October 31 - November 

What a week! Halloween, winter conditions, lock down practice, fire drill and a whole ton of learning, discovering and exploring with our classroom family. Here is a small look at our week - 

Halloween Learning tasks, challenges and fun - subitizing numbers, creating using shapes, adding numbers together to get a score, authentic writing: making cards, stem challenges - building fences, building pumpkin launchers and building monsters, making patterns, communicating with peers to get answers to a survey and recording in tallies/graphs.

I can use my senses to describe objects/people or things. i can use my senses to give descriptions both orally and in written form. 

We continued our work on enhancing the way we observe people, places and objects through our senses. This week we used monsters as our topic to describe. Students engaged in a shared writing experience where we closely examined a made up example of a monster and then used our senses along with our imagination to describe the monster. 

We then carried this work forward in a game where students were given a monster to describe to a peer using clues with lots of description. Peers actively listened to their partners clues and came up with a guess of which one their partner was describing. Our follow up activity was to design our own monster and complete a simple writing task about their monster. 

I can learn from, with and on the land. 

We took full advantage of the beautiful sunshine and snow to get outside on Friday and have some fun playing, learning and working together. Our challenge was to work together to create a snow structure. Students observed the conditions of the snow, how the sunshine changed the conditions of the snow as well as how the snow accumulated on the land and the water cycle. 

We also had the opportunity to observe the changing conditions of the sky, a jack rabbit that had was adapting to the change in the seasons and  a flock of geese in formation migrating south.  This time on the land was a wonderful way to end our week!

Information and Reminders -

We are looking for small dark blue shoe that has mistakenly been taken and a different shoe left behind.  The shoe circled in red is the one we are looking for. If you can help us out with this little mystery we would appreciate it. 

***Please ensure that all of your child's belongings are labeled with their first names. Please also practice with your child taking off/putting on their outdoor clothing and how to store it so it does not get lost. I encourage students to put their mitt/gloves /toques into the sleeves/hoods of their jackets, or tuck into their boots to ensure they are altogether and do not get lost. 

This week we will be collecting non-perishable food or toiletry items for the Veteran's food bank. If you are able to please send these items to school this week. We will be having a school wide assembly to honor Remembrance Day on Thursday. 

There is no school on Friday, November 11th. 

On November 14th - both grade 1/2 classes will have be involved in a workshop with an educator from the Glenbow Museum on the topic of Inuit - the Land and the People. The educators come to our classroom equipped with artifacts, photographs and all materials needed to ensure the students have the most hands-on and authentic experience possible. This topic is part of the Social studies program.