This Week in Room 21...

Hello Parents! Here's a sneak peak at out week!

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This week we focused on Robert Munsch for our Author Study. We learned about his childhood and also how he became a writer. He always loved storytelling and worked in a daycare for awhile. The owner of the daycare told him he should write his stories down and that's how he got started writing. We continued to identify what the setting, problem, characters, and solution of a story are as we listened to each story. As we read we looked for interesting vocabulary words and discussed the lesson in each book. 

We also continued to learn about a variety of letters of the alphabet and building words during our Making Words activity.  As we build words listening for the sounds in each we also talk about the meaning of the different words we build. 

In math, we finished looking at the doubles +1 strategy for Gr. 1 and adding two-digit numbers with regrouping in Gr. 2. We have also been learning about making and building graphs. Students have learned about the parts of a graph, what data is and how we can use data to answer questions and draw conclusions.  The students came up with their own question to ask their classmates and plotted the data on a graph. 

In science, we began talking about computer science and performed an experiment to see if we could "program" (give instructcions) to a "computer" (me) to draw a snowman. Of course, I did it with my eyes closed so they had to try to give me directions on where to put each part of the snowman not just what to put. The results were quite hilarious but the kids got the idea of having to give very specific instructions. 

In gym, we have started learning about floor hockey and played some fun games to practice stick handling.

Important Information & Reminders:

• Library Day is on Wednesday. If your child misses a Library Day we will try to send them on a different day, however, it will not always be possible to do so. Most times they can simply wait for the following Library Day.

• Google Classroom - Our Google Classroom is up and running. Students can log in at school and at home and click on the various links to practice typing, math skills, reading and even do an art activity (Art Hub) or some exercise (Cosmic Yoga). Your child can go to: classroom.google.com, click on the waffle (nine dots in upper righthand corner of screen), select the Google Classroom icon and log in from there. They have already logged in at school so they will just need to put in their student email address (available in PowerSchool/My CBE Account) and their password (eg. 12345678). It's that simple. If you require assistance logging in the first time, please let me know. 

• RAZ-Kids - students brought home a sheet with information explaining how to access their online RAZ-Kids account. This is a levelled reading program that students can use to practice reading at home with their parents. Once logged in students can listen to the story, practice reading the story (with adult support if needed) and then take a short quiz to assess their comprehension of what they have read. This is a wonderful compliment to our Home Reading program. If you did not receive your child's login information please email me. Thanks and happy reading! 

• Healthy Hunger is up and running. Below are the upcoming fun lunch dates. To order please go to the Healthy Hunger website. 

Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember:

Jan 31 - Report Cards go live in Powerschool

Feb 15-16 - Teacher's Convention

Feb. 19 - Family Day

Feb. 26 - Swimming Starts