April 28th

Language:

Today we worked on our letter writing skills as both grades will be writing a type of letter for their writing assessments this term.

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Music: mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Math:

Students in grade 1 - 
worked on showing half, fair shares, and matching parts

Students in grade 2 -

worked on showing lines of symmetry and looking at pictures of shapes and deciding whether they slid, turned, or flipped.

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
we worked on our recycle, reduce, reuse lap books. We drew, labelled and coloured items that we would reduce, re use and recycle

Agenda

• Spelling test Friday
• No homework tonight
• you can still bring in pledges and permission forms tomorrow morning
• review spelling bee words 

French:http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

Exhibition

Tues April 26th

Tomorrow is casual day as well as a bake sale !!! 

Congratulations to Ben !!! He was the top fundraiser for the school today bringing in $45! He won a sundae day tomorrow for himself as well as a no homework day for our class!!!!

We will cash in on our no homework day Thursday. So parents please keep in mind that students will not be receiving homework on Thursday.

Because Ben was the top student and we raised over $7000 Ben got to choose a teacher to pie in the face. Ben choose Mlle. Jessica!

Monday April 25th

Thanks so much to all the parents for their donations so far!!!  We collected over $4,000 as of today so one of the students got to shave Mr. Palumbo's head!!!

Bake sale Tues, Weds, Thurs

Language:

Today we worked on our spelling words for the week. They are updated on the side of the blog.

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Math:

Students in grade 1 - 
worked on locating things in the classroom similar to shapes found in their book. They also worked on sorting 2D shapes such as triangle, rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, half circle, kidney, and trapezoid based on their attributes.


Students in grade 2 -

worked on using the attributes of a shape to get a set number. For example students were told there were three shapes in a bag. The sides of all the shapes totalled 13. Students were asked what possible shapes they could be. For example:

triangle (3 sides) Hexagon (6) square (4) 3+6+4=13


Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Some fun in gym: 

Unit of inquiry:
we worked on our recycle, reduce, reuse lap books. We made pledges to the Earth, and wrote different ways we can reduce, re-use and recycle.

Agenda

• Spelling test Friday
• Sundae day Weds
• Casual day Weds
• Bakes sale tues, weds, thurs 
• bowling permission forms 
• pledge sheets due
• French:http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

Our Earth Day art from Friday

Two important items for tomorrow

1. Spirit Day -Earth Day colours, blue, green brown
2. Dance party -  snack and juice bar at the dance tomorrow. Prices will start at $1.00


Parents if you are receiving pledges for the bowling trip please send them in as you receive them so our class can be in the running for a pizza party. Students are to be collecting $35 or more each. The class who collects the most will win a pizza party. Each student who raises $35 or more dollars will get to go on a bowling trip next Friday. The money we are collecting/pledging is being used towards new science equipment and gym equipment. 

April 20

So far our class has not brought in any pledges for the Spring Fundraiser =(
Please send in any pledges daily so our class can be in the running. The class who brings in the most money will win a pizza party!

Today the student who brought in the most money got to silly string Ms. Bossetti!!!

So far we have raised $3900 !!!! We are $100 away from getting to shave Mr. Palumbo's head!!!!

Today was Ms. Sterling's last day as she is done her schooling for the summer. We all wrote her lovely thank you notes and gave her a gift! 

Ms. Sterling also had us do a fun activity where we had to write our name on a piece of paper and pass it around so our friends could write something nice about us!

We continued to work on/finish our Earth Day posters for our new UOI

April 19th

Happy Pancake Day!!!

Language:

Today we read the story The Little Pea and discussed what it means to be a balanced learner. Students then completed a page about how they are balanced learners for their IB portfolios.

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Music: mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Math:
Students in grade 1 - 

worked on our measuring the area of different objects using non  standard units such as a piece of paper.
We also worked on deciding which non-standard unit to use to measure different items. Ex. paper clip vs a straw for measuring a foot. Which one would be better and why?

Students in grade 2 -

Learned about a meter stick and the difference between a ruler and a meter stick. We also discussed when we would use a meter stick and when we would use a ruler.

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
We discussed our new UOI about Recycling. Students created posters for Earth day to hang up in our hallway to remind other students the importance of helping save our earth.

Agenda

• Spelling test Friday
• Sundae day Thurs
• Math test Thurs  
• Dance party is the 22nd the date was wrong on the form. 
• complete two pages of Math review and send back TOMORROW
• Spelling journals due Thurs 

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

April 14th

Language:

Today we used our language time to finish writing a letter to our pen pals! We will be sending them our Flat Stanely/Stella adventures from March Break as well as our Flat Stanely/Stella for them to have an adventure with! We are very excited for their return letters! Our pen pals are in Illinois !

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Music: mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Math:
Students in grade 1 - 
worked on our new math unit about measurement! Students in grade one are learning non-standard units of measurement. For example measuring using snap cubes, straws, paper clips, erasers, pencils.

Students in grade 2 -

worked on our new math unit about measurement! Students in grade two are learning standard units of measurement. We learned about CM, how to use a ruler, how to line up the zero. Then we practised measuring different line lengths.

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
Today we finished our Summative assessment presentations:

Agenda

• Spelling test tomorrow 
• Spring fundraiser order forms due tomorrow 
• bring in used batteries 
• Dance party is the 22nd the date was wrong on the form. 

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

Summer Camp

April 12

More of our summative assessments: 

April 11th

Some of our summative assessments presented today: 

Students also worked on their new spelling words and reviewed for their math test tomorrow. 

Students brought home their spelling words tests from previous weeks to be looked over and signed. 

April 6 and 7

Language:

Today we used our language time to begin writing a letter to our pen pals! We will be sending them our Flat Stanely/Stella adventures from March Break as well as our Flat Stanely/Stella for them to have an adventure with! We are very excited for their return letters!

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Music: mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Math:
Students in grade 1 - 
worked on recognizing groups of tens and placing items into groups of tens with ones left over

Students in grade 2 -

worked on counting tens and ones and placing them together to form double digit numbers

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
Over the last couple of days we have been working very hard on our Country brochures:

Agenda

• Math test Tuesday
• summative assessment due April 11th 
• bring in used batteries 
• Spelling test tomorrow 

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

April 4th

Language:

Today we review the parts of a letter and worked on our spelling books

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Music: mrandreisja.blogspot.ca

Math:
Students in grade 1 - 
worked on addition and subtraction stories using teen numbers. We practiced reading and solving them and writing our own.

Students in grade 2 -

worked on subtracting two digit numbers using base ten blocks - with trading in

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
Today we began our country brochure. Students worked on the title page. Writing the name of their country nicely and placing certain items on the front:

Agenda

• cursive book writing grade 1 - pg 85-86, gr.2 pg 68-69
• summative assessment (doll)
• bring in used batteries 
• spelling test friday

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

April 1st

Today we discussed the autism assembly we had yesterday. I was away at a conference and wanted to ensure there were no outstanding questions. At this time I shared with the class the fact that my brother has Autism and asked the students if they had any questions about my brother or Autism for me.

Some students have decided to go home this weekend and research different types of autism. If your child asks you could you please guide them as many questions were asked and the students seemed genuinely interested. I would very much appreciate that!

Language:

Today we used our language time to finish up things from yesterday. We are learning how to write a proper letter. Students learned about the important parts of a letter, heading, greeting, body, closing. They were then given letters and asked to fix/fill in what was wrong or missing.

Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

Math:
Students in grade 1 - 
worked on adding doubles and making addition stories using doubles

Students in grade 2 -

worked on subtracting two digit numbers using base ten blocks - with trading in

Gym: sjaslyk.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:
Today we finished learning about Easter and designing our Incredible eggs from the story we read yesterday. Students also wrote a short writing piece about what they would do if they found an incredible egg.

Agenda

• cursive book writing
• summative assessment 
• bring in used batteries 

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com