Weekly Spelling Words

Grade 1 List

to
in
is
you
man
can
ran
pan


Grade 2 List

little
work
know
place
years
rain
mail
wait
paint
chant
paid
sail
goods
services
pitch
volume

Happy Friday Families of Room 51!

This week at school we continued working on our STEAM project, creating our paper bag puppet theatres and puppets.  We also started decorating our theatres with paper candies and had to find the total value of the candies we used on our structure.

In Language Arts we added some new words to our vocabulary and had a spelling test on Friday.  We are learning about character and how this includes more than describing the outside of a person or character from a story.  During Daily 5 some us learned about hand signing.

Place Value was the flavor of the week in math.  Grade 1s practiced regrouping with units and rods, while the grade 2s practiced 2-digit addition with regrouping.

Mrs. McBride introduced us to some musical instruments this week in music.  We had so much fun playing drums, sticks, tambourines and triangles and learning some new songs.  In gym the students enjoyed “Island Dodge Ball”, a combination of 2 different Dodge Ball games, using our climbing wall in order to come back to life and go back to an island.

We started “I Wonder”, a passion project where we get to research a topic we are each interested in and write about during the writing portion of our Daily 5 each day.  We went to the library to find books for this project and we will sometimes use the computers to do research as well.

We started a new unit in Social Studies, learning some things about mapping.  Please ask your child what they have learned.

We had some extra help this week in the classroom from Mrs. N and it was Ms. Klein’s birthday.

If you have not already returned the swimming ability form, please do so as soon as possible.

Have a super weekend and stay warm!

Room 51

Hello Room 51 Families,

Earlier this week we sent home a small list of spelling words with the students to practice over the course of the week.  Some students may have lost the list so we have posted them here so they can practice tonight.

Grade 1

the
of
and
that
cat
mat
sat
hat

Grade 2

over
new
art
take
only
car
park
hard
barn
card
shark
dark
oh
eyes
timeline
hold

Hello Families of Room 51,

We hope that you have had a wonderful week!

The students have been up to all kinds of hard work these last few days.

As you know, we had our Christmas concert on Wednesday so there was a lot of preparation happening to pull off the fantastic show that you saw.  In addition to all of that "concert work" here are some of the other things that your children were up: we started a new STEAM project, creating puppet theatres out of particular resources; working on daily math problems using a variety of strategies; fill a sock cards and stuffing; surviving an entire week of 'blue days'; yoga for gym in the music room; growth mindset; while reading Robert Munsch (Andrew's Loose Tooth) one of our students lost a tooth, and another immediately after; Dot art; Grade 3 partnerships for gingerbread house theatre creations; classroom layout adjustments; story writing; watched all of the school Christmas concerts; charades and other games with Ms. Nicole during our blue Lunch recesses; math toss; heads up 7-up; self-assessments; I-pad learner self-interviews; Go-Noodle exercises; Daily 5.

If you have not already checked there is a 2nd Annual Family Christmas Movie form in the blue folders — don't forget to purchase your tickets :)

Have a fantastic, cozy and warm weekend!

Cheers from,

51 A and B

Hello Families of 51,

Just a reminder that tomorrow (Wednesday December 6th) is "The Big Day" for our little ones, as it is their performance day.  The children have been asked to arrive at 5:45 pm for tomorrow's evening performance.  The Dress Rehearsal is at 1:00pm and all are welcome (no tickets are necessary).

Have a wonderful evening; we look forward to seeing you all at the show!!

The 51 Team

December 2, 2016

Happy Winter Wonderland Families of Room 51!

Our Growth Mindset this week taught the children about how the brain works in relation to learning.  We also did some Growth Mindset art based on the book, “The Dot”.  Ask your child what they learned about the brain and what they created in their dot watercolour art.

Hopscotch anyone?  The focus in math this past week was on doubles as students practiced their mental mathematics, through math centers and also by drawing their own hopscotch board in the compound, in order to play doubles in their groups.  We saw some beautiful doubles art work.

Students continued writing their owl stories in language arts, remembering to use proper capitalization and punctuation.  They worked on writing sentences with their words of the week while taking on the Mystery Word challenge as one of the Daily 5 centers.

In social studies students began learning about mapping and started making a map of the classroom, while in gym they continued practicing their hockey skills, rotating through stations.

The students were singing wonderfully as they practiced their Christmas concert songs for “How to Train Your Reindeer to Fly”.

PLEASE NOTE:

Forms were sent home with your child with concert information and TICKETS on it this week.  Currently our gym is at capacity if every student brings two guests, and we cannot give out any extras.  BUT we are asking families to RETURN THEIR TICKET(S) if they are not planning to attend the evening performance, and we will redistribute those extra tickets to people who are interested in more.

If you are interested in more tickets, please let your child’s teacher know by Thursday at 3pm and your names and request will be added to a master list in the office. Depending on the numbers of requests and number of returned tickets, we will do a random draw of those names on Friday afternoon

Here is a link to Mrs. McBride’s Google Drive, which has ALL the Christmas concert lyrics and music so your child can practice at home.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzUAxeb2kOFJQUx4eTJVM2lfZ3c

Happy Friday Families of Room 51!

The children were excited about our math centers this week, especially about creating math art with a given number.  Other centers included graphing with colours, counting-on games, building and recording block patterns with accompanying tally marks and word problems.  Ask your child about the center work they did.

We continued working on our owl friendship stories, mapping them out with pictures and words then moving on to writing them out.  This has been very challenging for all the students.

Writing in science concerned the building and testing of their houses.  The students completed the building of their structures and were ecstatic about testing them against the elements. Most of the students were able to share their learning with their parents about this inquiry project during student-led conferences.

Students reexamined their role and responsibility within their family during social studies, particularly the jobs each family member performs.  Please encourage your child to continue helping out around the house.

Please consider donating to our student-led Christmas charity this year of filling a sock.  It is greatly appreciated and a valuable teaching opportunity for your child.

Have a wonderful weekend & enjoy this wonderfully mild weather!

Room 51