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.