This morning we had our "dress rehearsal" and performed for the Kindergarten class because they will be away on a field trip tomorrow. It was great to have a real audience!
We had another practice this afternoon - our songs are sounding great and we can't wait to show you! If we have speaking parts, we are going to practice tonight at home speaking s l o w l y and clearly with expression:) Everyone is working really hard all doing their part to show off our learning!
Remember to wear "animal colours" to school tomorrow for our LEARNING CELEBRATION at 11:00AM! Anything brown, black, grey, white will be great - if you don't have plain (no words on the front) shirts, remember Mrs. Boyer said you can turn it inside out and it will work great - dark jeans are fine as well - Please plan to stay for a little bit after so we can share our dioramas with you!
Just a heads up: A phone message was sent by Mrs. Polski regarding the Aspen grove trees and volunteers needed to help dig the holes on Sunday between 10-1. Please call the school if you can volunteer to help with the digging of the holes in preparation for the 9 aspen trees we have coming to enhance our Nature grounds.
Looking ahead:
HERITAGE PARK FIELD TRIP on Wednesday, June 6th - form is coming home today - thank you for signing and returning this right away.
SWIMMING starts in June!
June 7th/12th/14th/19th/21st Forms also coming home today - thanks for letting us know what swimming experience your child has and returning them so we can inform the pool.
Here are the dates if you can volunteer we would love to have you! We will be walking after lunch to and from the pool, and will need help before and after in the change rooms. Both moms and dads (grandpas and grandmas) with volunteer clearance are welcome!!
Sorry - all the toner in the printers ran out at the same time - so we are just a bit behind with the forms - thanks for signing all the paper during your busy evenings - we really appreciate it!
See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Armour
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Monday, 28 May 2018
Monday
We started the morning working on our "Did You Know?" fact sheet on the computers or adding finishing touches to our dioramas while Mrs. Boyer worked with the groups of students with speaking parts in our assembly.
We all met in the gym to practice our songs, dance and transitions and then did a whole "run-through" of the play.
Adding the props and microphones made it much more real and exciting!
Thank you to everyone who has memorized your lines and is practicing at home - speaking slowly and clearly takes a lot of practice even when you know all the words.
(Sometimes we forget that everyone else doesn't know all the words and speak a little quickly).
If you have a cowboy hat or a construction hat at home - please bring it with your name on it tomorrow, so we know who is wearing what and can organize what we need - THANK YOU!
Think about what your animals colors are and set aside those clothes to wear Thursday...(black, brown, white, grey, brown are all good colors for nose hill animals!)
THURSDAY, MAY 31st is our Learning Celebration.
Tomorrow is Library.
Keep reading at home and bringing back your home reading bags to exchange!
We all met in the gym to practice our songs, dance and transitions and then did a whole "run-through" of the play.
Adding the props and microphones made it much more real and exciting!
Thank you to everyone who has memorized your lines and is practicing at home - speaking slowly and clearly takes a lot of practice even when you know all the words.
(Sometimes we forget that everyone else doesn't know all the words and speak a little quickly).
If you have a cowboy hat or a construction hat at home - please bring it with your name on it tomorrow, so we know who is wearing what and can organize what we need - THANK YOU!
Think about what your animals colors are and set aside those clothes to wear Thursday...(black, brown, white, grey, brown are all good colors for nose hill animals!)
THURSDAY, MAY 31st is our Learning Celebration.
Tomorrow is Library.
Keep reading at home and bringing back your home reading bags to exchange!
Friday, 25 May 2018
Nose Hill Adventure with SaaKokoto
The new Medicine Wheel was made in 2013 - it was modeled after the same kind the Blackfoot people used to make on Nose Hill. SaaKokoto is now the caretaker of it. The number 4 is very special to the Blackfoot people. There are 4 sections to the Medicine Wheel - 4 nations, 4 seasons, 4 directions, 4 parts to the cycle of life, 4 parts of a plant (root, stem, leaves and the flower or berry)....
Ask me what else I remember about the stones of the wheel.
While we were listening to Saakokoto, we saw 12 birds flying in the sky - we thought they might be crows, but SaaKokoto said they were flying very high and they might be eagles! Then he told us the story of Eagle Boy.
We walked up to the top of the hill and then split into 2 groups. One stayed with SaaKokoto and listened to his stories about the Medicine Wheel and we went over further to sketch and look at bugs and insects.
We saw grasshoppers and butterflies that were red and orange. Colin even caught a wasp to observe and then let it go! Solomon pointed out a big black beetle on a buffalo bean flower and found what we think was coyote fur!
We had a great spot to practice our perspective drawing. We sketched buffalo bean flowers in detail, bushes and hills in the middle and far away we sketched the mountains and the city of Calgary skyline.
Have a great weekend - practice your lines and songs for our LEARNING CELEBRATION on THURSDAY, MAY 31st at 11:00AM - all are welcome to come and hear what we have been discovering about the animals and plants of Nose Hill. Our dioramas will be displayed in the Learning Commons after our celebration!
Ask me what else I remember about the stones of the wheel.
While we were listening to Saakokoto, we saw 12 birds flying in the sky - we thought they might be crows, but SaaKokoto said they were flying very high and they might be eagles! Then he told us the story of Eagle Boy.
We walked up to the top of the hill and then split into 2 groups. One stayed with SaaKokoto and listened to his stories about the Medicine Wheel and we went over further to sketch and look at bugs and insects.
We saw grasshoppers and butterflies that were red and orange. Colin even caught a wasp to observe and then let it go! Solomon pointed out a big black beetle on a buffalo bean flower and found what we think was coyote fur!
We had a great spot to practice our perspective drawing. We sketched buffalo bean flowers in detail, bushes and hills in the middle and far away we sketched the mountains and the city of Calgary skyline.
Have a great weekend - practice your lines and songs for our LEARNING CELEBRATION on THURSDAY, MAY 31st at 11:00AM - all are welcome to come and hear what we have been discovering about the animals and plants of Nose Hill. Our dioramas will be displayed in the Learning Commons after our celebration!
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Assembly practice continues...
Our schedule continues to be a bit different over the next couple of weeks until our Learning Celebration! Today Mrs. Boyer worked with different groups to teach them their lines and our dance moves. We had fun! The dance was a part of our gym and then we went outside.
We were together to practice our songs and learn the words - we are trying to show emotion on our faces if the song is happy, a little sad or super exciting! We are learning that actors can show a lot of different emotion but are still in control and listen to the director when they say, "All quiet on the set!" Please check Mrs. Boyer's blog (Room 2) to find the links to our songs so you can practice at home! Mrs. Boyer and Mr. O'Reilly have adapted some of the lyrics to Good Day Sunshine, Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen, and Born to be Wild, so it's important to listen and learn the right words.
We discussed story writing today and how important it is to have a plan before we start writing. This keeps us on track. Our stories will be all about animals on Nose Hill to show what we have learned about their habitat, appearance, food, family, predators and survival. Today we thought about which animals we wanted to write about, an interesting beginning, a problem and how the animal fixes the problem (the middle) and what it learns (the end). Over the next few weeks, we will learn that writing stories takes time! We will add details and edit by ourselves, with a friend or two or three and get some more ideas and make our stories even better!
If we are in the Run 2K Club, we ran again at lunch. It was hot, so we made sure we took a break in the shade and had a drink if we needed to...we are over 200km - hurray!
We had Sketching after lunch. We added some more shading to our sketches and then Ryder taught us about PERSPECTIVE, HORIZON LINE and VANISHING POINT. Ask me what I remember about those words! Then we worked on drawing ONLY WHAT WE SEE by looking at scissors on our desk and drawing without lifting our pencil or looking at our paper. Then we looked at our friend and tried to draw their face without looking at our pencil or paper. It was really tricky!! Ryder told us this was a good way to practice being artists that observe instead of just using our imagination (which is a different kind of drawing.)
Music - we practiced our songs again! Ask me which one is my favorite!
We read a story called Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett. Ask me to tell you about the beginning, middle and end and who the characters were.
Tomorrow Mrs. Armour will be away celebrating her daughter's grade 12 graduation! We are excited that Mr. O will be coming in to teach us!
Thanks to all of you who have returned your Nose Hill Field Trip forms. Please bring them tomorrow if you haven't.
Ryder is showing us about perspective - and how to sketch things that are close and far away.
Here is a peek at just a couple of our backgrounds we are working on!
We were together to practice our songs and learn the words - we are trying to show emotion on our faces if the song is happy, a little sad or super exciting! We are learning that actors can show a lot of different emotion but are still in control and listen to the director when they say, "All quiet on the set!" Please check Mrs. Boyer's blog (Room 2) to find the links to our songs so you can practice at home! Mrs. Boyer and Mr. O'Reilly have adapted some of the lyrics to Good Day Sunshine, Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen, and Born to be Wild, so it's important to listen and learn the right words.
We discussed story writing today and how important it is to have a plan before we start writing. This keeps us on track. Our stories will be all about animals on Nose Hill to show what we have learned about their habitat, appearance, food, family, predators and survival. Today we thought about which animals we wanted to write about, an interesting beginning, a problem and how the animal fixes the problem (the middle) and what it learns (the end). Over the next few weeks, we will learn that writing stories takes time! We will add details and edit by ourselves, with a friend or two or three and get some more ideas and make our stories even better!
If we are in the Run 2K Club, we ran again at lunch. It was hot, so we made sure we took a break in the shade and had a drink if we needed to...we are over 200km - hurray!
We had Sketching after lunch. We added some more shading to our sketches and then Ryder taught us about PERSPECTIVE, HORIZON LINE and VANISHING POINT. Ask me what I remember about those words! Then we worked on drawing ONLY WHAT WE SEE by looking at scissors on our desk and drawing without lifting our pencil or looking at our paper. Then we looked at our friend and tried to draw their face without looking at our pencil or paper. It was really tricky!! Ryder told us this was a good way to practice being artists that observe instead of just using our imagination (which is a different kind of drawing.)
Music - we practiced our songs again! Ask me which one is my favorite!
We read a story called Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett. Ask me to tell you about the beginning, middle and end and who the characters were.
Tomorrow Mrs. Armour will be away celebrating her daughter's grade 12 graduation! We are excited that Mr. O will be coming in to teach us!
Thanks to all of you who have returned your Nose Hill Field Trip forms. Please bring them tomorrow if you haven't.
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Ready, Set, Action!
For the next two weeks, we will be busy like beavers and badgers and foxes and bats and weasels and....well, you get the picture! Our grade 1/2 learning celebration happens on THURSDAY, MAY 31ST (save the date, so you can come and watch us and see our learning!). We will be busy making props, learning our lines and songs. This is so exciting because we are putting all the things we've learned about Nose Hill, the plants and the animals together in a play for you! We are also making finishing touches on our Dioramas and typing up our Did you know? Facts on the computers.
Today we started the day outside with the whole school for our school-wide photo. The photographer was standing high up on the ladder and we were all on and around the playground!
We worked really hard on our Journal writing today - there was so much to write about with the long weekend!
We had gym outside today.
We were all together with the other grade 1/2 classes and listened while Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Hamby and Mrs. Armour read through the script for our play. We will all find out what parts we are playing tomorrow. Some of us will have speaking parts and some of us singing parts but we will all be an important part!
We worked on our "props" this afternoon. It was so nice we painted outside! Some of us were fixing up the background and some of us painted a huge rock. Sorry if we have extra paint on our fingers or hands - it should all come off with a good scrub!
Green and Pink forms (it doesn't matter which colour - they both are the same!) are coming home today - these are our FIELD TRIP FORMS FOR THIS FRIDAY - because we are going to the Medicine Wheel on Nose Hill, we will be taking a bus instead of walking all the way - that's why we need the forms. Thanks for signing and returning tomorrow or Thursday at the latest! We want everyone to come to hear SaaKokoto's stories!
Reminder that Tomorrow is also 2K Run Club - make sure you dress in cool clothes, wear running shoes and bring your water bottle if you are running!
Today we started the day outside with the whole school for our school-wide photo. The photographer was standing high up on the ladder and we were all on and around the playground!
We worked really hard on our Journal writing today - there was so much to write about with the long weekend!
We had gym outside today.
We were all together with the other grade 1/2 classes and listened while Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Hamby and Mrs. Armour read through the script for our play. We will all find out what parts we are playing tomorrow. Some of us will have speaking parts and some of us singing parts but we will all be an important part!
We worked on our "props" this afternoon. It was so nice we painted outside! Some of us were fixing up the background and some of us painted a huge rock. Sorry if we have extra paint on our fingers or hands - it should all come off with a good scrub!
Green and Pink forms (it doesn't matter which colour - they both are the same!) are coming home today - these are our FIELD TRIP FORMS FOR THIS FRIDAY - because we are going to the Medicine Wheel on Nose Hill, we will be taking a bus instead of walking all the way - that's why we need the forms. Thanks for signing and returning tomorrow or Thursday at the latest! We want everyone to come to hear SaaKokoto's stories!
Reminder that Tomorrow is also 2K Run Club - make sure you dress in cool clothes, wear running shoes and bring your water bottle if you are running!
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Dioramas, Sketching and a look back at the Volunteer Tea!
Have a great long weekend - Reminders - WHOLE SCHOOL PHOTO on Tuesday, May 22nd
Field trip to Nose hill on Friday, May 25th (need volunteers:)
Save the date - Learning Assembly on Thursday, May 31st
As we look forward to the Victoria Day long weekend, we discussed a little about why it is called Victoria Day! Mrs. Armour is pretty excited about the next Royal Wedding happening on May 19th and thought a look back at the Volunteer Tea here at Dr. Coffin would remind us all to say a Royal "Thank You" again to all of you who help make things great around here! We found out a little about the plants and flowers they will be using at the wedding in England - you can find them here!
https://www.royal.uk/royal-wedding-flower-preparations
Madalynn shared not only her favorite movie but a theatre she created!
Our dioramas are looking just like a miniature version of Nose Hill and we can't wait to share them with you on MAY 31st - at our Learning Celebration - we are now working on our "Did you know?" facts on the computer.
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Wednesday
Hi! Today we did centres and guided reading and then worked on our "All About Our School" timeline...ask me what date the second school (the one we are in today) was opened!
After recess, the grade ones worked at their desks on the word families with Mrs. Babcock and the grade twos worked on the carpet with Mrs. Armour and "ed" endings. Ask me why we add "ed" and if there are any rules! Try adding "ed" to jump, skip and hop and see if anything is different.
During lunch we had our first 2K RUN CLUB! Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Saunders were so proud and excited - together we ran 125 laps!! If we can keep it up we will reach our goal of "running strong to Humboldt" (700km!!) by the end of school! We can join any Wednesday as long we let Mrs. Armour or Mrs. Saunders know and sign up.
After lunch and quiet reading we asked "Did you know?" facts about our animal and then Mr. O'Reilly picked us up for music!
We decided to go into the gym for "gym" and played a game where we had 4 teams and 4 numbers if your number was called you had to go and grab some "food" in the middle - sometimes there was enough and sometimes there wasn't so you had to listen carefully!
Today Madalynn shared a movie theatre she had made - cool! and Tessa shared about her favorite show on Netflix. Thanks!
REMINDERS:
Friday is a non-instructional day - no students. Monday is Victoria Day - Enjoy the long weekend!
Tuesday, May 22nd is a SCHOOL GROUP PHOTO- forms are coming home today if you would like to purchase a photo - please return the form tomorrow if possible.
Friday, May 25th is our trip with SaaKokoto to Nose Hill and the Medicine Wheel. We will need volunteers as all 3 grade 1/2 classes are going - so if you can come, please let Mrs. Armour know! Thanks so much!
After recess, the grade ones worked at their desks on the word families with Mrs. Babcock and the grade twos worked on the carpet with Mrs. Armour and "ed" endings. Ask me why we add "ed" and if there are any rules! Try adding "ed" to jump, skip and hop and see if anything is different.
During lunch we had our first 2K RUN CLUB! Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Saunders were so proud and excited - together we ran 125 laps!! If we can keep it up we will reach our goal of "running strong to Humboldt" (700km!!) by the end of school! We can join any Wednesday as long we let Mrs. Armour or Mrs. Saunders know and sign up.
After lunch and quiet reading we asked "Did you know?" facts about our animal and then Mr. O'Reilly picked us up for music!
We decided to go into the gym for "gym" and played a game where we had 4 teams and 4 numbers if your number was called you had to go and grab some "food" in the middle - sometimes there was enough and sometimes there wasn't so you had to listen carefully!
Today Madalynn shared a movie theatre she had made - cool! and Tessa shared about her favorite show on Netflix. Thanks!
REMINDERS:
Friday is a non-instructional day - no students. Monday is Victoria Day - Enjoy the long weekend!
Tuesday, May 22nd is a SCHOOL GROUP PHOTO- forms are coming home today if you would like to purchase a photo - please return the form tomorrow if possible.
Friday, May 25th is our trip with SaaKokoto to Nose Hill and the Medicine Wheel. We will need volunteers as all 3 grade 1/2 classes are going - so if you can come, please let Mrs. Armour know! Thanks so much!
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