Skating Dates:
Thursday January 19: 1:00pm-3:15pm
Thursday February 9: 1:00pm-3:15pm
Thursday February 23: 1:00pm-3:15pm
Monday March 6: 1:00pm-3:15pm
Students will leave school at 1:00 and walk to Trout Lake Rink. An attendant will be on hand at 1:15pm for skate rentals. Ice time is from 1:30-2:45. Students will walk back to school and arrive between 3:00 and 3:15. All students are required to wear a helmet.
Work charts:
Grade 1: January16-20_grade1workchart
Grade 2: January16-20_Grade2workchart
Grade 3: January16-20_grade3workchart
Snack Schedule
Math
Learning place value using the golden bead material.
The grade 2s were reviewing addition using the golden bead material.
The grade 3s practicing their multiplication facts in preparation for the checkerboard!
A grade 1 student builds numbers using the golden beads.
Learning the checkerboard!
Learning multiplication with the checkerboard.
Language
The grade 1 students participated in ‘Nouns at the Bakery’! They found many nouns and the bakery and created stories with the bakery as their inspiration.
A grade 1 student was inspired by the different symbols and colours that Montessori assigns to different parts of speech. This student created a poster.
Learning the adverb grammar box.
Grade 2 students work on their word study work with classification cards.
Culture
We learned the layers of the Earth this week in our Culture study.
Layers of the Earth.
The students also participated in an experiment around the arrangement of matter. Students learned that matter arranges itself by density. Each of the elements of the Earth arranged themselves according to density. The most dense went to the bottom, or center, of the Earth. The least dense remained above. Students used the scientific method to predict and observe what would happen if we were to shake a jar with sugar, rocks and a ping pong ball. Students used their knowledge of how matter arranges itself to predict. Of course, the ping pong ball remained near the surface of the sugar while the rocks sank and were buried.
Social Responsibility/Classroom Community
The kinetic sand – one of the many tools we have in the classroom to help bring us back into the green zone so that we are alert and ready for learning.