Baby Visit!

Baby Payton and her Mom braved the roads to join us for a baby visit today!  Payton has changed so much in a month!  She especially enjoyed tummy time today!  We asked Stephanie a lot of questions about crying, and what makes Payton cry.  Payton loves to be held and cuddled when she is crying.

Students made a lot of connections, and were wondering what their first words were.  Some of them were wondering what made them cry when they were a baby!  All great conversations to have at home!

Please book in for a Parent Teacher Conference if you haven't done so already.  I'm looking forward to sharing what we have been learning!

Christmas Concert!

November 14, 2019

This week we learned how to make our writing more interesting using similes!  A simile compares two similar objects using 'like' or 'as'.  After reading a book called "My Dog is as Smelly as a Dirty Socks", we had some fun writing smilies for our family members.

We also read a special book called, "If you're not from the Prairie" which will guide our writing next week.

In math we have been practicing two strategies which will help us add numbers to 18 more efficiently.  We reviewed "friendly numbers" which are the pairs of numbers that add up to 10.  (1,9. 2,8. 3,7  4,6  5,5).  We learned a game called Make 10 Go Fish that can be played at home!  We also reviewed our doubles facts to 18.

In Science we did two experiments.  We learned that only some solids dissolve completely in water.  We also learned that different types of material have different rates of absorption.  

A reminder to sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences.  

Families are required to log into My CBE/PowerSchool Account https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/home.html   beginning Sunday November 17th , starting at 6:00 am to book an interview time with their child's teacher.

November 4th, 2019

It sounds like everyone had a fun filled weekend!

We began our day by writing about our weekend.  Lots of students shared about Halloween, while others shared about special activities that took place.  Students were reminded to include the 5Ws when describing their weekend, and had the opportunity to edit their work afterwords for uppercase letters and periods.

The new words of the week to practice are:  back, to, two, from, your

In math we created riddles about 2 digit numbers.  Students were encouraged to use words such as; more than, less than, even, odd, tens and ones when describing their numbers.  The key was adding enough detail so the reader could guess the correct number.  Here is an example:

I am an odd 2 digit number.  
I am greater than 15 and less than 20.  
I have 7 ones.    
What number am I?

On Friday, we will be recognizing Remembrance Day with a special ceremony in the gym at 10:30.  Students will receive a poppy to wear during the ceremony and are invited to bring in change to contribute to the Poppy Fund.  Students are welcome to wear service uniforms if they have them (Beavers, Sparks etc.).

Happy Halloween!

Have a wonderful and safe evening tonight!  See you on Monday, November 4th.

Food Bank - Goal Met!

Students were excited to learn that we had met our goal of 100 items for the Food Bank!  Thank you to everyone who sent items in!  We have one more day if you'd still like to contribute!

We used these items during a math lesson today.  Students worked in teams to sort their items and then graphed their results.  Items were sorted by packaging (cans, jars, boxes, plastic etc).  Cans was the winner!

October 28th.......almost Halloween!

Excitement is in the air as Halloween quickly approaches!  It was tricky to contain our excitement as we were stuck inside with the cold weather today.  Hopefully tomorrow warms up enough to enjoy some fresh air.  Please ensure that students come dressed to play!

A reminder to pay for the Leighton Art Center field trip as soon as possible.  The fee of $13.00 can be paid through your MyCBE account.  We are still looking for one volunteer if you happen to be available!

New words to practice this week are:  use, jump, farm, because, are

We are 16 items short from our Food Bank goal of 100 items!  3 more days to collect items......let's do it Room 135!