Friday Feb. 28th

Hello Parents/Guardians! 

W.O.W (Words of the Week) Words: 

1. over
2. just
3. going
4. walk
5. think 

Weekly Highlights:

• We started our week off with our Glenbow Museum field trip.  Thank you to all of the volunteers who came with us and made this trip possible!  We had a wonderful time learning about Indiginous culture, life in the past, observing different artifacts, and having our very first Museum tour.  We created a visual journal page to represent the many things we learned.
• This week in Math we focused on creating related addition and subtraction facts and learned about Fact Families.  When creating our number sentences we were reminded that we add the two parts to get a total and always subtract from the total (the largest number).  We also played a fact family scoot game where we went around the room and created number sentences for 3 given numbers. For example a card would have the numbers 10, 1, 11.  On our paper we would record 10+1=11, 1+10=11, 11-10=1, 11-1=10. 
• Fact Family Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaI175kp-zQ
• Jack Hartmann Addition Facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqQ1VkBvuRs
• It was pink shirt day on Wednesday.  Many of us participated by wearing a pink shirt to support anti-bullying and demonstrate kindness.  We were reminded that even though pink shirt day is only one day in the year, kindness should continue everyday all year long!
• We completed a writing sample related to winter.  When writing, we continue to work on reading what we have written and revising it to make it better.  Some of the things we are looking for in our writing are:
• Making sure that our sentences make sense and are not missing any words.
• Finger spaces between words
• End punctuation (periods, exclamation marks, question marks)
• Starting sentences with an uppercase letter
• Stretching out the sounds in the words to record as many letters as possible.  This makes our writing easier for others to read. Rather than just recording the beginning and end sounds, we need to make sure to include middle sounds.  Every syllable in a word should have a vowel (e.g. hibernate: h, hbn, hibnt, hibernt, hibernat).
• Printing in lowercase letters unless you are writing a name, day of the week, etc.
• Writing the word I using an uppercase letter
• Spelling word wall words correctly (our W.O.W words)
• We finished our 3rd inchie for our Winter inchie project.  We created a winter birch tree using green painters tape to create a tree shape. We then sponge painted over top with blue and purple to create a frosty background. We then added dots of white paint to represent snowflakes.  After peeling off the tape, we completed the tree by adding black lines on the tree to create the bark. 

Reminders:

Glenbow Museum:

Thank you again to our volunteers for coming with us!

Parent – Teacher (Student) Conferences:

There has been a change to the times for the March 19^th and 20^th Parent – Teacher (Student) Conferences. 

Thursday, March 19^th will be a short day with dismissal at 1:30 pm (like a usual Friday). Appointments will be available for the following days/times:

Thursday March 19th: 2:30 – 4:30 pm and 5:30 – 8:00 pm.

Friday March 20th: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. 

You will be notified when conference times are open for bookings. 

Panago Pizza Night with Simons Valley School:

Tonight, Friday February 28th, when you order Panago pizza from the Beacon Hill location, you will receive 15% off any regular priced menu items using the code PANA15.  Beacon Hill Panago Pizza will also donate 15% of the net orders placed on this date back to our school!  

You can order: ONLINE, BY PHONE, or IN PERSON.

Order online at www.panago.com

Order in person at the Beacon Hill Panago Location (#108, 11658 Sarcee Trail NW)

**Please note-this discount will only be available at the Beacon Hill Panago Pizza Location and this offer is not valid with any other promotional offers.

Ask Me About:

1. 5 Facts I learned at the Glenbow Museum?
2. If you have time, have your child write about something they enjoy doing.  Have them remember to check their work for the things listed above.
3. Have your child write number sentences into their communication book for the following fact families:

1. 9, 4, 5
2. 4, 12, 8

Friday Feb. 21st

Hello Parents/Guardians! 

W.O.W (Words of the Week) Words: 

1. when
2. were
3. them
4. ask
5. an

Weekly Highlights:

• We read the story, The Mitten by Jan Brett, then created our next winter inchie art piece. First, we painted a blue background. Next, we glued colourful tissue paper to create a collage.  We then cut out a mitten shape from our colourful collage and glued it onto our blue background. The final step was gluing on a few snowflakes.
• To celebrate the 100th day of school we played a game in math called, Race to 100.  Using a 100 chart the students rolled two dice, recorded the number sentence, and solved.  If they solved correctly, they moved their game piece forwards.  The first person to 100 wins the game!  
• We also celebrated the 100th day of school by thinking about what our life would be like at 100 years old.  Some of the things we brainstormed were: where we would live, who our family members would be, what we would look like, what we would be doing such as still working or being retired, and how we would pass the time.  We then used these ideas to write our own piece about our life at 100 years old.  
• This week we practiced reading and solving word problems related to addition.  When reading word problems, we looked carefully at the language to tell whether we would be adding or subtracting.  Some of the words that tell us we will be adding are: join, sum, altogether, or more.  We practiced using the words part and whole when describing a number sentence.  Addition is: part + part = whole.  Subtraction is: whole - part = part.  We also practiced making addition and subtraction sentences related to a visual and started learning about fact families.  For example if there are 2 black circles and 6 white circles, we would have the following number sentences:
• 2 black circles + 6 white circles = 8 circles
• 6 white circles + 2 black circles = 8 circles
• 8 circles - 2 black circles = 6 white circles
• 8 circles - 6 white circles = 2 black circles
• To help students improve their fluency with addition and subtraction it is important that they can quickly and accurately count forwards and back.  Here is a video that you can use to practice counting to 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
• In Social Studies we continued learning about Community and the different landmarks within our community.  We also learned about different landmarks throughout Calgary.  We then created our own class book using inspiration from the book Knufflebunny by Mo Willems and the pigeon character from Mo Willems’s Pigeon series. We each wrote about a different landmark that the pigeon character visited.  Some of the places the pigeon visited were: The Calgary Tower, WinSport (previously C.O.P), Simons Valley School, Tim Hortons, the Calgary Zoo, and the Telus Spark Science Center. We drew our own Pigeon to visit the places we wrote about. 

Reminders:

Glenbow Museum:

Our field trip to the Glenbow Museum is this Monday, February 24th! All of the kids are very excited to be going. Here are a few reminders for our trip:

• Pack a healthy lunch - kids are often hungry so please send extra snacks
• We are not bringing backpacks, so please send a lunch bag that is easy for your child to carry.
• NO NUTS or food that may contain nut products
• Pack a water bottle
• Leave snow pants/extra mittens/hats at home
• Be on time!  We will be boarding the bus at 9:15am.  We will not be waiting for students who arrive late to school.  

Parent – Teacher (Student) Conferences:

There has been a change to the times for the March 19^th and 20^th Parent – Teacher (Student) Conferences. Thursday, March 19^th will be a short day with dismissal at 1:30 pm (like a usual Friday). Appointments will be available from 2:30 – 4:30 pm and 5:30 – 8:00 pm. On Friday, the appointment times will be from 9:00 am – 12:30 pm. You will be notified when conference times are open for bookings. 

Toys & Gum at School:

Please remind your child that toys should be left at home, and that we do not give away or trade toys at school (particularly pokemon cards).  

Please also remind them that gum should be left at home.

Ask Me About:

1. What landmarks do we know in Calgary?
2. Read, read, read!! 
3. Please have your child write 4 number sentences for the visual below into their communication book (2 addition sentences and 2 subtraction sentences)