Christmas Hampers

This week:

Monday: Star Student Bailey

Tuesday: Spelling Test

Wednesday: Chapel

Thursday:

Friday: Hamper items due

Christmas Hampers: Please bring in all items for our classroom hamper by Friday this week.  I am still looking for someone to deliver the hamper over the weekend or early next week.  If you would be able to do the delivery please let me know.  Thank you to everyone who signed up and already brought in items.

RACK: Please send in pictures/stories of RACKs. Below are the ideas for RACKing that we came up with in class.  Tanner shared a picture of him setting the table.  Another student made a card for a friend.

Science: We have been taking an in depth look at each of the Five Senses.  We have learned about hearing, sight, smell and touch.  We are working on Taste.  We have spoken about how animals use their senses.  We've also covered what happens when we are missing one of our senses.  We have discussed how our senses help us learn about good, bad, and danger around us.

Math: Have you checked out our Christmas trees in the hallway?  Each one is decorated with a different math theme to show you all the different ways we can make a number.

Mrs. McCrea has sent out the details for the upcoming Christmas festivities happening in the school over the next couple of weeks. Please go over them carefully.  If you have questions please let her or myself know.  I'm looking forward to an exciting couple of weeks!

December!

December is going to be such an exciting month!  The students are already buzzing with anticipation for the events to come this month. 

We have been learning about the Advent season in the classroom.  Each week the students will receive a colouring page with the idea that we covered for the week.  They do not need to be sent back to school, they are for you to see what they learning.

Christmas Hamper preparations are underway.  Our class will be putting together a hamper for a family.  The list will be posted/emailed shortly. 

Today we did the Reading Raffle for November home reading.  It sure was exciting!  For December students won't have an official reading log, but they are expected to read as often as possible.  We will have another incentive program for January.

RACKED - Each class in our school will be participating in a service project this year.  Our class is going to be RACKing people during the month of December.  Random Acts of Christmas Kindness is not meant to be any extra work (or cost) for you.  The students are brainstorming ways in which they can show others kindness without expecting anything in return.  They will be given a set of 12 RACK cards to use during December.  I can't wait to see what kind of stories we get as a result of this project.  I'd love to hear feedback from you as the month progresses as well.




A field trip form was sent home today for The Cat in the Hat.  If you are able to join us please let me know ASAP so I can plan out the rides.  Looking forward to it!

This week:


Monday: Star Student: Mitchell

Tuesday: Spelling Test

Wednesday: Chapel

Thursday:

Friday: Pizza Day

Last week of November

Monday: Star Student: Lucas B.

Tuesday: Spelling Test

Wednesday: Chapel, Pizza Orders Due, New spelling words go home

Thursday:

Friday:

Volunteers:  During the month of December I would love to have parent volunteers come in periodically to read Christmas books to the class.  Part of the social studies curriculum is learning about traditions, and cultural stories.  If you have a Christmas book/story that is part of your family tradition I would love it if you could come and share it with our class.  The best times to come read to the class are at 11:00 or 1:00.  Please let me know if you would be interested.

Curriculum overview:

English Language Arts: We have been really working at Story Mapping books that we have read.  We are now focusing on applying those skills to our own writing.  This week students are starting a new piece of writing that has a Christmas theme.

Math: Grade 1s have been working hard at understanding how to represent numbers 11-20.  We are working on showing those numbers in various groupings.

Math: Grade 2s have been working at estimation and counting.  They have learned and practiced how to make a good estimate and then count the group of objects using 2s, 5s, or 10s.

Science: We just began a new unit: The Five Senses.  So far we have just done an intensive look at our sense of sight.

Religion: We will begin discussing the Advent season this week.

French: We are working on our numbers up to 12.

Student Led Conferences

Well this week is definitely a full week.  Five days of school, and Student-led Conferences.  If you haven't yet scheduled your conference please do so ASAP.  The sign up sheets are posted outside of the office.  We have been working hard to put together our portfolios.  I am quite surprised by the student reflection pages, many of these students are hard on themselves and expect a lot of themselves.  I can't wait to see them working towards their goals in this next term.

Please remember to sign the report card envelope and return it to school.

This week:

Monday: Star Student - Emma

Tuesday: Spelling Test

Wednesday: Chapel

Thursday:

Friday: Scholastic Book Order Due

See you soon!

SNOW!

Snow - Please make sure you are prepared to go outside for recess everyday.  It is a good idea to have extra gloves and socks in case they get wet.  Thank you.

Star Student - Heruy

Tuesday - Spelling Test

Wednesday - Chapel

Thursday - Report Cards go home

Friday - No School

Reading Raffle - at the end of November we will be holding a Reading Raffle in our classroom.  Students get a ticket each day that they do their home reading.

Student-Led Conferences - please sign up for a conference.  The sign up sheet is outside of the office.  The students are preparing to show you their portfolios.

Last week we spent time learning about Remembrance Day.  Did you see our poppies in the hallway?