Monday June 13, 2016

Today's Learning:
 Gym - 3-5 running laps
Class meeting - individual reading aloud to class
Art - prep for sand application this afternoon
Art - glue and sand stations

Ask me:
how cool my art is

Reminders:
- please bring all library books back for tomorrow!!

Friday June 11, 2016

Today's Learning:

Gym - 3-5 running laps, TV tag, intro to belly kickball
Class meeting
Literacy - RAZ Reading online reading program
Art - native sand art

Ask me:

- about the first nations sand art we are making?  what is my animal?

Reminders:

Thursday June 10, 2016

Today's Learning:

Gym - 3-5 running laps, lacrosse game
Music - pls see music blog
Guest Presentation - Calgary Public Library
Class meeting - sharing circle about why our gym class was cut short
Art - Haida sand art - adding form lines, patterns and shapes
Health posters - peer feedback
Body break - outside with the parachute
Math - fractions, filling glass vases with water

Ask me:

- about my Haida art

- about the Library presentation

Reminders:

- Library handout in backpack

The school year is almost done.        

All books are due back in the

Learning Commons  on or before

June 13, 2016.

Wednesday June 9, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3-5 running lap warmup
Learning Commons Book Exchange

RAZ Reading - online
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - outside, parachute
Math - fractions: 1/2, 1/2, 1/4 and a whole

Ask me:

- to explain a fraction
- how I demonstrated responsibility during our parachute fun outside

Reminders:

Monday June 6, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3-5 running laps, lacrosse passing skills, group game
Literacy - 'Dear Summer' letter writing.  how to write a proper letter, addressing, body and closing, (P.S.)
Art - intro to Haida art. powerpoint and samples of our upcoming sand project
Outside body break
continued literacy work - letter to Summer

Ask me:
- what is Haida art? where do the Haida people live?

Reminders:
CBE notice in backpack

Tuesday June 7, 2016

Today's Learning:

Gym - 3-5 running laps, scoop and ball skills with partner

Art - watercolor wash and volcano/mountain foreground silhouette

Health Safety posters - checking with criteria checklist

Body break - outside parachute games

Math - intro to fractions: whole half, quarter, third. visual representation using the wipe boards 

Ask me:

- to show you an under-handed throw, overhanded throw

- to divide a circle into 2, 3 and 4 equal parts

Reminders:

casino notice in backpack

Thursday June 3, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3 -5 running laps, lacrosse skills (overhand, underhand throws and catching)
Music - pls see music blog
Literacy - Pizza Poetry Response 'Pizza Beast'
Class meeting - individual students reading to classmates
                       - discussion of June's virtue: humility
                       - video
Body break - outside for a run and games
Creative Writing - humility bookmarks

Ask me:
- what humility means.  can I give you an example?
- if I enjoyed PIZZA DAY????!!!
- to tell you about the Pizza Beast
- to tell you about my Pizza Beast writing

Reminders:

- no school tomorrow (PD Day)

Wednesday June 2, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3 - 5 laps, hot dog tag, spider tag
Learning Commons story with Mrs. Reimer is reading 'Topper Cats'
Health - finishing up Health posters with partners
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - outside run then playground
Extra music - pls see music blog

Ask me:
- if I brought the health poster home tonight to work on
- to tell you the time

Reminders:

- no school Friday due to PD day
- Pizza day tomorrow for those who ordered
- CBE Transportation letter and pink school newsletter in backpack of youngest sibling or only child

Tuesday June 1, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting -Mr. D in today
Gym - 3 - 5 running laps, toilet tag, 2 games of floor hockey
Science - Rocks and minerals review
Literacy - RAZ Reading on the laptops
Guest Presentation - Little Green Thumbs
Music - pls see music blog
Body Break - Hang Man
Math - time with the clocks and white boards

Ask me:
- what the June virtue is? (humility)

Reminders:
- no school on Friday (PD Day)

Monday May 30, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting - I am Confident' book read by student
Gym - 'Mystery Island' Relaxation activity
Health - safety posters with partner
Class novel: 'Author and the Minimoys'
Math in Motion - artist residency
Art - watercolour with Kandi

Ask me:
- to tell you about our 'Math in Motion' guest fun in the gym
     - what was our four beat pattern? snap, clap, flap, march.  number pattern was: 8, 4, 2, 1
     - how do we get from 8 to for?  how do we do this subtracting? what is the pattern rule? (we take      away half, or divide by two)
     - to show you a 4 point balance, 6 point balance
     - to show you a square with my body? can I change it to a rectangle?
     - how can I make a 2D shape with my body?  how can I change is so that it is 3D?
     - what the form of our dance presentation is - AABA?
     - what food was our dance based on? (potato chips)
     - to show you 'icecream and sprinkles' and 'tornado and sprinkles' (all movements)
- about my watercolor art piece

Reminders:
- no school this Friday due to PD Day

Friday May 27, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Gym: (outside - running warmup), tag games - toilet, freeze
- Science: butterfly life cycle discussion - parts of a butterfly - antenna, proboscis, wings, feet
- Guest Presentation: 'Math in Motion'
- ART afternoon - water colour techniques

Ask me:
- about the pattern in our 'Math in Motion' presentation (8, 4, 2,1)
- what are the opposites: shorter/longer, tall/short, small/big, forward/backward, odd/even, down/up, melt/blastoff, AABA, bicycle, bicycle, helmet, bicycle, circle, circle, square, circle
- what shapes we made with our bodies during our 'Math in Motion' movement? (triangle, square, diamond, rectangle, circle)
- what does 'gender', 'opaque' and 'translucent' mean?
- about these after color techniques: wash - solid & flat; wash - graded; wet in wet, dry brush; color lifting; salt; white crayon resist; transparency layers
- what the TIME is at different times of the day over the weekend

Reminders:
- last chance for pizza orders - due Monday

Thursday May 26, 2016

APOLOGIES for the late post - our BLOG was inopperable

Today's Learning:
-Learning Commons Book Exchange
- Science: life of a butterfly KWL chart.  working with a partner, writing down all of the things we think we know about butterflies
- Learning Commons computers - researching painted lady butterflies
Science - circle sharing of hide and seek rock descriptions
 - Math: Brainpop videos: time (elapsed time, time to the minute and time to the quarter and half hour)

Ask me:
- about the life cycle of a butterfly
- what books I signed out this week
- to show you the brain pop videos on TIME
- what the time is, at different times during the evening and after school

Reminders:
- pizza orders due Monday

Wednesday May 25, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Gym: 3-5 running laps, octopus tag
- Science: rock descriptive paragraphs 'Which rock am I?'
- Digital Champions Club sharing
- L.A. - continued writing of rock descriptions
- Music: pls see music blog
- Body break - outside run and games
- Math: extra 'time' practice on the iPods

Ask me:
- to tell you the time
- about our new 'babies' in our classrooms
- about the cool rock that I chose to describe today
- if I shared my 'Digital Champions' project with the classrooms
- how I enjoyed the sharing of the green screen, iMovie, Comic Life, Garageband and PhotoBooth projects

Reminders:
- pizza lunch forms due
- HOMEWORK - research: are 'Painted Lady Butterlies' only girls?  bring some name suggestions for tomorrow

Tuesday May 24, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Class meeting
- Creative Writing and art - volunteer cards
- Science - classifying rocks and minerals, describing rocks
- Music - pls see music blog
- Body break
- Math - introduction to 'TIME', brainpop videos.  www.jr.brainpop.com   login: vistaheights     password: brainpop    videos: 'calendar and dates', 'parts of a clock', 'time to the hour'

Ask me:
- to tell you the time
- to tell you the parts of a clock
- how I did at the volunteer tea performance this afternoon
- to go and find a few interesting rocks - I'll choose one, describe it to you (using works such as: hardness, color, texture - hough, smooth, weight - light/heavy,  shape: oval, square, rectangle, triangle, heart, diamond, lustre: shiny/dul, light: translucent/opaque, cleavage and fracture), then you have to guess which rock it is from the pile

Reminders:
- HOMEWORK - bring some interesting rocks and/or minerals to share with our class
- pink pizza notice

Thursday May 19, 2016

Today's Learning:
Music - practicing for the kindergarten assembly this afternoon
Class meeting - various students sharing reading
Assembly (Room 1 students perform 'My Paddle's Keen and Bright' singing and instruments)
Creative Writing - making cards for our volunteers
Body Break -
Math - using laptops, students explored various websites and played games to help them learn the days of the week and the months of the year

Ask me:
- to sing 'My Paddle's Keen and Bright'
- to show you my plastice earth - ask me what a half is and a quarter!!!

- to show you these cool websites:

Days of the Week:

http://www.abcya.com/days_of_the_week.htm

Months of the Year Games:

http://www.abcya.com/months_of_the_year.htm

Reminders:
- CBE annual POW WOW tonight at Crescent Heights School - begins at 6pm, dancer registration prior
- no school tomorrow (PD day)
- no school Monday (Victoria Day)

Wednesday May 18, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 6 running mini laps, floor hockey game, LEAP mark
Learning Commons Book Exchange
Science - Geological Study: discussion of lustre, color, texture and hardness, then 'mystery mineral hide and seek'
Music - pls see music blog
Body Break -
Math - review songs: Days of the Week and months of the Year

Ask me:
- to shoe you all of the cool rocks and minerals websites from yesterday (check blog)
- what my LEAP mark was today
- to describe my 'mystery mineral'
- what do the following mean: lustre, hardness, color and texture?
- to sing you the 'Days of the Week' and the 'Months of the Year Songs'
- Mrs. Turk's Riddle:

Can you name three consecutive days
without using the words 
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Answer: Yesterday, today and tomorrow n HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Reminders:
- Kindergarten assembly - All families and friends are invited to our Kindergarten Assembly tomorrow Thursday, May 19th at 11:00 a.m. Everyone is welcome!
- some students have YMCA notices in backpack
- some students who were away yesterday have a 'safety precaution notice' in backpack
- no school Friday or Monday!

Tuesday May 17, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3-5 running laps, floor hockey tournament
Science - completion of the plasticine earths - adding continents and extra ocean water bodies
Science - rocks and mineral study (see websites below)
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - outside for noodle tag
Math - calendar - days of week, months of the year

Ask me:
- to sing you the months of the year song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw
- to sing you the days of the week song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvQOab00OQ
- how many days in a week? how many days in a month? how many weeks in a month? how many days in a year?
- did I bring home the health poster for homework tonight?
- to show you these cool rock and mineral websites:
Information:
http://www.kiddle.co/s.php?q=rocks+and+minerals#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=rocks%20and%20minerals&gsc.page=1  
Cute song:http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/play-educational-song.php?song=rocks%20and%20gems%20and%20minerals song:http://www.songsforteaching.com/earthsciencegeology/minerals.htm Some cool videos and music in the “suggestions” section, down the right-hand sidehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GveEff11k4 Some fantastic website suggestions on the left-hand side. “cool websites”http://www.bcminerals.ca/s/RocksMusic.asp a great website for information:http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html Rock Cycle:http://www.uen.org/themepark/cycles/rock.shtml

Reminders:
- safety precautions notice in backpack
- several students took their health posters home last night to complete work not finished during class time and they forgot to bring the poster back today.  Pls ensure your child has returned their health poster to school
- Learning Commons book exchange tomorrow - pls bring all overdue books, or books for exchange and renewal.  Also, a reminder to a few students have OVERDUE books and money owing for lost books.

Monday May 16, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting: intro of substitute for this morning (Mrs. Turk in the office)
Gym: floor hockey tournament
Science: class discussion - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
Science - school garden with horticulturalist Rikki - planting our peat moss pods
Body break - quick run outside
Math: Introduction to TIME and FRACTIONS

Ask me: 
- if it was my night to bring home the health poster
- about our school garden
- me to tell you the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks
- what does a 'tilled garden' mean?
- what does 'analog clock' mean?
- to draw you a pizza, then ask me to shade in (eat) a HALF
- to draw you a HALF on a clock
- how many seconds in a minute?
- how many minutes in an hour?

Reminders:
- some students have their health poster home tonight to work on

Friday May 13, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting - welcoming our new student
Gym - 3-5 running laps, floor hockey tournament
Class meeting - individual students reading stories
New seating arrangement
Reward time - iPods
Body break - outside
Math - subtraction, addition, mass and estimation centers

Ask me:
- about our new student from Fort McMurray!!!
- what weighs about a gram? (paperclip)
- what weighs about a kilogram? (pineapple, dictionary)
- who I now sit beside?

Reminders:
- purple Casino volunteer notice in backpack - VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY NEEDED!

Thursday May 12, 2016

Today's Learning:

Gym - 3 - 5 running laps, tag, floor hockey tournament

Music - pls see music blog

Class meeting - academic vocabulary discussion, May's virtue: confidence

Science - adding continents to our plasticine earth models
Talking Circle - individual sharing about feelings

Health - working with partners on safety posters

Math - estimation homework 'how many in my container?' and estimation pre-test 

Ask me:

- to spell 'centimeter' and 'meter' and 'gram' and 'kilogram' and 'confidence'

- what spelling strategies could I use to spell big words like 'centimeter' and kilogram' (sounding it out with my mouth and breaking the word into smaller parts/words)
- how I am showing this month's virtue of 'confidence'?
- what are the continents? (what are some of the shapes we see in the continents?)
- what continent do we live on?
- what is the 'Hudson Bay'?
- what I shared during our 'talking circle'?

Reminders:

- the Hot Soup program has concluded for this year :(
- HOMEWORK - bring 2 words for tomorrow - one that has a 'prefix' and one that has a 'suffix'. see some examples below:

Wednesday May 11, 2016

Today's Learning: 
Gym:
Learning Commons Book exchange and story: 'Leo the Lightening Bug' (confidence virtue)
Class meeting: several students sharing 'The Important Thing About' playground creative writing
Science: rocks and minerals discussion and watching videos
Laptops: reviewing with a partner the Brainpop videos (see below)
Music: pls see music blog
Body break:
Math: estimation - mass: gram and kilogram centres HOMEWORK (see below)

Ask me:
- did I bring home the health poster to work on?
- how many kilograms I weigh?
- to show you the cool Brainpop videos about rocks and minerals
                             - Brainpop videos:  website: www.brainpopjr.com  
                              - log on:   vistaheights     passsword:  brainpop
                              - watch: 'land forms', 'fast land forms', 'slow land forms',  'rocks and minerals', 'soil'
                              - do easy and hard quizzes, word wall, and related activities
- what does a 'geologist ' do? (studies the earth, rocks, minerals and soil)
- what earth layer do we live on? (mantle)
- to explain the following: earthquake, volcano, flood, tsunami, wild fire and hurricane
- what is the hardest mineral? (diamond)
- how we use rocks and minerals? (cement sidewalks, clay pots and dishes, cutlery
- what mineral do we eat? (salt)
- what are the properties of rocks and minerals? (lustre, color, texture, hardness)
- what is another word that means the same as 'balance'? (same as, equal,

Reminders:
- MATH HOMEWORK - count and add some 'things' to the cup.  Bring tomorrow!
- HEALTH poster homework
- Child Safe CANADA pamphlet in backpack

Tuesday May 10, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3-5 running laps, spider tag,  ball inflation
Class meeting -
Health - safety posters
L.A. - creative writing task 'The Important Book', scaffolding for student writing, 'the important thing about the new Vista Heights playground is that it is fun'..... (what is important to each student about the new playground being constructed next year?)  Ideas shared by Mrs. Turk to the parent council tonight at the meeting
Class meeting: sharing of creative writing
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - 'Jump Start Dance', 'Children's Hot Air Balloon Relaxation'
Extra Music class - see music blog

Ask me:
- if I brought home the health safety poster for homework tonight, or will I bring it home tomorrow to work on?
- about the relaxation listening I participated in this afternoon

Reminders:
- overdue and lost library books *Learning Commons book exchange tomorrow - bring books for renewal or exchange
- health poster homework

Monday May 9, 2016

Today's Learning: 
Gym: 3-5 running laps, indoor soccer, indoor lacrosse
Class meeting
Science - adding blue layer to represent the oceans
Science - class Bean growth observations
Body break
Math: mass - grams and kilograms

Ask me: 
- do I have any overdue library books?
- to show you something from around our house that weighs about a 'gram', a 'kilogram'

Reminders: 
- several students have overdue books from our school library that are lost.  There is a pink overdue notice in your child's backpack

Thursday May 5, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3+ running laps, scissor tag, scooter hockey
Music: pls see music blog
Guest Performance: Canadian National Ballet streamed performance of YOU (Youth Outreach
Spring Word Search
Buddies: Mr. Beattie's Gr. 1/2 class - plants and cards
Body Break:
Math: Rounding numbers (Brainpop video)

Ask me:
- what I learned about ballet
- what are 'friendly numbers'? (hey end in a 5, or a 0)
- what does 'perimeter' mean?
- how should I measure our garden with? (centimeters or meters)
- what does 'germinate' mean?

Reminders:
-

Friday May 6, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - running warmup, mirror tag, parachute fun
Creative Writing - Mother's day cards, spring crossword puzzle
Science - rocks and minerals laptop research
Mother's Day coupons
Math - perimeter: measuring the school garden with non-standard and standard (meter) measurements

Ask me:
- what is the perimeter of our school garden
- how am I modeling this month's virtue 'confidence'?

Reminders:
- pls return all overdue library books
- Happy Mother's Day

Wednesday May 4, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3 or 5 laps, dinosaur tag, scooter skills
Music - pls see music blog
Class Meeting: review of lockdown procedures
Art: finishing toilette paper butterflies, HATS on for mental health (some students made hats)
Science: rocks and minerals research
Learning Commons book exchange
Math: estimation tasks - guess and check beads, shell noodles, styrofoam balls, pom poms and connect blocks

Ask me:
- what I do if there is a lockdown?  where do I go? what do I do?  What if I am in the hall, where do I go?  What if I am in the bathroom, where do I go?
- what is an estimation strategy I use?

Reminders:
- if you have a cardboard egg carton, pls bring so we can plant some seeds in them
- fill a clear container with a certain number of items for the rest of the class to estimate

Tuesday May 3, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: (outside) running warmup, Zombie Tag, Graveyard
Health: safety posters
Science: Geological Study - adding the water and continents to our plasticine earth models
Music: see music blog
Body Break: outside
Math: estimation - making educated guesses about number of objects in clear containers
                            - what is a centimeter, meter?
                            - outside estimation:  what would you use to measure: a blade of grass, a leaf, a          branch, a tree, a garbage container, the slide, the parking lot, the baseball diamond?

Ask me:
- how many centimeters in a meter?
- what part of my body is about the same length as a centimeter?
- what part of my body is about as long as a meter?

Reminders:
- wear a HAT tomorrow for 'Hats on for Mental Health' - teachers and students can show their support for positive mental health by participating in Hats On! For Mental Health, which is sponsored by the Alberta Teachers’ Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association and Global TV.

Everyone has a role in promoting positive mental health and healthy relationships – in our schools, communities and workplaces.

Monday May 2, 2016

Today's Learning: 

Gym:  outside games

Art: toilet paper butterfly art

Buddies: Grade 1/2 pot decorations

Creative Writing: Butterfly Acrostic poem

Body Break: outside take

Math:  Estimation - pre-test and 'guesstimating' amounts

Ask me:

- what does 'estimate' mean?

Reminders:
- Learning Commons Book Exchange tomorrow - pls bring library books for renewal or exchange
- head lice letter in packpack if youngest/only child at school
- if you could, pls pack a recess snack for your child (we have apples for those children who do not have a snack)
- warmer weather: water bottle, hat? sunscreen?
- no more hot soup
- 

Friday April 29, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, Can Can
Creative Writing: acrostic poems 'Butterfly'
Science: adding the yellow 'mantle' layer to our plasticine earth
Class Meeting: several students reading
Laptops: researching using the 'dictionary application' and 'Read and Write Gold' to read website information
Art: Toilet paper butterflies WOW!

Ask me:
- to show you an array for 4X3
- to tell you about my butterfly art project
- how to use the Read and Write Gold reading application 
- what my favorite dance is

Reminders:
- Pink MAY newsletter in backpack of youngest student

Thursday April 28, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: Student led stretches, Jump Start dance, 'The Sea Child Bubble Story' relaxation activity
Music - pls see music blog
Class story: 'The Mighty Chief and the Gopher'
Assembly - Gr. 1/2
Class meeting - sharing circle using Mrs. Turk's special rock - what was your favorite part of the assembly?
Creative Writing - introduction to acrostic poems
Math: addition and subtraction centers

Ask me:
- what an acrostic poem is
- what my acrostic poem for my name is
- to use your name, or the word 'FAMILY' or 'LOVE' or 'MOMMY' or 'GRANDMA' and let's make an acrostic poem together
- what my favorite part of the assembly was
- how the sharing circle works?  who gets to speak?

Reminders: 
- today was the last day for the Hot Soup Program

Wednesday April 27, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, Can Can
- Learning Commons Book Exchange
- Science: Bean Growth Observations
Class Novel: 'Arthur and the Minimoys'
Music: pls see music blog message
Body break 
Math: addition and subtraction centers and multiplication

Ask me:
- what cool books I signed out from the Learning Commons
- how my bean is changing
- what is 'metamorphic rock'
- what is 'sedimentary rock'
- what layer of the earth do we live on?

Reminders:
- none today!

Thursday April 21, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, Can CanMusic: pls see music blog
Class meeting: individual students sharing and reading to classmates
Science: laptops to check Rocks and Minerals websites, RAZ Reading and Brain Pop
Science - Bean Observations
Body Break - outside
Math - Addition and Subtraction centers (some Gr. 3 students working on multiplication)

Ask me:
- what I've learned about rocks and minerals
- how I show 'trustworthiness'
- to show you one of our dances

Reminders:
No school tomorrow or Monday!

Tuesday April 26, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: dancing - can can, bird dance, bunny hop, hitch hiker, twist, Macarena, electric slide, Sunny Sunny.  LEAP mark
Science/Art - layers of the earth, creating the earth's layers in a plasticine model
Laptops: using 'Read and Write Gold' application to read difficult documents and websites
Guest presentation - Rikki - about our school garden
Music - pls see music blog
Body break
Math - Subtraction, Addition and multiplication centers

Ask me:
- What is my birthstone?
- what are the 2 annual plants that have already sprouted in our school garden? (chives and strawberries)
- what are the 4 layers of the earth? (inner core, utter core, mantle, crust)
- to show you the cool websites about the layers of the earth:
http://www.ngkids.co.uk/science-and-nature/structure-of-the-earth#
http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/O/1/69.asp
Brain Pop Junior:  user name: vistaheights    password:  brain pop
     - click: science      click:   land    click:  rocks and minerals
- about the fire drill this afternoon


Reminders:
- Earth Day was last Friday!
- Learning Commons Book Exchange tomorrow - pls bring all books for renewal or exchange

Thursday April 14, 2016

Today's Learning:

Gym - more dancing: Hokey Pokey, Bird Dance, Sunny Sunny, review: electric slide  new: 7 Jumps (Danish dance)
Music - pls see music blog
Science: check in and watering of Spring seeds
Class Story: Charlie the Caterpillar (exciting hooker for writing)
L.A. - independent, writing (30 min, uninterrupted)
Art - butterfly mural
Body break - 
Math - 

Ask me:

- about the life of a butterfly
- how many minutes in a half hour?  what is this fraction (1/2)
- how many minutes in an hour?
- how to dance the '7 Jumps' dance
- did I participate in Digital Champions?  If so, how is my project coming along?

Reminders:
- book fair notice in backpack

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online
- no school tomorrow!

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                         

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm. 

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.

Wednesday April 20, 2016

Today's Learning:

gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, Can Can
Science: Rocks and Minerals Pre-test
Cultural Appreciation Videos: First Nations pow wow 'Jingle Dance', Chinese Fan Dance, others: Somali, Afghani, Irish jig, Scottish Highland fling
Health - posters with partners, beginning large, good copies
Fire Drill
Music - pls see music blog
Body Break - outside - Basketball, football, skipping
Music - additional period (see music blog)

Ask me:
- how to hold the mallets properly when playing the Orff instruments
- how to multiply using 'groups of'

Reminders:

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online
- no school Friday

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                         

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm. 

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.

Wednesday April 13, 2016

Today's Learning:

- Gym - Dance unit: Macarena, Bird Dance, Bunny Hop, Sunny Sunny, YMCA, new: '7 Jumps' (Danish folk dance)

- Learning Commons Book Exchange
- BrainPop 'subtraction without regrouping, vocabulary and easy/difficult quizzes, RAZ Kids Reading
- Music - pls see music blog
- Body Break - new dance: 
- Math: subtraction strategy: 'number line'

Ask me:

- what books I signed out of the Learning Commons
- how to use a number line as a strategy for solving subtraction problems
- how to dance the '7 Jumps' dance

Reminders:

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                         

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm. 

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.

Tuesday April 19, 2016

Today's Learning:

gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, Can Can

- Health - safety posters
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - outside: basketball, soccer, skipping or football
Math: addition centers and multiplication group

Ask me:
- if I learned multiplication today? 
- to show you 4 X 3 =         (ask me to draw it)
-  how my 'smooched' paint butterfly looks

Reminders:
- Learning Commons tomorrow morning for book fair *bring money if you would like to purchase items in our morning time

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online for this Thursday evening or Friday morning

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                         

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm. 

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.

Monday April 18, 2016

Today's Learning:

gym: dances - Macarena, Hokey Pokey, Cupid shuffle, hitch hiker,  7 Jumps, YMCA, Sunny Sunny, Bunny hop, Bird dance, *new: Can Can

- Art - butterfly smooching with acrylic paint
- Laptops: health safety poster research with partners, signing up for Earth Rangers, Brain Pop - subtraction and Raz Kids Reading
Science - Bean Growth observations
Class novel: Arthur and the Minimoys
Body Break - outside
Math - Gr. 2 addition centers and Gr. 3 multiplication

Ask me:

- about our HUGE butterfly mural
- how to use the 'borrowing strategy in a math subtraction equation - ask me:    835
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- how much fun Mr. D is
- how to dance the 'Can Can'


Reminders:

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                         

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm. 

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.

Friday April 15, 2016

Today's Learning:

- Earth Rangers Presentation
- Class Meeting: various students reading to class
- Math - new subtraction strategy: 'borrowing'
- Art - large class butterfly mural
- Math - post-test subtraction

Ask me:
- why an armadillo has hair (keeps him warm and he knows if something brushes up against him)
- what frightens animals? (noise from vehicles, humans)
- how many mosquitoes does a Little Brown Bat eat in one hour? (500)
- what are the Earth Rangers trying to protect? (animals)
what senses would a falcon use to find food? (sight, smell, sound)
- what bacteria is killing Little Brown Bats? (white nose fungus)
- what flying mammal weighs as much as a loonie? (Little Brown Bat)
- what animal lives in the ocean but doesn't look like an animal? (cold-water coral)
- how does a Kestrel falcon kill another little bird? (he punches it, it crashes to the ground and then it swoops down to collect his prize)

Reminders:
- head lice notice in backpack
- Earth Rangers campaign card in backpack

- Book a 15 minute parent/teacher conference online

- Vista Heights School Learning Commons is having a Book Fair!                        

We will be selling Scholastic books and merchandise during the school day

Tuesday April 19 to Thursday April 21, 9am – 3pm.

And at our special Family Event during Parent/Teacher Conferences.                           

Thursday April 21 4 pm – 7:30 pm.  Friday 8:30 am to noon.

There will be classroom draws for free books and display posters.

A special Family Event draw of a $25 book for one student and $25 of books for the winning student’s classroom.