As part of the fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation the students took part in Jump Rope For Heart activities. Earlier in the week, during gym class, the grade one students were helped by their grade six buddies with their skipping skills. The students worked with skipping ropes, hula hoops and basket balls for the Jump Rope activities.
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As part of our literacy block in the morning we always start off with shared reading in the form of one or two poems. These poems are completed for the week and involve seasonal themes. In addition to practicing choral reading we also look at the sight words and punctuation in each poem. The students are always eager to show how they have mastered the poems by reading them in front of the class. Each Monday a copy of the poems are placed in the student's poetry duotangs so the students can practice them through the week when doing read to self during work stations. Just a reminder that poetry books go home on Friday so the students can practice them at home and should be returned every Monday. The students have physical education class twice a week. The students completed working on parachute activities for physical education. and are now working on circuit activities involving hula hoops, basketballs, scooters and skipping ropes. Part of the school day is taken up by centre work. During the literacy block in the morning the students spend a good portion of the 100 minutes a day working on centres while Ms. Raniwsky and I are doing guided reading. Ms. Raniwsky is a former teacher and principal that volunteers twice a week to do guided reading with the students. Students that are not doing guided reading are working on centre activities such as read to self, listening to reading, writing, word work, phonics pocket chart activities, write the room or iPad work on sight words. The students rotate through the centres with their partner each day. During the math block the students also rotate through math centres with their partner. Each math centre students are practicing various math related skills such as addition, subtraction, number recognition, number writing, graphing, and/or measurement. Even though the time is short the students are learning not just math or literacy skills but also how to work with a partner. Congratulations to Aleah who was awarded the Journey to Holiness award for Belonging. We continue to work on our measurement unit. The students went around the classroom measuring items that were longer, shorter and the same size as a 1 meter string. We have also been studying area. The students measured their desk tops as well as estimating and measuring a mitten diagram using unifix cubes. We have also started some new math workstation activities involving addition and subtraction. We are continuing to work on identifying teen numbers to 20 using base ten blocks, number lines, numbers, words and ten frames. Last Tuesday the school students took part in various classes in the morning that promoted being in a "Healthy State of Mind". The students learned ways to promote a healthy mind such as using breathing exercises and meditation to promote feelings of calmness and quietness. They completed a session with Sister Connie on prayer. They were taught to believe in themselves through positive thoughts and contributed ways to calm their bodies through writing. The students lastly were exposed to a session on yoga. This week the students practiced making estimates and measuring the length of their friends using a non-standard measuring device; a straw. Ella was chosen as the Journey to Holiness Award winner for Kindness for the month of February. Please turn in all unsold chocolate bars and money if you have not done so already. Every Friday the students are encouraged to wear their house-league shirts in order to gain points for their teams. The students had a great time at Winstars Gymnastics. The students rotated through a number of activities such as various trampolines, mats, balance beams, a foam pit and a maze of large and small shaped mats. By the end of the afternoon the students had worked so hard they were sleeping on the bus back to school. Last week was a very busy week. On Monday the students celebrated the 100th day of school. The students rotated to different primary classrooms and completed 100th day activities such as building with 100 items, making a necklace with 100 cereal pieces, making a 100th day hat, and counting out 100 food items for a hungry hash. During math the students that brought in their collections of 100 items counted them for the class. It was also Valentine's Day on Thursday. The students exchanged their Valentines after decorating a Valentine bag, and we played Valentine bingo at the end of the day. Friday the students took part in activities for Carnival put together by our French teacher Madame Guacasci and the grade 6 class. Great fun was had by all! Congratulations to Ava Wilson who was chosen to receive the Journey To Holiness Award for Goodness. As a conclusion to our 2-Dimensional Shape unit in Geometry, the students composes pictures using cut shapes. For Friday's past Show and Tell the students were asked to bring in their collections of 100 items. This tied in with the 100th day of school which is Monday. |
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June 2019
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