Note home - Please look for a pamphlet from the Board regarding changes to reporting (report card) procedures effective this year. It was distributed to the youngest/only students in the school. Reminder - Thursday is Remembrance Day. We hope you can come and hear our song. The ceremony starts at 9:30 am. See you there! Reminder - each student is expected to read for 15 min. each night, and to enter that in their reading log. Reminder - book orders are due this Thursday the 11th. Reminder - student led conferences are next week (15th - 19th). Please sign up in the front foyer to ensure you get the spot you would like. Today in literacy we worked on a Storyboard planner for our own narratives and looked at the results from our last recount. We also did a shared activity on inferencing. In math, we continued to work on patterning with an activity called "Building Rectangles". Please see yesterday's post for some websites to practice on, and a couple of quizzes too. Here is another, and I think the best, website for practice on 100 charts and skip counting http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_337_g_1_t_1.html?from=grade_g_1.html Have a good night!

Reminder - book orders are due this Thursday. Reminder - our Remembrance Day ceremony will be Thursday at 9:30, we hope to see you there. Reminder - read for 15 minutes. Math - today we worked on patterns in 100 charts, as well as t-charts. Here are LOTS of websites for you to check out, including a couple of quizzes. This link does pretty much exactly what we did in class today, using a calculator to figure out values based on a pattern rule, then graphing them on a 100 chart. http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap4/4.5/index.htm This is a 100 chart with 3 different types of counters, so you can show 3 different skip count patterns at once. Cool! - http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/countersquare.html Here is a quiz: http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math3/quizzes/math3quizzes/m3ch1l3.htm And another: http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math3/quizzes/math3quizzes/m3ch1l4.htm Have a good night.

Oh no, not again!!!

This snow thing is really starting to become a habit. Hopefully the sun shines on the weekend and melts it away. Reminder - Monday is pizza day, and book orders are due Thurs. the 11th. Today in math we continued to use the cuisinaire rods (fraction rods) to help us identify a pattern. Here is a quiz on the concepts covered so far: http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math3/quizzes/math3quizzes/m3ch1l1.htm and another review quiz http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math3/quizzes/math3quizzes/m3ch1l2.htm Remember Mastermind? Here is a fun(er) version to play: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/data/data.html This is a patterning game that uses music to have make a pattern. http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/patterns/patterns.html In literacy, we started writing a story together on Timmy Jones, who just happens to live on Saturn and has an unfortunate paper cut. Ask your child for more on this!! You may have heard your child talk about doing Reader's Theatre in class. These are plays that students read together and will put on next week. Fun! Progress reports, which have taken the place of the first report card, will go home next Friday, the 12th. The week after will bring student led conferences, so make sure you sign up. The list is in the front hall of the school. Many more reading logs are coming in, we now have 5 Cabin Kids in our class. We are hoping for 15 more! Have a great weekend!

Reminder - Scholastic book orders are due Thurs. Nov. 11th. Today we continued working on narratives and inferencing. We have been reading "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in class the past couple of weeks. If anyone is watching the movie at home, ask them to make comparisons between the movie and novel version. In math we worked on patterning using cuisinaire rods, also known as fraction rods. The name sounds complicated, but check out this link to see they are really not. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_203_g_1_t_1.html?from=topic_t_1.html For a little more practice on identifying and extending patterns, check out: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_184_g_2_t_1.html Tomorrow is Friday!! Have a good night.

It's Hump Day!

We're halfway through the week already, time is flying by when you think that we are two months into the school year, and about 7 or 8 weeks away from Christmas holidays. The lyrics for the song your child is learning for the Remembrance Day ceremony will probably go home tomorrow. Please help you child rehearse and practice by lending and a round of applause or two. Today we worked on a patterning assignment where we created and extended a pattern. We then took our pattern and represented it on a hundreds chart. In literacy, we continue to work on inferencing, and writing complete answers to open response questions. We use a "4-pen" method, which has the students use four different colour pens to answer some questions so they can check to ensure they have everything they need. We also worked on planning a narrative and should be ready to write our own very soon. In the arts, we worked on Reader's Theatre presentations and made poppies for our Remembrance Day ceremony. Remember, tomorrow is pizza day. We have had our first reading logs handed in, so two students have graduated to Cabin Kid. Each student is to read for 15 min. a night and record it in their log. Have a good night!

Tuesday Nov. 2

Note home - poinsettia order forms went home tonight with the youngest and only students in the school. Can we be planning for Christmas already? Today in math we started our unit on patterning. When you stop to look around, it is hard to believe all of the patterns you can pick out of everyday life. In Writing, we looked at a graphic organizer for writing a narrative, and filled one out based on the three little pigs. The practicing for the Remembrance Day ceremony continues today, and will up until the 11th. I am hopeful that many parents can join us that day. Have a good night. Oh, and tonight, Go Sens Go!!!

All Saint's Day

Well, once again, the big day has come and gone. Sugar lows have kicked in, but brown bag lunches are filled with sweet treats. All Hallow's Eve 2010 is in the books again, and today is traditionally known as All Saint's Day. Today we started our unit on narratives by discussing what exactly the chartacteristics of a narrative are. As well, we began talking about making inferences while we are reading. Inferences are those details that are not explicitly in the text, but can be assumed by reading. In math, we began the final graphing activity, graphing the results of our TV logs. Today was another starter, as we began practicing for our song in the Remembrance Day assembly. Reminder - the sign up list for student led conferences is in the hall ready to go. Sign up quickly to make sure there is a time that is right for you. Have a good night.