Hello Parents and Students,
Brrrrrrr! It’s getting cold out there! Please make sure that your child comes to
school with ski pants and warm winter clothing.
With the wind chill today earlier this week, we began with an indoor
recess.
On Monday we welcomed new
student, Sauravi, to our Grade 3 class and today, Zaid (photo 41), to our Grade
2 class. We now have 24 students in the
class.
We continue to work on NUMBER
FAMILIES in math. We have done many
Number Family activities this week using ten frames, dice, 2 sided counters and
dice. Our math focus this week was about MISSING addends. New math vocabulary
included: equal and unequal. We did some
MATH DRAMA, where I was trying to reinforce the “missing number” within an
equation. For example: 8 + ___ =
14. We continue to explore +/- and the
missing elements: __ + 5 = 13 or 2+__ =
11 or __-6=5. The children used a math
number line and a hundred chart as a tool.
This afternoon’s math lesson and next week’s focus is using a NUMBER
LINE.
Our Star of the Week was Sonakshi. Sonakshi enjoys ballet. She has traveled to Banff and the Rocky Mountains. She is an only child, who was born in Kolkata,
India. She enjoys swimming and dressing up.
Her favourite food is pasta.
On Tuesday, our 2 awesome
University of Regina students, Miss Lechler and Miss Kezama, taught the children
a little bit about beekeeping. They
showed a short Magic School House bee video, followed by a discussion about bee
keeping. Miss Lechler modeled a
beekeeper uniform and the children even sampled some delicious honey from Miss
Lechler’s farm.
Our science focus this week has
been to explore and to create jot notes, working in small groups about the
students’ specific farm animals of study.
This afternoon’s lesson will be about organization of jot notes (photos
38 to 40) and order. Friday and next
week for science, each child will create a paragraph(s).
For health on Wednesday, Mrs.
Beckel showed the video www.poison.org/prevent/Elementary.asp The video dealt with poisonous substances in
the home. It is well worth viewing again
and discussing with your child.
We received some wonderful mail
this week from the Humane Society with a Certificate of Appreciation for the
cat toys we made and donated using the socks you sent to school. Thank you once again for your support!
We engaged in 2 PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model) lessons
this week. The new poster features the
fall and pumpkin patches. One of the PWIM
lessons focused on sorting the words based on suffixes. Another lesson focused
on alphabetization (photo 1). When
reading WITH your child at home, ask him/her to point out words with suffixes
(ed, s, es, ing) words. Take 3 or 4 of
your child’s spelling words and see if your child is able to put them in
alphabetical order. Our Writing Traits
lesson this morning focused on organization and putting things in the right
order.
Report cards go out for all Grant Road students on Friday, 21st. All report card envelope papers are YOURS TO
KEEP. I look forward to meeting with
each of you and your children next Thursday after school or Friday morning, at
your designated time for the 3 – Way Conference.
On Tuesday, our guest speaker, Louise, from the Board of
Education, presented a very interesting Arctic Animals lesson to Grade 2
classrooms. We learned about polar bears, seals, musk ox, caribou, tundra wolf
and more. The children will share their journal paragraphs with you at the
interviews. See photos 14 to 23, 29 to
34.
During
French, he boys and girls are having a lot of fun learning the farm animal
vocabulary and the sounds the animals make.
We have read “Old Macdonald” in French this week, also “Petit Poussin,
Que-Dis Tu?” and have listened to the farm song www.youtube.com/watch?v=oczhw6ikmSE We also created favourite
farm animal drawings in individual barns and on Wednesday, we wrote Garfield
cartoons. See photos 24 to 28, 35 to 37. They LOVE French class and all the
interactive activities and games.
The countdown to Agribition has been ongoing this week! We
have been learning barnyard dances such as:
The Alley Cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fFf0ClVLao, The
Bunny Hop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajWqQaq5dE. We did a circle/partner dance to the song
B-I-N-G-O, as well. Watch the videos and
have your child show you the moves.
Please send a healthy
lunch for your child with a bottle of water for the Monday Agribition trip. Please
make sure your child is wearing BOOTS, as we will be in the barns. Dress in
layers. No ski pants, as we will be
doing a lot of walking and will get warm.
Do NOT send the AGENDAS to school in the backpacks.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE TO
THE PARENTS JOINING US. PARENT
VOLUNTEERS: It is
important to attend the ON SITE workshop on SUNDAY, November
23rd at 10:30 a.m. The purpose of the workshop is to familiarize you
with an appropriate, safe route to take on that day. Please
meet at the Co-operators Centre Foyer at 10:30 a.m. at EVRAZ PLACE. The workshop will last approximately one
and a half hours and is well worth attending.
The Showcase exhibitors will also be on hand to explain their displays
and answer any questions. Remember to
dress for barn conditions and to bring a pen/pencil. Maps will be made available.
We
will be leaving at 9 a.m. sharp, after attendance is taken.
REMINDERS: 1. Reading logs with NOVEMBER minutes due
next Thurs. 27th.
2. Return TERM I STUDENT WORK SAMPLES IN BLUE FILE FOLDER if you have not already
done so.
3. Grant Road book fair is
on Thursday. BOOK FAIR preview time for Gr. 2/3
is from 10 to 10:30 a.m. in the library.
If you would like your child to purchase a book, please send the money
in a labeled zip lock bag and I will place change in bag from your child’s
purchase.
4. Lukas is * STAR OF THE WEEK * the week of Dec. 1st.
Have a wonderful rest
of the week everyone!
Ms. Selimos
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