Division 7 is now studying the human body and learning about all the different organs. We have now completed the heart and the lungs.
In Math we have covered place value and addition with and without regrouping. If you have a chance to review these with your child that would be great. Hopefully they remember to tell you that they have to start at the ones no matter how many digits the numbers are that they are adding. We have just started subtraction of two and three digit numbers and are learning that they sometimes need to 'borrow' so that they can subtract. This is a difficult concept for some so we will be focusing on this for awhile. Practicing all basic addition and subtraction facts would be helpful to make these next steps easier. Thanks for your support with this.
Ask your child about the healthy living stations we are doing with our big buddies. ??? The students are rotating through 6 different stations (food inventions, serving sizes for different food groups, sorting food into food groups, creating an exercise routine that they lead the classes in, learning how to read /hopefully start to understand food labels and 'moo-gamy' plus food riddles). This week went very well and everyone was engaged in their activities. Thanks to Miranda for helping out!
Remember that there is no school for students on Monday as it is a Pro D Day. We will not be doing spelling this week as it is a short week but will resume on May 10th. I forgot to hand back their spelling quiz on Friday but will do so on Tuesday.
Hopefully you all received the Scientist of the Day information sheets. If you didn't or have any questions please just contact me.
New Just Right Reading went home on Friday. Please ensure that your child brings these to school daily. Thanks. I have updated the calendar on this blog (sorry) forgot to do this sooner!
Have a great weekend. Sheralyn
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Friday, April 21, 2017
April 21st
Finally a sunny day - hope you all are enjoying today and evening as it isn't suppose to last :(!
This week was short but busy. We had our second rotation of FALCON FUN on Thursday morning, this week the weather was better and learning and fun was had by all! Then Thursday afternoon we went to see The Lion King at the ACT. Thanks so much to Adam, Gianna, Angelina, Ashton, Mason, E.J. and Sienna's parent or grandparent for driving and making this field trip possible. The students all really enjoyed the play specifically the music, costumes, background/props, singing and action of the story. They also really enjoying getting autographs after the play.
Next week we are back to our regular spelling - words home on Monday and quiz on Friday. Sorry with the confusion last week (but we thought it made sense with two short weeks).
This week was short but busy. We had our second rotation of FALCON FUN on Thursday morning, this week the weather was better and learning and fun was had by all! Then Thursday afternoon we went to see The Lion King at the ACT. Thanks so much to Adam, Gianna, Angelina, Ashton, Mason, E.J. and Sienna's parent or grandparent for driving and making this field trip possible. The students all really enjoyed the play specifically the music, costumes, background/props, singing and action of the story. They also really enjoying getting autographs after the play.
Next week we are back to our regular spelling - words home on Monday and quiz on Friday. Sorry with the confusion last week (but we thought it made sense with two short weeks).
Thursday, April 13, 2017
April 13th
This was a short but busy week! We did start spelling on Wednesday and will have the quiz next Friday. With all the rain we have had we did a rainy day wash in art. For those of you that haven't been at the school this is our new bulletin board. 
Div. 7 also did a great job on their pastel Easter eggs! Every one looks amazing and all are very unique! Do stop by the class to see these as they look even better up
Falcon Fun is Thursday morning and our field trip to the Act is in the afternoon. We will need all the drivers that have signed up and we will be leaving the school by 12 so if you could please be here by 11:55. Several students still have not paid so please send the money in on Tuesday. Thanks!
Happy Easter Everyone - hope you have a great long weekend! Hopefully the sun will come out to stay for a couple days!
Div. 7 also did a great job on their pastel Easter eggs! Every one looks amazing and all are very unique! Do stop by the class to see these as they look even better up
Falcon Fun is Thursday morning and our field trip to the Act is in the afternoon. We will need all the drivers that have signed up and we will be leaving the school by 12 so if you could please be here by 11:55. Several students still have not paid so please send the money in on Tuesday. Thanks!
Happy Easter Everyone - hope you have a great long weekend! Hopefully the sun will come out to stay for a couple days!
Friday, April 7, 2017
April 7th
This week we finished our Nutrition unit and I was very impressed with how much all the students have learned. Please look over their booklet with them to see what we have focused on and to also review this important information. We are now moving onto our study of the human body.
Yesterday was our first FALCON FUN and despite the yucky weather all the students seemed to really enjoy their different stations.
Thanks for signing up on the portal for our field trip on April 20th. Please send in the money as soon as possible. It looks like we have enough drivers - thank you in advance!
FYI - we have had a case of lice in the classroom again so please be checking child's head regularly as the soon it is dealt with the better (never easy but better).
Yesterday was our first FALCON FUN and despite the yucky weather all the students seemed to really enjoy their different stations.
Thanks for signing up on the portal for our field trip on April 20th. Please send in the money as soon as possible. It looks like we have enough drivers - thank you in advance!
FYI - we have had a case of lice in the classroom again so please be checking child's head regularly as the soon it is dealt with the better (never easy but better).
We have had some creative building during Explorations!
We have tentatively planned our walk to Starbucks for our free hot chocolate for Wednesday morning right after recess (10:25 am) so if anyone would like to join us you are more than welcome. We do have 4 adults for Div. 7 and 8 so we have enough but you are free and want to join us please come talk to me Monday or Tuesday.
With Easter just around the corner we have two 4 day weeks so we will be doing spelling but won't start until Wednesday and the quiz will be the following Friday. So don't expect the words until Wednesday.
Have a great weekend.
We have tentatively planned our walk to Starbucks for our free hot chocolate for Wednesday morning right after recess (10:25 am) so if anyone would like to join us you are more than welcome. We do have 4 adults for Div. 7 and 8 so we have enough but you are free and want to join us please come talk to me Monday or Tuesday.
With Easter just around the corner we have two 4 day weeks so we will be doing spelling but won't start until Wednesday and the quiz will be the following Friday. So don't expect the words until Wednesday.
Have a great weekend.
Friday, March 31, 2017
March 31
Many of you may have seen this on Facebook but here is our Courage Book...
Hopefully you have already seen our field trip notice for the Lion King at the ACT. If you haven't checked and filled out the information on the portal please do so as soon as possible. Thanks!
Div. 7 & 8 parents/grandparents are amazing! We made over $500.00 at our bake sale for the SPCA!
Scholastic orders went home but I forgot to include the due date, it is next Thursday, April 6th.
We started new explorations this week which the students are excited about especially using the Ipads or computer to do some coding! I have added this link on the blog under useful links.
Spelling next week will be a review week, it will include all short vowel words so if you wanted to start practicing this weekend you could review the words from previous word lists.
Friday, March 10, 2017
March 10th
Thanks to all of you for sending in baked goods for our SPCA fundraiser! We are so lucky to have your support and help whenever we ask. Special thanks to Mason, Ashton, Averyelle, Nathan and Sienna's moms for helping to organize and sell all of these treats! Speaking of bake sale - we made close to $500.00. We had a great math lesson of sorting, counting money and then adding the totals together! We will need some parents after the break to re-count and roll the coins.
Thank you to our parent/grandparent drivers for taking us to/from skating. It's exciting to see how much the children have improved since our first skating in the fall.
I am not sure you all had a chance to check out our buddy activity that we did based on Martin Luther King so wanted to share this photo! We have a Dream!
The permission for our field trip to the ACT Theater will be coming out after Spring Break, we will need parent drivers for this trip on Thursday, April 20th (leaving the school at 12:00), returning around home time.
I didn't send home the report cards today, my apologies, with our Club RED celebration it was a very busy day and they got buried on my desk. Our club RED celebration was a big success and Div. 7 came in second place so we will be planning a walking field trip to Starbucks for hot chocolate!
Hope you all have a fun and relaxing spring break. I am looking forward to going to Alberta to spend some time with my parents.
Thank you to our parent/grandparent drivers for taking us to/from skating. It's exciting to see how much the children have improved since our first skating in the fall.
I am not sure you all had a chance to check out our buddy activity that we did based on Martin Luther King so wanted to share this photo! We have a Dream!
The permission for our field trip to the ACT Theater will be coming out after Spring Break, we will need parent drivers for this trip on Thursday, April 20th (leaving the school at 12:00), returning around home time.
I didn't send home the report cards today, my apologies, with our Club RED celebration it was a very busy day and they got buried on my desk. Our club RED celebration was a big success and Div. 7 came in second place so we will be planning a walking field trip to Starbucks for hot chocolate!
Hope you all have a fun and relaxing spring break. I am looking forward to going to Alberta to spend some time with my parents.
Friday, February 24, 2017
February 24th
PAC Treat Days next Monday and Tuesday - Chips and Popsicles $1
Please remember to have your child complete their Club RED calendar if they are reading each day and you should also be initialing each square. Completed calendars (with their names on them) should be returned at the end of next week. Monday the 6th at the latest. Our celebration will be March 10th when your child should wear red!
Monday we had our SPCA visit which focused on Kindness. In our Poetry and More books today we added a sheet that is homework based on what we learned about how to act around a stray dog. Please ensure your child does this and discuss it with them as this is a very valuable lesson. Thanks
We will be having our bake sale on Wednesday, March 8th. We are hoping that every student from both Div. 7 & 8 can bring in baked goodies or treats of some kind and we will also need some parents to help out with the sales at recess and lunch. Also on Thursday at recess if we have any leftovers.
A few of you have still not signed up for conferences next week so please do so asap. Please note that there is an early dismissal on Thursday (11:00) and there is no school Friday except for conferences. There will be no spelling next week due to the conferences.
100 Day was a success! I was so impressed with all the creative 100 projects that the students brought in! Ms Affleck came and did a cool lesson based on the book The Hundred Pound Problem. The students worked in partners to show their thinking and how they thought the problem could be solved. We also had 100 day stations so they rotated from our class where we did 100 actions, to Mrs. Roberts for a 100 Building Structures and then Mrs. Hutchins for math games. Please note we are trying to collect 100 cans to give to the food bank so if you could donate that would be great!
Some of you maybe noticed that I am now marking words in their spelling wrong if they have a capital letter when it isn't needed. We have worked on this extensively so feel that this might help them to realize the importance of only using upper case letters when needed.
Our skating field trip on March 9th went out on the portal this afternoon. We do need parent drivers - thank you in advance. This is our last skating for the year!
Please remember to have your child complete their Club RED calendar if they are reading each day and you should also be initialing each square. Completed calendars (with their names on them) should be returned at the end of next week. Monday the 6th at the latest. Our celebration will be March 10th when your child should wear red!
Monday we had our SPCA visit which focused on Kindness. In our Poetry and More books today we added a sheet that is homework based on what we learned about how to act around a stray dog. Please ensure your child does this and discuss it with them as this is a very valuable lesson. Thanks
We will be having our bake sale on Wednesday, March 8th. We are hoping that every student from both Div. 7 & 8 can bring in baked goodies or treats of some kind and we will also need some parents to help out with the sales at recess and lunch. Also on Thursday at recess if we have any leftovers.
A few of you have still not signed up for conferences next week so please do so asap. Please note that there is an early dismissal on Thursday (11:00) and there is no school Friday except for conferences. There will be no spelling next week due to the conferences.
100 Day was a success! I was so impressed with all the creative 100 projects that the students brought in! Ms Affleck came and did a cool lesson based on the book The Hundred Pound Problem. The students worked in partners to show their thinking and how they thought the problem could be solved. We also had 100 day stations so they rotated from our class where we did 100 actions, to Mrs. Roberts for a 100 Building Structures and then Mrs. Hutchins for math games. Please note we are trying to collect 100 cans to give to the food bank so if you could donate that would be great!
Some of you maybe noticed that I am now marking words in their spelling wrong if they have a capital letter when it isn't needed. We have worked on this extensively so feel that this might help them to realize the importance of only using upper case letters when needed.
Our skating field trip on March 9th went out on the portal this afternoon. We do need parent drivers - thank you in advance. This is our last skating for the year!
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