Forms, Forms, and more Forms!!

After having a fairly quiet year on the field trip front, we're apparently trying to fit them all in during the month of March :).  The following forms have been, or will be, sent home:

Alien In-Line Skating (form has been sent home).
Our days will be:
March 7, 11, 13 (9 different students from the class will be going on each of these days)
March 19th (whole class)
March 20th (whole class)

Transition Day at Simon Fraser Middle School (forms sent home yesterday)
When: Thursday March 7th
When: 11:30 - 2:15
No volunteers needed for this field trip

Field Trip to Glenbow Museum (forms coming home today)

When: Monday March 11th

When: 8:30 - 2:00

Thank you to everyone who contacted me, we know have enough volunteers :).

The Lion King Musical at Simon Fraser Middle School (forms coming home Thursday)

When: Tuesday March 19th

When: 9:30 - 11:45

No volunteers needed for this trip

If you have any questions about the trips, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Also, the office will have extra copies of the forms, if needed.

Friday February 22nd, 2019

Home Journals are coming home today!  Please take a moment to read, sign, and send them back for Monday.  We are missing quite a few Home Journals, if they happen to be hanging out at home, please send them to school next week :).

Here is the web that we created to help us write our Journals:

Here are some of the students' highlights from the week:

“For gym this week we practiced basketball.  We practiced dribbling the ball, we practiced throwing the ball, and we practiced shooting the balls in the hoop”. – Priscilla

“In math we are doing something I really liked.  We’re making a zoo, and we are going to build it after we are done.” – Mihaly

“My highlight this week was math because we did Math Minute.  Math minute is when you have a sheet of paper full of math questions and have one minute to answer as many questions as you can.  Each day I noticed that I can answer more questons!” – Isra

“This week in school we did art with Mrs. Sayani.  We did Zen Gardens and mine was really pretty and nice.  Art was really fun!” – Sanaa

“In French we wrote down the 80’s.  After I finished writing it down I played memory with French numbers.  I won the game.” – Jayden

“Every Monday and Wednesday we go to Mrs. Hargreave’s class for Science.  We work on our simple machines, the pulley, the screw, the wedge, the inclined plane, and the lever!” – Chad

“Some of my highlights were Science because we did Scratch.  Scratch is like making the cat do what you want to do in code.” – Fofo

"Also in Math we did Venn Diagrams, which was fun because I go to know 3 separate diagrams.” – Manav

“In Music we are learning a new song called, “The Noble Duke of York".  We already learned the movement.  It’s really fun to learn the movement and the song.” – Jude

“We are reading this book called, “Dinosaur Fever” and we have to look for words like interesting words, ways to tell a story, dinosaurs, and descriptions of Alberta.” - Scott

Stay tuned next week for highlights from other students :).

Have a great weekend!

February 6th, 2019

It has been an exciting week!  Over the weekend, a pipe burst in Mrs. Hargreaves room, creating quite the mess!  While it is being repaired, we have been making our home in the Learning Commons.  We are very grateful to Mrs. Brock for sharing her space with us.  We should be back in our classroom next Monday afternoon.

Humanities:
Tomorrow will be the last day for students to have class time to work on their autobiographies.  Students should be finished their good copy and ready to hand it in by the end of class tomorrow.  Anyone who isn't done, will be bringing it home for homework.  Students have been using Google Docs to type up their good copy, which can be accessed at home.  Here is the checklist that we used to write the ending of our autobiographies:

I have checked that my end:
- ends everything – everything should be wrapped up, there should be no new information introduced.
- is interesting, don’t just abruptly end things.
- ties up any loose ends (don’t leave any questions in your reader’s mind
- COPS
- capitals (proper nouns, beginning of a sentence, “I”)
- organization
- punctuation (periods, question mark, comma, exclamation marks, quotation marks, apostrophe)
- spelling (ask Miss. Willis if you are unsure).
- detail and description

Yesterday we had a virtual field trip to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller.  This trip tied in nicely with what we have been learning about in Humanities, as well as with our whole class novel study of "Dinosaur Fever" by Marion Woodson.  Here are some of the things that we learned:

Math:

This week in Math we have been focusing on ways to compare, order, and sort numbers.

Spelling Tests:

We are working our way through the SRA Spelling Mastery Program and have spelling tests every week.  Students are strongly encouraged to be practicing their words on a nightly basis.  The full list of words can be accessed here:

https://www.bvusd.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1319&dataid=1834&FileName=spelling%20mastery%20word%20lists.pdf

We are currently working on list 66-70, but any words from previous lists can also show up on the test.  

Reminders and Important Dates:

- Since we are not in our classroom, and because Friday is going to be a busy day, we will not be doing Home Journals this week.

- Friday is a Grade 2 Learning Assembly at 8:30, Flex Friday, and Movie Night.

- There will be no school next Thursday (February 14th) and Friday (February 15th) for Teachers' Convention.

- There will be no school on Monday February 18th for Family Day.

- We will be going to the Glenbow Museum on Monday March 11th and are still in need of volunteers.  Please contact me if you are available and have your volunteer clearance.

Stay warm!!