March 30th

Please ensure you check the agenda as we have a variety of things coming up.

Today for language we wrote our final OWA (Ontario Writing Assessment) pre-assessment. Both grades this term will be focusing on letter writing.  We will learn the basics of letter writing and the different types there are.

Today for math

Grade one students: practiced their skip counting skills (2's, 5's, 10's) in their math makes sense workbooks.

Grade two students: continued to practice two digit addition using base ten blocks with re-grouping.

For our UOI- Cultures and Traditions:

We are looking at the celebration of Easter. We began an art project for our Arts night display.

Japanese cultural centre trip

Casual day tomorrow 

Autism awareness day - Thursday please wear a blue shirt 

Country brochure information due April 1st 

Summative assessment to go home tomorrow 

Report cards home tonight - please sign and return last page. 

Emails sent over the extra long weekend:

Country Brochure Information

 

-       Students will be assigned a country to research

-       Students will perform research about this country (at home) and bring to class along with small (about the size of a dollar) pictures (4-6) of their country.

o   Students may print out blurbs, bring in books, pamphlets, etc. 

-       They will use the information to create a brochure (in class) about the country 

o   food 

o   clothes

o   religion/traditions

o   sports

o   sightseeing spots 

o   etc. 

-       All information and pictures must be sent in for April 1^st, as we will be starting our brochures in class on this day

 

Alyssa - India 

Adam -  Great Britain 

Ben  - Australia 

Josh - Italy 

Emana - Jamaica 

Aarnav - Brazil

Yashmeen - Peru

Shane - Switzerland 

Himmat - South Korea 

Carrie-Anne - China 

Nicole -  Germany 

Anthony -  Mexico

Medha - France 

Daksh -  Greece

Pranati - Spain

Thea - Cuba

Just a few reminders in regards to our trip tomorrow: 1. please ensure all students are at school by 8:45 am, we load the bus at 9 2. Please send a disposable lunch with your child's name written on it 3. please ensure your child is dressed in FULL dress uniform Thank you,

Easter colours tomorrow - spirit day

Spelling test tomorrow

Summative assessment and brochure project going home tomorrow 

Today we spent the day cheering on our peers against the Maples and watching the dress rehearsal for the highschool Shakespeare play

Temple Visit

Welcome back

Superhero/Princess Day

• No school March 7-18 March Break
• St. Patrick's Spirit Day tomorrow - Green
• Bake sale extended until Friday
• Please send in payment and permission form for the Japanese Cultural Centre due tomorrow 
• Please send in permission form for the temple visit due tomorrow 

PJ Day

• Math test tomorrow
• Spelling journals due tomorrow
• superhero/princess day tomorrow 
• No school March 7-18 March Break
• St. Patrick's Spirit Day Friday 
• Bake sale extended until Friday
• after school squash program forms are due tomorrow 
• Please send in payment and permission form for the Japanese Cultural Centre
• Please send in permission form for the temple visit 

March break camp spots are still available, please contact me if you would like to sign your child up. 

Today we learned about the learner profile of Caring. Students discussed what Caring meant to them and we talked about what IB's idea of caring is:

I care about how other people feel, I help when they need me. I want others around me to be happy.

We then discussed the attitude of empathy and how it complements caring:

Putting myself in someone else's shoes.


We read the story the kissing hand and discussed where and how we saw caring and empathy being shown in the story:

We then made our own lists of how we can be caring friends at home and at school.

Once we completed this activity we added it to our IB binders along with 3 pieces of work from our simple machines unit
The first piece being one that displayed our best work, the second being one the showed we worked really hard on something and the third being one piece we think we need to improve on.

I also printed off a picture of them with their simple machine so they were able to choose that as one of their pieces.

Tomorrow is our math test so students were able to ask questions and finish their review

Cowboy/Cowgirl Day

It was good to see all my cowboys/cowgirls today!

Tomorrow is PJ day if it is not a snow day! Hopefully everyone stays warm and safe tonight!

In math we have been focusing on 3D shapes and 2D shapes. Learning names, vertices/corners, edges, faces, whether or not the shape can roll/stack, which are better to use when building and why. Our test will be on Thursday. The review was sent home today in case there is a snow day tomorrow your student will still have it to study. Please complete two pages and send back tomorrow. 

In our UOI we have been talking about traditions/cultures and many questions have come about religion and God, and how the world is created.  Being a IB school allows for all students to share their beliefs, religions. and cultures. I have asked students to be Open Minded about the other views we are hearing. We have discussed that we have beliefs that differ from others and that is OK, everyone is entitled to having their own opinion/beliefs including ourselves and no one is wrong. I would like them to be able to freely talk about these things in class and research any questions they may have. So please do not be alarmed or shocked if they come home asking some in depth questions. Please help them research and answers these questions and then bring their findings in to share with the class. 

Today we also attended music class with Mr. Andrei mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Today we also attended gym class with Mr. Slyk sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

School closed at 1pm.