Spelling: May 8 - 12

Grade 1 Spelling

May 8 - 12

has

look

two

more

red

bed

fed

sled

Grade 2 Spelling

May 8 - 12

away

animal

house

point

spot

desk

mask

task

ask

tusk

disk

events

able

equal

pair

multiply

Happy Friday Families!

What an exciting week for Room 51 this week with lots of festive activities taking place.  Monday was made much more interesting by “Music Monday”, the world’s largest single event dedicated to raising awareness for music education.  Each year, hundreds of thousands of students, educators, and music makers participate in a simultaneous nationwide concert performance of an original song written by a Canadian artist.  Students participated by gathering together in the gym to sing the many special songs they have been practicing in music the past few weeks.

On Wednesday we all wore hats for “Mental Health Day”.  Each May, Albertans are invited to wear a hat to raise awareness of the importance of good mental health. Participating schools will relax their hat rules and encourage students and teachers to build understanding by wearing hats to school. Students will also participate in a coordinated lesson on understanding mental health and the importance of removing the stigma associated with mental illnesses.  Students watched a few kid videos about what mental health means and how we can help others that may be suffering.  This was followed up by questions and discussion with the student.

Of course, and long time coming, “Arbor Day” was held yesterday, on May 4^th – yes – “May the 4^th Be With You”.  Arbor Day celebrates the importance of our trees and green spaces. It's an annual event held in the United States, Canada and in many other countries that all share a common vision of greener communities.  It is the longest running civic greening project in Calgary and is celebrated on the first Thursday in May. On this day, each grade 1 student in Calgary's schools receives a tree seedling to take home and plant on private property.  Students had the opportunity to visit all of the other classrooms to view student tree projects and ask them about their research and presentations.  In the afternoon we had a special assembly with many special guests from all over Calgary, including musicians and the choir from the local Catholic school.  Our students also performed, special “tree songs” that they learned in music class.  Following, the entire school met out on the front lawn for the tree planting ceremony, golden shovels included.  Your child should be busy planting this weekend as seedlings (Gr. 1’s) and beans were sent home with all of the students with planting and care instructions for the seedlings.

In Math, both classes continued their investigation of measurement with some outdoor fun measuring how far they could jump with non-standard measuring tools such as their visual journals and their feet.  Ask your child to show you how tall they are using their popsicle stick measurement tool.  Group A also worked as a group on some word math problems, while Group B continued solving some measurement problems on the topic of calendars.

As we near the end of the year, the students continue to work on all of the fine details that push their writing beyond the basics, such as presentation, punctuation, purpose, descriptive words and cohesiveness. Those that are working on their puppet theatre, from their written story, continue to figure out how to make their scenes match their setting.

We continued our exploration of hot and cold with discussion and writing activities about sources of heat and hot and cold safety.  Ask your child what they have learned.  In social studies, students learned about the different aspects of the Alberta and Saskatchewan flags and began creating their own personal flag, after they artfully coloured their other 2 provincial flag templates.

NOTE:  It has come to our attention that many students have not been keeping up with home reading.  Please help us by reminding your child in the morning to switch their home reading book as soon as they get into the classroom.

REMINDER - spring photos are due Monday May 8^th.

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!! - Don't put away your snow shovels yet - or so I've heard.

Spelling May 1st - 5th

Grade 1 Spelling

May 1 - 5

like

him

into

time

pet

get

wet

let

Grade 2 Spelling

May 1 - 5

feet

off

led

spell

air

bend

send

mind

offend

sand

land

wind

yes

week

label

steps

Hats on for mental health

Hello Everyone,

Just a reminder that tomorrow is "Hats on For Mental Health."  Students pick a favourite hat and get to wear it all day in support of mental health :)

Thanks for your support,

The 51 Team

Hello Everyone,

We hope you're having a good week and want to wish all who are home feeling miserable a speedy recovery (there's been a ton of absences due to illness this week); we've missed you all very much. Also best of luck to our dance competitor — you'll be a shining star for sure :)

It was another whirlwind week, that's just picking up speed as we roll into spring.

The students have been hard at work on their science/tree inquiry art mural for Arbor Day, and wow is it coming together beautifully. They'll tell you all about it, and show it off, this Thursday evening at our Arbor Day Celebration, which is happening 6:00 - 7:30, everyone's invited.

We have had a lot of additions to our Circle of Courage this week.  It truly is wonderful how kind, supportive and generous our group of little people are!

In Language Arts we are seeing more and more fantastic stories take shape in Toy Theaters.  Likewise, the students have been learning how to create green screen videos, editing particular pictures in as backgrounds so as to match dialogue — very cool stuff.  51A has also been working on creative sentence building, and printing skills. It's looking good!

Math performance has been impressive.  Math sentences, math stories and measurement have been the group focus, while in stations, work with teacher was looking at overall math skill assessment. There are definitely some budding mathematicians among us.

In Phys-ed this week, the children were working on their basketball skills.  It is amazing to see how quickly dribbling skills developed in such a short time.

Music has been dedicated to the rehearsal of Music Monday and Arbor Day songs.  It's a lot of words to remember but they're getting there.

Many of us were in kindergarten this morning to support in a sewing project.  Again, it was fantastic to see how patient, kind and helpful our students are with the little ones.

It was a busy week and it was fun.  Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to pull all of our tasks together, and pitched in to help tidy up everyday!  You're a great bunch!

Have a fantastic weekend, be safe and laugh a lot,

Mrs. McArthur and Ms. Klein.

As an extra note, we posted (the post before this) an invitation to join in on Ms. Low and Ms. Ly's trout release.

Trout Release Invitation from Ms. Low and Mrs. Ly

Spelling Words - Week 16 (April 24-28)

Grade 1

some

her

would

make

duck

luck

suck

stuck

Grade 2

try

rest

hand

seven

again

fast

past

last

cost

blast

cast

oral

box

data

record

full