Field Trips Feb-June

Below is a list of the field trips confirmed from now until the end of the year. If you have your police clearance and a completed annual volunteer form and are able to join us, please email your child's teacher.

April 1 Leighton Art Center

April 9 Bow Habitat

May 13 Kamp Kiwanis

May 27 Hull's Wood (half day morning only)

June 17 Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area

Grade 1 Celebration of Learning will take place in your child's classroom on Friday March 6 from 11:30 until 12:15. This is an opportunity for your child to share some of the recent projects they have been working on. Please feel free to drop in anytime during this timeframe. 

Chain reactions

Lately we have been learning about chain reactions and cause and effect relationships. The students have been writing fiction and non-fiction stories that include chain reactions and have recently started creating Rube Goldberg machines. Yesterday we made a plan for a machine that will help us with a simple, daily task. Students have created a plan in their journals. Next week, we will be starting to build our machines. If you have extra materials around your house that we could use, please feel free to send them in with your child. Some of the things we are looking for include: cardboard, paper towel rolls, wrapping paper rolls, dominoes, old marble tracks, old train tracks, old hot wheels tracks. Please ask your child about their machine! We will be presenting our Rube Goldberg machines during our Celebration of Learning on Friday, March 6th. Parents are welcome to come in to our classroom between 11:30am and 12:15pm on March 6th to see what we have been learning!

Upcoming field trips:

A list of field trip dates for the rest of the year will be available on Monday, February 24th. So far we have two confirmed trips. If you are interested in volunteering for either of these, please email your child's teacher. 

Wednesday, April 1st - Leighton Art Center (all day) 

Wednesday, May 13th - Kamp Kiwanis (all day) 

Reminder:

No school Thursday, February 13th 

No school Friday, February 14th

No school Monday, February 17th

Cross Conservation Pics and Valentines

Today we sent home a list of students in the class. If your child would like to hand out Valentines to their peers next Wednesday, please ensure they bring enough for the class (19). We request you don't sent treats as we have many severe allergies and food sensitivities in the class.

Next Week:
Thursday Feb. 13 No school for students
Friday Feb. 14 No school for students
Monday Feb 17 Holiday. No school

We had an AWESOME trip to Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area. Thank you so much to our volunteers for helping us make it happen!
Students were investigating 3 questions while we were there.
1. Is the snow good for the conservation area?
2. Are the trees alive?
3. Is there any evidence of animals?

Student explored these questions during a nature walk as they identifying scat and tracks, played games about the subnivean zone and animals who live under the snow. We walked through the forest and looked for buds on trees and signs of animals. We found lots of holes in the snow where animals enter. We saw mice, mule deer, chickadees and woodpeckers!