February 1-10

 

Upcoming Important Dates:

• February 14: Valentine's Day 
• Our class will not be handing out class wide Valentine's in an effort to reduce our ecological footprint and paper use. We are instead doing a Secret Valentine Project which we are all super excited for! This will be organized in class. :) 
• February 15: 100th Day of School 
• Join us in celebration for the 100th Day of School by dressing up on theme! 
• February 15: Family Dance 
• Please see notice sent home with details. 
• February 16-17: Teacher's Convention (no school) 
• February 20: Family Day (no school)

Writing & Wellness: Colour Monster Writing 

As a way to explore and discuss our emotions, we completed another Writer's Workshop based off the mentor text titled The Colour Monster! Students then chose an emotion and a correlating colour to write about. We were challenged to use similes and write about a memory to enhance the interest of our writing. Finally, we designed our own monsters and got to paint them with water colour paint! Check out some of our work below: 

Math: Addition & Word Problems 

Room 12 can use addition strategies! We've been investigating and practicing a variety of strategies to add numbers together. Grade 1s are focussing primarily on number combinations to 20 while Grade 2s are focussing on number combinations to 100. Some even beyond 100! 

Learning new math games makes adding fun and also teaches us really cool math concepts like commutative property and inverse relationships between operations! 

Word Work: Digraphs Continued

We've continued learning about digraphs and have started to challenge ourselves to apply them to our spelling when we are building words or writing in our journals! Some new digraphs we have learned in February are: PH, NG, and GH. We explored these new digraphs specifically mostly as readers and will continue to learn about them in Grades 1-2 before we are expected to include them in our writing/spelling.