This is the snack calendar for the month of January. Please take the time to find out when your child’s snack day is and plan to send a healthy snack to class to share. The snack should be simple enough for your child to prepare and serve independently. Please no NUTS. Healthy cookies or muffins, cheese and crackers, bagels and jam or cream cheese, salsa and chips, fruit and vegetables are some snack ideas.

Birthday (BD) snacks will happen either on or as close to your child’s birthday as possible. If you forget to send snack, please send an “emergency” snack for us to serve when others forget theirs.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays Division 5 families! Enjoy your time together over the break and see you in January!

I’ve uploaded some photos of our work this past week.

Indoor Shoes

Due to the wet and snowy weather, I ask that students wear the appropriate footwear to school (winter boots).  Please ensure that your child has indoor shoes (sneakers, slip-ons, even slippers) for the classroom so that we can keep our space clean and dry during the day.  Thank you.

Wednesday December 14th: Division 5 will be watching the grade 7 students perform “Twelfth Night”.

Thursday December 15th: Christmas Ornament making with Dita, Jacey’s mom.  Ms. I will be joining us this morning to make ornaments from pine cones and walnuts. Thank you Rebecca, Corine and Ms. I for volunteering to help out!

• feathers
• buttons
• felt
• coloured pipe cleaners
• yarn

On Thursday afternoon from 1:30pm–2:30pm there will a celebration assembly for Ms. Marlow on her retirement.

Friday December 16th: Pyjama Day and last day of classes before the holidays!

Work Charts

Grade 1: december12-16_grade1workchart

Grade 2: december12-16_grade2workchart

Grade 3: december12-16_grade3workchart

Math

This week the students are working hard to finish up their polygon projects and their work with addition.

Grade 2 students working on their polygon projects.

The bead frame being used to practice dynamic addition.

Language

We only have 1 chapter to go in The Lemonade War and Catwings! This will be our last week of literature circles for both the grade 2s and 3s! Both groups have done an impressive job each week doing the assigned reading, their tasks and questions, and coming to the meetings prepared to discuss the chapter.  I have been inspired by our work with Lit O’s! Thank you 2s and 3s!

Remember, we will meet for our last discussion on Friday!

Culture

The students have been working on their space logbooks and their planet designs.  Hopefully by the end of this week all students will have created a model of their imagined planet.

Space logbook work.

A student creates her paper mache model of her planet, Plurp!

Planet design by a grade 1 student.

Planet design by a grade 1 student.

Model making!

Progress!

Planet design models hanging to dry.

All three grades worked hard this week to edit a piece of writing from our field trip to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. The students were required to write about the trip, edit their writing using the Criteria for Success, peer conference and write a final copy with a detailed illustration.

Working on the final copy.

A grade 1 student works on his final copy of his writing about our field trip.

A grade 1 student was very proud to finish his final copy of his writing on our trip to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

Thursday December 15th at 9:15am

Next week, Dita, Jacey’s mom will be volunteering her time in the classroom to help us  make pine cone and walnut Christmas ornaments.

• feathers
• buttons
• felt
• coloured pipe cleaners
• yarn
• glue guns

Please send a toonie with your child for Friday’s show!

Riddle of the week:   What can you catch but not throw?

Monday December 5th: Pro-D day, no school for students

Friday December 9th: Gladstone Dance Show 10:00am-12:00pm, please bring $2!

Shared Snack Reminder: Please remember to check the snack schedule posted on the blog and also outside the classroom to ensure that you do not forget to pack a snack for the class on your snack day!

Food Bank Donations: This week we will start collecting food bank donations in the classroom.  We will be discussing the reason for collecting non-perishable food items and why it is important to help those in need.  Our goal as a class will be to fill 3-4 boxes.

Work charts:

Grade 1: december6-9_grade1workchart

Grade 2: december6-9_grade2workchart

Grade 3: december6-9_grade3workchart

Math

The grade 1 and 2 students are both working on their polygon projects this week.

A grade 1 student works hard on their polygon project.

Math Facts (+, x): all three grades are still practicing their addition with the various Montessori materials.  The grade 3 students are practicing their multiplication.

Grade 2 students use the bead frame to practice addition.

Language

After our field trip to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, the students wrote about the experience. This week we will be editing our work using the Criteria For Success and peer conferencing to write a final copy of our work.

Literature circles: the grade 2s and 3s are still diligently working on their Literature circle tasks.  Each week the groups seem to be improving their ability to discuss their respective books!

Classification cards

A student was inspired by her work with plurals that she decided to write a story using the words!

Culture

Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to help out with the field trip last week! We had an amazing time learning even more about space.

A piece of the moon!!

Space Logbooks: all three grades are working on finishing their space logbooks using the planet envelopes

A grade 3 student working with the planet envelopes.

Over the next 2 weeks the students are creating their own planets.  Students are designing planets based on their prior knowledge and all the work they have put into their space logbooks.

Students will create their planet using paper mache, plasticene, do a detailed drawing or painting.

Grade 1 students designing their planets.

Classroom Community

On Thursday December 15th Tyee is having an assembly for Mrs. Marlow.  We have been singing and practicing songs about Mr.s Marlow to the tune of well-known Christmas songs.  We will continue practicing these songs this week and into next.

Pyjama day will be on our last day of class before our Christmas break, Friday December 16th.

December 2016

Thursday December 1st, 2016- Field Trip

8:55am – Arrive at Tyee Elementary School, attendance in classrooms

9:00am – Board bus to Planetarium

9:15am – Leave Tyee Elementary

9:45am – Arrive at Planetarium

Workshops

Grade 1:

10:00am – Our Night Sky

11:00am – Secrets of the Sky

12:00pm – Lunch

1:00pm – Day in Space

Grade 2/3:

10:00am – Solar System Fun

11:00am – Cosmic Courtyard

11:30am – Lunch

12:00pm – Surfing the Solar System

1:00pm – Day in Space

1:30pm – Board bus back to Tyee Elementary

2:00-2:15pm – Arrive at Tyee Elementary

2:15-3:00pm – Journal write

What to bring:

• Lunch
• Snack
• Water
• Backpack that children can carry
• Appropriate clothing and shoes for the weather

Thursday December 1st: Field trip to the HR MacMillan Space Centre

My Graduation

Thank you to Tyee and Division 5 especially for making me feel supported and loved on my convocation day! It is truly amazing the community that we have at our school.

Work Charts

Grade 1: november28-december2_grade1workchart

Grade 2: november28-december2_grade2workchart-docx-1

Grade 3: november28-december2_grade3workchart-docx-1

Math

The snake game.

All three grades are using the snake game to practice their addition facts!

Practice makes progress.

The grade 1 students started learning about polygons this week. The grade 2 students are reviewing polygons.

Grade 2 students hard at work on their polygon posters.

Polygon review.

Quadrilaterals!

Grade 3 students played polygon patterns to review both polygons and pattern work.

Grade 3 students played polygon patterns to review both polygons and pattern work.

Language

Grade 3 reading comprehension.

Grammar work.

The grade 1s have been learning about Nouns!

Nouns in the environment

Nouns in the environment.

Culture

This week we will be continuing to  study each planet in more detail and working on our space logbooks. This will give us the information and details needed for us to be able to design and create our own planets in the weeks to come!  The students will have the opportunity to be creative while also incorporating the knowledge and information gained from our in-depth solar system and planet study.

Social Responsibility 

We now have two tents in the classroom! Thank you Sadie and your family for lending one to our class. The tents are meant for quiet time to get back into the green zone. Students can take a book or two, a squishy stress ball, or Mr. Frog into the tent to have a moment alone. They are also responsible for bringing the 5 minute timer so that they know when to come out and get back to their work.

Hi Parents,

Just a reminder that we need parent volunteers in order for us to venture to the Planetarium on December 1st. Please let me know if this is a possibility for you!

Thank you!
Hannah