Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Yesterday the Grade 1 and 2 students were invited to the Springside Senior's Drop In Centre for the afternoon. The students had such a great time there and were asking to go back already. We took our power of ten cards and each student was paired with a senior who they taught how to play faceoff, ten up and salute. These games increase awareness of numbers to ten and help in learning addition facts to ten. After teaching, learning and playing math games, the seniors taught the children how to play shuffleboard. We wrapped up the afternoon with some visiting with our friends while having juice and cookies. We had such a great time at the Seniors centre and would like to thank everyone who came out to spend time with us there.

Welcome Back to the 2013-2014 School Year!

Welcome to our classroom blog parents, students and families. We are excited to share school events and classroom activities with you on our blog. Together, as a class, we will try to share what's happening on our blog at least once a week. I will also share school events on the blog, as well as any words of the week once we begin them.

We are counting the days of school up to 100! The grade one and two students are currently on the 15th day of school!

This week is another busy week. We will be celebrating Terry Fox in our school this Friday, September 27th in the afternoon. The school will participate in a run, as well as learn some things about Terry. We will also be having our September assembly this same afternoon. Students of the month will be regognized at this assembly. Stay tuned to hear about our first star for the month of September!

Science Experiment: Elephant Toothpaste

 

Thanks to all our classroom photographers who took the pictures during our experiments!

Science Experiment: The Naked Egg

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Grade 1 Words:
bake
cake
take
game
same
tape
cape
cane
make
name
bonus: ate

Grade 2 Words:
tool
foot
float
flat
ballot
fall
boat
stool
football
stall
coat
mall
bonus: friendly

Monday, May 13, 2013

Welcome back after another weekend of beautiful weather! I hope all the moms had a fabulous Mother's Day!

Thank you to everyone who completed the pre-timeline homework. We are going to start working on them today. The students are very excited! If you have not sent your child's back yet, please complete it and send it back tomorrow as they will be behind in the assignment if they wait any longer!

We have an exciting week this week! We have began a new experiment in science - watch for pictures!

Thursday is the bike rodeo. Please remember to complete all the forms as soon as possible and get them back to us. Bikes and helmets may be dropped off at the school on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. Bike helmets are MANDITORY! We have lots of great prizes for participation, completed checklists and practicing safety on the road. If you would like to join us for a bike ride around town, we will be beginning around 2:00.

Words for this week are listed  below.

Grade 1:
home
rope
joke
rose
hope
note
rode
nose

Grade 2:
out
south
shout
scout
pout
trout
night
sight
flight
bright

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

Grade 1 Words:
cold
gold
sold
told
hold
my
shy
cry
why
guy

Grade 2 Words:
proud
aloud
pound
round
sound
ground
around
found
playground
cloud
allowed