Room on the Broom challenge

Today the students listened to the story "Room on the Broom". They were then asked to create a broom that would hold 3 "animals" using the materials provided. First, they made a plan and labelled their materials. Then, with a partner they built a model of their broom.

Cold weather reminder
We got outside to play for recess and lunch most days. It is important that students are dressed for the weather. On colder days, students are reminded to bring boots, coats, mitts, hats and snowpants.

Halloween Info

With Halloween coming up Thursday, we are doing some Halloween themed learning activities this week.

Today we learned about what bats need to survive and how their bodies are made to help them escape predators, find food and survive the cold. We also talked about the lifecycle of a pumpkin. We used our pumpkins to estimate and measure.

Tuesday we will be doing a building challenge about a witches broom, continuing our bat investigation and estimating then measuring circumference of our pumpkins.

On Wednesday we will be cutting open the pumpkins so please have your child wear clothes that can get messy.

Thursday the students can wear costumes to school. Nothing to scary or gory and no masks please.

Our words for the week we are practicing are: see, down, little, can, we
Below is a game called Roll a Word to practice.

Pumpkins, gourds or squash?

Today the students were excited to find some mystery objects in our classroom. After asking questions to narrow down our ideas, the students found a mix of pumpkins, gourds and squash to explore. They visited different tables and recorded their observations using a notice/wonder chart. What did your child notice? What did they wonder? We will be exploring our pumpkins, gourds and squash more over the next week.

Literacy

Alphabet letters/printing practice 

During literacy time in the morning, we have been working on printing lowercase letters neatly, as well as identifying the sounds that each letter makes and recognizing words that start with the letter of the day. So far we have practiced: l, i, t, f, c, o. We are also learning about vowels and the different sounds that they can make. 

Sight words
The past 3 weeks we have been practicing writing, reading and recognizing sight words. The words we have learned so far are: the, to, and, a, I, you, it, in, said, for, up, look, is, go, we. These words help us with reading and writing tasks. Today we practiced making the words using play dough.

Fall books 

The students have been working hard to write their very own book! We have been learning about Fall and our senses and students have each written a mini book called "All about Fall".

Hull's Wood and Upcoming Field Trip Dates

Upcoming field studies: 

Tuesday November 12  Central Library. Morning half day trip. 
Tuesday November 19  Telus Spark 9-2:30
Monday December 9  National Music Center 9-2:30 

If you are able to volunteer for any of the above trips, please email Ms. Fraser or Ms. Pittman

Reminder: Picture Retakes Wednesday (please let your child's teacher know if you would like them to get retakes)


We had a beautiful day exploring at Hull's Woods today. Students shared ideas about how animals survive in the winter and we focused on vocabulary like hibernate, adapt and migrate. Ask your child to share an example of an animal adaptation, an animal that migrates and an animal that hibernates. Students learned about animals that live in Fish Creek Park, looked for signs of them and built a home for the animal to live in over the winter.
Their second activity involved plant identification and using descriptive words to talk about the trees and shrubs they observed. They spent most of the morning exploring then sketched in the afternoon as we looked through some pictures we had taken.

Weaselhead and Upcoming Events

We had a great first field trip of the year to Weaselhead Park. Students looked at the seasonal changes and looked for signs of animals. Students captured their discoveries through sketching and with photos as we practiced some micro and macro photographs on the ipad. We compared the view from the ridge to the view of Ottawa that Ms. Fraser had from a plane and noticed differences and similarities.
When we returned to the school, we viewed and discussed all the pictured that the classes had taken. Mrs. Pittman's class saw a little owl! Students sketched and labelled some memories and discoveries from the day.

Reminders:
Monday is our rescheduled field trip to Hull's Wood. We need a few more volunteers for this to meet our required ratios and be able to go. Please email Mrs. Fraser or Mrs. Pittman if you are able to attend. It is from 9-12:15.

Wednesday October 23 is picture retake day.
Thursday October 24 is fun lunch.

Have a great weekend!

Rescheduled Field Trip now Oct 21

Our field study to Hull’s Wood that was originally scheduled for October 8, 2019 has been rescheduled for Monday October 21, 2019.  

   

We do not require students to fill out new Acknowledgment of Risk forms as this was previously done for the original trip. The itinerary for the day remains the same. Please check the weather for this day and ensure your child is dressed appropriately for the day as we will be outside the entire morning.

We are still in need of volunteers for this trip. If you are able to attend, please email Mrs. Pittman or Ms. Fraser.

Thank you!

Hull's Wood field trip - rescheduled

We are planning to reschedule our Hull's Wood field trip. This will be a half day field trip, from 9:15am-12:15pm on Monday, October 21st. We are looking for volunteers to join us. If you are available and have a current police clearance completed, please email your child's teacher by Tuesday, October 15th.

Field Trip Forms Weaselhead

Hi Parents,

We have a field trip to Weaselhead next Thursday. Today students brought home their forms to be filled out and returned. Room 16 could use some more volunteers as well. If you are able to join us, please let me know. 

Please send the plastic communication folder to school each day. 

Thanks!

Field Trip Reminder

Room 15 & 16 Parents,

We are looking forward to our first field study tomorrow, Tuesday October 8, and have a few reminders. The forecast indicates it will be snowing tomorrow. We are going to modify some of our activities due to this but have alternative learning activities planned. Students will need to wear snow pants, boots, hats and mitts as it will be chilly and snowy. We will ask the kids to have snack as soon as they arrive at school instead of at the location so we don't have to eat in the snow and take gloves off.  The bus will leave closer to 9:30 to allow them time to eat. We will also return slightly earlier than planned at approximately 11:45. Taking into account the predictions for snow tomorrow, the conditions appear to be safe for travel and for our planned activities. We will watch the weather closely tonight and tomorrow morning in case this changes. 

 

Today students are bringing home reading books in their folder. These books can be exchanged every Monday for new books. There are some suggestions for reading with your child as well. If you have any questions about home reading, please contact Mrs. Fraser or Mrs. Pittman.

Reminders: Friday is a PD day. No school for students. 

                       Monday is a holiday (so book exchange will be Tuesday)

Class Picture Sketching

Yesterday the boys and girls brought home their class pictures. Before taking them home, the students worked hard to draw a class picture into their white journal. Students looked closely and used what they have been learning about drawing portraits to add important details. Here are some pictures of their hard work.

Superheroes

This morning we imagined what we would look like if we were a superhero! We talked about our superhero name and what our superpower would be. Students then drew a picture of themself as a superhero and wrote two sentences about their special powers.

In math we have been learning how to represent numbers to 10 in different ways. Can your child explain some of the different ways we can show numbers? We have been practicing writing the numeral, drawing a picture, using tally marks, writing a math sentence and using a ten frame.

This afternoon we combined what we have learned about the primary and secondary colours as well as tints and shades to create some brand new colours!