This Week in Room 21....

Here's a sneak peek at our work this week....!

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In Language Arts we began learning about "Small Moment" writing. We read a story entitled, "Night of the Veggie Monster" by George McClements, in which a young boy has to eat peas at dinner. After reading this story, we worked on sequencing the events in the story and retelling the story using the pictures. 

After that we brainstormed some other 'small moments' from our own lives that we could write about. The students shared their small moment in pairs using the "5 Finger Touch & Tell" technique. 

On Friday, we began creating a whole class small moment. We began by reviewing a small moment from earlier in the year-- a fire drill. We reviewed the events in this small moment and then began to illustrate our small moment by "Drawing Across the Pages". 

In math, we began playing a fun game called 'Splat'. This helps students to develop mental math skills to solve basic addition and subtraction questions. Ask your child how this is played. 

We also began looking at strategies to help with solving addition and subtraction problems. We focused on using a chart to help us add and subtract and played 'Addition Memory'.

In Science, we finished our "Signs of Winter" wheel in which the students had to sort pictures into either people, plants, animals or weather. 

We also completed an activity related to colour where we looked at the concepts of transparent, translucent and opaque. Can you see the rainbow?

In gym, we worked with the parachute to play many fun games like: popcorn, colour wheel, cat & mouse, mushroom and more. 

Important Information & Reminders:

• Continue with Home Reading. If you are finding the books to easy or to hard please let me know so that we can adjust the level. 

• Please have your child return their Spelling Booklet each Monday. This week's spelling words were: my, by, day, you, with, have.

• Please ensure your child has proper clothing for the weather. While we may not be going out for recess and lunch on really cold days there is always the possibility of an unexpected fire alarm, late busses or other events in which warm clothing is necessary. 

•  We are going on a Winter Walk next Thursday. Please ensure your child has boots, a warm coat, gloves/mitts and snow pants. 

• Our Google Classroom is up and running! Last week we had a chance to go into our Google Classroom with our Buddies. This is a resource for students to use at home to support learning here at school. You can log into your child's classroom by following the steps below:

1. Go to Google. com.
2. Click the blue "Sign In" icon near the top right of screen.
3. Click on the "waffle" icon and select the chalkboard icon from the drop down menu.
4. Enter your child's email address. (this can be found in your MyCBE parent account or you can ask me and I can email it to you.)
5. Enter your child's password. (All students have the same password. It is: 12345678 )
6. Click on "Mrs. V's Classroom")
7. Go to "Classwork" tab for links to games and activities.

*Note: If you have any trouble logging in let me know. Thanks!

• Report Cards go live on Monday. You can view and access your child's report card using your MyCBE parent account. If you do not have an account or have trouble accessing your account please let me know and I can provide a paper copy. If your child is on an IPP this will be sent home on Monday. 

Upcoming Events & Dates to Remember:

Jan. 30 - Report Cards go live in Powerschool

Feb 2 - Winter Walk 

Feb. 3 - No School

Feb. 16-17 - Teachers Convention/No School

Feb. 20 - Family Day/No School

Feb. 22 & 23 - Lacrosse residency

Feb. 28 - Telus Spark field trip