This week we learned about the seven sacred teachings. We wrote about the animal we felt the most connected to or which animal we wanted to learn from. In math, we are creating the animal we chose with our 100 items that we brought in for 100 days of school. We will continue to work on this next week, so if your child has not brought anything in, they can do so on Monday.
We also celebrated our 100 days of school by completing various math activities with the number 100. One of the activities that the grade ones completed was make a 100 days of School hat with 100 items on it!
In writing, we wrote about what we will be like when we are 100 years old and made our selves look like it with cotton ball hair and origami t-shirts.
Hello Parents,
Next week we will be celebrating 100 days of school on February 20th. We ask that students bring in 100 of something (ie. beans, seeds, macaroni noodles, etc) to make a project with!
If you could please help them gather these items and bring them to school on Wednesday, February 20th.
Thanks,
Miss. Caughey
Hello Parents,
Field trip forms went home with your child today. We will be going to the Calgary Tower and the New Central Library on February 28, 2019.
Please send the completed form back to school with your child by Thursday, February 21, 2019.
If you have any additional questions or comments regarding the field trip, please feel free to contact me by calling the school or by emailing me at emcaughey@cbe.ab.ca.
Hope you are all staying warm!
From, Miss. Caughey
This week we have started writing poetry. The students selected an Alberta landscape and began to brainstorm adjectives to describe them. We also learned how we can use similes to describe our landscapes.
In social studies, we started learning about the coyote. It will be the animal we explore during our Artist in Residency.
We hope everyone stays nice and warm this weekend!
From, Room 8 😊
Hello Parents!
Next Wednesday, February 13, we will be celebrating Valentines Day in Room 8. We will do this through word work activities, and writing kindness notes to each other.
As stated in the news letter:
There will not be any classroom parties or the sharing of edible treats as we promote healthy eating and to ensure that we care for students who may be excluded due to allergies and food sensitivities.
If students would like, they can bring in Valentines cards. If they do, they are asked to bring one for every child in the class, to include everyone on this special day.
The name list for the class is:
Daniel
Lincolcn
Lexon
Simon
Shylynn
Dante
Naba
Edward
Addison
Dylan
Enna
Jordan
Lachlan
Kalia
Gryphon
Max
Tina
Martin
Gia-Hy
Emma
Terrence
If they choose not to bring them in and save some trees, they will still have something special to bring home that they will make in the class.
Thanks,
Miss. Caughey
Here are a couple of websites you can explore at home with your children to get some extra practice with math.
This week we celebrated family literacy day with different activities.
We met with our buddies to share and read our favourite books. We also drew our favourite scene in our visual journals.
Chester
Boy Soup
We also had a special guest come read to us. Mrs. Dalton read "The Name Jar," by Yongsook Choi. We really enjoyed it!
Some children shared their favourite book to our class during our book talk on Wednesday. It was so interesting to hear what everyone had to share.
Just a reminder that tomorrow students have no school and it is a long weekend for Capitol Hill School staff and students. As well, in-line skating will begin next week so please let me know if you are interested in volunteering.
The temperature is also supposed to drop next week so make sure your little ones are dressed extra warm with mittens, hats, snow pants, snow boots and a snow jacket.
We hope you all enjoyed celebrating the joy of literacy this week and have a great long weekend!
From, Room 8.
