Dear parents,

We had a wonderful morning at Fish Creek! Thank you so much to all the parent volunteers who joined us for this trip. The students practiced some of their photography skills we have been working on. We will be displaying some of their pictures at conferences next week!

Mrs. Howard is starting a unit on boats and buoyancy. We have been making predictions on which objects will float or sink. 

Today we tested some of our predictions!

Dear parents,

Tomorrow morning is our field trip to Hull's Wood in Fish Creek.

We are asking the students to wear boots and snow pants and warm winter clothes.

Please pack extra snacks as the students will be doing a lot of walking.

Thanks!

Dear parents,

Today we visited the grade 1 classes to see their sharing. They have been working on cause and effect and built mazes for us to try.

Also our buddies came and worked on money with us! They were the waiters and we had to order off a menu.

There is a new science journal question. Please read it with your child. We are not seeing alot of science journals being returned to school. Please check and see if they are at home.

Dear parents,

We had a wonderful performance from Evergreen Theatre this afternoon! It was called the Wicked Witch of the Wetlands. We learned how to protect the wetlands and all about animals who live there. It had lots of great songs and we even had some actors from our room.

Room 1 students have a spelling quiz tomorrow.


In writing we are working on adding detail to our sentences. We wrote about the first event in our story and then we added detail to make it more interesting.

Dear parents,

Today we learned more about photography with Ms. Sarah in the ilab. We had to use the elements of photography that we have been learning and use them to take a picture of our stuffies. 

We will be using our stuffies again tomorrow.

We learned more about goods in Social Studies. We learned about goods in Saskatoon. 

In writing, we learned about how to write a good beginning that will make a reader want to read about the story. We learned 3 techniques:

1. Action (what's the character doing?)

2. Onomatopoeia (Sound)

3. Dialogue (what's the character saying)

The students in room 1 had a table group change. Ask you child their new table group name!

Maple Ridge school is having a Family Movie Night on March 12th. The students are getting a notice home today. Look for it in their back packs. 

Dear parents,

The room one students are asked to bring a small stuffy on Monday March 2nd, to help us with our photography program.

Thanks!

Dear parents,

In room 1 we are working on writing new stories. We have started the story plan and created our main characters. Ask your child who their main characters are and some of their character traits. This is in preparation for our trip to the Apple Store where we will be using technology to help our story writing.

Today in Social Studies we learned more about some of the plants and animals that we can find in Meteghan, Saskatoon and Iqaluit. We also learned that Alberta's provincial flower is the Wild Rose.

We also read an Inuit tale called the Polar Bear Son.

In Health we have been talking about what responsibilities are. We have discussed how we have responsibilities at school, at home, and to the earth.