Hello families and friends,
We have continued our work building stamina and practicing rotating between different literacy stations. The students are able to work for a solid 20 minutes as a group. Soon we will be putting together our word work and guided reading groups. In math, the classes began doing rotations between the three teachers. Mr. Soulliere is teaching the groups about number sense, Ms. McEvoy is teaching the groups about measurement, and Ms. Klein is teaching the groups about shapes. Each class will work with each of the teachers one day a week, and then will work on some problem solving questions related to the work that they have done through the week.
In social studies we have continued working on our Cranston brochures. We also talked about "responsibility", and the students wrote about some of their responsibilities at home, at school, and within the community. Ask your child what they say some of their responsibilities are. In talking about our community, we have begun talking about our school community as well. To go along with our map of our community walk, the students have been working on a map of our school.
The 50th anniversary of the Canadian Flag is coming up! In celebration of this, the school will be singing Oh Canada, and we will be recorded to be a part of the largest collective recording of Oh Canada. This afternoon we started talking about the flag, and got some of the students' questions about it. We will be looking more at this through the next week leading up to the date, Oct. 9th.
Oct. 9th is also the One World Drumming performances. The Harmony wing will be performing from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Please come and celebrate the work that the students have been doing.
Next Wednesday, October 7th, is Photo Day.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Monday, 28 September 2015
September 28, 2015
Hello families and friends,
This morning we continued working on our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. Soon the students will be able to start making choices on what they do as we build towards doing Daily 5. Then we worked on our math. Ask your child what they worked on.
In the afternoon we introduced our new words of the week. They are "mom", "dad", "sister", "brother", and "me". The activity that the students needed to do with this was the same as last week's. We also started creating a brochure for our community of Cranston to highlight some of the things that we love about it.
Tomorrow our classes will begin our first One World Drumming lessons. Mr. Soulliere's and half of Ms. McEvoy's classes will go tomorrow, and Ms. Fournier/Klein's and the other half of Ms. McEvoy's classes will go on Thursday.
This Friday is the Terry Fox run. We will also be doing our first activity with our grade 3/4 buddy class.
Share one thing that you included in your brochure in the comments below.
Have a good evening,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. McEvoy, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. Klein
This morning we continued working on our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills. Soon the students will be able to start making choices on what they do as we build towards doing Daily 5. Then we worked on our math. Ask your child what they worked on.
In the afternoon we introduced our new words of the week. They are "mom", "dad", "sister", "brother", and "me". The activity that the students needed to do with this was the same as last week's. We also started creating a brochure for our community of Cranston to highlight some of the things that we love about it.
Tomorrow our classes will begin our first One World Drumming lessons. Mr. Soulliere's and half of Ms. McEvoy's classes will go tomorrow, and Ms. Fournier/Klein's and the other half of Ms. McEvoy's classes will go on Thursday.
This Friday is the Terry Fox run. We will also be doing our first activity with our grade 3/4 buddy class.
Share one thing that you included in your brochure in the comments below.
Have a good evening,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. McEvoy, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. Klein
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
September 23, 2015
Hello families and friends,
Today we started our day continuing work on building our reading stamina and practicing our Read to Someone skills. Ask your child what their job is during Read to Someone. Then we continued work on building our number sense in math. We worked on representing numbers in different ways.
In the afternoon we introduced the first words onto our word wall. Each week, we will add new "words of the week" to the word wall. These are words that the students should practice writing and become familiar with so that they are able to spell them correctly on their own during their writing. We began with a few of the most common words, for both grade ones and twos. They are "the", "and", "I", "to", and "a". The grade ones needed to write three sentences that included the words of the week, and the grade twos needed to write five sentences. Grade twos also had to organize the words into alphabetical order. The last hour of our day was spent with Ms. Kinsman and Ms. Tuli. Ask your child what they did.
Two forms went home with your child today; a Terry Fox snack order sheet and the student demographic sheet. The demographic sheets need to be checked to ensure that the information is correct. If there are any changes that need to be made, please make the corrections and send them back to your child's teacher. If they are all correct please return them as soon as possible. Update: If the information on the forms is correct, they do not need to be returned. The Terry Fox snack sheets are due back by September 28th.
The open house is coming up tomorrow! If you have not booked a time yet, this can be done through your CBE Account. We look forward to seeing all of you then!
To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox, post your favourite thing about fall in the comments below.
Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. McEvoy, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. Klein
Today we started our day continuing work on building our reading stamina and practicing our Read to Someone skills. Ask your child what their job is during Read to Someone. Then we continued work on building our number sense in math. We worked on representing numbers in different ways.
In the afternoon we introduced the first words onto our word wall. Each week, we will add new "words of the week" to the word wall. These are words that the students should practice writing and become familiar with so that they are able to spell them correctly on their own during their writing. We began with a few of the most common words, for both grade ones and twos. They are "the", "and", "I", "to", and "a". The grade ones needed to write three sentences that included the words of the week, and the grade twos needed to write five sentences. Grade twos also had to organize the words into alphabetical order. The last hour of our day was spent with Ms. Kinsman and Ms. Tuli. Ask your child what they did.
Two forms went home with your child today; a Terry Fox snack order sheet and the student demographic sheet. The demographic sheets need to be checked to ensure that the information is correct. If there are any changes that need to be made, please make the corrections and send them back to your child's teacher. If they are all correct please return them as soon as possible. Update: If the information on the forms is correct, they do not need to be returned. The Terry Fox snack sheets are due back by September 28th.
The open house is coming up tomorrow! If you have not booked a time yet, this can be done through your CBE Account. We look forward to seeing all of you then!
To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox, post your favourite thing about fall in the comments below.
Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. McEvoy, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. Klein
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
September 22
Hello families and friends,
We had another busy day in the harmony 1/2 triad. We welcomed Ms. Klein into our classroom as she will be the new teacher for Mrs. Fournier's class. You will get to meet Ms. Klein and Mrs. Fournier at the meet and greet this coming Thursday.
As the warm weather continues, we had a nice outside body break mid morning to help get our wiggles out for some math before lunch. In the afternoon we learned about warm colours. Ask your son or daughter which three colours from our colour wheel are our warm colours? With these colours we made leaf etchings to hang around the classroom to welcome the new season of fall. At the end of the day we had an assembly where we learned about Terry Fox and his amazing running journey to raise money and awareness for cancer.
P.S Don't forget to check out the Cranston fall fair this Saturday! Mrs. Fournier will be doing face painting there :)
Have a wonderful evening!
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. Fournier, Ms. McEvoy and Ms. Klein
We had another busy day in the harmony 1/2 triad. We welcomed Ms. Klein into our classroom as she will be the new teacher for Mrs. Fournier's class. You will get to meet Ms. Klein and Mrs. Fournier at the meet and greet this coming Thursday.
As the warm weather continues, we had a nice outside body break mid morning to help get our wiggles out for some math before lunch. In the afternoon we learned about warm colours. Ask your son or daughter which three colours from our colour wheel are our warm colours? With these colours we made leaf etchings to hang around the classroom to welcome the new season of fall. At the end of the day we had an assembly where we learned about Terry Fox and his amazing running journey to raise money and awareness for cancer.
P.S Don't forget to check out the Cranston fall fair this Saturday! Mrs. Fournier will be doing face painting there :)
Have a wonderful evening!
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. Fournier, Ms. McEvoy and Ms. Klein
Monday, 21 September 2015
September 21, 2015
Hello families and friends,
This morning we had our first fire drill of the year! We talked about the expectations during a fire drill, why it is important, what each person's job is during it, and where we need to go. The students did an excellent job. We also spent some more time working on building our reading stamina. Also in the morning, we celebrated Peace Day as a whole school. Each class made pinwheels and we went outside with them and sang our peace songs.
In the afternoon we had a special guest, Mr. Southworth, come and join us to read the book "What If...". The students came up with their own "what ifs" and shared them with some partners. Ask your child about this, and post your "what if" in the comments below. We finished off our day drawing a map of the community walk that we took on Friday, using our visual language skills. Ask your child about the things that they saw, and why these are important to the community.
This Thursday is our open house. Times can be booked through your CBE Account. Each time block will start with a 15 minute presentation in the gym, followed by a 40 minute meet the teacher. This is not a formal interview, but a chance for you to meet your child's teacher and to get to know them and how the year will look for your child. If you have any concerns that you would like to discuss please email your child's teacher and set up a meeting with them outside of this time.
Update: For tomorrow, we will be doing some leaf rubbings. We would like each student to try and bring in a couple leaves that have already fallen on the ground for this.
Friday is a PD Day, and there is no school for students.
This morning we had our first fire drill of the year! We talked about the expectations during a fire drill, why it is important, what each person's job is during it, and where we need to go. The students did an excellent job. We also spent some more time working on building our reading stamina. Also in the morning, we celebrated Peace Day as a whole school. Each class made pinwheels and we went outside with them and sang our peace songs.
In the afternoon we had a special guest, Mr. Southworth, come and join us to read the book "What If...". The students came up with their own "what ifs" and shared them with some partners. Ask your child about this, and post your "what if" in the comments below. We finished off our day drawing a map of the community walk that we took on Friday, using our visual language skills. Ask your child about the things that they saw, and why these are important to the community.
This Thursday is our open house. Times can be booked through your CBE Account. Each time block will start with a 15 minute presentation in the gym, followed by a 40 minute meet the teacher. This is not a formal interview, but a chance for you to meet your child's teacher and to get to know them and how the year will look for your child. If you have any concerns that you would like to discuss please email your child's teacher and set up a meeting with them outside of this time.
Update: For tomorrow, we will be doing some leaf rubbings. We would like each student to try and bring in a couple leaves that have already fallen on the ground for this.
Friday is a PD Day, and there is no school for students.
Have a good afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. McEvoy
Thursday, 17 September 2015
September 17, 2015
Hello families and friends,
Today we continued building our reading stamina and practicing as a big group what good Read to Self looks like. The students have been doing very well with this, and each group has been able to maintain reading for 15 minutes at a time! Well done team! In the afternoon we watched a video about Peace Day. Ask your child what they learned about Peace Day and what our school is doing to celebrate it.
Just a reminder that tomorrow we will be going out on our community walk. Thank you to all the parents that have volunteered to come and help us with this. We could still use a few more if possible, so if you are available tomorrow from between 10:15 and 11:30 please email Mr. Soulliere at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>. Your child should be dressed to be walking outdoors during this time; it will be somewhat warm, but they should still bring a jacket or sweater. Please also make sure that they have appropriate footwear for walking in and, since it may still be wet in areas, provide them with an extra pair of socks just in case.
The last day for the Entertainment Book orders in this coming Monday, September 21st. If you would like to order a book (or books) and have not done so have the order form filled out and returned to your teacher by then. If you are not intending on buying an entertainment book, then send back the book in the bag that it was brought home in by that date.
Have a great evening,
Harmony 1/2 Triad
Today we continued building our reading stamina and practicing as a big group what good Read to Self looks like. The students have been doing very well with this, and each group has been able to maintain reading for 15 minutes at a time! Well done team! In the afternoon we watched a video about Peace Day. Ask your child what they learned about Peace Day and what our school is doing to celebrate it.
Just a reminder that tomorrow we will be going out on our community walk. Thank you to all the parents that have volunteered to come and help us with this. We could still use a few more if possible, so if you are available tomorrow from between 10:15 and 11:30 please email Mr. Soulliere at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>. Your child should be dressed to be walking outdoors during this time; it will be somewhat warm, but they should still bring a jacket or sweater. Please also make sure that they have appropriate footwear for walking in and, since it may still be wet in areas, provide them with an extra pair of socks just in case.
The last day for the Entertainment Book orders in this coming Monday, September 21st. If you would like to order a book (or books) and have not done so have the order form filled out and returned to your teacher by then. If you are not intending on buying an entertainment book, then send back the book in the bag that it was brought home in by that date.
Have a great evening,
Harmony 1/2 Triad
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
September 16, 2015
Hello families and friends,
We have been continuing work on building our reading stamina, and the students are doing a really good job with it! Each class has been working on this on their own, and we will be spending more time working together as a whole group on this to see how we do. We have also worked on a couple experiments involving mixing colours. Ask your child about what they learned from these, and what they have learned about what a scientist's job is.
In math, we have been working on different ways to represent, or show, numbers. We have talked a large variety including: addition; subtraction; pictures; number; words; letters; ten frames; number lines; tally marks; patterns; and shapes. This is something that the students will be working on throughout the year in many ways, and is a great way for them to show their understanding of number concepts. At the end of the day we had a special visit from Ms. Kinsman and Ms. Tuli. Ask your child what they did with them.
This Friday, weather permitting, we will be going on our community walk. We have heard back from a few parents who have volunteered to help us out on our walk, but we are still looking for 5 or 6 more. If you are available this Friday from between 10:15 and around 11:30 and would like to help out, please email Mr. Soulliere at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>. This is a good learning opportunity for the students and is a great way for them to get to know their community a little better.
Milk Program order forms have gone home. These are due back to your child's teacher by Wednesday, September 23rd.
Tomorrow is the first day of Running Club. For those students participating, the students will run first, and then they will eat lunch with Ms. Bowles and the rest of the Running Club team afterwards. Please make sure that your child is wearing appropriate footwear for running and that they are dressed for the weather.
We have been continuing work on building our reading stamina, and the students are doing a really good job with it! Each class has been working on this on their own, and we will be spending more time working together as a whole group on this to see how we do. We have also worked on a couple experiments involving mixing colours. Ask your child about what they learned from these, and what they have learned about what a scientist's job is.
In math, we have been working on different ways to represent, or show, numbers. We have talked a large variety including: addition; subtraction; pictures; number; words; letters; ten frames; number lines; tally marks; patterns; and shapes. This is something that the students will be working on throughout the year in many ways, and is a great way for them to show their understanding of number concepts. At the end of the day we had a special visit from Ms. Kinsman and Ms. Tuli. Ask your child what they did with them.
This Friday, weather permitting, we will be going on our community walk. We have heard back from a few parents who have volunteered to help us out on our walk, but we are still looking for 5 or 6 more. If you are available this Friday from between 10:15 and around 11:30 and would like to help out, please email Mr. Soulliere at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>. This is a good learning opportunity for the students and is a great way for them to get to know their community a little better.
Milk Program order forms have gone home. These are due back to your child's teacher by Wednesday, September 23rd.
Tomorrow is the first day of Running Club. For those students participating, the students will run first, and then they will eat lunch with Ms. Bowles and the rest of the Running Club team afterwards. Please make sure that your child is wearing appropriate footwear for running and that they are dressed for the weather.
Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere and the Harmony 1/2 Triad
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