Feb 22-25

It is hard to believe that we are already coming up on the end of the month.  Time flies when you are busy learning.  Have a look at what we have been up to:

This week our Social Studies work has been focused on building relationships and creating a sense of community in our classroom and our school.  We decided that one thing that we can do to make others feel like they belong is to do a random act of kindness.  We read a great story called "In the Great Meadow."  We decided that we would share our kindness and spread some joy through making bookmarks.  Students brainstormed ideas for messages and created unique designs for their bookmarks.  When they were complete, we gave them to Ms. Mansey in the Learning Commons for students to take when they come to sign out a book.  We hope that other readers in our school will enjoy having a special bookmark when they choose a new book.

Wednesday was our Pink Shirt Day event.  We read a book called “Pink is for Boys”, which is about how boys and girls like all the different colours and many different things.  We talked about how we can show appreciation and respect for each other.  It is important to stand up for yourself and for others, but to do it in a positive and supportive way.  We created self-portraits using mirrors to do careful drawings of our own features to represent and celebrate our looks and our personal styles.  We also decorated our door with messages of kindness.  We created our messages on keys with the message "Keys to Kindness".

This week’s Math has been all about finding quick and efficient ways to solve addition equations.  Grade one students are continuing to practice their double additions and adding 9 to a number. Students are becoming quick and flexible with their addition strategies.

Grade two’s have also been working on strategies for addition.  This week we worked on how to do two digit addition with regrouping using the standard algorithm.  For some students, this is new learning.  Other students are familiar with this work, but need to record their equations with standard notation in order to become more proficient and accurate.

In gym we began our unit on gymnastics.  Students worked this week on the mats, learning a variety of balances and ways to move with control across the space.  We practiced balancing on different parts of the body and developing our strength to hold a balanced pose.  We tried moving through the space by skipping, hopping, jumping side to side, and rolling across the mat in a number of different ways.  We will continue with gymnastics for the next couple of weeks, so please ensure that your child is dressed in comfortable clothing that allows them to participate with gymnastics activities and equipment safely. (no skirts or tights please)

We also celebrated the 100th Day of School today!  We had fun doing a probability activity where students flipped a quarter 100 times to see how many times they would get heads, and how many times they would get tails.  We also read a poem of 100 words. 

Upcoming Events

Monday Feb 28 - Home Reading

Wednesday Mar 2 - Library Exchange

Thursday Mar 3 - Library Exchange

Friday Mar 4 - Celebration of Learning

Saturday Mar 5 - Booking opens for conferences

Thurs Mar 10 - Conferences 4:30-7:30

Friday Mar 11 - No School for students - Conferences 8:00-Noon

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