February 24 to 28

 

This week we welcomed Mrs. Lange to our classroom.  Mrs. Lange is a second year pre-service teacher from St. Mary's University.  This is her final practicum before graduating.  She is really looking forward to working more with our class over the next few months.

We also had an amazing assembly in honour of pink shirt day!  Everyone was amazing and did a great job sharing a message of kindness and caring with the rest of the school!  I will put the video of the classroom book we created to share how we can do one act of kindness in Google Classroom.  We took it out of the assembly in order to accommodate where we were standing during the assembly.

I Can Use Drawing Tools to Create Shapes and I Can Use Paint in Combination with Other Media and Techniques

Mrs. Lange led us through a multi-media art project where students created a background with water colours. Then they created hot air balloons with 2D shapes and coloured it with pencil crayons.  Once finished, students glued the balloons on to the background and added some cotton balls for clouds.

Literacy:

This week we worked with -ng and -nk.

Our new heart words were: could, would, should, or, for

Reminders:

Wednesday, March 3

- Library

Thursday, March 6

- School Council Meeting, see Ms. Calhoun's email for more information

Tuesday, March 18

- Calgary Zoo Field Trip - Please let me know if you're interested in volunteering!

March 20 and 21

- Student Learning Conferences

- NO SCHOOL for students on March 21

March 22 - 30

- Spring Break - NO SCHOOL

Monday, March 31

- First day back from Spring Break

February 17 to 21

This week students enjoyed a special visitor in our classroom.  Harvey the Hound joined us for a body break after the assembly!  

 

I Can Relate How Instructions Impact an Outcome:

This week we started working with coding robots that are on lone to us from the ATA library.  This week we just took the opportunity to figure out how to get them to move where we want them to go.  

Reminders:

Wednesday, February 26

- Library

- Celebration of Learning Assembly

Friday, February 28

- Non-Instructional Day - NO SCHOOL for students

Tuesday, March 18

- Calgary Zoo Field Trip - Please let me know if you're interested in volunteering!

February 10 - 12

 

This week we continued our gymnastics unit in gym.  Students really enjoyed get a chance to go onto the school's climber.  We will have a final day of gymnastics on Thursday.

I Can Interpret 3D Objects / I Can Recognize and Create Symmetry on 2D Shapes

We continued our geometry investigation by exploring the attributes of 3D objects.  We created different 3D objects with toothpicks and playdough.  While doing so, we learned about the attributes of 3D objects - edges, faces, and vertices.

We also created a special Valentine's Day heart after learning about the concept of symmetry.  

Literacy:

This week we added the digraph ch /ch/.

Our new heart words were "walk" and "talk".

Reminders:

Monday, February 17

- Family Day - NO SCHOOL 

Tuesday, February 18 

- Opera Performance - The Witty Squirrel

Wednesday, February 19 

- Flames Give it a Shot  - students without media clearance will watch from the back of the gym.

Wear your Flames Gear, red, or your Ramsay School shirt!

Tuesday, March 18

- Calgary Zoo Field Trip - Please let me know if you're interested in volunteering!

February 3 - 7

 

I Can Investigate Direction, Pathway, and Speed of objects.

This week we worked on our culminating project for our science unit, "Energy".  We have been learning about the movement of animals and objects and how we can influence them.  For our project, we created mini-golf courses.

We started off by researching how mini-golf was played.  We noticed that courses often had themes and thought about how we might incorporate it into our designs.  We sketched out courses and thought about how we could incorporate theme, obstacles, and movement pathways.  We planned what materials we would need and then got to work building.

After we finished building our holes, we set up a course and everyone got a chance to play all of the holes.  We even kept score!  Next week we tally up our scores to see how we all did.

Literacy:

This week we learned about digraphs - two consonants that work together to make one sound.  We have started to read words with the letter patterns ck, th, and sh.

We also added the heart words: we, she, they, their, 

Reminders:

Wednesday, February 12

- Library Book Exchange 

- Valentine's exchange - see email for more details

Thursday, February 13 and Friday, February 14

- Teacher's Convention - NO SCHOOL for students

Monday, February 17

- Family Day - NO SCHOOL 

Tuesday, February 18 

- Opera Performance - The Witty Squirrel

Wednesday, February 19 

- Flames Give it a Shot  - students without media clearance will watch from the back of the gym.

January 20 - 24

 

This week we were treated to a performance by a quartet from the Calgary Philharmonic.  The students really enjoyed hearing familiar songs from movies and video games.

I Can See 2D Shapes in the World Around Me

We took our math learning outside to the playground this week.  We were on the look out for different geometric shapes that can be found in school playground.  Students looked carefully for different shapes and then sketched them into their visual journals.

I Can Locate Letter Keys on a Keyboard

This week we practiced logging onto the Chromebooks and Google Classroom.  After everyone got successfully logged in, we worked on learning the home row through a fun online typing game.  There was a lot of discussion around what was better - speed or accuracy.  

If your child would like to practice typing at home, there is a link to the website we were using in Google Classroom.

Literacy:

This week we continued reviewing short vowel sounds in CCVC and CVCC words.  We were reminded how important it is to look at all letters in a word and to think about how the order changes meaning.  For example, pets and pest.  If we are reading too quickly and read the wrong word, we may not fully understand the meaning of what we are reading.

Reminders:

Monday, January 27

- Report Cards released onto MyCBE

Wednesday, January 29

- Library Book Exchange 

Thursday, January 30

- Yellow Folders due back at school

Friday, January 31

- Non-instructional day - NO SCHOOL for students

January 13 - 17

 

Sorry, I didn't take any pictures this week.  Here's what we did this week:

Math:

We've started learning about shapes over the last few weeks.  We have been learning about the difference between geometric and organic shapes.  We learned proper shape names and have talked about the attributes of geometric shapes.  

Literacy:

We spent the week reviewing vowel sounds.  Next week we will move onto the FLOSS rule.

Science:

We worked on planning out our mini-golf project.  We did some research on the ipads into possible theme ideas and course designs.  We still need some cereal sized boxes for this project.

Social Studies:

This week we planned and completed an opinion piece about what kind of community students would like to live in.

Reminders:

Wednesday, January 22

- Library Book Exchange 

Thursday, January 23

- Movie Music Quartet

Monday, January 27

- Report Cards

Friday, January 31

- Non-instructional day - NO SCHOOL for students

January 6 - 10

 

    Welcome back!  I hope everyone had a restful and relaxing winter break.  It was great to see everyone back at school.

    This week we started working on creative storytelling using loose parts.  Students were given free reign to build a setting and choose any characters they wanted.  Working alone or with a partner, students were then asked to come up with a story they could tell someone else.  As we continue building our storytelling skills in the coming weeks we will also include drawing a picture and writing simple sentences to share our stories.

I Can Create 2D Shapes

This week we started exploring 2D shapes by making them with different manipulatives.  Here are some things that we already know:

*  shapes need to be closed in, otherwise they are just a line

*  there are organic and geometric shapes

*  we can use attributes to sort and classify shapes.

Literacy:

This week we reviewed the short vowel sounds /a/ and /i/.

Reminders:

Wednesday, January 15

- Library Book Exchange 

Friday, January 17

- Clubs

Monday, January 27

- Report Cards