Important Notice coming home: Mrs. Rohrbacher will be teaching in Room 1 until further notice. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Traquair at sjtraquair@cbe.ab.ca or call her at 403-777-6000.

Mrs. Rohrbacher will be updating the blog in the upcoming week. Until then, feel free to visit the other classroom blogs by visiting www.vistaheightsschool.blogspot.ca

Thank you for your patience :)

 Our Remembrance Day assembly will be

 tomorrow, November 10th, at 10:30

Donations for poppies will be accepted tomorrow 

Everyone is welcome

Students who are Beavers or Brownies may wear their uniforms

Please note that students do not attend school on November 11th

 Today, your child will bring home the Consent and Acknowledgement of Risk forms 

for an opportunity to attend a program by the 

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

next week on November 19th

Please read the accompanying information about this trip, 

and promptly complete and return the forms

If you are interested in purchasing your child's set of photos, 

please place your order in the next few days

Thank you 

Friday November 6, 2015

Today's Learning:

Class meeting
Science: 'Architectural Design' LEGO construction and 'group work self-reflection'
Gym: 5 laps, 'Fri Warmup', stretches, ball skills - mini basketball games
Story: 'Who Moved My Cheese?'
Science: 'Geology' unit - video and activities about 'Animal Classification'

Math: weekly, individual POINTS
Art: sketching

Ask me: 

- what I learned from the Gr. 4 leaders about being a cooperative group member?

- how I demonstrate perseverance when I run 5 difficult laps
- what the 'Who Moved My Cheese' story is teaching me?
- what does 'classify' mean?
- what groups of animals did I learn about?  what is important about each group?
- how many points did I receive for this week.  what point was I most proud of? how did I earn most of my points?  how can I improve for next week?
- what did I learn to sketch today?

Homework: 

2 RAZ Reading Books and activities/questions

Reminders and Notices: 
- Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by November 9
- Digital Champions Club on Monday noon hour?
- Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by MONDAY!!

Thursday November 5, 2015

Today's Learning:

Class meeting
Science: 'Architectural Design' LEGO building and self-reflection
Gym: 5 laps, 'Thurs Warmup', ball skills - mini soccer games
Math: 'look for a pattern' strategy, 'High Five' math problem
Body Break
Literacy: story writing

Ask me: 

- what my group built with LEGO today?
- about the story I wrote about a hatching chick.  - what words helped me create my story?
- what did I learn about 'characters' and 'setting' in a story?
- what 'YOWZA words did I include in my story?

Reminders and Notices: 
- DIGITAL CHAMPIONS Club tomorrow at LUNCH?
- Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by November 9

Wednesday November 4, 2015

Today's Learning:

Class meeting: what does 'strategy mean'? what is a 'guess, check, revise' math strategy? Work habits and expectations for the substitute
Math: 'I'm thinking of a number'..... game
Learning Commons Book Exchange
Math: Coin problem
Gym: 5 laps, Wed Warmup, stretches, mini games of basketball
Story: 'Who Moved My Cheese?'
Music:
Body Break:
Literacy: Capitalization and ending punctuation

Ask me: 

- about the math strategies I have learned so far?

Reminders and Notices: 
Hot Soup tomorrow
YMCA tomorrow
- Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by November 9

Tuesday November 3, 2015

Today's Learning:

Class meeting
Science: LEGO 'Architectural Design' building centers
Math: new problem-solving strategy 'guess, check, revise'
Gym - 5 laps, student-led stretches, mini indoor soccer game
Story: 'Who Moved My Cheese'
Music: pls see music blog
Body Break
Literacy: Capitalization and end punctuation exercises

Ask me: 

- what my group built in our LEGO design centre today
- about the message from our 'Who Moved My Cheese' story
- what our music learning task was
- what kinds of ending punctuation do I know
- what is the math problem-solving strategy I learned today

Homework: 

- License plate math game (described in an earlier blog) practicing addition and subtraction basic facts for speed and accuracy

Reminders and Notices: 
- Learning Commons book exchange tomorrow *bring all library books to renew or exchange*!!!
- Choir tomorrow
- Kids World dinner and activities tonight
- Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by November 9
- Pls return Digital Champions Club forms if interested in joining this lunch time club

Monday November 2, 2015

Today's Learning:

Class meeting
Math: points from last week, multiple number addition and subtraction sentences, tallies
Science: soil, decomposition and recycling exit slip
Gym: 5 laps, stretching, ball skills - soccer mini game
Science: LEGO building, next centre
Body Break
Literacy: new virtue - 'gentleness' bookmarks

Ask me: 

- what does the virtue 'gentleness' mean?
- how many points I received last week

Reminders and Notices: 
We will be going on a field trip to Fort Calgary on November 16th, all day.  If you have security clearance and would like to accompany us, we are in need of 2 volunteers.  Pls send a note with your child if you are interested.
Hot Soup tomorrow
YMCA tomorrow
Kids World dinner and activities tomorrow
- please check your child's backpack for a notice to participate in our DIGITAL CHAMPIONS Club each week on Monday and Friday lunch hour.  The first meeting is on Friday!  I hope all of my students will be interested in joining, as this will be a very fun club
-  Grade 2 students, please return signed dental forms by November 9
- Purdy's Chocolate orders - in backpack
- November Newsletter - goes home with youngest student in family