June

Poem/Homework for week of May 29th - Colours!

Poem/Homework - Week of May 22nd - Subtraction!

Five green and speckled frogs means subtraction fun!

Reading Strategies

We have been spending a lot of time trying to learn how to read! Here is our anchor chart of reading strategies to help us figure out unknown words. 

Happy Victoria Day long weekend!

Story Writing

We are almost done our books! We have been working for weeks on writing stories and the children are so excited to eventually share the end result with you!

Poem/homework for week of May 8th - Mommy!

In honour of Mother's Day this Sunday we wanted to do a poem about moms and this is what the class chose. We had a few different songs we were trying out, but this is the one they liked the best! The homework for this week is simply asking students to draw a picture and write a sentence about Mother's Day or about their moms and to try to use the word mommy in their sentence as that is the word we are learning to spell.

Adding!

Whenever we are learning different strategies we make an anchor chart together and post it up in the room somewhere for quick reference. These are the strategies we've been using to learn how to add and subtract!

Also, our poem/homework for this week is all about adding!

May Calendar and Newsletter

Please note, I forgot to write the date of the Volunteer Breakfast in our newsletter! It will be held on Tuesday, May 2nd. ☕️

Morning Message

We have been working very hard lately at learning how to read! Here is a sample of an activity we do daily. The teachers will write a good morning message on the board and we will work together to figure out what it says. Some days there may be missing words, we may leave out punctuation, we might misplace capital letters or we may just write a complete message with no mistakes! 

Poem/homework for week of April 24th - Hello Springtime!

Poem/Homework for week of April 17th - Earth Day!

Happy Easter Long Weekend!

Poems/homework for the first 2 weeks of April.

April Calendar and Newsletter

Quick Reminder - Be On Time!

Just a friendly reminder to try your best to be on time for school! 

One more week!

This is our last week focusing on the human body! 

WWF Adoptions

Our WWF animals have arrived! The snow leopard was symbolically adopted by the boys and girls in our class while the tiger was adopted by me! I have decided to name the tiger Raja, after the tiger in Aladdin. We are still voting on a name for the snow leopard. The top 3 vote getters right now are Lala, Judy and Carrot! 

Poem/Homework - Week of March 20th

Welcome back from March Break! Here is our poem/homework for the wee of March 20th. We have been learning about the 5 senses and the human body! 

March Break!

It's time for March Break! The school re-opens on Monday, March 20th. Just a reminder that we are not sending home the Friday Folders or Poetry Books. We hope you all have a safe and wonderful break!

Water Fun

We had so much fun learning about water today at our Scientist in the School presentation! Big thank you to all the parents that came in to help! 

The Human Body

The class voted and the new topic they want to learn about is the human body! The students came up with some amazing questions today! Can't wait to start this inquiry! 

March Calendar and Newsletter

Poems/Homework for weeks of February 21st and 27th

No Homework!

We did not send home folders as this is a long weekend for you to enjoy with your loved ones. Have a great Family Day weekend! 

Valentine Fun!

Happy 100th day of school! 💯❗️

Simple Machines

Thank you so much to all the parents that came in to help for our Scientist in the School presentation. The students loved learning about Simple Machines!

Homework/Poem for week of February 6th.

Snow Leopard Wonder Wall

Here is our snow leopard wonder wall on display for the whole school to see.

"I wonder..." and "I know..."

I know these pictures may be difficult to see, but I am so proud of all the students and the work they did here! I asked them to go home and tell their families Miss Pal was very proud of them. (I hope they did!) 

The students have been very excited to be able to collect enough money (thank you!) to send to the WWF to help the snow leopards so we decided to learn more about snow leopards. We started by discussing as a whole class, brainstorming as many questions about snow leopards as we could and then doing large group research sessions on these questions. 

After a week of learning about snow leopards together, I worked with small groups or individual students to write out their "I wonder..." statement about snow leopards, research the answer together and then to write out their "I know..." statements together. 

Every student had a great time learning and working on this inquiry! Great job!

February Calendar and Newsletter

Happy New Year!

Happy Lunar New Year to those that are celebrating! We had made some lanterns to mark the occasion, but in all the pyjama day fun it slipped my mind to send them home yesterday. I will do so on Monday! 

Pyjama and Literacy Day!

We had a great time celebrating Family Literacy Day today! We have been learning about fairy tales and how to retell stories. We've also been learning about identifying characters and settings. We decided to try writing our own fairy tale today! I will post the final story soon. We ended the day by reading our favourite books with our reading buddies while being all snuggly in our pyjamas.

Poem/Homework week of January 23rd

As tomorrow is Family Literacy Day our poem/homework this week is all about reading! 

Pyjama Day!

Just a reminder that we will be having a pyjama day this Friday! Wake up in the morning, change into some fresh new pajamas, pick up your favourite book and come to school!

Snowman crafts

There may not be snow outside, but we've got snowmen on our minds!