Last week of February 2021

 Hello Room 17! I hope you are able to get outside this weekend and have some fun and time with your families. 

It has been a full week with the students putting their finishing touches on their How to instructional posters and they look amazing! The students made sure to add in a bold title, a list of materials, the steps to use with pictures and finally a tip on how to make the product or experience better. As we move in to next week, the students will be doing a final instructional piece on the steps they take before getting ready for bed.

In Mathematics, we continue to explore adding and subtracting of two digit numbers, with and without regrouping or borrowing. Most students have found a strategy or two that works for them in finding the correct sum or difference and can explain how they got their answers. We have also explored bar graphs and answering questions about the graph and representing numbers in many ways.

In Science, we are wrapping up our unit on Hot and Cold Temperatures and the students had a chance to test out their insulating devices in class on Friday. They were all given an ice cube which they placed in their devices and most were very successful in choosing materials that would help the ice cube from melting. Our next unit will be exploring Liquids.

In Social Studies, we have looked at the culture of the Ukrainians in Saskatoon, the Inuit of Iqaluit and now, the Acadians of Meteghan. Each community has a unique flavour with different languages, music, dance, foods and clothing. We will also be exploring their folktales and stories that make up their past and are shared with future generations 

Hope you enjoy your Sunday. A reminder that Monday is formal uniforms and please ensure your child has appropriate gym shoes that can be used for Physical Education indoors.  

February 16th - 19th

 Another busy week of February has flown by and we have only one more week left in February of 2021!

 The students have been working hard on completing their "How to..." posters in writing to include a bold title, a list of materials needed and the steps needed in order to complete the task or skill the students are teaching to others. 

In Math, we have been continuing to work on Magic Numbers, bar graphs and estimating length of several classroom items including our desks. Students have also been practicing their adding and subtracting skills playing Race to 100 or Race to 0 for subtraction practice.

In Science, we are continuing to look at Hot and Cold Temperatures and next week's homework focuses on design a container to insulate an ice cube and keep it from melting. We have explored various materials that help to keep things warm and now the students will figure out the best materials to use to keep something cold for an extended period of time.

In Social Studies, we have keyed in on the cultural contributions of the Inuit people in Iqaluit and the ways they continue to keep their cultural traditions alive and passed on to future generations. We will next be exploring the role of the Acadian people in Meteghan, Nova Scotia.

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend and see you tomorrow in formal uniforms. Also a reminder that Wednesday is Pink Shirt Day if you would like to participate.

February 8th - 10th

 Happy Valentine's Day to one and all! I hope you are having a wonderful long weekend with family and trying to stay warm with this bitterly cold weather we have been experiencing. It was quite a challenge last week for the students are Monday through to Wednesday they were unable to go outside with the temperatures and windchill being what they were!

 As it was a short week, the students still worked really well! They enjoyed the opportunity on Wednesday to exchange Valentine's cards with their classmates and I want to offer a great big thanks to all of the students who took the time to make me a Valentine card as well!

In Writing, the students were busy completing their Recipes for Kindness in relation to our virtues of kindness and caring for others. They had to include ingredients for their recipe and how best to create kindness to give to others. They finished their good copies on the computers using Google documents where they could add pictures too.

In Mathematics, we continue to explore double digit addition and subtraction using the games Race to 100 or Race to 0 for subtraction practice. We have explored how you can use a hundreds charts to help you figure out a question once you determine how many tens and ones you are adding or needing to take away from a number. Also, we continue to explore the use of picture and bar graphs to explain the data that we have collected from questions asked of the class.

In Social Studies, we have looked at a definition of culture and how it influences the communities we are studying. This week, we looked at the influence of the Ukrainian culture in Saskatoon and the different language, foods, clothing, dance, music, folktales and art ensure their historical culture continues to be practiced by both young and old people.  

In Science, we have touched on various materials and if they make good insulators to keep things hot. After next week's homework, the following week's homework will include an at home project where the students will need to design and construct a device to keep an ice cube as cold as possible over the day. We have talked about the need to design it using a material that will help to insulate the ice cube and keep it from getting too warm, too quickly.  

Remember that Monday is the Family Day holiday and we will see each other again on Tuesday. Another reminder that as we are doing our Physical Education inside, the students need to have proper gym shoes to use. There are some students who have multi purpose black shoes, but there are still some students who are wearing dress shoes that are unsafe for use in the gym. Please ensure your child has the proper footwear to allow them to safely participate in the gym activities.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your long weekend and see everybody on Tuesday morning!

February 1st - 5th

 

Hello Room 17 class!  It is great to be back in the classroom and seeing everyone in person. We had a chance to welcome back one student from the HUB class who has rejoined us in the classroom. Everyone was very welcoming to her and made sure she felt included in the classroom activities this week.

In Writing, we have focused on making a Recipe of Kindness that we have created from scratch. In our recipes, we are making sure to include our list of ingredients and all the steps involved in giving and sharing our kindness ideas with others. The students are in the process of typing up their good copies of their recipes in their Google Drive documents. 

In Math, we have continued to explore 2 digit addition and subtraction and the various strategies we can use in order to show our understandings of the process of these two operations. Students also continued to show their understanding of representing a number like 100 in many different ways from number sentences to skip counting.  We continue to also build picture and bar graphs as ways to display the information we have collected from our class.

In Science, we are looking at Hot and Cold temperatures and exploring how we can heat not only our houses, but how our school is heated with its boiler.  We also looked at how long it takes to melt snow in the classroom and the effect of wind on the outside temperature as our week at school has been very cold!

In Social Studies, we continue to explore the community of Saskatoon and the role that the Ukrainian people and their culture has had when they moved to Canada to settle and farm in and around Saskatoon. They brought language, dance, food, music and their songs and stories along with them to share with others to make sure that their culture and traditions are not lost to younger generations.

Next week, there will be no homework as it is a very short week with Teacher's Convention on Thursday and Friday and Family Day the following Monday. We will be handing out the Valentine's cards that many students brought in this week next Wednesday and then the students can look forward to a very long weekend moving forward! Have a great weekend, stay warm and see you in your formal uniforms next Monday!

Valentine's Day Information

 

Valentines Celebration

We are allowed to exchange Valentines....if you want!  If you choose to send Valentines cards to school, please ensure that you have one for everyone in the class.  Class names are listed below.  Here are some other must know details to ensure safely handing out the cards:

- Valentines MUST be brought to the school in a bag by FEBRUARY 5.  (late cards will not be permitted to be handed out.)  These cards will remain in "quarantine" with the teacher until Wednesday Feb. 10 at which point the students will sanitize their hands, distribute the cards to their classmates.

- Unfortunately, we cannot have any candies, treats or toys provided in the valentines, only the cards.

- Students are permitted to bring a "special" valentines treat for themselves for that day, but we will not be having any shared food, snacks are drinks for the celebration.

- All valentines activities are optional for students.

Class list:

Ibbi

Prisha

Genevieve

Manuel 

Jana

Vimi

Tvisha

Shruthi

Kasi

Arta

Leeben

Raiden

Lauren

Tair

Ayie

Risha

Ilie

Evelina

Shermat

Arnav

Naksharaa

Amelia

Eldana

Tamiris