Dear parents,

Tomorrow is the last day of class in 2019! School will start again on January 6th, 2020.

Tomorrow is a full day and fun lunch, of pizza!

Tomorrow is also the choir performance at 2:30 pm. Parents are welcome to join!

Students are allowed to wear Santa hats or other fun Christmas hats.

The students in room 1 have been busy little elves making a craft for you! They will be bringing them home tomorrow.

We have been learning about the Winter Solstice this week. Winter starts this Saturday and that marks the shortest day of the year. We learned that the earth is tilting away from the sun and the solstice marks the day when the earth starts tilting back toward the sun and the days get longer again.

Dear parents,

Today room 1 students were bucket filling detectives! We were looking for ways we saw other people filling buckets! There was a lot of kindness happening today! See the pictures below 

We also did some carol singing in the gym and we saw some talent show performances from the grade 3. There were jokes, magic, skipping, singing, dancing, flute playing and DJ mixing!

We learned at new game in math called race to 100. 

We also started an art project that will be a surprise!

Tuesday is Christmas sweater or cosy sweater day.

Dear parents,

Today we did some descriptive writing! We used our senses to describe a magical sled. 

Today we read a book call Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen. Room 1 students are getting a little silly during instruction time. So we talked about how our sillies sometimes stop us from listening and knowing what to do. 

We also finished our Snowman at Night art. See some examples below! We learned about shading and how to use oil pastels. 

Today in math we played a game to help us with our re-grouping. We added 2 numbers and counted out the total in one blocks. Then we went to the banker to see if we could exchange any ones, for a group of ten. 

Dear Parents,

It was a busy day in room 1!

This morning we learned about Character traits. We learned how a writer often describes a character trait with words. Rather that writing "She was curious" the author might write:

She liked going on adventures and learning new things. She was always asking questions. She like to look closely at things and figure out how they worked. She had a lot of wonders! 

We are starting to new about re-grouping in Math when doing addition questions. We are learning to carry a group of 10 over  to the tens place value.

The students in Room 1 have new spelling words today. Please have them practice for Friday's quiz. This will be our last spelling until January.

Please send any Food Bank donations by Friday!

Our student teacher, Mrs. Howard will be having her last day this Friday December 13th. She will return to our class at the end of February. We have been very grateful to have Mrs. Howard in our class and we will miss her these next 2 months!

Dear Parents,

Tomorrow is the Maple Ridge School STEM night.

From 6:00-7:30 the classrooms will have stations that you can visit and do STEM based activities. Each station will take about 15 minutes.

We hope you join us!

Ms. Watts and Mrs. Howard

Dear parents,

Today was a busy day! We started off with an experiment to see which spoon would transfer heat better. We tried a metal spoon, plastic spoon and wooden spoon. We found out that the metal spoon transferred heat best! We also learned about molecules and that when molecules are closer together, they transfer heat better. Ask your child what transfer means!

We also conducted out surveys this afternoon. Ask your child which of their options people liked best. 

We also started our new animal research project. We are researching an animal from one of our communities in Canada.

Today the grade 2's have a new spelling list to practice this week.
We also have new table groups. Ask your child their group name.

We also learned how to develop a survey question. Tomorrow the grade 2's are going to be conducting a classroom survey. Ask your child what they survey question is.

Please continue to bring non-perishable food items for the Food Bank.

Dear parents,

Today we worked on writing our paragraphs about our story settings. 

Mrs. Howard took a survey about what are Room 1's favorite colours.  She then took that data and made a graph from the results. Most people in room 1 like Blue!

We also worked on organizing our weather data into a bar graph. We took our weather tracking data and put it into a graph that showed which community had the most cold days and which community had the most warm days. Ask your child what they could determine by reading their graph.

Tomorrow the students have a quiz on their spelling words. Please help them practice tonight!

Please send food bank donations to our classroom. We are going to be making some observations about what food items we receive.

Dear parents,

We are finding the students in room 1 are extra hungry these days. Please pack your child some extra snacks. We allow for an afternoon snack time. 

Today was a blue day all day. We had an indoor lunch and recess. 

Today we wrote about our story settings. We turned our 4 senses jot notes into sentences and we learned what a paragraph is. Ask your child about how many sentences should be in a paragraph.

Today we learned more about interpreting bar graphs. We looked at a graph in social studies and we determined which community had the most snowfall in a year. 

We finished reading Owls in the Family and are now reading The Mouse and Motorcycle. 

The students in room 1 have new spelling lists this week. They went home on Monday. Please have them practice their words for a quiz on Friday. If you do not see their words in their backpack, email me and I can send you the list.

Today we learned about adjectives! Adjectives are describing word. they describe a person, place or a thing (nouns).

Maple Ridge School is accepting donations to the Food Bank. We are accepting non-perishable  food items. 

Tonight is the Indigo/ Chapters fundraiser for Maple Ridge school from 6:00-8:00.

Today we learned about what people do in Iqaluit. Things they do that we do not do is hunt seal and whale, throat singing, dog sled, and snowmobile. Some of the things they do that we also do is swimming, ride bikes, prepare meals, go to school, play in the snow, and play on the park. 

In math we used cards to make a 2 digit number. We tried to make the biggest number possible. We made the biggest number with base ten blocks.

In writing we learned how to describe our setting using the senses of hearing, seeing, touching and smelling. 

Our stuffies helped us in explore time!

Dear parents,

The students in room 1 have been working hard to follow our classroom routines. They have been practicing lining up quietly, listening at instruction time, using kind words and voices, working quietly, filling buckets and being ready to learn.

I am happy to say they have earned their pyjama day!

Students in room 1 will be allowed to wear their pyjamas and bring a small stuffy to school on Monday November 25th.

Tomorrow is early dismissal and there is no school Friday due to Parent-teacher conferences. Please book a time with Ms. Watts to discuss your child's learning.

Today in Math, we learned about place value and Naughty numbers. We also learned about stacking our numbers.

Today we build a setting for a book that we are going to be writing. Ask your child what setting they built.

In Key Jar the question was "what is the best thing about living here in Calgary?" Ask your child what they answered.

Thank you to the parent volunteers who joined us on our trip to Arts Common!

Tomorrow is our field trip to Arts Common.

The students are reminded to bring a lunch, 2 snacks and a water bottle. 

Today we did a draw for a bucket filling job. Ask your child what bucket filling job they got.

We learned what the land is like in the three communities we are studying.  We also learned about the water in those areas. We learned about a bay, creek, river and inlet. We also learned about coastlines. 

We also learned about the blend or digraph "SH". Ask your child about some words with that sound.

Dear parents,

Room 1 is looking for some supplies. If you have any of the following, and are willing to donate, please send to school with your child. Thank you!

-pom poms (small size)
-glittery pipe cleaners
-green pipe cleaners
-snowflake sequins

Glittery pipe cleaner