Friday, Feb. 27, 2015

Highlights

There was a substitute in for Mrs. Diduch today.

Ms. Bain’s class:  Ms. Dixon (student teacher) came to visit us this afternoon.

Reminders

Multicultural Night is coming up in March.  Students are invited on their own time, to create a poster to represent the event. The theme for the poster is “Voices around the World” Be creative!!! These will need to be completed before the end of February.

Homework

Reading- Can you summarize or retell the story?  Are there any words you do not understand?  How can you find out the meaning of unknown words?

Ask me about

How many different ways can you add numbers to make 10?  (e.g., 3+7=10, 2+7+1=10, 4+4+2=10)

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015

Highlights

There was a substitute teacher in for Mrs. Diduch today.

Ms. Bain’s class:  We read the notes in our Kindness bags!

Reminders

Ms. Bain's class:  Scholastic book orders due Mar. 4 (cheque or cash)

Multicultural Night is coming up in March.  Students are invited on their own time, to create a poster to represent the event. The theme for the poster is “Voices around the World” Be creative!!! These will need to be completed before the end of February.

Homework

Spelling quiz tomorrow on this week’s word list:  one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, them, these. 

Reading

Ask me about

Ms. Bain’s class:  What did we write about today?  (The topic was, “What do you think teachers do when they are not at school?”)  Many interesting ideas were generated!  

Mrs. Diduch:  What did you do in Science today?  What did you learn about touch?

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Highlights

It was pink shirt day!  Our school was a sea of pink today as a way to show students and staff are against bullying. 

Reminders

Multicultural Night is coming up in March.  Students are invited on their own time, to create a poster to represent the event. The theme for the poster is “Voices around the World” Be creative!!! These will need to be completed before the end of February.

Homework

Today’s spelling words:  nine, ten, them, these

Please practice writing each word 5 times with your best printing!  There will be a spelling quiz on Friday.

Reading

Ask me about

Ms. Bain:  Are you excited to open your kindness bag tomorrow and read the notes the class wrote?

Mrs. Diduch:  What are Moccasins? 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Highlights

Ms. Bain: We put a picture on Iris today.

Mrs. Diduch:  We are mastering our doubles Math facts and played an awesome game. Look in the homework folders for your home copy to play. Cut up number cards 1-10 and pot in a cup to draw from. Your child can teach you how to play.

Reminders

Pink Shirt Day tomorrow- wear pink to support anti-bullying! Sorry for the typo!

•    March 19-20: Student Led Conferences

•    Multicultural Night is coming up in March.  Students are invited on their own time, to create a poster to represent the event. The theme for the poster is “Voices around the World” Be creative!!! These will need to be completed before the end of February.

Homework

Spelling: Spelling List #12 was sent home. Practice sounding and printing today's words: Five, Six, Seven, Eight.

Home Reading: Please record your daily home reading on the blue Reading Log. Keep this log in your purple folder. 

Ask me about

Ms. Bain: What is Iris?

Mrs. Diduch:  What makes a fish a fish?

Please Note Correction:

There was a typo on the Blog. Pink Shirt Day is Wednesday, February 25th! Please wear pink tomorrow!

Monday, February 23, 2015

Highlights

Ms. Bain: We learned about colour transfer during an art activity with tissue paper and water.

Mrs. Diduch:  We finished our colour transfer art and we started “Making Words” During Daily five.

Reminders

•    February 26: Pink Shirt Day

•    March 19-20: Student Led Conferences

•    Multicultural Night is coming up in March.  Students are invited on their own time, to create a poster to represent the event. The theme for the poster is “Voices around the World” Be creative!!! These will need to be completed before the end of February.

Homework

Spelling: Spelling List #12 was sent home today. Practice sounding and printing today's words: one, two, three, four.

Home Reading: Please record your daily home reading on the blue Reading Log. Keep this log in your purple folder. 

Ask me about

Ms. Bain: What does the word transfer mean?

Mrs. Diduch:  What is the counting on strategy we discussed in math? How many words can you make from the letters “a b s t l”?