Please remember to bring in your field trip forms by Wednesday January 25th

January 27th, Division 5 is going to the HSBC Arts Umbrella Workshop at their Granville Island location.  Your child received a field trip consent form today and should have brought it home this afternoon.  The students will be participating in a theatre arts workshop, a visual arts workshop and a media arts workshop.  Please ensure that your child has lunch and water in a backpack that they can carry, and appropriate clothing and shoes for the weather.

Cost: $12.00 (the cost of the bus ride)

** we still need 2 more parent volunteers to accompany us

Here are the guidelines outlined by the Arts Umbrella staff:

• “A parent who will be able to let the students express themselves and to create their own artwork without judgement.”
• “We ask that it is just one parent in the room and that their own child isn’t in that workshop.”

“Thanks for your understanding with these requests.” – The Arts Umbrella Staff

Please email me at hlangille@vsb.bc.ca if you are able and willing to volunteer for this field trip.

Work Charts:

Grade 1:January23-27_grade1workchart

Grade 2: January23-27_Grade2workchart.docx (1)

Grade 3: January23-27_grade3workchart

Reminders:

Arts Umbrella field trip forms: Please remember to bring in your field trip forms by Wednesday January 25th.

January 27th, Division 5 is going to the HSBC Arts Umbrella Workshop at their Granville Island location.  Your child received a field trip consent form today and should have brought it home this afternoon.  The students will be participating in a theatre arts workshop, a visual arts workshop and a media arts workshop.  Please ensure that your child has lunch and water in a backpack that they can carry, and appropriate clothing and shoes for the weather.

Cost: $12.00 (the cost of the bus ride)

** we need 3 parent volunteers to accompany us

Here are the guidelines outlined by the Arts Umbrella staff:

• “A parent who will be able to let the students express themselves and to create their own artwork without judgement.”
• “We ask that it is just one parent in the room and that their own child isn’t in that workshop.”

“Thanks for your understanding with these requests.” – The Arts Umbrella Staff

Please email me at hlangille@vsb.bc.ca if you are able and willing to volunteer for this field trip.

Math

Grade 1: Students are practicing building large numbers using the golden bead material. Next week, they will be learning how to do large number addition using the golden bead materials.  They will also be introduced to 3-D solids by older students in the classroom

Grade 2: Students are practicing large number multiplication using the golden bead material and the stamp game.  They will be reviewing 3-D solids so that they can teach the grade 1 students.

Grade 3: Students are practicing their large number multiplication using the checkerboard.  Grade 3 students are also practicing large number addition using no materials.

Golden bead work.

The checkerboard.

Language

Grade 1: Students will be learning about the silent (or ‘magic’) ‘e’.  They will also be introduced to verbs and the Montessori symbol and colour that is assigned to this part of speech.

Grade 2: Students will be learning about prepositions and practicing their knowledge using the grammar boxes.  Next week is also the first week of our new Literature Circle! We will be reading “Abby” written by Wolfram Hanel.

Grade 3: Next week is the first week of our new Literature circle! We will be reading the “Lemonade Crime” by Jacqueline Davies.  This is the second book in her series of Lemonade books.

Awesome Animals! Students read and respond to practice their comprehension.

Culture

We have just about wrapped up our study of the layers of the Earth with a few experiments.  Next week we will learn about the rock cycle and the 3 different kinds of rocks.  This will set us up for our mapping project that will begin the first week of February!

A keen grade 2 student has been researching clouds!

Social Responsibility/Classroom Community

In Division 5, a break option is to work with the geometric blocks. A grade 1 student created this soothing pattern.

A grade 1 student created the Lions Gate bridge entrance out of geometric shapes.

On January 27th, Division 5 is going to the HSBC Arts Umbrella Workshop at their Granville Island location.  Your child received a field trip consent form today and should have brought it home this afternoon.  The students will be participating in a theatre arts workshop, a visual arts workshop and a media arts workshop.  Please ensure that your child has lunch and water in a backpack that they can carry, and appropriate clothing and shoes for the weather.

Cost: $12.00 (the cost of the bus ride)

** we need 3 parent volunteers to accompany us

Here are the guidelines outlined by the Arts Umbrella staff:

• “A parent who will be able to let the students express themselves and to create their own artwork without judgement.”
• “We ask that it is just one parent in the room and that their own child isn’t in that workshop.”

“Thanks for your understanding with these requests.” – The Arts Umbrella Staff

Please email me at hlangille@vsb.bc.ca if you are able and willing to volunteer for this field trip.

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.

Hi Division 5 families,

It has been brought to my attention that lice is, once again, in our classroom.  Please check your child’s head and treat them if necessary.  If you have the means to keep your child home from school until you are certain that they are lice-free, please do so.  It seems as though many children are still coming to school knowingly with lice.

Thank you!

Great Carol Dweck video about mindsets and how having a growth mindset and praising the process leads to resilience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9TVbAal5s

Riddle of the Week: “What has more lives than a cat?” – Carolina

Reminders:

Skating: Due to the administrative transition at Tyee right now the skating schedule has not been finalized.  This means our first day of skating will NOT be Monday January 9th.  I apologize for posting incorrect dates.  We are hoping to finalize skating next week and I will be in touch with more details.

Report Card Envelopes: Please remember to send report card envelopes back to school so they can be reused for term 2.  Thank you!

Work Charts

Grade 1:January9-13_grade1workchart

Grade 2: January9-13_Grade2workchart.docx (1)

Grade 3: January9-13_grade3workchart

Math

Grade 1: this week the grade 1 students will continue working with triangles and will be introduced to the golden bead material.  The golden bead material is a great Montessori material to teach and learn place value and hierarchies.

Grade 2: this week the grade 2 students will continue working with triangles and will be reviewing the golden bead material for addition.  They will be learning how to use this material for multiplication.

Grade 3: this week the grade 3 students will continue working with the large bead frame for addition, they will continue working with triangles and reivew the multiplication board.  The grade 3 students will also be learning the checkerboard this week!

The Triangle Detective Game

Addition using no materials!

Language

Grade 1: the grade 1 students will be learning and reviewing nouns by participating in ‘Nouns at the bakery’

Grade 2: the grade 2 students will be reviewing all of the parts of speech that they have learned so far this year and will be practicing their word study using the classification cards.

Grade 3: the grade 3 students will learn about adverbs using the grammar boxes

Reading Buddies: we have started buddy reading with Ms. Becky’s kindergarten class. The students in Division 5 read with a kindergarten student every Friday morning for 30 minutes.

The grade 1s learning about ch and sh! Following this lesson, the students went on a ch and sh hunt in the classroom!

All three grades are using the triangle detective game to test their knowledge. This material is a language material as well as a math material.

The Lemonade War – the grade 3 students who participated in our literature circle are now hard at work creating a cube book report!

Culture

Now that we have studied our solar system in depth and created our own planets we are going to focus on our Earth.  We have started studying the layers of the earth.  This study will propel us into our study of rocks and minerals.

States of Matter lesson.

Layers of the Earth.

Social Responsibility/Classroom Culture

During our peace circle on Friday I expressed how proud I was of the kindness and respect I am seeing in the classroom!  The students have had an exceptional first week back at school!

Due to the administrative transition at Tyee right now the skating schedule has not been finalized.  This means our first day of skating will NOT be Monday January 9th.  I apologize for posting incorrect dates.  We are hoping to finalize skating next week and I will be in touch with more details.

Please remember to send report card envelopes back to school so they can be reused for term 2.  Thank you!

Welcome back Division 5! Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has had a restful and wonderful break with loved ones. I spent my holiday time in Revelstoke, BC ski touring in the snowy Monashee and Selkirk mountains with my partner, Steve.

Reminders:

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.

Skating: Our first day of skating will be Monday January 9th.  Forms will be coming home with your child later this week with more details to follow.

Shared Snack Schedule

Work Charts
Grade 1: January3-6_grade1workchart

Grade 2: January3-6_Grade2workchart

Grade 3: January3-6_grade3workchart