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 loved creating their own hands on snowflakes through computer technology - https://snowflake.nature.ca/drawing







We also continued our exploration of arctic animals. Students learned the importance of digital literacy and citizenship and practiced logging into the chrome books through their school email/passwords, then accessed our google classroom to find resources on arctic animals. They are becoming quite proficient at this and have gained confidence to navigate their way. This task also gave them the understanding of how to find information on subjects through different media. 






Upcoming Events

Monday, December 19 -

  • Red /Green Day (Students are encouraged to wear Red or Green to school)

Tuesday, December 20-

  • Holiday Hat Day (Students are encouraged to wear their favourite holiday hat to school)

Wednesday, December 21-

  • Holiday/Fun Sweater Day (Students are encouraged to wear their favourite holiday or fun sweater to school)

Thursday, December 22

  • PJ Day (Students can wear pajamas to school. We will be celebrating literacy on December 22, so please bring a favourite book)
  • Last Day of Classes before Winter Break – Best Wishes for the Holidays from the Staff at Ramsay School.




















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