Parent Conferences

Thank you to all of our parents who have signed up to meet with us. We truly appreciate your willingness to come in and see how your child is doing. If you have yet to sign up please go to the following link.

https://webapps.cbe.ab.ca/MyAccount/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fmyaccount

Today we learned the blend qu . Help your child find words that have this letter blend.

We finished talking about the emotion Disgust! We learned strategies to help us get the disgust feeling gone.

We finished the day with reading buddies!

Short and sweet today!

See you all soon!!!!

Today we learned about the emotion DISGUST!!!! It was sooooo disgusting talking about all the gross things! Ask your child about what they drew that was disgusting!

If you haven't logged on to your My Cbe Account yet to book a meeting with your child's teacher, please do so. We look forward to meeting with you and discussing goals to help your child be successful.

Here is the link:
https://webapps.cbe.ab.ca/MyAccount/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fmyaccount

Literacy - Today we learned a new blend th. Be sure to ask me what the sound and action is for this letter! We are almost all done learning the letters and blends, and will be moving into more challenging work like reading, sight word reading and writing, and sentence writing. 

Scholastic Orders are due NOW!!! Please get your orders in. This is a great time to get some books at a great price for upcoming holidays or birthdays.

Reminders:-This week is conferences. Please book with your teacher online, we would love to see you all and converse with how your child is doing and goals for the year. They are Thursday evening and Friday during the day, next week.
-No school Friday!
-Library books are due now - if a new library book has not come home in a while, please check blue home folder for a library notice. Try to return books as soon as possible to avoid possible charges and to be able to take a new book out.
-December book orders are due NOW
-If you have clothing that you do not wear or use anymore, the school Parent Council is taking clothing donations for the Kidney Foundation

Welcome Back Mrs. Nelson

Hooray!!! Mrs. Nelson is back! We sure missed her. We will miss Ms. Fillmore though. She brought so many fun and interesting activities into our classroom. We couldn't have asked for a better sub to replace Mrs. Nelson for a little while.

We talked about everything we know about colours. Where they come from, how do clothes get colours, how to blend colours together to mix new colours, they are all over the world, in the sky, EVERYWHERE!!!

Literacy - Today we learned a new blend sh. Be sure to ask me what the sound and action is for this letter! We are almost all done learning the letters and blends, and will be moving into more challenging work like reading, sight word reading and writing, and sentence writing. 

Scholastic Orders are due tomorrow!!! Please get your orders in. This is a great time to get some books at a great price for upcoming holidays or birthdays.

Reminders:
-This week is conferences. Please book with your teacher online, we would love to see you all and converse with how your child is doing and goals for the year. They are Thursday evening and Friday during the day, next week.
-No school Friday!
-Library books are due now - if a new library book has not come home in a while, please check blue home folder for a library notice. Try to return books as soon as possible to avoid possible charges and to be able to take a new book out.
-December book orders are due Tuesday
-If you have clothing that you do not wear or use anymore, the school Parent Council is taking clothing donations for the Kidney Foundation

This Week at School

Today was our last day with Mrs. Fillmore.. As happy as we are to have Mrs. Nelson back on Monday, we are sad to see Mrs. Fillmore go. She has been great! Helping us with our learning and coming up with some fun learning activities.

Literacy - We have learned a few new letters and letter blends this week, including Yy, oo, Xx, and ch. Be sure to ask me what the sounds and actions are for these letters! We are almost all done learning the letters and will be moving into more challenging work like reading, sight word reading and writing, and sentence writing.

Math - This week our focus has been numbers! We have done a few different including
-putting together number puzzles
-ordering numbers - forwards and backward
-determining what numbers come before and after a given number
-skip counting
-greater

Social Studies - We learned all about FEAR this week. We described fear as:
-scared
-loud
-quiet
-dark
-noises
Of course we drew a memory of a time we were scared and described what it looks and sounds like. Next week we will develop strategies for when we feel scared or fearful before moving on to the last emotion, disgust.

Science - We worked with colors in many different ways. We learned that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. To make secondary colors, you combine two primary colors together. The secondary colors are purple, green, orange. We got to to actually make and work with all these colors through the use of crayons, pencil crayons, pastels. Today, we learned that colors come from nature like plants. We got to use these natural material to create a rainbow!

On Wednesday we had library and reading buddies. Mrs. Nelson has also come in a few times to help out and visit before she comes back full time on Monday!


Reminders:
-No school tomorrow!
-Next week is conferences. Please book with your teacher online, we would love to see you all and converse with how your child is doing and goals for the year. They are Thursday evening and Friday during the day, next week.
-Library books are due Monday - if a library book has not come home in a while, please check blue home folder for a library notice. Try to return books as soon as possible to avoid possible charges and to be able to take a new book out.
-December book orders are due Tuesday
-If you have clothing that you do not wear or use anymore, the school Parent Council is taking clothing donations for the Kidney Foundation

Last Couple Days

We have had some busy days and only a half day on Friday. That means we are done school at 11:00am. Please still send a snack!

New Letters - "ng" blend and "Vv" - ask me what the sounds and actions are! We have been using these actions to help us sound out new words in books and while we are writing. Will you help me practice all the letter sounds at home and build some words or sentences??

We wrapped up anger for the week. After reading a book about what anger is and how to make anger go away, we came up with our own lists. In a chart we used very descriptive words to explain what anger looks like and sounds like. Then we made a list of about 12 strategies, that we could use, at school or at home, to help the anger go away. Ask me which strategy I like to use!

In class, along with the anger, we are continuing our work around the school's four Pillars of Care: Care for Self, Care for Others, Care for Learning, and Care for Place. Tomorrow morning we are having our second assembly. Four new kids from each class will be receiving a ribbon for consistently showing one or all of the pillars of care. Just because 4 kids are getting an award does not mean the rest of us are not trying or doing a good job as well.


Reminders:
-Tomorrow is a half day!
-Library books due back Monday. Please see pink notice from your child if no library book has come home in a while.
-Pillars of Care assembly tomorrow. If your child is one to receive an award, we would like to invite you to the assembly at 8:15am.

Full Moon Monday

We are having a hard time stopping talking during all parts of the day. There is a time and place to be silly and chat with a friend and that is at lunch and during recess. Sometimes, we have time to talk in class and we would really like to do all the group activities we have planned but really need everyones cooperation. Will you please talk to me about how important it is to listen and work quietly when at school?

New Letter - Zz - ask me what sound it makes and what the action is to go with it.

In math, we are still trying to work through our number puzzles. Tomorrow we are going to take a break from them and do something different.

Some of us learned about the emotion anger today. We watched a couple short videos from the movie Inside Out, brainstormed what anger is, and drew an angry memory on our emotion islands worksheet.
The rest of us completed a Care for Others writing.

Tomorrow, we will review and learn anger again and hopefully start some science.


Reminders:
-Library books are due back tomorrow please!
-No home reading tonight due to our day, see message above

Mrs. Nelson is Visiting!!!

I hope you are all having a wonderful Remembrance Day Long Weekend! This is Mrs. Nelson and I wanted you all to know that I will be visiting tomorrow morning (Monday).  It will be a short visit, but I'm so excited to see the kids.

This Week at School

There is no school tomorrow as it is Remembrance Day.

We have had an interesting week. We are still working hard on following the rules and expectations of the classroom and school. Talk with me at home too, with how I am doing and what I can do better to show the four Pillars of Care.

In Literacy, we learned a new letter blend "ee"  "or". Ask me what the action and sounds are. Help me review all the letters we know so far and create some words too!

All week, we worked on building a number puzzle. We had to write each number from 1-20, their matching word, and pictures with the correct amount.

Being that tomorrow is Remembrance Day, we had a school wide assembly to celebrate and honor our veterans. Throughout the week, we discussed this special day by reading books, watching videos, writing about peace, and building a poppy wreath with our Grade 5 buddies.

We wrapped up our discussions about sadness and on Monday we will start to explore anger.

Reminders:
-Library books due Monday
-No School tomorrow
-Picture Retake Day Monday!!

Enjoy your long weekend!

Nice Weather and Behavior

What a beautiful week we have had! Although it gets nicer throughout the day, we still need to be wearing the properly clothing.

Today, we had a few incidents of inappropriate behavior. We talked about it extensively and are doing some work in Social Studies around what to do when see or are apart of this kind of behavior. Please talk to me about how I can make good choices at school. 

Yesterday, we had an unexpected practice fire drill. We still need to work on being quiet and listening to the teachers when walking out to the field.

New Letters - "oa" and "ie" - ask me what sounds they say and what the action is! Will you help me sound out and create words with these letter blends?

Yesterday we did another guided drawing and writing activity about snowy mountains. Today we did a "think outside the box" activity. We were given a small shape on a piece of paper and had to turn it into something amazing. Take a look at a few things people came up with!

To end the day we talked more about the emotion sadness. We made a list about what sadness looks like, sounds like, and what we can do if we are sad or if we see someone is sad.

Reminders:
-Veterans Food Drive is taking donations until November 15. If you would like to donate, they will take any non-perishable food item.
-Return library books to school Monday
-Home reading will come home again Monday

New Letter - Jj - ask me what the action and sound are for this letter!

In Math, we have been working with numbers. We brainstormed what they are, where we see and use them, and why they are important. A few things we came up with were:
-on clocks
-at the grocery store
-on vehicle license plates
-our age
The last two days we have been creating number animals. A number is written on a piece of paper and we use the shapes of the number and turn it into an animal. Ask me what my number was and what animal I turned it into!!

For writing practice today, we wrote three sentences about what sadness is to us. While writing, we have been practicing really hard to slowly sound out words we do not know how to spell and writing down the letters of the sounds we hear. This has been helping our writing a lot!

To end the day we had reading buddies with the Grade 5s.

Reminders:
-Book orders went home yesterday and are due back Tuesday the 8th.
-Home Reading came home today, please read the book, write it on the log, and return tomorrow to receive a new book.
-Library today. Please have it returned to school by Monday. If your child does not have a library book, look for a pink note in my home folder.