October 24-28

 

Upcoming Dates

• October 31 Halloween – family parade at 1:00 

• November 1 Pajama Day 

• November 7 Photo Retake Day  

• November 10 Remembrance Day Assembly 

• November 11 Remembrance Day: No School

• November 21-27 Book Fair

• November 24-25 Conferences

Artist in Residence

We completed our Artist in Residence program this week! Sharon highlighted line work through the stories of Peter H. Reynolds by contrasting calm and chaotic lines and quiet and loud lines. Students travelled around the room creating the lines with their bodies and then applied their learning with different sized sharpies. This is how our art looks all together! We can't wait for you to see it during our Conferences in November!

Math

In math, we are exploring quantities to 100 in Grade 1 and quantities to 1000 in Grade 2. Students are investigating different ways of representing numbers. Some ways that we have practiced so far are base 10, ten frames, tallies and numerals. This week, we went on a tally hunt throughout our classroom - check it out below!

Language Arts

We have completed our daily word work with a focus on the alphabet! Students have continued to generate words that start with the sound of each letter in the alphabet. In grade 1, we are focussing on applying initial sounds and ending sounds while in Grade 2 we are working on segmenting all sounds we can hear in each word.

We also explored some new montessori materials during Opening Task time and our Daily LA routine. Ask your child how they have used the following materials:

Science

We began discussing colour in Science this week and continued our work with seasons (focusing on Autumn). For colour, students explored and discussed the colour wheel, primary and secondary colours and how colour can related to emotions. Our work with this will continue next week as we dive deeper into emotions when we watch the film Inside Out & examine how colour can represent a variety of emotions.

We also tried a new thinking routine called "PLUSSING!" Plussing is a practice where students add an idea to someone else's work to enhance and share their learning and understanding. Ask your child about how plussing works in our classroom!

Social Studies

Thank you to all of the families who sent in special artifacts with their Family Questionnaires. It was AMAZING to have such rich and exciting discussions around each student and their ancestry. We will continue our artifact sharing next week!