RamsayRowland

October 24 - 27th  Another week has come and gone as we near the end of October! It is hard to believe that we have been in school 8 weeks already.  Here is a look into some of our daily/weekly activities: Soft Entry - We usually start our day with either literacy or numeracy tasks which are student choice and range from reading in pairs to math games, building oral stories, and literacy tasks centered around grapheme/phonemes or letter combinations that we have been working on.  This week students had an opportunity to read/write around the room (find sight words hidden around the room, read/ write and use the words in a sentence); matching pictures with beginning sounds, read CVC(consonant/vowel/consonant) words, and find the picture and record word; draw and label pictures of Fall related items, roll and read words .  ; Letter Work: In the past number of weeks we have works on the following letter/sounds -  Group A : s, a, t, i, m., p, o, n,  b, c, g, d,...

October   17-21st We had another wonderful week of learning, exploring, creating and connecting! Here is a glimpse at our week: I can say the number sequence 0-100 and count and organize counting collections either by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. I can represent this collection with a numeral, set, 10 frame and determine whether the number is even or odd. This week we spent time exploring counting collections. This is a structured opportunity for students to count a collection of objects, determine how to organize the collection and identify how they count. These activities allow students to build on counting skills such as one to one correspondence, cardinality, skip counting and grouping.  I can explain my reasoning for my choices. I can tell an oral story. I can identify my emotions and strategies to help me heal. I can learn what a list is and work with a group to create a list of describing words based on my senses.  A few weeks back we read the book, Trudy's Healin...

  October 11 - 14th Wow! What a wonderful busy, exciting week! We definitely packed it all in and took full advantage of the amazing fall weather and opportunities to learn on, from and with the land and our place.  Here is a glimpse of our week -  Field Trip - Bow Habitat:  Exploring the properties of water and the importance of water for living things. Our field trip to the Bow Habitat was an exciting learning adventure which allowed us to learn from experts on the properties of water and how the fish hatchery maintains safe, sustainable water to hatch 1000000's of native fish every year. Some of the activities we participated in were - mystery boxes (to determine the property of water), mock ice fishing (to learn about some of the different species of fish in Alberta), experimenting with different materials to test water filters, touring the aquariums and displays, touring the fish hatchery and feeding the fish, and our day finished with a nature walk where we use...

  October 3-6th I hope that you all have been enjoying this amazing fall weather that we have been experiencing.  Our class has been incredibly grateful for the sunshine and  beautiful gifts of the season.  Here is a glimpse into last week: I can identify and explore different shades of color found in natural and manmade materials. I can differentiate between warm and cool colors. I can find colors while out on the land.  Students in Ms. Paradis' class and our class partnered up with sample swatches of warm colors to see what colors they could identify in nature and how earth's natural colors provides palettes for us to admire, create and use.  I can identify and create repeating and growing patterns. I can express the difference between the types of patterns. I can identify the core of a pattern and the number of times the core repeats.  Students have been immersed in different ways to look at pattern and in building patterns using different materials...

September 26- 29th This week was packed with some important learning to honor and raise awareness around Orange Shirt Day/National Truth and Reconciliation. Our work, this week was to develop an understanding about how in the past, Indigenous children and their families were forced to give up who they were to fit in yet never truly belonged. Through literature, oral stories and discussions we took action and steps to learn, connect and take a stand toward reconciliation. One story we centered our work around was  Nicola Campbell’s book  Shi-Shi-Etko  as it is gentle way to discuss Residential schools.  This beautiful story is about the four days before a young Indigenous girl must leave her family and go to residential school. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, share valuable teachings that they want her to remember, while Shi-shi-etko carefully gathers her memories to remind her of home. After reading the book we then spent time honoring our own ...

September    19-22nd I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful start to Autumn and the gifts that this season brings to us. I would like to thank those families who were able to drop by our open house, it was so good to meet and connect with many of you and let your child shine and share their learning environment along with some of the projects we have been working on. If you were unable to attend on Friday and would like an opportunity to come in to the school or touch base with me, please email me.  This past week was another great one where we were packed with new experiences, building on our own sense of our identity as individuals and a group, as well as enjoyment.  Here is a glimpse into some of the components of this past week: I can decide to be active. I can understand the basic rules of games and fair play. I can show cooperation within small and large groups.  We were very fortunate to have had our soccer residency this past week. Students learned b...