A doubly happy Friday families as another Chinook graces our path!
We have decided that our weekly spelling tests will now take place
on Monday mornings. This will give the
students more time to practice their spelling over the weekend and hopefully be
less stressful for families.
Excitement filled the classroom and the break-out space this past
week in math and science. Group B
continued having fun at the 4 different estimation stations in math: weight,
time, length & capacity. Ask your
child about some of the stations they were exploring and the interesting things
they discovered. Group A, in math,
continued their work with geometry, building at stations and completing tasks
in computer activities. Both classes continued their inquiry on
boats and buoyancy, making predictions and testing objects in water. Ask your child what they have been doing and
discovering in science this past week.
Group
B completed their character trait study of themselves, writing about 2 of their
physical characteristics and some of their inside traits. They created pictures of them selves to
accompany their writing to display on the bulletin boards. However, they are scrambled – the game is trying
to match the written character trait description with the correct student/picture. Ms. Klein’s group also completed their
comparison of their personal character traits to a character in a current story
that they were reading. They recorded
this in a Venn diagram. In addition,
they had to write about a dragon, describing their dragon in detail and drawing
a picture of it if they chose to do so.
Group A invented dragons too – a really popular writing activity this
week!
Group
A has been developing their story ideas with character descriptions and
brain-storming with problem “speed dating.” Wonderfully creative ideas have
started to come together in storyboard form, and will be making their way into
story format in hardcopy and then into Google docs. The students have also learned how to work
with Google slides and are doing amazing things with their passion projects
using this format. They have also
started to learn about coding, and can access this cool program from the
Cranston Website.
Group
B was gone most mornings, swimming at Bob Bahan Fitness and Aquatic
Center. It was great seeing all the kids
further develop their swimming and water safety skills! Group A will be going swimming during the
last week of February.
Group
A had fun continuing skipping, learning hula-hoop, and playing strategy games
during gym.
Next week, in gym, there will be an orienteering course that the
students will be participating in on Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Quilley has asked that we remind
families to have your child dress appropriately for the weather, as gym class
will be outside. On Wednesday the
students will be outdoors for an even longer period, as it is “Winter Sport”
day.
On Tuesday, February 15 we will be having a Valentines Day
celebration where students can exchange Valentine cards. Below you will find a list of student names
to address the Valentines. The students
can create their own Valentines or be store bought. You are also welcome to send in treats for
our celebration if you wish.
Grade
1s & 2s!..........how does a gigantic ship, made out of steel (like the
Titanic), float on the water?
Have a
super weekend & enjoy our Chinook!
Lincoln Kyron Alexa Camilla Sidney Leif
Matthew Emily Riley Austin
N. Fatima Maksim
Addison Noah Seth Malika Nick Tate
Brinn Molly Artem Gage Bianca Kyra
Gabe Brody Chloe Austin
K. Sophia Zurie
Shaheer Alexis Ibragim Thomas Colton Megan
Mohammad
