Spring Break!

Mar 21

Thank you to all the parent who came to conferences and shared in their child's learning. 

School resumes on Monday, April 1.  Enjoy the break!

Math Problem Solving and Subtraction

This week we have been using CUBES as a strategy to help us remember all of the steps we need to take in order to solve a word problem. 

We have also been reading our problems carefully looking for the math vocabulary words that tell us what we need to do in order to solve the problem. 

Or Addition? 

 Circle of Courage Clubs: will be starting the first Friday back after spring break and will be running until May 24th.

 “No-Waste Wednesday:"The Green Team is working hard to promote reducing our Carbon Footprint by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. We will be having our first “No-Waste Wednesday” (aka Litter-less lunch) on Wednesday, March 20^th. We encourage kids to bring no prepackaged food to school and to be creative in using only reusable or recyclable containers to pack their snacks and lunch. After this Wednesday, these “No-Waste Wednesdays” will occur once per week for the remainder of the year. We will be weighing the impact of this initiative in Green Team Club by looking at the amount of landfill garbage we are able to reduce for the months of March, April, May and June.

Check out this quick video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4FHuEqa5s

Just a quick friendly reminder that we are still collecting plastic milk jug, water bottle and juice bottle/carton lids to use for our Green Team Club recycled art project. Please continue to send in with your child, in order to ensure that we have enough combined to make a wonderful art piece for our school! We will continue to collect these plastic lids until the week after Spring Break April 5^th,2019.

The Green Team Club

Upcoming dates:

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break
Apr 1st - First day back after the break

Apr 5, 12, 26, May 3, 10 and 24 - Circle of Courage clubs 

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 dentist presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

Apr 26th - Story book Theatre 

Week of March 11 - 15

This week in writing students wrote an original story based in the Arctic.  We will use this story as a base line as they explore story elements such as developing strong characters, creating an interesting beginning, describing the setting, setting a problem and having a solution within an Arctic story.    This week we focussed on describing a character using powerful words.   

In Inquiry students continued to work on their animal research and began putting the information they gathered into a google slide presentation. We also began to work through the design thinking process  to design a thermos that will keep an ice cube from melting. Ask your child about their hypothesis and the type of insulation they are going to use to keep the ice cube from melting.

In math students began a tee shirt investigation which is challenging them to think about place value while applying our double digit addition and subtraction skills.  Please continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts to twenty at home.  

 Conferences: This week the conference book system opened. If you haven't had a chance yet please take some time to sign up for your child's student led conference.

From The Green Team
 “No-Waste Wednesday:"The Green Team is working hard to promote reducing our Carbon Footprint by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. We will be having our first “No-Waste Wednesday” (aka Litter-less lunch) on Wednesday, March 20^th. We encourage kids to bring no prepackaged food to school and to be creative in using only reusable or recyclable containers to pack their snacks and lunch. After this Wednesday, these “No-Waste Wednesdays” will occur once per week for the remainder of the year. We will be weighing the impact of this initiative in Green Team Club by looking at the amount of landfill garbage we are able to reduce for the months of March, April, May and June.

Check out this quick video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4FHuEqa5s

Just a quick friendly reminder that we are still collecting plastic milk jug, water bottle and juice bottle/carton lids to use for our Green Team Club recycled art project. Please continue to send in with your child, in order to ensure that we have enough combined to make a wonderful art piece for our school! We will continue to collect these plastic lids until the week after Spring Break April 5^th,2019.

The Green Team Club

Upcoming dates:

Mar 21 and 22 - Conferences

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 dentist presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

March 8

March 8

This week in art we examined the artwork of Canadian artist, Ted Harrison.  We noticed that he used bright colours, shapes and lines to separate each colour.  We then used his artistic style to create a background for the arctic animals we are researching.  Lastly we added the silhouette of their animal.  

 

This week in writing, we continued learning about arctic stories and began to independently identify the characters,  setting, problem, solution, lesson learned, powerful words and if there was an element of magic. 

In Inquiry, we worked in groups to begin creating Arctic food chains and learned about the animals that are important to the Arctic ecosystem and what might happen if an animal became extinct. Then we selected an animal to research and began to gather information about our animal. Soon we will be using the information to create a google slide presentation.

In Math, we used CUBES as a tool to help us solve double digit word problems. Here are a couple of problems you can try at home with your child.

Gwen has 57 marbles. 43 are big and the rest are small. How many marbles are small?

There were 46 nickels in the jar. 11 of them were taken out. How many nickels are left in the jar?

Mike has 90 ribbons and Hope has 24 ribbons. How many more ribbons does Mike have than Hope?

1) Conferences: This week the booking system for conferences opened. If you haven't had a chance yet please take some time to sign up for your child's conference.  Question forms will be coming home next week.  

Upcoming dates:

Mar 21 and 22 - Conferences

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th -Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

February 28

Today we had Pink Shirt Day. We participated in an assembly then designed pink shirts to show how we can help stop bullying by showing kindness instead.

In writing, we completed our final copy of our poem of choice and our February independent writing sample.  We then posted them to IRIS and created a personal writing goal. Please take some time to view your child's work and discuss their goal. 

We are now starting to learn more about Arctic/Inuit stories and legends and the different elements these stories contain.   We will be working towards writing our own arctic story. Here is one of the stories we watched.

In Inquiry, we researched 6 topics  (Weather, Land/Geography, Wildlife/Animals, Shelter, Iqaluit, Transportation) to learn some basic facts about the Arctic and life in the Arctic. 

In math we continued to explore double digit addition and subtraction. We learned how to use the cubes tool below to help us work through a word problem. Some students would benefit  from continued practice with double digit subtraction and checking that we are adding and subtracting basic facts to 20 accurately. 

Upcoming dates:

March 1st - No school due to professional development
Mar 5th - Evergreen Theatre

Mar 6th - Book Truck

Mar 21-22 - Conferences
Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th -Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due professional development