Mrs. Page's Grade 1/2 Class

Hello Everyone, I had the opportunity to speak with Mr. Crane and several other Thorncliffe Park PS staff. We are all missing our wonderful students and hoping that you are all staying safe and healthy. Mr. Crane, Ms. Wolf and Ms. Rogers, along with our superintendent, have been working away and trying to prepare for the coming weeks. They are trying their best to figure out a plan moving forward that will allow students the best possible learning experience, given the circumstances. At this time, teachers have been asked to NOT post any work for their students to complete. Thus, I will no longer be posting activities here on the blog. I am available by email, should you need or want to connect! Please know that we are all working together, trying to figure out the best way of moving forward with teaching and learning in this very unusual time. We will update you as soon as possible. Wishing you all continued health and happiness, Mrs. Page

Before the break, we were working on descriptive writing. Today, take a look out your window. Write about what you see. Make sure to use interesting vocabulary and adjectives that describe what you’re looking at. Type your writing below if you’d like to share! MP

TDSB has also published some extra learning resources, organized by grade. See below! ht tps://www.tdsb.on.ca/Elementary-School/Supporting-You/Health-Active-Living/Coronavirus/Learning-Resources

We’ll start with a math activity that is familiar to my students. It’s appears in math tests and as part of a math challenge. Please post some of your solutions below, if you’d like! 1. The answer is 16. What is the question? OR 2. The answer is 99. What is the question?

Here is the resource provided by the Ministry of Education for the upcoming weeks.   https://www.ontario.ca/page/learn-at-home?_ga=2.147305591.1118971619.1584881696-1218101718.1584881696 I will also post a ‘challenge’ question starting tomorrow. If you complete the challenge, upload a photo or post a comment so I can check out your work! Prodigy, of course, remains active. Wishing you all the best, Mrs Page

Hello to my dear students and families, I hope you are all staying healthy as we navigate this difficult time in our country, and across the globe. I, and my family, are well. We are keeping to ourselves, doing lots of arts and crafts and spending some time outdoors when we can. Starting on Monday, I will be posting a few activities each day that students can try at home. No obligation, but if you’re looking for something to do, I will stick some activities up here and you’re welcome to comment with your answers and ideas. My understanding is that the ministry of education will also be providing curriculum-based programming during school closures. I will update with any links to that, once they are published. Please continue to check the TDSB website for any updates as well. Wishing you all the best and very much hoping to see you April 6, Mrs. Page

Here are our current learning goals. Please email me if you have any questions, and feel free to check out the Ontario curriculum that pertains to these areas of study.

We are practising our number sense skills by learning addition. Students in grade one should be able to add numbers up to 20. Students in grade 2 should be able to add numbers up to 100, with and without regrouping. I will be teaching regrouping strategies to the grade 2’s next week. In the meantime, please see our chart of strategies below!

We have been studying liquids and solids in class. Recently, we created mixtures made of some liquids and solids. We followed the scientific method and made a hypothesis about whether a solution would be heterogeneous or homogeneous. We had fun doing the experiments!

Thanks to Ms. Williams for bringing this great coding activity by our room! We had fun!

Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year! I hope you all had an enjoyable winter holiday and spent some great time together as a family. We are currently finishing up our Data Management (graphing) unit in Math, and will be moving on to addition and subtraction next week!  In Language, we will be writing some personal recounts about places we've gone, things we've done or trips we've taken. We'll also continue our guided reading groups where students read 'just right' books in small teams, with the teacher. Our next Science unit is "liquids and solids" where we will explore properties of the different states of matter. Things you can work on at home: - Continue to read the books sent home in the homework folder. Your child should be able to read these books to you, independently. - Grade level reading at this point in the year is: Grade 1's at level 10-14; Grade 2's at level 18-24. - You can focus on sight words in print, for example