Thursday March 31, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Independent silent reading
- Gym: Warmup: 3 or 5 running laps, 'Rainbow Road'
- Music: pls see music blog
- Math: Place Value Collage Reflection
- Health: Safety Posters (Fire Safety/Prevention, Sun Safety, First Aid, Pedestrian Safety, Bicycle Safety)
- Body break: Jumpstart dance-play
- Math: pre-assessment for 2, 3, 4 digit addition "Show what you know"

Ask me:
- did I participate in the lunch hour club 'Digital Champions'?  If so, what is the virtue I will be representing? What technology will I be using to represent my understanding?

Reminders:
- School newsletter in backpack of youngest or only child

Wednesday March 30, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Independent silent reading
- Gym: Students learned another GPS warm-up: ‘Jumpstart’.   https://vimeo.com/user23434351/review/155326426/4a876be2ca
This ‘dance-play'’ addresses various locomotor movements: jumping, hopping and leaping while working cooperatively with others
- Learning Commons Book exchange
Science: "Day 17 Bean Growth Observations" - sketch and descriptive sentences
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - Just Dance 'I get a good feeling', introduction to children's concentration/meditation
Math - adding 2 digit numbers

Ask me:
- to show you how I can add the following:  22+47    41+32    64+23
- what library books I chose today.  Can we sit down and I can read one to you?
- to upload the fun 'JumpStart' dance-play I learned today
- ask me how to concentrate on a cat, dog, family member

Reminders:
- 'Digital Champions Club' begins on tomorrow!  Those who normally go home to eat lunch are reminded to bring lunch on tomorrow!

Tuesday March 29, 2016

WELCOME BACK!!!

Today's Learning:
Independent silent reading
Gym: GPS (General Play Skills) *new gym program: 'Rainbow Road' students explore travel in various ways around the gym racetrack, i.e: crawl, skip, crawl, run, jump, bear walk, penguin walk using various levels: high/low and various speeds: fast/slow. Students touch beanbag coulour pattern that the teacher/leader calls out.  Locomotor skills used to raise the heartbeat
Science: "Day 16 Bean Growth Observations"
Science/S.S. - laptops - typing of animal research in SMART notebook file
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - 'Wake and Shake'
extra music/small group of students to Mrs. Brar for math

Ask me:
- what happened in our 'Earth Box' over the break?
- how we play the 'Rainbow Road'?

Reminders:
- 'Digital Champions Club' begins on Thursday!  those who normally go home to eat lunch are reminded to bring lunch on Thursday
- Book Exchange tomorrow - pls bring all library books for renewal or exchange

Thursday March 17, 2016

Today's Learning:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Math: 'Hide and Seek' place value game - find the corresponding number
Class Story: Irish - 'Fiona's Luck'
Learning Commons - book exchange
Individual, silent reading
Class meeting - several students celebrating/sharing their reading progress
Whole school assembly
Reward time - CONGRATULATIONS ROOM 1 FOR FILLING THE POM POM JAR - your reward is 15 minutes of an activity of choice (students chose from: iPad, iPod, puzzle, cards, coloring, or reading)
Science - plant growth documentation: picture, sketch and written description
Math: place value reflection and post assessment

Ask me:

- about the assembly today - what was the theme? what was my favorite part
- how I model superior 'digital citizenship'

Reminders:

- 'Digital Champions Club' notice for all students - due March 31 if your child would like to participate

- no school tomorrow on Friday due to PD Day!

- Spring break - enjoy some time off, see you on *TUESDAY March 29!

Wednesday March 16, 2016

Today's Learning:

Music - pls see music blog
Class meeting
Science - typing up animal research using the SMART Notebook application
Class Story: 'Arthur and the Minimoys'
Science - plant growth documentation: picture, sketching and written description
Math - spelling my large number with words and self-reflection

Ask me:

- to write my large number
- how our science experiment is changing

Reminders:

- 'Digital Champions Club' notice for all students - due March 31 if your child would like to participate
- St. Patrick's Day tomorrow - wear green!

- no school tomorrow on Friday due to PD Day!

- Spring break coming up!

Tuesday March 15, 2016

Today's Learning:

- Gym - gymnastics: Exploration of new obstacle course. working with a partner, objective is to NOT touch any of the distractions (rubber chickens, balls, pylons, stuffies, skipping ropes, noodles, etc and to go throughout the course in absolute silence for concentration :)
Music - pls see music blog
Science - laptops to write up our SMART Board notebook pages for our animal research
Science - Plant Growth experiment - making a prediction, documenting growth with the camera, recording any changes
Math - writing large numbers, using a hyphen

Ask me:

- what the best part of my day was?  Ask me why.
- how I am practicing this month's virtue 'cleanliness'
- how to write these numbers: eight, seventy-eight, ninety-four, thirty-seven, thousand, three hundred, twenty-two, sixty-five, eighty-nine and CHALLENGE ME WITH OTHER NUMBERS!!!

Reminders:

- PIZZA lunch tomorrow
- Digital Champions Club' notice for all students - due March 31 if your child would like to participate

- no school tomorrow on Friday due to PD Day!

- Spring break coming up!

Monday March 14, 2016

Today's Learning:

- Gym - gymnastics: *set up of new obstacle course. working with a partner, objective is to NOT touch any of the distractions (rubber chickens, balls, pylons, stuffies, skipping ropes, noodles, etc).
Science - laptops to write up our SMART Board notebook pages for our animal research
Science - Plant Growth experiment - setting up our Earth Box

Ask me:

- what we planted in our science experiment (red beans, black beans, Great Northern Beans)
- what we put in each side of our Earth Box (peat moss, fertilizer, and soil)
- what our Science experiment inquiry is ("Do worm castings help to make beans grow?")

- what a 'worm casting' is.

Reminders:
- some students saw the dental hygienist this morning.  *Pls check your child's backpack for any correspondence
- 'Digital Champions Club' notice for all students - due March 31 if your child would like to participate

- no school tomorrow on Friday due to PD Day!

- Spring break coming up!

Thursday March 11, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - warmup: 3+ or 5 running laps, partner work preparing 'movement routine'
Music - pls see music blog
Class meeting - discussion and reflection re: yesterday's AMAZING field trip (check the discussion questions on yesterday's blog in the 'ask me' section
Science - laptops - typing of animal research in a SMART Notebook file
Math - writing math vocabulary and calculating the big number using base ten blocks
Body break - class stretches
continued math tasks from earlier....

Ask me:
- the questions from the blog yesterday

Reminders:
- March's virtue "cleanliness"

Wednesday March 10, 2016

Today's Learning:
A fantastic field trip day for students in Room 1!! We had a wonderful day exploring TELUS SPARK Centre. *special thanks to our parent volunteers: Miss Kandi, Mr. Ron and Mrs. Myrt.

Ask me:
- to play the "I spy" game (but we can't use a color to describe it)
- what are the parts of a microscope? (stage, arm, head)
- what my favorite part of the day was.
- what a bug uses for an umbrella (leaf)
- what eats a Praying Mantis?
- what eats a butterfly? (Praying Mantis)
- what does 'sibling' mean? (brother or sisters)
- what bug has about 200 siblings?  (praying mantis)
- what is another name for 'bug'?
- what does "offspring" mean? (babies)
- why a Praying Mantis has fake eye spots? (to make them look like a snake)
- what does 'carnivore' mean?  (eats meat)
- what does 'herbivore' mean? (eats plants)
- what lady insect sometimes bites her boyfriend's head off? (praying mantis)
- to name some bugs that we learned about in our dome presentation (caterpillar, spider, centipede, praying mantis, grasshopper, beetle, cricket, aphid)
- how BIG the dome theatre screen was
- how big a fruit fly is (size of a crumb)
- what interesting questions I aced today

Remainders:
- last day for pizza orders tomorrow

Tuesday March 9, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - gymnastics partner routine - using the criteria checklist and rating scale, students practiced and chose movements for their routine
back in the classroom.... students wrote out a sequence of the events
Class novel: Arthur and the Minimoys
Science/L.A. - typing up animal research paragraphs in the Learning Commons
Science: 'Little Green Thumbs' with Room 7 - worms, plants, soil.... so much fun!
Body break - High, low
Math - writing numbers and expanded notation

Ask me:
- what a worm casting is - YUCK!

Reminders:
- field trip trip TOMORROW to Telus SPARKS!  Many students still need to bring in their signed medical forms.
- last day for pizza orders Thursday

Monday March 8, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3+ running laps as warmup, partner practice for movement routine
Health - research projects shared, various informational videos watched to generate interest and activate learning
Movement break - LR Brain teaser
Math place value story book
Afternoon filled with art - math place value - representing large numbers. Thanks Miss Kandi for helping us today!

Ask me:
what big number I am representing in my art project

Reminders:
- field trip trip on Wednesday to Telus SPARKS!  Many students still need to bring in their signed medical forms.
- last day for pizza orders THURSDAY

Fri March 5, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting - discussion regarding 'patience' and questions
Gym - gymnastics - partner work
Science - class check-in and writing of next paragraph "5 interesting facts"
whole school - independent D.E.A.R.
Buddy reading with Grade 1 students
Art - place value representation

Ask me:
- what number I am representing in my place value art
- what are the 3 primary colors? (yellow, blue, red)
- what colours are 'neutral'? (beige, grey, white, black, cream)
- what is a 'color wheel'?
- what does 'texture' mean?
- what does a 'solid' color mean?
- what does 'pattern' mean?

Reminders:

- several students still need to bring in their 'medical information' for this Wednesday's field trip

Thurs March 4, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - partner gymnastics
Music - pls see blog
whole school independent D.E.A.R
Health - class discussion and creation of project "I wonder....." questions to guide research
Science - writing of 'adaptation' paragraphs
Body break - class stretches and exercises
whole school D.E.A.R - another Vista Heights teacher comes to read to our class!

Ask me:
- how I modeled
- what kinds of questions did I ask today
- what book I am reading - what is it about?

Reminders:

- field trip notices due

Wed March 3, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - gymnastics: continued partner work - balances, travel, stretch
Learning Commons Book Exchange
D.E.A.R.
Science/S.S. Research - planning our SMART Notebook page, composing paragraphs for classification, habitat, adaptations (camouflage/migration/hibernation), interesting facts
Student presentations on 'Water Safety'
Music - pls see music blog
D.E.A.R.
Math - Brain Pop video on odd/even numbers & partner work playing a 'guess my number' game

Ask me:
- how I know an odd number is odd
- who I played with during recess
- how many laps I ran during the gym warmup - 3 or 5?
- what is another word for 'adapt'?  (change).  talk about the adaptations your child's research animal possesses and why.
- to login to Brain Pop and show you the odd/even video and the fun online activities I can do at home to practice

Reminders:

- pizza forms due
- field trip forms due

Tues March 1, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym: gymnastics: partner work: balances, stretches, balances and travel
Class meeting: 'What kinds of questions do we ask?' 'How can we ask more thoughtful questions?'
D.E.A.R. - independent silent reading
Body Break: L/R Brain Teaser, Hi low and new: Bim Bom
Science/S.S. Animal research project - introduction to SMART Notebook file to share research information
Class Story: Arthur and the Minimoys
Music - pls see music blog
D.E.A.R. - independent silent reading
Math: odd/even - working in pairs, using our body parts to demonstrate odd/even numbers, counting by twos and pairing base ten one blocks to demonstrate odd/even concept

Ask me:
- what kinds of questions I asked today?
- how I demonstrated patience today?
- to show you my favorite balance pose from our gymnastics cards
- to could by twos
- to tell you the difference between odd/even numbers - you call our a number and I'll tell you

Reminders:
- TELUS SPARKS - field trip notice in my backpack
- Pizza forms due
- free headline shampoo can be picked up from the Village Square Community Health Centre