February 8-12

Happy Monday!

I need to start by saying.... DENVER WON THE SUPERBOWL!!!!! I might be just a little bit happy about that!! GO BRONCOS!!!

 

Ok now on to more important things!!

Here are the new word wall words for week 19:

*Note that due to the numerous spirit week and 100 day activities, we will be studying these words for the next two weeks.

1. boys
2. girls
3. stopped
4. wanted
5. children

Valentine’s Cards:

Just a reminder that students are welcome to hand out their valentine cards on Friday morning, first block during French class. Please do not send any baked goods due to children with allergies. Any candy send that is pre-packaged will go home with the children and not eaten at school. Thanks for your cooperation.

KINDNESS IS COOLER - Class Project

Wow! Our classroom door and windows are exploding with kindness hearts! I hope that the children continue their acts of kindness even though we stop adding hearts up in our classroom after Monday.

In Gym, we continue to do fitness stations to help improve strength, coordination and agility. Through these and other activities, we continue to work on our fitness goal of performing an activity for 5 minutes in duration without stopping.

In Music, students were introduced to the four instrument families and we explored the percussion family of instruments. Students also listened to a variety of songs and determined their tempo as well interpreted the mood of the music played. Some songs included: Fur Elise, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Fantasia - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, William Tell Overture and Flight of the Bumblebee just to name a few. We added a music station to work stations for the next few weeks so the children can practice playing rhythms and further explore the sounds of the percussion instruments in our class kit. We will also continue to practice rhythm and beat to music.

In Language, our main focus is on recounts. Students will write a recount using sequential words such as First, Next, Then, After, Finally. We will talk about using conjunctions to lengthen sentences and how to use adjectives to describe the nouns they use in their writing. It is a good idea to have your child write regularly at home (e.g. shopping lists, letters to grandma, retell a story they read, write their own adventure etc.).

In Math, we started our unit on 2D shapes. Students learned that tri means 3, quad means 4, octa means 8 etc. to help them remember the names of the 2D shapes. We talked about the number of sides and vertices (corners) each have. We will look for 2D shapes in our environment and we will create Chatter Pix of a shape and describe it using this fun and creative IPad App.

In Science, the students are finished their research projects and will be presenting their information to the class next week. They did a great job! Our next unit will be on Materials, Objects and Everyday Structures. This will link up nicely to our math unit on 2D shapes and the following unit on 3D solids.

Spirit Week Activities:

Monday - Mismatched Monday /School Wide Buddy Reading block 3

Tuesday - Rockstar Day/Drop Everything and Dance - 2:30-3:00pm

Wednesday - School Wide Bingo - block 4

Thursday - Cake Walk in the gym all day

Friday - Outdoor Winter Play Day and Movie

Important Dates:

• 100 Day Activities for all Grade Ones - Tues. Feb. 9th
• Waste-Free Lunch - Wed. Feb. 10th

• Library Book Exchange -  Wed. Feb. 10th
• Ash Wednesday Liturgy - Wed. Feb. 10th at 9:45am
• Cake Walk - Thurs. Feb. 11th
• Nanny Sue February Craft - Thurs. Feb. 11th 1:00-2:00pm
• Family Day - Mon. Feb. 15th - NO SCHOOL
• Skating at Minto - Wed. Feb. 24th 1:00-2:00pm

**We are looking for parent volunteers for Nanny Sue’s February Craft. Please write a note in your child’s agenda if you can join us on Feb. 11th from 1:00-2:00pm. Thanks

The 3rd Annual Cake Walk is taking place on Thursday, February 11th all day in the gym. This is a School Council event that raises money for technology in our school. More information from School Council to follow.

If at any time, you have any questions or concerns, please write me a note in your child’s agenda and I will get back to you.

Have a fabulous week!

Tiffany Lawless