Hello families and friends,
Today was our first day of swimming! We will be going all week for the afternoon, so please help your child to remember their swimming gear each day. Also, if your child has long hair, please make sure that it is tied back so that it stays out of their face as they are swimming. There was a bit of a delay with the bus today, but the pool was able to accommodate us so we still got our full time.
Have a great evening,
Mr. Soulliere
Monday, 27 February 2017
Friday, 24 February 2017
February 24th, 2017
Hello families and friends,
We have been continuing to work on our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills this week. The students also started creating their own creatures for a writing project that we will be starting. They designed their creature, and then worked on adding some descriptive adjectives and information about it today. Ask your child some different questions about their creature to help them come up with those details. This will make their work with it next week easier. We have also started working on "alien math". We imagined that we went on a spaceship, and crashed on a moon near Jupiter. There we encountered some weird aliens, and started investigating their numbers. The students had a lot of good conversations while they were trying to figure it out. Ask your child what they have learned. We have also been working on finishing up our research into leopard geckos.
A reminder that next week we will be going swimming each afternoon. Please help your child to remember their swimsuit and towel, and to bring an extra bag to put their wet things into afterwards so they don't get their backpack all wet. Volunteers are free to just meet us at the swimming pool.
Have a great weekend,
Mr. Soulliere
We have been continuing to work on our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills this week. The students also started creating their own creatures for a writing project that we will be starting. They designed their creature, and then worked on adding some descriptive adjectives and information about it today. Ask your child some different questions about their creature to help them come up with those details. This will make their work with it next week easier. We have also started working on "alien math". We imagined that we went on a spaceship, and crashed on a moon near Jupiter. There we encountered some weird aliens, and started investigating their numbers. The students had a lot of good conversations while they were trying to figure it out. Ask your child what they have learned. We have also been working on finishing up our research into leopard geckos.
A reminder that next week we will be going swimming each afternoon. Please help your child to remember their swimsuit and towel, and to bring an extra bag to put their wet things into afterwards so they don't get their backpack all wet. Volunteers are free to just meet us at the swimming pool.
Have a great weekend,
Mr. Soulliere
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
February 21st, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a good long weekend. We started off our day with sharing and writing about our weekends. We also read the story "exclamation mark" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and the students were challenged to include at least one exclamation mark in their writing. When would you use an exclamation mark, and post one sentence that uses one in the comments below. After that we did a special Making Words using the letters in the words "One Hundred Days" for our hundredth day of school. We also practiced our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. In the afternoon we started with our mental math warmup, and then worked on showing as many ways as we can to represent the number 100. Then we made some cool 100th day of school glasses, and continued some work on our fractal tree scratch art.
Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day! Pink Shirt Day was started to put a stop to bullying and promote kindness. Show your support by wearing your pink!
Next week we will be going swimming from Monday to Thursday. If you have not sent in your child's permission forms for this please do so by this Thursday, February 23rd. I need to know if other arrangements will need to be made for your child during the afternoons, as they will be unable to come with us if the forms have not been returned.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a good long weekend. We started off our day with sharing and writing about our weekends. We also read the story "exclamation mark" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and the students were challenged to include at least one exclamation mark in their writing. When would you use an exclamation mark, and post one sentence that uses one in the comments below. After that we did a special Making Words using the letters in the words "One Hundred Days" for our hundredth day of school. We also practiced our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. In the afternoon we started with our mental math warmup, and then worked on showing as many ways as we can to represent the number 100. Then we made some cool 100th day of school glasses, and continued some work on our fractal tree scratch art.
Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day! Pink Shirt Day was started to put a stop to bullying and promote kindness. Show your support by wearing your pink!
Next week we will be going swimming from Monday to Thursday. If you have not sent in your child's permission forms for this please do so by this Thursday, February 23rd. I need to know if other arrangements will need to be made for your child during the afternoons, as they will be unable to come with us if the forms have not been returned.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
February 14th, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Happy Valentine's Day! For word work this week we have introduced our words of the week. They are "now", "long", "ever", and "how" for grade ones, and "light", "but", "right", and "goes" for grade twos. Then today we did another Making Words with the letters 'o', 'u', 'b', 'd', 'l', 'n', 't', and 'w'. What is the longest word you can make using these letters? Post your word in the comments below. We also did some work on Mathletics and Raz-Kids. A reminder that these websites are available through the school website, and are a great resource for books and math activities that are at an appropriate level for your child. We continued working on our art for Arbour Day, scratching our fractal tree designs into the paint and adding some ripped white paper at the bottom for snow. They have turned out really well! The students got to work on a colour-by-number activity with addition and subtraction this afternoon. In gym, we have been learning about and using maps to find different things around our school-grounds.
A reminder that tomorrow is our Winter Sports Day. Our class will be going out in the morning for the festivities, so please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for being outside during the early day temperatures. It is also Fun Lunch.
This weekend is a VERY long weekend for the students; Thursday and Friday are Teachers' Convention, and Monday is Family Day.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Happy Valentine's Day! For word work this week we have introduced our words of the week. They are "now", "long", "ever", and "how" for grade ones, and "light", "but", "right", and "goes" for grade twos. Then today we did another Making Words with the letters 'o', 'u', 'b', 'd', 'l', 'n', 't', and 'w'. What is the longest word you can make using these letters? Post your word in the comments below. We also did some work on Mathletics and Raz-Kids. A reminder that these websites are available through the school website, and are a great resource for books and math activities that are at an appropriate level for your child. We continued working on our art for Arbour Day, scratching our fractal tree designs into the paint and adding some ripped white paper at the bottom for snow. They have turned out really well! The students got to work on a colour-by-number activity with addition and subtraction this afternoon. In gym, we have been learning about and using maps to find different things around our school-grounds.
A reminder that tomorrow is our Winter Sports Day. Our class will be going out in the morning for the festivities, so please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for being outside during the early day temperatures. It is also Fun Lunch.
This weekend is a VERY long weekend for the students; Thursday and Friday are Teachers' Convention, and Monday is Family Day.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Friday, 10 February 2017
February 10th, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Today we continued practicing our Read to Self skills, and got our stamina back up to 14 minutes. Then we practiced our Read to Someone as well. We did really well with this. We also added the next step to our art that we began yesterday, painting over the pastels with black paint. Next week we can start scratching out our trees designs. Then we watched a Magic School Bus video on food chains. After that we had fitness stations in gym, then went off to our Friday Clubs. Ask your child what they did today.
Next week is a short but busy week. There is no school for students on Thursday or Friday for Teachers' Convention. Wednesday is going to be our Winter Sports Day. Our class will be participating in the morning. That day is also Fun Lunch. And Tuesday is Valentine's Day. For this, it is recommended that your child just sign the cards to hand out to the other students and not put who they are for on each one. As well, instead of sending in treats for the whole class, you may send in a special treat for just your child. This will help to alleviate some of the issues that arise around dietary restrictions and allergies. As always though, nothing with peanuts, as there are some students in the school with very severe allergies.
Next Monday and Tuesday, Mrs. Quilley is planning on taking the students outside for gym. Please remember to make sure your child is dressing appropriately for the weather.
Have a great weekend,
Mr. Soulliere
Today we continued practicing our Read to Self skills, and got our stamina back up to 14 minutes. Then we practiced our Read to Someone as well. We did really well with this. We also added the next step to our art that we began yesterday, painting over the pastels with black paint. Next week we can start scratching out our trees designs. Then we watched a Magic School Bus video on food chains. After that we had fitness stations in gym, then went off to our Friday Clubs. Ask your child what they did today.
Next week is a short but busy week. There is no school for students on Thursday or Friday for Teachers' Convention. Wednesday is going to be our Winter Sports Day. Our class will be participating in the morning. That day is also Fun Lunch. And Tuesday is Valentine's Day. For this, it is recommended that your child just sign the cards to hand out to the other students and not put who they are for on each one. As well, instead of sending in treats for the whole class, you may send in a special treat for just your child. This will help to alleviate some of the issues that arise around dietary restrictions and allergies. As always though, nothing with peanuts, as there are some students in the school with very severe allergies.
Next Monday and Tuesday, Mrs. Quilley is planning on taking the students outside for gym. Please remember to make sure your child is dressing appropriately for the weather.
Have a great weekend,
Mr. Soulliere
Thursday, 9 February 2017
February 9th, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Today we started our day by collecting our snow for our insulator competition! There were a wide a variety of different creations.
Today we started our day by collecting our snow for our insulator competition! There were a wide a variety of different creations.
Over the day we watched as the snow melted away until in the afternoon most of them had lost all of their snow. Only a few remained with any left.
Finally, by the end of the day as the students were getting ready, we were down to just two left. It was not long after they were dismissed that there was only one remaining with any snow left in it.
Congratulations to JR for constructing our most effective insulator! What do you think made this insulator work better than the other ones? Post your answer in the comments below.
We have been continuing to practice our reading skills. This morning we took some time to review what our good Read to Self looks like. We will be working on rebuilding our reading stamina; by the end of the morning we were able to last for 10 minutes of continuous, uninterrupted reading as a class, quite a bit shorter than our stamina of 20 minutes that we had built up to in October.
In our word work we have worked on the /ou/, /ow/ sound. Then we did a guided drawing of an owl outside to go with our words.
In math we have been continuing to work on our representation skills using the base-10 blocks to show double digit numbers. Yesterday we also learned a new way to represent larger numbers, expanded form. Ask your child about this. This work is building towards the work that we will be doing looking at understanding place value.
We have continued working on our research into leopard geckos and building our research skills. We have learned about being "active readers", checking to make sure that what you are reading makes sense not only in terms of what the sentence is saying but also making sure it fits with what you are reading about; if you are researching leopard geckos and it says they like to spend time in trees, that does not fit with what we know about where they live, so it is probably not the correct information. We also learned that even some really good websites, like National Geographic Kids, may not have good information for what we need depending on the animal we are looking for. Finally, we watched a video on a leopard gecko's tail after it had dropped to see how it is used as a defence mechanism.
This afternoon we started working on an art project to go with our work for Arbour Day. We are combining our fractal art that we learned earlier this year with the scratch art technique. Ask your child what we did today for it.
I am happy to see that people have been bringing in their sheets with lots of reading time recorded! Remember, for every 100 minutes that the student reads at home they earn a hockey card. One student earned themselves 7 today for all the reading that they have done!
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Monday, 6 February 2017
February 6th, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Today we started with practicing our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. Then we did our words of the week. They are "say", "jump", "ran", and "play" for grade ones, and "read", "clean", "know", and "buy" for grade twos. After that we worked on some writing about our weekends. In the afternoon we did our mental math warmup, and then practiced our finger counting technique for showing numbers up to 99 "chisanbop". Then we did an "indoor recess" from GoNoodle for our gym time today. After that we learned another new version of one of our math games, Subtraction Face-Off. Ask your child about this. We finished our day by finishing building our insulators for our experiment/competition tomorrow.
I heard that the students have done a lot of reading so far for our Reading...Give it a Shot! program. Make sure that you are marking off each day how long you read for. After 100 minutes, bring the sheet in to get a Calgary Flames hockey card!
For those that indicated they will be available to volunteer for swimming, I will start sending the forms for that home tomorrow. I will send home one copy, but if both parents/guardians are available to come either make a photocopy or email me and I will send home a second copy. For liability purposes, each person must have their own form filled out.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Today we started with practicing our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. Then we did our words of the week. They are "say", "jump", "ran", and "play" for grade ones, and "read", "clean", "know", and "buy" for grade twos. After that we worked on some writing about our weekends. In the afternoon we did our mental math warmup, and then practiced our finger counting technique for showing numbers up to 99 "chisanbop". Then we did an "indoor recess" from GoNoodle for our gym time today. After that we learned another new version of one of our math games, Subtraction Face-Off. Ask your child about this. We finished our day by finishing building our insulators for our experiment/competition tomorrow.
I heard that the students have done a lot of reading so far for our Reading...Give it a Shot! program. Make sure that you are marking off each day how long you read for. After 100 minutes, bring the sheet in to get a Calgary Flames hockey card!
For those that indicated they will be available to volunteer for swimming, I will start sending the forms for that home tomorrow. I will send home one copy, but if both parents/guardians are available to come either make a photocopy or email me and I will send home a second copy. For liability purposes, each person must have their own form filled out.
Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere
Thursday, 2 February 2017
February 2nd, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Today we started with learning about "king ed". This is the 'e' at the end of words that tells the other vowels to "say their name" (e.g. make). After that the group did their Read to Someone and looked for these types of words in the books they read together to make a list in their writing books. After that we practiced our Read to Self. We finished off our morning with starting to build our insulators. In the afternoon, we did our mental math warmup, then we had our Choice Math time. Then we read the story Mister Once-upon-a-time, and talked about the story elements of Character, Setting, Problem, and Solution. What was your favourite part of the story? We finished our day continuing our skipping skills in gym and then going to music. Ask your child what we did today.
Swimming permission forms have gone home today. Please fill these out in full and return as soon as possible. If you are available to volunteer on any of the days, please mark that off at the bottom of the first sheet and return that slip to me with the other forms and I will send home a volunteer acknowledgement of risk.
Don't forget to fill out each day how long your child reads for on the Reading...Give it a Shot! tracking sheet. The goal is to read for 100 minutes. For every 100 minutes they read at home, they will earn a Calgary Flames hockey card!
A reminder that tomorrow is a PD day, so there is no school for students.
Have a great long weekend
Today we started with learning about "king ed". This is the 'e' at the end of words that tells the other vowels to "say their name" (e.g. make). After that the group did their Read to Someone and looked for these types of words in the books they read together to make a list in their writing books. After that we practiced our Read to Self. We finished off our morning with starting to build our insulators. In the afternoon, we did our mental math warmup, then we had our Choice Math time. Then we read the story Mister Once-upon-a-time, and talked about the story elements of Character, Setting, Problem, and Solution. What was your favourite part of the story? We finished our day continuing our skipping skills in gym and then going to music. Ask your child what we did today.
Swimming permission forms have gone home today. Please fill these out in full and return as soon as possible. If you are available to volunteer on any of the days, please mark that off at the bottom of the first sheet and return that slip to me with the other forms and I will send home a volunteer acknowledgement of risk.
Don't forget to fill out each day how long your child reads for on the Reading...Give it a Shot! tracking sheet. The goal is to read for 100 minutes. For every 100 minutes they read at home, they will earn a Calgary Flames hockey card!
A reminder that tomorrow is a PD day, so there is no school for students.
Have a great long weekend
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
February 1st, 2017
Hello families and friends,
Today we started with Making Words using the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'g', 'm', 'r', 's', and 't'. We each had a tile for each of these letters and used them to make as many words as we can. In the comments below, post a word using these letters that is at least 5 letters long. Then we went to the Learning Commons to switch out our books. We finished off our morning practicing our Read to Self, and working on our doubles facts with Doubles Go Fish. In the afternoon, we continued our research on leopard geckos. We learned how to find important information from videos and how to take notes of important information from websites. Then we went out on our Winter Walk. In gym we continued working on our skipping skills.
Thank you to everyone who sent in materials for our insulators. We will work on building them tomorrow to prepare for (hopefully!) some snow next week.
A reminder that this Friday is a PD Day, so there is no school for students.
Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere
Today we started with Making Words using the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'g', 'm', 'r', 's', and 't'. We each had a tile for each of these letters and used them to make as many words as we can. In the comments below, post a word using these letters that is at least 5 letters long. Then we went to the Learning Commons to switch out our books. We finished off our morning practicing our Read to Self, and working on our doubles facts with Doubles Go Fish. In the afternoon, we continued our research on leopard geckos. We learned how to find important information from videos and how to take notes of important information from websites. Then we went out on our Winter Walk. In gym we continued working on our skipping skills.
Thank you to everyone who sent in materials for our insulators. We will work on building them tomorrow to prepare for (hopefully!) some snow next week.
A reminder that this Friday is a PD Day, so there is no school for students.
Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere
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