Hello
Parents/Guardians!
W.O.W (Words of the Week)
Words:
- please
- of
- his
- had
- him
Weekly Highlights:
- This week in Science we continued
our study of the 5 senses with a focus on how our senses keep us safe and
what would happen if we didn’t have our senses. We learned about
Louis Braille, the creator of braille, and how he made it possible for
people who are visually impaired to read.
We even had a chance to touch and look at braille books from the
Calgary Public library! We looked at the braille alphabet and
created our own names in braille.
We also demonstrated what we know about our 5 senses by creating a
visual journal page for each of our senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing,
and smell.
- In math we started learning about
addition. We learned what the addition sign means and words that
tell us we will be adding: join, combine, more, altogether. We learned
different strategies we can use to add such as using blocks and a chart,
using a 100 chart and counting on, or drawing a picture to represent each
number we are adding. We learned how to record an addition sentence
and that order doesn’t matter when adding because the answer will still be
the same. E.g. if we have 4 apples and 3 oranges it doesn’t matter if we
add 4 apples + 3 oranges or 3 oranges + 4 apples, the answer will always
be 7. We also learned that when adding two numbers it’s easier to start
with the larger number and count on. E.g. 3 + 12= ____. It’s easier to start at 12 and count on
3 numbers than to start at 3 and count on 12 numbers.
- In writing we wrote about Winter 5
senses. We brainstormed different adjectives to describe what we
would smell, taste, feel, see, and hear in the winter time. Here are
some of the things students came up with:
- It
smells like the cold breeze in my nose.
- It
sounds like birds chirping as they fly south.
- It
feels like icy cold on my arms.
- It
looks like kids making snowmen.
- It
tastes like sweet hot chocolate in my cup.
Reminders:
Valentines:
As a grade 1 team, we will NOT
be handing out Valentines cards in class. Instead, the grade 1 students
will be participating in kindness activities throughout the month of February.
Field Trips:
We are still in need of
volunteers for our upcoming field trips, please see below:
1. Kindness Walk:
Grade one students will be
working on kindness over the next few weeks. We will be creating kindness cards
to deliver throughout the communities around SVS. We are looking for volunteers
on Wednesday February 12th from 2:30-3:45pm (dismissal) to help us
deliver our cards.
2. Glenbow Museum:
Mrs. McGivern and Ms.
Boston are looking for volunteers for our upcoming full day field
trip on Monday February 24th to Glenbow Museum. If you have
your security clearance and would like to volunteer for this field trip please
contact Kirsten Ledergerber at kcutress@hotmail.com. The field trip forms
went home this week, please return them as soon as possible. The cost of the field trip is $20.00.
Please log into your Power School account to pay this fee. If you have
any issues with payment please contact the office at 403-777-6660.
Skating:
The students will have the
opportunity to skate during the week of February 10-13th. Ms. Boston
& Mrs. McGivern’s classes will be skating at the following times:
- Tuesday February 11th
1:41pm-2:17pm
- Wednesday February 12th
1:05pm-1:41
Permission forms have been
sent home. Please fill them in and return them to your child’s teacher by
Thursday February 6th. If you are able to volunteer please contact Ms. Latham
at ajlatham@cbe.ab.ca.
Mindfulness Mondays:
As part of
our Mindfulness Mondays, all students at Simons Valley school will be taking
15-20 minutes, once a month, to stop and watch a yoga video. If students do not
wish to participate they can lay quietly on their mats until the video is over.
Community Skating:
Sandstone MacEwan Community Association has been collecting used
skates for kids in the community who cannot afford to skate. If you are a
family who would like to receive or who would like to donate skates, please
contact info@sandstomemacewan.com. As well, if you are interested, there
is a family willing to do some sharpening and some intro lessons! What a great
opportunity!
Parent Council:
The next Parent Council meeting is next week on Thursday,
February 6th at 7 pm in our DLC. We are holding the meeting a week
early to accommodate the Teachers' Convention break. It’s our Grade 2 teaching
teams' turn to present what your kids have been working on in their
classrooms. There will also be the usual updates from our Admin team and
other committees. Babysitting will be available. And in case you missed this on
our school website, you can review our January meeting minutes
here:
Ask Me About:
- What are some ways that our senses
keep us safe?
- Smelling burning toast in the
toaster
- Looking for cars when crossing
the road
- Tasting sour milk
- When we use our senses where does
the message go? (To our brain)
- Read, read, read!!
