Mrs. Andrews' Class

 It's finally June.  In a few weeks, we will have a 2 month vacation! We have had a busy week this week. In ELA we have been working on writing about, "What would I do if I could stay up all night?" We practiced adding lots of details to our sentences.  Students have continues to practice doing our "Find it & Fix it" strategy for editing.   In Math we have reviewing measuring, specifically mass and calendar.  Students have engaged in centres and problem solving tasks about calendar and mass.  For our inquiry project we have been finishing our comic strip about the animal and its community. Students included how we can learn from the animals and care for the land. We shared how we can help the animals so that they can be around for a long time.  We also watch a series of videos about the Seven Sacred Laws. A Indigenous series about how we are all connected and need to respect the land and others. There are a total of 8 videos. I will include the link to the f

  Reminders:   Please return Home reading books. If your child did not return them this week, please help them find their books and have them put them in their backpacks to return on Monday.  Thanks you! Library every Wednesday.  Please return library books by then. Apr. 26th: PD Day ~ No School Apr. 28th:  Spirit Day ~ Technology/Coding Day   This week in ELA we were learning how to make our writing more clear by focusing on the parts of a sentence. We created a visual as a class and then practiced writing sentences following the criteria.  We will continue to do work on this for the next few weeks as part of our learning cycle. Next week we will look a picture prompts and practice writing clear sentences about the pictures. This week in math we revisiting addition. Grade one students are working on adding 2 digit plus 1 digit numbers using various strategies such as counting on or base ten blocks. Grade 2 students were working on adding 2 digit plus 2 digit numbers focusing on how to

  Reminders:   Please return Home reading books. If your child did not return them this week, please help them find their books and have them put them in their backpacks to return on Tuesday April 6th.  Thanks you! Library every Wednesday.  Please return books by then. Mar. 26th: Last day of classes before Spring Break Mar. 29th -Apr. 5th Spring Break NO SCHOOL Apr. 6th Classes Resume   This week in ELA we were learning about acrostic poems.  The children were very creative with their writing.  Here are some samples of their work.  This week in math we were continuing our learning about measurement with a focus on calendar. We reviewed the days of the week and the months of the year.  Then we practiced solving problems that included the calendar. On Wednesday, we had our spirit day "Learning Through the Arts."   We combined drama and literacy by reading the beginning of a "Dogman" readers' theatre script, and the students had to write the ending.  Then they had

Reminders:   Please return Home reading ASAP!  Only 6 students brought their books back today.  Books need to quarantine before we can put them out again. They should be returned every Friday. If your child did not return them this week, please help them find their books and have them put them in their backpacks to return on Monday.  Thanks you! Mar. 26th: Last day of classes before Spring Break Mar. 29th -Apr. 5th Spring Break NO SCHOOL Apr. 6th Classes Resume   This week in ELA we were working on writing reviews of books we have read.  We read two different picture books that students had to write reviews on.  We then learned that when we write reviews, we need to include specific information such as the title and the author.  We also talked about the importance of sharing what we liked or didn't like so that someone reading our review can decide if they want to read the book. Here are the links to the books we read, and a few samples of their writing.  Each child will post one o

  Reminders Mar. 11th:  Evening Parent Teacher Interviews Mar. 12:  Daytime Parent-Teacher Interviews. NO SCHOOL Mar. 29th -Apr. 5th Spring Break NO SCHOOL Apr. 6th Classes Resume   This week in ELA we were working on adding descriptive details to add interest to our events in our stories. We are trying to stretch out our ideas so an event is more than 1-2 sentences long. Here are a few examples of some of their work.   This week in math we were learning about equality and inequality. We discussed how the = sign means the same.   We practiced labelling and making equations that were equal and not equal.  In Science this week we did a few S.T.E.A.M challenges where students had to create towers using materials with different specifications.  Our first challenge was the Cat in the Hat challenge.  Students had to build the tallest tower they could with red cups (the Cat's hat).   Our second challenge was the One cube challenge.  Students had to build towers that balanced on ONE cube! 

  This week in ELA we will be focusing on adding descriptive details to add interest to our events in our stories. We are trying to stretch out our ideas so an event is more than 1-2 sentences long. Here are the words for this week that students should be able to read and write. Students are practicing using their words in a sentence as well. Red Group:  apple, put, red, is, little Blue Group: book, school, teacher, street, went Purple Group: light, lights, dish, dishes, wishes Today in Health, we read the story In My Heart. We talked about how our heart feels when someone does something kind for us and the children had to generate a list of words to describe the feeling, but they could not use happy or good. Some of the words they came up with were;  Joyful, loving, cheerful, thankful, kind, helpful,