Thursday, November 14, 2019

Today, after IGNITE, we spent time with Mrs. Kinsman reading 'Wishtree', all students are truly enjoying the story time and drawing what they imagine the Wishtree to be.

We continued with our independent writing.  We shared with our fellow students and worked on adding detail to our pictures and writing.  In our writing we added detail by thinking about the 5 Ws: who, what, when, where, why.  It's great to hear and read about all of the neat experiences that our students have had.

In the afternoon we had Mr. Kelly joined us for an Art Lesson.  He taught us about all of the different types of lines (can your child name a few?) and read the story "ish" by Peter Reynolds.  Mr. Kelly tells so many funny stories and he always has us laughing.  We did a guided draw of a robot using squares, rectangles and triangles.

We also continued to work on 2D and 3D shapes in math.  Ask your child if they can name shapes around your home.  Is the shape 2D or 3D?

Please remember to label your child's belongings.  We have had many winter items and food containers left behind at the end of the day.

See you tomorrow!

              

              

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Today Summer and Autumn rooms had baby visits and learned about our baby milestones and had lots of time for students to ask questions about our beautiful babies.

We also continued to make as many words as possible from the letters N-O-P-D-S...students are getting very good at working together to make one, two, three and four letter words.  Ask your child what the magic word is.

As we work towards building on our writing skills, today we spent some time doing independent writing.  We wrote about "What is your favourite vacation, trip or place?"  Students were focussed and enthusiastic to write and share their ideas.

In the afternoon, our student teachers led us in a lesson on 'My Heart Map'.  We chose the 7 most important things/places/people in our lives and began to create a personal Heart Map. It is a great way to learn more about each other.

In Math we are learning all about shapes...how many 2D shapes can your child name?  3D shapes?
We will be working towards comparing and describing these shapes and identifying where they are in our school community.

Enjoy your evening.

REMINDERS:
-Pointsetta/Flower order forms are due Nov 20, 2019.

Tuesday, November 12

Welcome back! 

I hope you all had a fantastic long weekend! 

We certainly wasted no time in getting back to our studies. Firstly, we began our day with Ignite, as is the norm. However, those of us in the Winter group with Ms. Disher had a baby visit for our Roots of Empathy program first thing in the morning. That's never a bad way to start the day, now is it. We followed up our morning activities with Phys. Ed. and Health where we learned about ways to control our emotions when we get really upset. Ask your child to share some of the ideas we brainstormed with you!
We then had a read-a-loud. Over the last week, we've been reading Nick Bland's Bear books. Each book tells a fun little story about a bear written in traditional rhyming schemes. As we read these books together, we've been picking out the rhyming pairs we hear and collecting them. We'll use these rhymes to study spelling patters in various word families. What fun!
After a movement break out in the slushy snow, we had a period of writing. It was then time for lunch.
In our Math class, we began work on the new "Shapes" unit. We worked on refreshing our memory with some 2D shapes recognition and learned about the various attributes for each of these shapes. We then had the first lockdown practice of the year. Finally, in our Inquiry studies, we began work on our "Heart Maps". These are "maps" that plot out all of our passions and interests. This work will be part of a larger project that we are working towards.

Friday, November 6

A happy Friday to you all! 

Today was an exciting day! We began our day with Ignite, as usual. After that, we rehearsed our assembly. Always a good idea to practice before the big show! After practicing, we went outside and had so much fun because, oh my goodness, it was such a beautiful day! We returned inside and got ready for the big performance. The seats filled and the lights dimmed, and we had ourselves an amazing peace assembly. This year, the Peace Pod had the honour of doing the Remembrance Day ceremony and we did a wonderful job.

Remember, no school on Monday! 

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Today we had a great day and feel ready for our Remembrance Day Assembly.  We have asked students to please try to wear red, black and/or white if they have clothes those colours.  

During our morning, students spent time reading "Wishtree" with Mrs. Kinsman and created some beautiful drawings while listening to reading.  We then played fun games in gym.

Mr. Kai taught us how to G-U-M it when we are working on writing to help us become more independent writers.  G-U-M stands for G-guess the spelling-stretch it out, U-underline the word and M-Move on-get your thoughts out.

In the afternoon we had our Math groups and practiced our Assembly in the Gym using the risers and microphones.  We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 10:45am. 

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Today we tried something new during our Literacy time.  We have been exploring the important individuals within our school community.  We generated many questions that we could ask in order to learn more about them.  Today a few students interviewed one of our wonderful student teachers Ms. Rau.  We used her answers to create a Journal page about her.  We worked on building interesting sentences while using capital letters and periods.

We also worked on Building words with the letters M-U-N-K-I-P-P.  We built a variety of words and some students quickly solved the magic word.

After lunch we enjoyed Fireside Mindfulness to warm us up from a cold play outside.

In Math, all students worked on building and representing numbers in a variety of ways.

We ended our day with some amazing Assembly preparations.  All students in Peace Pod have worked so hard practicing their important parts and performing in a respectful manner.  It is coming together so nicely and we hope to get into the gym tomorrow for our final touches.

Reminders:
-Please ensure your child's belongings are labeled.  When the weather is cold, many things come to school and we have many items being left behind at the end of the day.
- Remembrance Day Assembly 10:45 am Friday, November 8

Stay warm and see you tomorrow!

Wednesday November 6, 2019

Reminder: We have book truck coming tomorrow so please bring your books to exchange from home.

Today we had Roots of Empathy: they talked about loosing teeth and read a story about it, they shared stories about the first time they lost  a tooth.

Today in gym we had a student teacher who works with Mr. Der. lead the lesson.  They worked on team work tasks.  Several tasks used hula hoops.

Our student teachers read all the season groups a story about Remembrance Day.  Ask your child about the story they listened to.

Math:
Today Ms. Disher's group reviewed the names for the place value base ten blocks (unit, rod, flat).  We played a quick matching game where students had to match a number with a picture of base ten blocks.
Mr. Kai's group practiced finding numbers on the number line.
Mrs. Bates' group reviewed basic vocabulary for place value for numbers to 100 and beyond.

Writing: Today students worked on finishing their Halloween writing, Friendship Journals and brainstormed ideas for interview questions to ask our school community members.

Ask your child about the gym tasks they did today (hint: see above and the picture below)

Have a safe and warm night!
The Peace Pod