May 1, 2015

Wow, it's hard to believe it is already May!   Today we had a very special guest come to visit us, Pinocchio came to share the mystery of what made his nose grow!  Ask your child what they learned. We were all so curious Mrs. Roberts sent them an email and they agreed to share their secret with us. 

I think we all realize now how important it is to ask questions!

Scientist of the day - starts next Monday - hopefully all of you got this handout last week and that your child's date works.  If not please let me know asap.  I have also posted the list of all the dates on our classroom window.  We have not set a specific time each day that we will doing these science projects but if you wanted to be there when your child presents please let me know and we will arrange the time. 

Poetry Recital is Monday, May 11th at 10:35 all parents are welcome to attend.  Students should be practicing their poems at home so they can try to memorize it.  Thanks for your help with this. 

We went to a special presentation on Wednesday.  Eric Wilson is a Canadian author of many mystery novels.  We all enjoyed this session and learned many good ideas to help us with our own writing.  Div. 7 is excited to read Eric's favourite book Mystery on the Canadian.   Eric Wilson's website  ericwilson.com  has  the first chapter of  all his books if your child is interested in reading any of these and our school library has many of these books available now and will be ordering more.

Grouse Mountain field trip on Friday, May 29th please sign up for this asap 

April 24th

Thanks to Marco and Kate's mom for picking up the hot chocolate from Starbucks and Zander's mom for helping to serve it.  All the students were happy to redeem their prize for Club RED reading even though they were disappointed that they couldn't actually go there.  Also thanks to Sam's mom for providing the yummy marshmallows.

Just Right Reading books were changed today. 

May 11th is our Primary Poetry Recital so today we started choosing poems so we can start practicing them.  All the grade 2's are partnered up while the grade 3's will be doing one on their own.  They can either choose and recite a poem or write their own poem.  This activity is to prepare our students for public speaking which starts in Grade 4.  

We have started an exciting project with our big buddies.  We are designing door covers for Robert Munsch books.  In the next month you should start to see many of these up all over Fairview.

In Math we have continued to work on addition with and without regrouping, reviewing fact families and are now focusing on multiplication. 

We started track and field stations in gym and have new stations in both Explorations and Reader's Workshop.

We completed our 'foil art' projects and now they look pretty amazing up in the hall!  You'll have to come by to see them. 

Popcorn sales are next Wednesday and Thursday.  They sell for $2.00 a bag. 

Scooter Fun

April 17th

On Tuesday Mrs. Crook came to our class for a second visit. This time we read a very good book about how dream catchers can catch all the bad dreams.   We each got to make our own dream catchers!

Just a reminder to all parents that each week we have a new spelling lesson.  We start on Monday, they write their words in their planners and work on the lesson. They continue each day with the quiz on Friday.  We don't have a lot of in class time to complete these so your child may be bringing it home during the week, if you could please check with your child and assist them to complete this they will be more successful on Friday and learn/master that phonics focus each week.  Spelling City a link on the blog is also a great way for them to practice these words.

A huge thank you to the parents who drove and/or volunteered to attend the ACT with us yesterday.  Pinocchio was an excellent play that we all really enjoyed.

We also started to look closely at different wonders this week.  This week we looked several interesting questions.  Why do you sneeze?  Why do rabbits hop?  How does the sun make energy?  

Scholastic book orders were sent home on Thursday and are due next Tuesday, April 22.

Next Friday morning there will be no Family Reading but instead we will be walking to Starbucks to receive our free hot chocolate that we won for our second place finish in Club RED.  We can just use your child's general walking field trip for this outing.  If any parents are able to join us for the walk that would be great!  

April 10

Another short but busy week.  We were all very anxious to start new Explorations/Invitations with Ms Roberts class.  The students are excited to be able to go to either classroom and to work with peers from the other class. Ask your child about some of the new things that can explore!

We have now started working more on our community unit. Hopefully your child has told you about their homework. They are each to choose a favourite thing/place in your community to draw and write about, if possible please have this returned to school on Tuesday.  We are looking for any parents that would be able to come into our class to talk about their job/career.  It would give the students a great opportunity to learn from your experiences and about all the different possibilities for when they grow up. 

Field trip to the ACT is next Thursday afternoon.  We are still short drivers (we only have spaces for 16 students)  Please remember to send booster seats on Thursday morning.  Thanks.

April 2

Ms Rowledge-Toscani played an April Fool's joke on us by saying we didn't have time for either snack or recess because we had so much work to catch up on!  We all believed her!   Luckily she told us in time to have our snack!  We met our new buddies for our third term and made the cool Easter eggs which we brought home either Wednesday or Thursday!

We have been reading The Hundred Dresses and now realize how important it is to always be kind to each other and not make fun of someone because of how they look, talk or what their name is.  

In math we started some new stations, we are focusing on addition with and without regrouping, money. reviewing our subtraction facts and multiplication on the Smart board.

For Art this week we did a directed drawing of a bunny hiding in some grass.  Don't they all look great even though we all followed the same directions everyone is very different and unique! They make our bulletin board in the hall look great.

We changed table groups.  Also be sure to check out our Poetry books as we have a student author plus an Easter word search. 

Today Division 7 had lots of treats!   We celebrated both Aston and Adrien's birthdays which are on Sunday plus Mallary brought special cookies for Easter.  Plus we had Booster Juice!   Thanks for the yummy goodies!

 Hope you all have a wonderful long Easter weekend!

March 31

Today we had a special guest for gym.  It was Suzanne from Little Karate masters (Skillz Maritial Arts Training).  We played some great games but still focused on discipline and self control.  It was so much fun!  Each child received a card for a free trial class.