RamsayRowland

  June 17-21 It is hard to believe that this is the last full week of school for 2023/24! Here is a glimpse into some of the things we worked on this week -  Literacy: We enjoyed the book, Beastly Puzzles by Rachel Poliquin and then created our own animal riddles after finding facts in nonfiction books on Epic books. Then we utilized the skills we learned about google slides and created a riddle slide show to share with our peers. Students had a great deal of fun sharing these with one another. Please have your child show you their riddle - it can be found by logging into slides on their google accounts.  Math - students have been learning about fractions - how to describe them, represent  and compare them and how to combine them into wholes. Here is a link that students can use to apply their learning to -  https://toytheater.com/category/teacher-tools/virtual-manipulatives/fraction-manipulatives/ This week we have also reviewed what we know about measuring - using nonstandard measure

  June 10 -14th Here are a few of the animal wire sculptures we created last week while at the Leighton Center -  This week we worked very purposely on a couple projects which we can not disclose as of yet or it would ruin the surprise! Students were very keen to show their love and care and put a great deal of heart and joy into these projects. (more information to come). A very Happy Father's Day to all the Dads of all kinds out there! We value all that you do and appreciate you! This week we also wrapped up our animal research google slide presentation. This was a major project that we have worked on for the last couple weeks that encompassed learning intentions from  literacy, social studies, and science. If your child has not shared their project with you - please log into their cbe google account with them and view it and have them explain their learning. They are all very proud of these projects and would love to show them off! In Math we began our look at fractions : here a

  June 3 - 7th Leighton Art Center Field trip -    Echo Hill View Learning About A.C. and Barbara Leighton and their life accomplishments and dreams to educate  Heading out to visit some of the feature of the Property Antler Station - Antlers, skulls, bones, teeth, owl pellets and scat! Sketching Lesson - what a view! Heading up to the Main Home/Museum  Visiting the home and viewing some of the amazing artwork -   Heading Out to Visit Echo Hill -  Making Art - Wire Sculpture Animals Fun Outside  Reflections on our Adventure -  A big Thank You to all our volunteers for this trip and all year! We really appreciate and value you! From Ms Mandin -  Grade 2: As the school year draws to a close, I wanted to share the exciting musical progress our students have made in May. Here's a summary of what we have been working on: Our grade 2 students have been challenging themselves with note reading and playing. We've concentrated on the song "Icka Backa", which uses notes C, E, G