Thursday, May 30, 2019

Thursday!

Happy Birthday, to one of our friends!! :) We had a fun birthday party and danced to Spider Man **AT THE END OF THE DAY** Hope he had a wonderful birthday today!!

Today we started our day working independently on a language page finding the word with i and magic e to match with the picture. For example: hive and a picture of a bee hive.


After this we had Gym outside!
Recess and then Lunch...

Math: 3D Shapes : Pyramid & Triangular Prism -- Made our own 3D shapes and went around the room finding these shapes. We referred back to our project about Mexico when we learned about the Mayan Ruins. **Sent home more practice.**

UOI: We did some summer activities outside! We used chalk to draw pictures!

Reminders/Announcements

-June 3rd - Summative Presentations
-June 5th-Geometry Math test & Raptors Day (students may come to school dressed in Raptors gear)
-June 10th-House colour Day (students may come to school dressed in their house colours).
-Tuesday, June 11th – Water Day for the SK's (apply sunscreen before coming to school, wear a bathing suit under your casual clothes, bring a towel and a hat).
-Wednesday, June 12th – Year-End Play Day @ the dome
-Friday, June 14th –Promotion Ceremonies (9-11am at the dome)
-June 17th-Summer Camp begins!

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Wednesday!

During Language we brainstormed words with the letter i and magic E. (silent e/E at the end)... We watched a video and then came up with our record high of 37 WORDS! Then we worked on our phonics journals. 

Gym, Recess, Lunch

During our inquiry into Math we made two 3D shapes! & we learned about another one. We explored the room and investigated all these shapes that are circles. Cylinder, Cone, and Sphere. We learned their vertices and their circle faces/surfaces. We LOVE making 3D shapes! 

**SENT HOME HOMEWORK FOR MATH**

Reminders/Announcements:

-Don't forget about RAZ-Kids! We are working on DRA's again... RAZ-Kids will be great practice to get them ready for their assessment. :)
-Thursday, May 30th-Spelling Test
-June 3rd - Summative Presentations - Depending on Weather (Beach Day one day this week)
-June 5th-Geometry Math test
-Wednesday, June 12th – Year-End Play Day @ the dome
-Friday, June 14th –Promotion Ceremonies (9-11am at the dome)

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

Tuesday!

Today we started our day with a class competition! Who can write the most words that have a silent E/e at the end of the word. Ms. Gray realized that if I make it a competition, friends are WAY more likely to enjoy what they are doing... However, one friend says that he doesn't mind if he loses he just wants his work to be neat. Either way, our friends worked VERY hard this morning coming up with these words. We even used some of the words that we learned while doing our DRAs with Ms. Gray later!

During our inquiry into math we focused on the rectangular prism! We learned that it has 8 vertices and 6 surfaces! We had so much fun making our rectangular prism today! :) Ms. Gray likes to make thinking visible by creating objects of our own.

During our unit of inquiry today we worked on the art project more! We still have a couple friends who need to bring in empty paper towel rolls! Once we have enough we will be able to complete the project! We are really looking forward to this! We have been working on the building blocks to get the finished product completed by the end of the week!

Reminders/Announcements:

-Don't forget about RAZ-Kids! We are working on DRA's again... RAZ-Kids will be great practice to get them ready for their assessment. :)
-Wednesday, May 29th – Casual Day and Bake Sale
-Thursday, May 30th-Spelling Test
-June 3rd - Summative Presentations - Depending on Weather (Beach Day one day this week)
-June 5th-Geometry Math test
-Tuesday, June 11th – Water Day for the JKs (apply sunscreen before coming to school, wear a bathing suit under your casual clothes, bring a towel and a hat).
-Wednesday, June 12th – Year-End Play Day @ the dome
-Friday, June 14th –Promotion Ceremonies (9-11am at the dome)

Monday, May 27th, 2019

Monday!

We started our day off by doing our morning meeting and singing our songs. We worked on our phonics journals and practiced the silent E words. For example: slide, delete, complete...

During our inquiry into math we investigated the 3D shape CUBE. We first held a dice in our hand and we counted the sides and the vertices. After this we searched the room for anything that is in the shape of a cube. We did not find anything in the room that was a cube. We found LOTS of rectangular prisms... but we are focusing on that tomorrow. After we completed our investigation we then coloured and cut out a 2D shape to create a 3D shape. We each got to make a cube! Ms. Gray was very proud of our friends for following directions the first time!!!!!! We had lots of fun in math and couldn't wait to bring it home to show our families!

During UOI we talked about different things that we see in the summer and then we explored the room and did a write the room activity. When we were done with this we began our art project. We were very excited to start the art project to show what we can hear in the summertime! (the ocean/lake/waves)

We had Library today! We had so much fun playing with the stuffed animals and reading to our friends. :)

Reminders/Announcements:

-Don't forget about the RAZ-Kids application! We are working on DRA's again... RAZ-Kids will be great practice to get them ready for their assessment. :)

-Tuesday, May 28th – Bake Sale

-Wednesday, May 29th – Casual Day and Bake Sale

-Thursday, May 30th-Spelling Test

-June 3rd -Summative Presentations

-June 5th-Geometry Math test

-Tuesday, June 11th – Water Day for the JKs (apply sunscreen before coming to school, wear a bathing suit under your casual clothes, bring a towel and a hat). J

-Wednesday, June 12th – Year-End Play Day @ the dome

-Friday, June 14th –Promotion Ceremonies (9-11am at the dome)

Friday, May 24, 2019 - TRACK & FIELD

Track & Field Day!

I will just be posting picture from our eventful day in the sun! We had so much fun today and worked very hard. Ms. Gray is SO proud of everyone for working so hard in each of the events!

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Track Day Thursday

This morning we started our day off by having some track and field events... Unfortunately our day got rained out and we had to postpone the remainder of the events to tomorrow! Ms. Gray's class had 3 friends who placed in the top 3 for the events! She is very proud of all of our friends for their hard work and participation! Way to go friends! :)

During math we worked on positional words. We definitely need more practice with this. Ms. Gray is sending home some homework to practice! :)

During our inquiry into Language we worked on our blend a_e. We sounded out how to spell words that have the blend in them and identified which pictures had words with the a_e blend.

During Journal we wrote about our goal for summer. We started off by writing the #1 thing that we want to do over the summer. Lots of friends plan to have water fights! Some with their families, some with friends... some friends are just excited to have hot weather and splash in the pool!

Reminders/Announcements

1. PLEASE SAVE & SEND IN PAPER TOWEL ROLLS. We are using these for an art project once we have enough for everyone in the class! :) 

2. May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

3. May 31st- Friday - Spelling Test

4. Track & Field POSTPONED TO TOMORROW - Students wear GYM uniform - Students can purchase freeze after the event! 

5. Scholastic orders are due by 9:00 am on Friday (5/24) morning

6. Beach Day - Sometime the Week of June 3rd-June 7th (We will choose based on weather and send more information as it gets closer)

7. (I sent home the information again regarding the project) Summative Presentations - Monday & Tuesday - June 3rd & 4th

8. Math Test - Wednesday - June 5th 

Tuesday & Wednesday, May 21 & 22, 2019

Tuesday & Wednesday

We started our day off with our morning message, weather report and reviewing what we learned yesterday when Ms. Hackett was in here. We reviewed our UOI lesson that Ms. Gray was SO sad to miss! :( After that we moved into our inquiry into language and today we brainstormed 21 WORDS!  We learned the a_e blend today. That is our all-time high for brainstorming words using the blend that we are learning about! We watched a video that gave us some ideas and we used rhyming to come up with the others! We worked on our phonics journals and then we were off to Gym! 

GYM, Recess, Lunch

During Math for the last couple days we have been learning about 2D Shapes! We have been playing games and getting with partners to work as a team. We have been talking about how many sides shapes have! There are LOTS of shapes that have 4 sides! Ms. Gray would say a riddle "I have 4 sides, 2 of my sides are slanted. Which shape am I?" We either had a rhombus or a trapezoid! Our friends did such a great job with this activity. The previous math lessons have been around the same idea, using different manipulatives to be more interactive! We used Playdough and EVERYONE did such a great job respecting Ms. Gray's personal property and her classroom materials!

During our UOI we have been learning about Summer. Over the last few days we have been doing lots of fun activities. Thursday we learned about fruit that is best to eat in the summer. "IN SEASON"... We learned about pineapple and then we made a pineapple art piece. On Tuesday we learned all about summer activities such as blowing bubbles outside! We learned about the science behind blowing bubbles. Today we used our sense of hearing to identify different summer sounds! We were very excited when we guessed some of the sounds correct... we were very surprised when we were wrong! We definitely have some creative minds in here! :)
Please send an empty paper towel roll for an art project for tomorrow! 

Words of the Week:
1.Honey  2.Turkey 3.Monkey 4.Rake  5.Cake  6. Bake

Reminders/Announcements

There is an important permission slip going home tonight and HAS TO BE RETURNED TOMORROW!!! Please, please, please don't forget to return the form! I was not here in the afternoon yesterday and it was not sent home by mistake. It is coming home tonight!! 

On the form - $20 covers rides/activities -- FOOD IS AN ADDITIONAL $5!! 

• Track & Field tomorrow - Students wear GYM uniform - Students can purchase freeze after the event! 
• Scholastic orders are due by 9:00 am on Friday (5/24) morning
• Spelling Test Friday May 31
• Beach Day - Sometime the Week of June 3rd-June 7th (We will choose based on weather and send more information as it gets closer)
• Summative Presentations - Monday & Tuesday - June 3rd & 4th
• Math Test - Wednesday - June 5th 
• PLEASE RETURN THE FORM TOMORROW for Year End Play Day - Wednesday - June 12 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Whacky Wednesday

Today we started our day off playing a game at morning announcements! Once we made our way back to the classroom we started working right away!! During our inquiry into language we learned the blend AU/au! We watched a video that helped us discover words that have the blend AU in them!

GYM, RECESS, LUNCH

During our inquiry into math we reviewed the shapes that we learned yesterday. After we talked about the definitions that we learned yesterday we investigated circle and oval in more depth. We went searching around the room to find these shapes. We talked about how 2D shapes are FLAT and we practiced an action that goes along with this.

During our UOI we did a Venn Diagram comparing summer and winter! We were interested to find out what things were the same about summer and winter! We play outside in both, we can explore nature, both seasons you can wear hats, and there are sugary snacks in both seasons that WE LOVE! We had NO problem brainstorming what was different about the two seasons... Hot/Cold, Snow suits/Swim suit, and many many more.
After we did this, Ms. Gray told a VERY interesting story about a character named Taylor and her mother. (practicing sequencing, identifying the problem and solution, setting and the characters)... Taylor was playing outside in her backyard when she got very, very hot and then she jumped in the pool without an adult. Her mom heard the splash and ran out very upset. After that, they both played in the pool together. Our friends identified all of the problems in the story and the solutions. There were only 2 characters! We were able to put the story in order and identify the setting! We knew that this story occurred in the summer and the temperature was hot!! Ms. Gray was very proud of the kiddos.


Recess, Snack, and French.

For our journal today we wrote about the comparison we made during our UOI. We will start to work on our sense for UOI. What we hear, see, taste, and smell in the summer! :)

Spelling words are on the blog
1. Time 2. House 3. About 4. Your 5. Day 6. Made 7. Came 8. Make

Words of Week
1. canoe 2. toe 3. doe 4. August 5. sauce 6. author

Reminders/Announcements

1. Sent home spelling words - Spelling test @ end of month

2. I sent home measurement math test to be signed and returned.

3. PLEASE SAVE & SEND IN PAPER TOWEL ROLLS. 

We are using these for an art project on Tuesday. 

4. May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

5. May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

6. May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

7. May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Terrific Tuesday! 

Today we started our day reviewing our morning meeting routine. We started our morning message and enjoyed singing our old songs! After we did this, Ms. Gray taught us a new poem. The poem was about shapes! She said it would be helpful later...

During our inquiry into language arts we learned the blend for the long o sound. We brainstormed words that have OE and put them into complete sentences. We watched a video that helped us... this video was not as silly as the other ones... It was not catchy.

For Gym today we were in Ms. Bannon's room for go-noodle! Gym was cancelled... we miss Ms. Yustin! She has been helping with all the other exciting things happening in the school! She's awesome!

During our inquiry into math we started our new unit!! We practiced our poem that we learned and we started talking about all the different shapes that we know. We walked around the room and did a "write the room" activity where we find shapes in the room and write the object's name down. After this we learned how many sides and corners each shape has. When we met back on the rug we went around in a circle and shared our findings!

During our UOI we introduced summer! We talked about when summer began and what exciting thing was happening THIS summer! (Ms. Gray's baby!)... Then we talked about all the different things that we like to do over the summer with our families. We realized that the temperature in summer is very HOT because we wear our bathing suits instead of our snow suits!

After Recess, Snack and French we worked on our journals. We wrote about our favourite summer activity and snack! Lots of our friends enjoy ice cream in the summer just like Ms. Gray! :) 


Spelling words are on the blog -- sent the words home today...
1. Time
2. House
3. About
4. Your
5. Day
6. Made
7. Came
8. Make

Words of Week 

      1. canoe 2. toe 3. doe 4. August 5. sauce 6. author

Reminders/Announcements

1. Sent home spelling words - Spelling test @ end of month

2. I will send home measurement math test tomorrow.

3. PLEASE SAVE & SEND IN PAPER TOWEL ROLLS. 

We are using these for an art project on Monday. 

4. May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

5. May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

6. May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

7. May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Monday, May 13th, 2018

A CASE OF THE MONDAYS!

All of our friends must have had a busy weekend! We were all VERY tired today!

This morning we went to the Wizard of Oz performance! We got to watch the older grades perform and we were very intrigued. It was nice to be in the audience of the performance at the dome and experience things from a different perspective. Our friends were VERY well behaved and if all goes well this week with following directions and making green choices we will have a celebration of our awesome week on Thursday.

After the performance we had lunch and then worked on some Math! During our inquiry into Math, we took our pre-test for geometry. We are going to be learning about directional words: left, right, above or below. We are also going to be learning about 2D shapes and 3D shapes. Ms. Gray is VERY excited to teach the kiddos her new poem that she typed up! :) We are going to have so much fun learning about shapes this unit!

After Math, we reviewed the blends that we worked on last week. Ms. Gray wanted to be sure that because we did 3 last week that we were able to retain the sounds and everything that we learned. She was ecstatic that our friends remembered so much! We practiced saying the blends and coming up with some words.

After this we had recess, snack, and French.

After French we wrote in our journals about the Wizard of Oz! We really enjoyed the play and most of our friends loved the part where the Wicked Witch of the West melted!!

Word of Week 

1. canoe 2. toe 3. doe 4. August 5. sauce 6. author

Reminders/Announcements:

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Friday, May 10th, 2019

Fun Friday!

Today we worked on our phonics blend PH! We are catching up to the other S.K. classes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvp4Ybx0W4 We really enjoyed the video that we watched to discover new words with our blend. 

During our inquiry into Math we completed our Measurement Math Test! We did a great job! We all finished fairly quickly and Ms. Gray is looking forward to marking them over the weekend. 

During our UOI we worked on a special project for our Moms! We are excited to show our families our hard work... and Ms. Gray hopes that you are all very pleased with the project! :) 

At the end of the day we got to participate in Fun Friday! We worked so hard all week and Ms. Gray was SO impressed with all of our growth over the last few months that she wanted to celebrate! 

**Ms. Gray did not take pictures today!! :( I am SO sorry. This is a very, very rare occasion. I was consumed by the project today... I will try to not let this happen again.**

Reminders/Announcements

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 9th, 2019

Thursday!

Today we started our day off by listening to a very interesting song for the blend WH/wh... because the song did not LIST the words, our friends were a tad confused because they needed to REALLY pay attention! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTs-16veCfQ After this we worked on our phonics journal and a new worksheet where we had to identify "nonsense" words. Nonsense words are fake words that don't make sense. We will continue to practice this!


GYM, RECESS, AND LUNCH.

During our inquiry into math today we reviewed for our math test! Ms. Hackett gave us Candy Bucks if we got answers correct. Lots of friends were able to recite the definitions from the Measurement Unit! Ms. Gray was very impressed! Lots of hard work happening in S.K. :)

During our UOI we did an art project! We have been working very hard to make our work look very presentable and beautiful for our families. We are very proud of our work!

After recess, snack & French we had some time to work on our journals! Once we were all done with our journals we had some time for read-to-self! Ms. Gray let us have free-time/helper time. Friends who helped organize the classroom got stickers!!! :) We sure love getting stickers!

Reminders/Announcements

May 10th - TOMORROW - Measurement Math Test

(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)

May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day

May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 8th, 2019

Happy Wednesday! 

Today we started our day off with phonics and reciting our poems. We brainstormed some words that have the blend EW/ew and worked in our phonics journals! We are getting used to having Ms. Gray back!

During our inquiry into Math we reviewed for our Math Test. Math Test Friday!! An additional packet was sent home for extra practice if needed. This is optional, however, it will be good practice for the exam. During our UOI we worked on a project! :) I don't want to say too much more than that! Ms. Gray is very impressed with our neat writing and hard work.

During our journal Ms. Gray got to hear all of the plans for Mother's Day that each of our friends have for their mommy! :) Some were VERY funny. Looking forward to sharing these with you during our next phone calls/meeting!

After this we had recess, snack and French.

At the end of the day we finished up our journals and worked on some special projects. :)

Reminders/Announcements

May 10th - THIS Friday - Measurement Math Test
(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)
May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)
May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day
May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

May 7th, 2019

Arts Night is Tonight!

Today we had a fun day of practicing for our Arts Night! We went on the bus and got to sit with our friends on our way there. We had a great practice, watched a few of the other performances and then went back to school for some lunch! After lunch we had our real performance for the afternoon! WE DID AWESOME!!!! Ms. Gray was SUPER impressed with how well we did. She even told us that if we do as good of a job in the night performance we will win a prize!! She is still coming up with what the prize will be, but I'm sure it will be great... and not a spur of the moment decision at all. ;)

After our performance we had recess & snack then we went back to the classroom for some much needed French! Ms. Gray missed the kiddos singing in French and hearing them speak to Mlle. Jessica in French. They are progressing very well with their French!

During our journal time we wrote about what we are excited about for Arts Night! We know Arts Night will be fun because we get to perform in front of our parents and they can finally see how hard we have worked for this!

Reminders/ Announcements

May 7th- TONIGHT - Arts Night (12 noon & 6:30 pm *STUDENTS ARE TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AT 6:00PM in their costumes)
-- Students only have the one costume for the whole night --
--After the performance students will take the bus back to school. Parents are to pick up their child AT SCHOOL, they will not be allowed to leave from the dome. --

May 10th - THIS Friday - Measurement Math Test 

(NEXT COUPLE WEEKS)

May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)
May 29th- Wednesday - Casual Day
May 30th- Thursday - Spelling Test

Ms. Gray is Back!! May 6th, 2019

I'M BACK! So happy to be back with all the kids and looking forward to a wonderful end of the year. 

Today we started our day off by showing Ms. Gray all of our new poems and morning meeting songs! Ms. Gray was VERY impressed with our memorization of all of the adorable poems. Ms. Gray watched as some of our friends recite the poems on their own.

We had lots of practice today for tomorrow's event! Ms. Gray was so excited to see the kiddos up on stage and performing so well. We have been working so hard on the performance and Ms. Gray could tell.

After Recess & Lunch we worked with Ms. Hackett and reviewed for our math test on Friday! We practiced measuring and deciding which shape was bigger and smaller. **MEASUREMENT MATH TEST ON FRIDAY!** Review packet sent home last week & Ms. Hackett prepared another awesome packet to review and prepare for the math test! This was sent home today. Ms. Gray was incredibly impressed with all of our hard work.

Ms. Gray was also very excited to meet our new friend in our class!

Thank you to all of the parents who have reached out to me over the last couple weeks while I was away. My mother is feeling stronger and doing well. Prayers and thoughts are still very welcome and very much appreciated. I also wanted to say thank you for every kind email or text message that I received while I was away. I am ready and prepared to get back into the swing of things and have an AWESOME end of the year! SK is almost over... let's make the most of it!

Reminders & Announcements:

May 7th-Arts Night (12 o'clock (noon) & 6:30 pm *students are to come to school in their costumes)
May 10th- Friday - Measurement Math Test
May 17th- Friday - No School (PD Day)
May 20th- Monday - No School (Victoria Day)

Words of the Week:

1. Saw

2. Crawl

3. Claw

4. Whisper

5. Why

6. When