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Picture Day!

Picture Day is tomorrow October 30!  Bring your big smiles!

Skating

The Grade 2’s will go skating with Mrs. Page and Mrs. Macnamara’s class on Tuesday November 5 in the afternoon. Please send in the permission forms as soon as possible. Grade one student will have a regular afternoon of programming with a supply teacher, while we are at the rink.

Halloween

Halloween will take place on Thursday. Children may wear costumes, if desired. Please make sure that costumes do not include weapons. We will have a few Halloween activities available, but will otherwise continue our regular programming.

Printmaking

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This week we created stamps of our animals to make prints. We also wrote procedural writing pieces about ‘How to Make a Stamp’. Friday was printing day and everything turned out great!

Our New Learning Tool

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Check out our new Promethean Board!  We are using it to display and interact with webpages, documents and pictures.

Base Ten Values

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Here is how to represent numbers using base tens. We are showing that numbers are made up of tens and ones:

Curriculum Afternoon

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Thank you so much to everyone who was able to come to curriculum afternoon it was great to see you all and I hope you enjoyed your visit to our classroom. I have included a digital version of my handouts here for you to access. Please contact me with any questions. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you on Tuesday!  Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating. 

Animal Research

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We are busy researching our animals!  We are using  PebbleGo  to learn information and find facts about our animals. The categories we are researching are: Habitat, Appearance, Life Cycle, Food, Human Interactions and Fun Facts. We can’t wait to learn all about each other’s animals. 

You’re Invited

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Please join us for curriculum afternoon!  Both grade 1 and 2 families are welcome! Details below:

Curriculum Afternoon

Our curriculum afternoon, for both grade 1 and 2 families, will be this Thursday. I will send a note home to confirm timing. Thanks!

Toonies for Terry

Next week (October 10), we will participate in the Terry Fox Run during school time. As a part of this initiative, we are collecting ‘toonies for Terry’ that will go to the Terry Fox Foundation and assist with funding cancer research. Please send in a toonie for Terry, if you can. Thanks!

October Calendar Delay

Hello Families, My apologies for not yet getting the October calendar to you. I am expecting that our schedule will be changing in the next couple of days, and I am hoping to get this information before sending the calendar out. Thank you for your patience! In the mean time: Wednesday October 2: Music Thursday October 3: Media Literacy Friday October 4: Respect Assembly and Gym I will have information to you soon about curriculum afternoon, which will likely be next week. Thanks!