Feb 22, 2013

Have a great break!!!

Feb 21, 2013

Tomorrow is the 100th day of school.  We will be celebrating in the afternoon.  If you  would like to sign up to help out click here.  For homework tonight please go to the Pinky Dinky Doo Website.

For Word Work we did the eam and ee word families:

In Language Arts we did the Nursery Rhyme Old Mother Hubbard.  We had lots of fun with the Nursery Rhyme today.  We read it on Tumblebooks and even played one of their games (you can click here to go to the FMPL website to access Tumblebooks).  We also watched a fun investigative report done by Kermit the Frog into Old Mother Hubbard and her bone.

In Health we talked about the Meats and Alternatives Group.  We found out that you should have 2-3 servings from this group every day.

In Art we did snowflake art using white glue and sugar.  Check them out:

In Social Studies we read the story David's Father by Robert Munsch about a little boy who moves to a new house.  We then created a graph showing the number of houses everyone has lived in.

Have a great night!

Feb 20, 2013

For No Excuse Words today we did Rainbow printing:

For word work we made ow and are words:

In Language arts we continued with our rewrite of the Three Little Pigs.  As a quick review of the story before we began writing we watched the following:

In Computers we began playing PBS Kids Island.  Each child has there own account.  The login info is as follows if you would like to try it out at home:

                email: ae2056@fmcsd.ab.ca

                Password: ae2056

In Math we continued working with the hundreds chart.  Today we made our own charts and colour coded them with the counting by 2's, 5's and 10's counting pattern.

Have a great night!

Feb 19, 2013

I hope everyone had a great Family Day weekend!

For No Excuse Words today we used our words in sentences:

For word work we made the following words:

In Social Studies we talked about what it's  like to move to a new place.  Whether it be a new home, new neighborhood,  new city, or even a new country.  We watched the story "From Far Away" by Robert Munsch online.  To watch it at home click here.

In Language Arts today we read the story of The Three Little Pigs.  After reading it we created a list of important words in the story: 

We also talked about ways you can start a story as an author:

Over the next couple of days the students will use this information to help them rewrite their own version of the 3 Little Pigs.

This afternoon we went and checked the school science fair.  Some of the cool projects we saw were:

1. How to Operate a Robot
2. Volcanoes
3. Ooey Gooey
4. Puppy Paw Prints

Feb 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

For Word Work today we created lists of old and one words.

Boston Pizza was very generous and donated the pizza today as the owners also had a connection to the family.  Therefore, I'm going to take the money I planned on spending and donating it in our class' name to the William Kristman Trust that has been set up.

Have a great Family Day Weekend!

Feb 13, 2013

At our Ash Wednesday Liturgy today we celebrated our shooting star Will:

For No Excuse Words we did a code breaker:

In LA we talked about St. Valentine.  We watched this little clip:

In Math we practiced skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's to 50.  Then using stickers we used our grouping skills to demonstrate.

Have a great night!

Jan 12, 2013

First off, a couple of important items:

1.  Our Ash Wednesday liturgy is tomorrow, Wednesday, February 13 at 8:30 am.  Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.  To honour Will's memory, students are encouraged to dress in green and black, Will's ski team colours.  This was suggested by 2 of Will's close friends, and we think it is a beautiful and appropriate way to honour Will.

2. For Homework tonight and tomorrow night please take a look at the blue social book in your child's kanga pouch.  Please take a some time to answer the questions on at the beginning of the book (parents can do the writing).  please have the books back to school no later than Thursday February 14th.

What's for supper?  How about pancakes? Today is Shrove Tuesday!

The long build up to Easter is called Lent. The day before Lent begins is called Shrove Tuesday. 'Shrove' means being forgiven for wrong-doings. It happens on a different date each year depending on when Easter is. This year Shrove Tuesday is today, 21 February, 2012.

Another name for Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day. Long ago this was a day for feasting and having a good time. People would go to church to confess the bad things they had done and would be 'shriven' or forgiven before the start of Lent. Since rich foods such as eggs were forbidden during Lent, one way of using them up would be to make pancakes.

Many people still make pancakes on Shrove Tuesday!  In France and the United States Pancake day is called Mardi Gras which means 'Fat' or 'Grease Tuesday'.

Tomorrow begins the season of Lent.  The first day of Lent is known as Ash Wednesday. Ashes are something that are left when something is burned. Christians use them as a symbol of being sorry for things they have done wrong and want to get rid of forever. In many Christian churches there are special services where the vicar or priest makes the shape of a cross with ash on the forehead of each person. The ashes come from last year's palm crosses which are burned and mixed with holy water.

If you are available, please feel free to join us for our Ash Wednesday Liturgy in the Gym tomorrow at 8:30am.

Lent lasts for 40 days (not including Sundays). It is the time when Christians prepare for Easter by thinking of the things they have done wrong. It is a solemn time which reminds them of the time in Jesus' life when, after giving up his work as a carpenter, he began to teach people about God. Jesus prepared for this by spending 40 days without food alone in the desert.

Lent used to be a time for fasting or going without food as Jesus had done. Nowadays many people give up a favourite thing they enjoy like sweets and often give money to charity.

The colour purple is linked to Lent. In some churches the altar is covered with a purple cloth, the pulpit has a purple 'fall' and the vicar's garments are purple.

Purple is chosen for two reasons. One it is the colour associated with mourning and so it helps Christians think about the sadness of Jesus’ death. The other reason is that purple is the colour linked to royalty and so it celebrates Christ’s coming as a King.

For No Excuse Words today we had fun doing a spelling scramble.

For Word Work we created lists of oke and ive words:

In Math we continued to practice our counting skills.  Today we talked about using different strategies to count large groups of objects.  The first strategy we used was crossing out:

The second strategy was grouping:

We then combined these two strategies in order to do the following questions in our math book:

Have a great night!