Happy November
Parents and Students,
On Monday we
welcomed Gr. 1 twins, Shaymaa and Shadia to our classroom.
Ms. Holtby began
a NEW PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model) POSTER on
Monday. The poster features a couple of
farm scenes. See photo and read the
words with your child. The sorting rule
this week was to look for words with EXACTLY 2 vowels (a, e, i, o, u, y).
Choose 4 words, write them out and help your child to put them in alphabetical order.
Remember to log
in your daily reading minutes kids!
Thank you to Ian for sharing his Pizza Hut reading incentive moments
with us!
Bon appétit!
On Thursday, Nov. 8th
our entire class (26 kids) spent the day at the RCMP Heritage Center with our Gr. 4
Learning Buddies and Mrs. Hammett for the ‘Pledge for Peace’ program. We began with a
video discussion with our education guide, Mrs. Le Dressay. We discussed: RCMP acronym, the relevance of
the Queen, Ottawa as our capital and the Parliament. The children learned what you need to become
an officer (age 18, Gr. 12, Canadian citizen, etc.). Next, we went to the multipurpose room where
Mrs. Le Dressay read Good Morning Sunshine, by Trina Markusson
(story of mindfulness). Following this,
the children created their own mindfulness boxes with the 6 components;
open your five senses, belly breaths, mindfulness jar, taking care of your
feelings, gratefulness, and kind/caring thoughts to yourself and others. We
took a few moments to share some of our personal writing of ‘Peace
Promises’. These were written at
school earlier this week and will be posted throughout the RCMP Heritage Center
for the general public to enjoy. We moved into the theatre room where we sang
our ‘Pledge for Peace’ song and then had lunch. It was a refreshing walk to Depot with
security tags on each of us to enter the secured grounds to watch the RCMP
cadets practice marching in the marching hall building.
The children
wrote the poem, One Little Flower in their printing books on Friday
afternoon and practised reading it to a partner, before performing as a class
team. Ms. Holtby read the story, A
Poppy is to Remember by Heather Patterson.
The children learned how the bright red poppy became the symbol for
honouring those who fought for freedom.
The children were curious to know where Flanders Fields was located
(Belgium). With the Gr. 4 Learning
Buddies, our class worked on a ‘peace’
activity for the RCMP trip last Friday afternoon and this Friday afternoon they
wrote about their RCMP Heritage experiences.
This week’s writing traits lessons
focused on DETAILS and supporting
your TOPIC with details. We talked about details with non-fiction information,
as we read farm books based on our animal of study (horses, pigs, poultry,
cattle, and sheep). Next week, after finishing our research and jot notes,
students will create farm animal paragraphs, and then provide details.
Taking Care of Livestock PETERSON BROTHERS VIDEOS . . . follow them on
Instagram and Facebook
The Grade 1s reviewed estimating objects
to 20 and then counting for exact answers. The Grade 1s showed their answers as 10s and
leftovers. The Grade 1s took home their
completed UNIT 2 – REPRESENTING
NUMBERS TO 20 booklets on Wednesday to share with you. Grade 1 parents, please go over the unit with
your child, celebrate their learning, sign
and return to school.
For math, the Grade 2s completed Unit 2 on Wednesday; Numbers to 100. I CAN
STATEMENTS: The students can
represent numbers using hundred charts, coins, ten frames, and rods and cube
units (tens, and ones). Ask your child to show you a number on a hundred
chart, or ask him/her to make you 30 cents with coins! Your child can
also sort numbers from greatest to least! Find the completed unit in your
child's agenda. Please sign and
return in their agenda next week.
On Friday morning at 10:30 a.m.,
as a school, we proudly and respectfully took part in the Remembrance Day
assembly in the gym. Malika and Dyson
did a beautiful job, representing our class as wreath carriers. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin
with us. . . Lest We Forget.
Happy Remembrance Day weekend
everyone!
Ms. Selimos, Ms.
Holtby, and Ms. Daniels
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