Greetings Parents and Students,
It is hard to believe this is the
last week of February! Next week is a
short week with P.D. Day on Thursday and Teachers Convention on Friday. Students have NO CLASSES on those days.
As you are aware, Boggy Creek
Valley has been rescheduled for TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH. I am need of parents to join us on this
day. We will leave school at
approximately 10:30 a.m. Cross your fingers for warmer weather.
WRITING TRAITS FOCUS THIS
WEEK: WORD CHOICES. The children are learning about verbs (action
words) and NOUNS (person, place or thing).
Strong verbs are exciting and make your actions CLEAR.
MATH: Solving problems involving subtracting and
adding 10s. EXAMPLE: Keithan is playing a game. On his 100 chart, he started at 56 and ended
at 16. Which number did Keithan
subtract? See photos.
READING/WRITING: This week, the children wrote paragraphs
about their own personal experiences of being “sick”, just like Ramona. They each read their paragraph to the class
before displaying it in the hallway bulletin board.
JOURNALS: On Wednesday, we revisited our Circle of
Courage Goal; Generosity and each child wrote a paragraph in his/her journal
explaining how he/she has demonstrated generosity this term. U of R teachers, Tayah Rutzki and Keigan Duczek, assisted with the lesson.
On Wednesday, with Mrs. Pankewich’s
class, we participated in a lesson about Chinese New Year. We talked about the Chinese Zodiac and the
Year of the Pig. We discussed food, clothing and special activities for those
who celebrate Chinese New Year. See the following videos:
Roan was our fabulous STAR OF THE
WEEK. Roan enjoys spending time with his
older sister, Brynn, his parents and grandparents. He is playing hockey this winter and is
looking forward to spring football. He
has visited Calgary, Disney World and Mexico. He loves the Magic Treehouse
reading series. He spends time at the
cabin in the summer, where he swims, boats and fishes. He has a pet frog, fish and a hermit crab.
On Monday, we read the story Fiddle
Dancer, by Wilfred Burton. On
Thursday, Grade 1 Teacher Intern, Miss Gold, joined our classroom to teach us
how to dance the Red River Jig. The dance consists of a resting step and 3 to 4
fancy steps.
RESTING STEP: kick right, step right, step
left, step right
FANCY STEPS:
FANCY STEPS:
1.
BUNNY
HOP (v-formation): jump to left then back to original spot, jump to right then
back to original spot
2.
MARCH: lift right leg and slide/ drag back
and then do the same with the left leg
3. CHI-GALLOP (rocking horse/miniature horse): hop on left and jump, hop on right and jump. Then repeat with left leg as starter
Miss
Gold discussed the significance of the sash.
The sash had hundreds of uses. A
few examples include: rope, calendar, belt.
Now it is used for jigging (dancing) with the girls
wearing it on their shoulder and the boys, on their waste.
We listened to
the music of the Red River Dance and then tried the different dance moves as 2
classes and then demonstrated to each other, in small groups of 8 to 10. To end the lesson, Miss Gold read Wilfred
Burton’s newest book, Call of the Fiddle.
Yes, it has
been a week of indoor recesses.
Hopefully the weather changes for the better, next week.
Please send
your child to school on Friday morning with his/her READING LOG AND MINUTES
TOTALED. Friday is the last day for
sending Scholastic Book Orders, as well.
Keep warm one
and all!
Ms. Selimos
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