Last day of School before Winter BREAK!!!!

Today Sahar was star student she did the calendar, the weather, and the number day.  We made cards for Mrs Mazurak to surprise her when she gets back. She is hopefully back on January 10th when we all come back from winter break. 

Wednesday December 19

Reedah U. was the star student today, she did the calendar and the number and also the weather. We had a winter assembly today where we got to sing lots of songs. In readers workshop we played a game where we had to say whichever word we landed on. In writing  Grade 2s  told about their winter break, then they told Mrs. Lauder about what they know in math. Grade 1s had a test in math about numbers.  In science we showed Ms. Adamson everything we know about winter. 

Monday December 17th

Winter break is coming soon! Rafay was star student today, he did the numbers, the weather, and the calendar today. In science we showed Ms. Adamson everything that we know about autumn with pictures and words. We had an assembly we did lots of singing holiday songs. We raised over 2000$ for Terry Fox and the school thanks you for your generosity and as a celebration tomorrow we will watch a winter movie in the afternoon! Don't forget that comfy cozy day is on Wednesday.

Friday December 14

Today in health we got health super heros. We also learned about the four food groups - they are, dairy, grains, fruits and vegetables, and proteins. Manraj was star student so he did our calendar and the weather today. In art we made trees that show the 4 seasons- winter, summer, spring, and autumn. Next Wednesday December 18th will be comfy cozy day. Feel free to come to school in your pajamas or your sweats. Please make sure you are still appropriately dressed for the weather.

winter celebration

Tonight was our winter celebration, thank you to all the families who came to participate. Today Haymin was our star student, he did the calendar and weather. In social studies we learned about being a good citizen.

Wednesday December 12

Tomorrow we have our winter celebration. Please come and have a fun time between 6:30 -7:00 arrival time.

Today Harleen was star student. She did our calendar, the weather and counting the days. In Science we drew pictures and wrote words to share what we know about Summer. In grade 1 math we worked on 1 less. In writing we are working on adding words to our pictures. 

Monday December 10

Today Gurnaz was the star student. He did the calendar, the weather and the counting. In social studies we learned about 'citizens'. All people are citizens - we learned how to be a good citizen by being kind, being polite, being honest, being helpful. In grade 1 writing we worked on our writing goals. In Grade 1 math we practiced counting by twos and learned how to draw tallies to help us count. 

** Parents, today a notice came home with students to inform you of our Winter Celebration on Thursday December 13th. Please note you do not need to notify of your attendance, you can simply show up at the school between 6:30 and 7:00 to participate with your child or children. 

Thursday

No school tomorrow.

We have a new food bank goal. Ms Lauder and Ms. Adamson's classes are both making a 50 item goal. May the best class win. Today Brahmvir was star student. He did the calendar and the weather. In social studies we learned about different ways that we can help our community, family, school and social groups to be happy and healthy. In writers workshop we worked on the word 'big'. 

Happy Wednesday

Today Vinay was star student, he did the calendar and the weather and the number day. In writing Grade 2s read 'If you give a cat cupcake'. In math they drew pictures in 5 different ways to show numbers 0 -10. In writing Grade 1s were illustartors. They drew stories and the had to show the setting, this means the place where the story happened. In science we learned about baby animals, they are born in the spring!

Thursday December 4

Today in social studies we talked about how do you make decisions as a group, and we made a special paper with little doors you could open. Tegan was star student he did the calendar, the number day and the weather. We reached our goal of 40 items for the food bank! GREAT JOB!!! In grade 2 writing they had to re write a story after they had listened to it. In readers workshop Ms. Adamson pulled little groups to make snowflakes. Everyone else worked on sight words, they either did the word 'blue' or the word 'can'. In grade 1 writing, grade 1s visualised the playground outside and then made a story that took place there. Some people got a turn to share.

Happy Monday

Today Tanroz was the star student, she did our calendar, the weather and the number day. On Friday we tried making snowflakes and they didn't work so well, so today Ms. Adamson pulled small group to try again and they are looking much better. This will continue for the rest of the week till everyone has a snowflake. In science we learned about how plants grow in Spring. All plants start as little tiny seed, even trees! In readers workshop we worked on sight word, some students did the word 'and' and other students did the word 'come'. Grade 2s did some ice cream coloring with number words like 'first' 'second'. 

We need one more item still to reach our food bank goal!

Wednesday our librarian Ms. Samrai is going to teach us all how to check out our own books, so please remember to bring library books back on WEDNESDAY!!!!!

Friday finally!

Today Sukhman was the star student. She did our calendar. Today we made some snowflakes, they were pretty tricky, we will try again another day. Please bring donations for the food bank. We need one more thing to reach our goal! It was also Dilsher's birthday today, very exciting! In math, Grade 2s did some coloring with word instuctions like 'first colour... and second...'. Grade 1s did a 'one more' game where we rolled a dice and then had to put a block on the space that showed one more. In health we learned about healthy foods, we had to sort them into food groups. 

Thursday

Today Suhaan was the star student, he did the calendar and the weather. In writers workshop, Grade 1s were illustrators and made our best stories and did some sharing! Today Grade 2s did a card game with odds and evens. In social studies we made a group decision in groups of three to color a poster. This showed Ms. Adamson how well we can work as a team. Math Grade 1s did a number line game with 2 more. We need more food donations for the food bank. 2 more and we will reach our goal!

Happy Wednesday

Sritha was our star student today, she did the calendar. In math Grade 2s played a card game where they had to draw the number that they picked. They also had to add their cards together. In readers workshop we did the short u and long u. Now we know all of our short and long vowel sounds!!! In science we talked about activities in Spring and Summer! Please bring donations for the food bank!! We need 5 more things to reach our goal!

Tuesday

Today, Sehaj was star student, he did calendar for us and the weather, and counting days of school. Grade 1s did some drawings of animals, they are becoming illustrators. We learned how all drawings are made of different shapes. In social studies we learned about making decisions in groups: the steps are 1) thinking 2) asking each other and 3)deciding. In Math grade 2s learned about Odd and Even numbers. 

Freezing Monday

Today Samaira was the star student and she did our calendar, the weather for today and the days of school counting. In science we learned about the activities that we do in winter and autumn - in autumn we can make leaf piles and in winter we can make snowmen. In math, Grade 2s did skip counting by tens, and twos. In writing Grade 2s listened to the book 'Not a Box' they had to turn a plain 'L' into something colorful and exciting. In writing Grade 1s became 'Illustrators'- the people who put pictures in books' and we drew pictures to make our own story about our family. In math Grade 1s played a game with a number line. They rolled a dice, had to move their playing piece to that number plus one more.

Thursday!

Today Pavreet was the star student, she did our calendar. Tonight and tomorrow are student led conferences. Tomorrow there will be no school. We are trying to get 40 items for the foodbank, we have 31 so far. Please help us reach our goal. We practiced our game for conferences in Social studies so we are all ready to show you what we are learning!

Tuesday!

Today Rida was the star student and she did the calendar and she was our line leader. In math today, Grade 2s were counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. Grade 1s worked with number a number line that went from 0 to 30 and we built blocks along our number line. Grade 2s did self portraits with Ms. Lauder. Grade 1s did letter x- x-ray starts with 'x' and so does, xylophone, xbox, and x-men. In social studies we talked about how we follow the rules, and why it is important. In readers workshop we worked more on short and long a. 

Please book for student led conferences!!! 

Please bring donations for the food bank!

We have set a goal to bring 23 things for the food bank by next Friday! Help us reach our goal. 

Happy Monday!

Today Reedah was the star student, she did our calendar, the weather, and counted how many days of school we've had so far! She was also our line leader. In science we helped each other get on the computers. We played a game of dress up for the 4 seasons -autumn, summer, winter, and spring. We did lots of movement breaks today. Thursday and Friday are student led conferences. We are going to show you the game that we played today in science so please do not forget to book!!!! Grade 2s felt different objects and then we had to use adjectives to describe them (ask me what we felt!), in math they did skip counting by 2s. Grade 1s worked on letter 'W'- whale starts with W, watermelon, wet, and water! In math we did a number line with a group, we had to race to see who could get their number line done first. Then we did some subitizing. We did some Dr. Jean alphabet and counting to 100. We all also learned about long A sounds and short A sounds, LONG A says his own name, short A says the 'ahhh' sound. 

We are accepting donations to the food bank! Please bring food items like: tuna in a can, cereal, any foods in a can, or dried foods like pasta, and bottled drinks. 

4 seasons dress up game

4 Seasons Dress Up Game

Friday!

Today Rafay was star student, he did the calendar, the number day and the weather. In health we learned about how our brains work. We finished our poppies today and Ms. Adamson is going to put them up so that when parents come for student led conferences they will see them. We sorted pictures by their first letter, and then we coloured them.

Happy Birthday to SRITHA!!!!!


Please sign up for student led conferences!

Thursday!

Pavreet was our star student today. She did our calendar, she helped to say the day, and the month, and the number day and the year. In social studies we learned about how to be a good student in class. This is by not distracting others, by helping the teacher, and making sure we are paying attention. In readers workshop we are working on different jobs like sight words, and letters and matching words or letters with pictures. 


Please remember to book student led conferences, and return any forms that have not yet been turned in. 

Happy Wednesday

Owen was the star student today so he did our calendar. In science we learned about hibernation, migration and adapting. Adapting is when your fur changes color to match the snow and it changes from thick to thin depending on the weather. Hibernating is when the animals sleep through the winter and wake up in spring. Migrating is when animals go far away to somewhere that's warm (usually further south). Today we had a firedrill, we all did an awesome job!! Hooray!!!!! Safe, silent, serious. 

November 13

Today Manraj was the star student, he was our line leader and was helper and also did our calendar for today. We went to music today. In social studies we learned about honesty which means telling the truth. We read a book where the main character was telling lies, she felt sad and mad and bad, and at the end she told the truth. 

November 12

Haymin was the star student today which means he was our line leader, he also did our calendar and our schedule. In math, Grade 2s worked on counting by 2s and 5s and 10s. Grade 2s read a book called 'Johan makes a wish' and wrote about wishes in writing time. For math time, Grade 1s counted things all around the room. In science we are learning about the seasons. Today we learned about hibernation!

Remembrance Day

Today we got poppies. We got them so that we can remember the soldiers who fought in the war. We also had an assembly about remembrance day and remembering the soldiers who died. We took a moment of silence during the assembly to think about and thank those soldiers. We did some art today: we painted poppies with our thumbs and we also worked on our pumpkin or fall art. We watched a video and we learned that poppies are for remembering the soldiers, the poppies started growing on the fields where the soldiers died, all the money from buying poppies goes to the soldiers and their families to help them buy food and clothes.

Picture retake day is on MONDAY!!!!!! If you need retakes please bring back your whole envelope with pictures and forms.

Thursday November 8

Two important notes for parents:

1) conferences are open for booking online on PowerSchool. They will be happening November 22 (evening) and 23 (day time). This can be done under my name (Paige Adamson). Please refer to the notice sent via School Messenger for more details.

2) retakes for pictures are on Monday November 12. If you would like a retake, please bring your envelope, proof sheet and order form. If you have not had a photo taken at all yet, this can happen on Monday as well.


Today we worked on letter T in writing with Grade 1s. Grade 2s did a remembrance day story and read it for the class. In math they worked on counting backwards by 2s and 5s. We also worked on a writing sample to show Ms. Adamson where we are at in our writing. Hadia was star student today so she did our calendar. In social studies we talked about Kindness and we had to solve puzzles to figure out what kindness words and phrases fit into different spots. We also went to gym. Tomorrow we will be having our remembrance day assembly which we learned a little bit about today.

November 7th

Today we learned about ten frames in math. We are also working on subitizing, which is seeing a number of dots and quickly figuring out how many there are. In writing Grade 1s worked on letter S. Grade 2s worked on a Rememberance day poem. In the afternoon we did an activity about kindness. We drew a picture of something we could do that is kind, and then wrote kindness words like: sharing, caring, being nice, be friends, being respectful, bucket filler. At the end of the day today we had music!

Happy Diwali!

November 6th

Today we learned about migration! Did you know that birds migrate to the south in the winter? They fly in a specific shape together and can find their destination without a map! In math Grade 1s have been making our own memory card game. In writing we worked on letter R.

November 2nd

Today we started computers. We had our first time logging in this year! It's still pretty hard and we will keep working on it. We learned about not giving up today. When something is a challenge we need to keep trying. We did some fall art with pumpkins! We drew first in pencil and then we went over it with marker. Brahmvir was star student today so he did our calendar today.

November 1st

Today we started our November calendar. In math, grade 1s made cards with numbers on them and with the number words. In math, grade 2s counted seeds by 2s to find out how many seeds were in their Halloween pumpkin yesterday. There were 500 seeds! In grade 2 writing they made monsters. They had to describe what their monster looked like then they had to try and guess whose monster was whose. Today grade 1s were working on letter 'Q' - we learned that queen starts with letter 'Q' and quick also starts with 'Q'.  We learned about 'cooperation' and we worked in a group to come up with a way to solve a problem. We could use 'rock paper scissors' to take turns. We could also all share together.

Halloween fun day!

Happy Halloween!

We had a Halloween assembly today, we did lots of Halloween dancing. We learned about going trick-or-treating safely. We learned: you have to go with your parents, you could go with a big brother or sister if they are big enough, you could go with Grandma or Grandpa, or we could go with our friends and their family. We shouldn't go into anyone's house who is a stranger, only if they are someone that we know. Finally, we need to be careful walking to houses for trick-or-treating because it can be dangerous crossing the street.

Safe trick-or-treating everyone!

Tuesday October 30

Today we had a lock down! We did an awesome job at sitting quietly until the police and Ms. McLaren came to tell us that that the lockdown was over. In Math Grade 1s worked on showing numbers with dots and by writing number words. In writing we worked on letter 'P'.  We also did some art and are working on drawing pumpkins. At the end of the day we had gym.

Monday October 29th

Today we had music. We also worked on counting on from different numbers in Grade 1 math. In writing we worked on the letter 'O' in grade 1. We all had to rearrange a sentence to make sure it made sense by cutting it and gluing it in the right order- using clues like capital letters, punctuation, and what would make sense. In science we are learning about the seasons, we went on a walk on this lovely autumn day so that we could write and draw about what we see, smell, hear, feel, and even taste in autumn. If you have not yet sent back your form with the distance between the house and the school, please send this back as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Ms. Adamson

Thursday October 25

Important note for Parents,


You will notice on your child's home reading/writing bag that there is a new sticker! This is to inform you on what day your child will be going to the Library to exchange their books. As we are not having a library time and students will only be going two at a time, they have been given a library buddy and a day on which they will go to the library each week. With the help of your child please do your best to bring library books back on their library day so that they can exchange their books. If your child forgets their book on their library day, they will need to wait for their library day the next week to return their book -this will not result in late fees of any kind. Home reading/journals still need to come back on Tuesdays.

Thank you,

Ms. Adamson


Today we started learning about the four seasons, we wrote about some things that we know about each season and drew a picture to go with our writing. We also had to match a weather/season picture with a weather/season activity. We all know that we don't go to the beach when it snows! In math we worked on finding groups of certain numbers and matching the number word with the group. In writing we finished letter N and we wrote a sentence using an N word and drew a picture that matched. Finally we went to gym today.

Wednesday October 24

Today Sritha was star student so she did our calendar for us. In Writing Grade 1s started work with letter N. In Math Grade 1s worked on matching the number with the number word. A couple of students got to share their home journals today! We also learned about peace and cooperation in Social studies today and talked about what peace looks like, what it sounds like, and what is and what is not peace and cooperation. We also worked on building questions using our understanding of Capital letters and punctuation to help us figure out the word order, then created our own pictures to match our questions.

Yesterday:

We had an assembly about our exciting grant from A+ for Energy.  We have decided that we are going to work as a school to try and be more active and help the earth at the same time by trying to walk or bike to school instead of drive. In order to keep track of how far our students are walking every day I am asking you to please let me know the distance between your homes and the school. I am sending home a notice with more information for you, if you could please read and return this notice with the desired information, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Ms Adamson

Monday October 22

It is almost Halloween, we are excited! We listened to a story called 'Lily's Purple Plastic Purse' and then we drew pictures and wrote labels of what we would put in our own special bag. Savroop did our calendar today because she was our Star Student. In Math, Grade 2s did some memory work; Grade 1s worked on numbers one, two and three, writing the word, drawing that number and writing the number. We had a kite story that was all mixed up and we had to put in order. Finally, Ms. Adamson came back and she is going to be our teacher until winter break while Ms. Mazurak is away. A formal notice will also be coming home.