebration at 11:00AM.
Looks like great weather for the next few days! Thanks for bringing water bottles and wearing layers so we can be comfortable!
Here are a few of our dioramas - how many
Nose Hill plants can you spot?
Can you guess what season each of
us chose?
Grade 1 math problem
Grade 2 math problem
"Choose to smile"
Say "I am strong"
"Learn from my mistakes"
"Always are a friend"
"Choose to be happy"
"Choose to be the best we can be"
"Respect others"
"Choose to be kind"
"Believe in our dreams"
"Never stop learning"
Word Work - grade ones thought of "in" words (our favorites were Colin and Coffin:) How many can you think of? Grade twos tried to find as many "ing" words in their books and decide which rule of "ing" they followed.
Writing - In our All About Me books, we tried to remember when Dr. E.W. Coffin was first built (Do you know?) and added that into our books. Tomorrow we will learn the story of our mascot!
Math - Now that we have practiced a few math problems all together, today we had to solve a new math problem on our own - see pictures below!
Gym - Today we had played Fruit Salad and King's Gold outside. We all tried to remember how to be a PACE player (Participate, Attitude, Cooperate, Effort) so everyone has fun!
Music today! Ask me what we are working on.
Animal Research - today if we were finished our research "must-haves" we were able to start to create our animals out of plasticine. We could look at our tear art animals on the walls or check an iPad so the colors are accurate.
http://ebird.org/home
This is the eBird website to go to and click "create account" Mrs. Boyer worked with all the grade ones and created their new password "coffin123" so hopefully everything works smoothly. We want to all be ready with our accounts for this Friday when CPAWS return and help us learn how to record our bird sightings!! THANKS FOR RETURNING THE BOTTOM OF THE FORM to Mrs. Armour.
Tomorrow the grade 3/4's are presenting their Learning Celebration at 11:00AM.
Looks like great weather for the next few days! Thanks for bringing water bottles and wearing layers so we can be comfortable!
Here are a few of our dioramas - how many
Nose Hill plants can you spot?
Can you guess what season each of
us chose?
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Tuesday, May 1st
Happy May Day! This morning for Word Work, the grade ones worked on the "ig" family words at their desk with fill in the blank sentences and finding the words with the correct spelling. Mrs. Armour reviewed the "ing" rules with the grade twos then read a page from Old Granny Fox - the grade twos had white boards and had to listen very closely and write down any "ing" words we heard. After that, we tried to guess which "ing" rule applied to each word we found.
We had Library today - ask me what books I checked out or if I need to look for a book at home to return.
Our Math problem today was about apples and animals! Ask me how my group figured it out and how we worked as a group.
This afternoon after "Did you know?" facts, we worked on our Dioramas. We needed to explain each part of our diorama to a friend and ask if we needed to add any more details or plants.
Tomorrow is HATS ON! for Mental Health Day. You can wear a hat to show your support if you would like. We will share what helps calm us and cheer us up when we get worried or upset and how we can help care for our friends who are worried or upset.
A goldenrod sheet is coming home today with instructions on how to get our very own ebird account so we can keep track of all the birds we see! Thanks for sending in the bottom portion so we can log in at school sometimes to count the birds we have seen.
Friday our friends from CPAWS are back and we will be mini-ornithologists learning how to observe and keep track of the birds we see!
We had Library today - ask me what books I checked out or if I need to look for a book at home to return.
Our Math problem today was about apples and animals! Ask me how my group figured it out and how we worked as a group.
This afternoon after "Did you know?" facts, we worked on our Dioramas. We needed to explain each part of our diorama to a friend and ask if we needed to add any more details or plants.
Tomorrow is HATS ON! for Mental Health Day. You can wear a hat to show your support if you would like. We will share what helps calm us and cheer us up when we get worried or upset and how we can help care for our friends who are worried or upset.
A goldenrod sheet is coming home today with instructions on how to get our very own ebird account so we can keep track of all the birds we see! Thanks for sending in the bottom portion so we can log in at school sometimes to count the birds we have seen.
Friday our friends from CPAWS are back and we will be mini-ornithologists learning how to observe and keep track of the birds we see!
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