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December 12 - 16th Grade 1 and 2 had another week packed full of engaging learning, exploration and discovery.  Here is a look into our week together -  This week we continued our look at the season of winter, hot and cold and liquids as we dove into some literature on snow and snowflakes. We used the book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin as a starting point . This is a nonfiction biography about a scientist and photographer who was fascinated with photographing snowflakes and their features. Students were inspired by Bentley's ambition to achieve his dream and the discoveries he made and they enjoyed looking at old photos of Bentley and his collections. From there we moved into two poetic story books - Snow by Uri Shulevitz and Snow by Cynthia Rylant where we collected a list of descriptive words for Snow. From there students were challenged to create their own poems using the format of a cinquain poems and words from our list.  Here is an awesome link that students l

December 5 -9th  We had another great week learning, discovering, creating and exploring together.  This is a little snapshot of our week -  i Can Use Different Mediums to Create. i can apply what i know about line, shape and texture to create.  We have been learning about ice in correlation to our unit on liquids and hot and cold in science. We have also been linking this to our look at Nunavut and the diverse features of glaciers and icebergs. Students have been fascinated with the size, shapes and colors of icebergs. This inspired us to look at art created with icebergs  as its subject.  We discovered Lawren Stewart Harris- a Canadian painter who was one of the original founders of the Group of  7. His work inspired us to create our own Iceberg art using chalk pastels.    I Can Appreciate the Diversity of Communities in Canada . I Can Examine and Explain Similarities and Differences in Communities in Canada As we continue to examine the diversity of communities in Canada, students f

November 28 - Dec 2nd Welcome to December! We had a cold but enjoyable week in grade 1 & 2 in room 9. Here is a glimpse into our week - Literacy - We are very fortunate to have Ms Yasin working with students at Ramsay for the next few weeks. Ms Paradis and myself have opted to have our grade 2 readers(Group B)  to work with Ms Yasin on phonics, fluency, reading and writing while we continue this work with the rest of our class. Students in this group will work with Ms Yasin from 8:30 - 9:30 am - Monday - Thursdays so it is important that they do their best to get to school on time. This week this group reviewed vowel graphemes and applied it to their reading and writing.  Group A- my group worked on reviewing short vowels this week as these can be tricky to isolate and identify. We reviewed these phonemes through group and individual work  on reading and writing CVC words. At the end of the week we worked through a short reading passage together, then students practiced independent