Meteghan?

Today we started learning about a new place in Canada called Meteghan, which is in Nova Scotia.  We looked online and wrote down some questions we have about what it is like there.  Some of our questions is are: are all the house really big and cool?  Do they speak different languages there?
We also talked about the different contents on Earth.  We know our continent is North America.  Tomorrow we are excited to try and find Meteghan on google earth. 

We also started learning about liquids.  We know most things that take up spaces are either solids, liquids of gases.  We talked about how in solids the atoms are close together, is liquids they are a little spread our and in a gas they are really spread out and can move all around.

Family Literacy Day

Today we Celebrated Family Literacy Day.  Some of us read to grade 4 and 5's and some of us read to our moms and dads.  Some of us read the Elephant and Piggie books.  We did more research about our Arctic Animals and wore a new page for our books about what they eat.

Very Last First Time

Today we worked on our predicting with the book "My Very Last First Time".  We needed to pick some sensory details to put in our prediction.  Mrs. Milford came to work with us on this.  We picked an A and B partner.  One partner looked at the pictures and the other partner was visualizing what they thought the picture would look like.  The partner not looking at the picture asked questions about that details they thought they needed.  After we switched and the other partner got a turn.
We practice actions that help us exercise our brain like when we make connections to the world,  connections to ourselves or connections to a book.  Ask us to show you them at home tonight. 

Inuit Outfits

Today we made paper dolls and then we made some clothes for them based on what they might need to wear if they visited Iqaluit.  Lots of us put fur around their face so they won't get frost bite.  We used felt because it is warm and other materials like pompoms and feather for decorations.

We Know our Doubles

Today in math the Grade 1's learned about adding doubles and the Grade 2's learned about near doubles.  A near double is when one of the numbers in the double goes up or down by one and that makes the answer go down or up by the same amount.  For example if the double is 9+9=18 then the near doubles are 9+8= 17 and 9+10= 19. We made a book about doubles and listen to a song about doubles too.
Ask us to tell you more about that tonight.

Flight to Iqaluit

We coloured a map of Canada and we labelled High River and Iqaluit.  We know that we need to go North East to get there.  Today we wrote about what it would be like to fly from Calgary to Iqaluit.  We wrote things like "I feel nervous." and "I see houses on stilts". 

Snowflakes.

Today we added our snowflake to the page we painted yesterday so it looks like a winter window.  We also added white dots to look like little snowflakes.  We made a window frame out of brown paper.  We are excited to finish it tomorrow.
Today we played a game in math with a partner to practice adding. We wanted to get the biggest number.  We rolled 2 dice first and then we crossed out the smallest number and tried to roll one number again to see if we could get an bigger number.  It was fun. 

North Pole Here We Come...

Today we made some a video about all the things we know about 3D shapes.  We said things like their names, how many vertices they each have and how many faces they have.  We talked about how y makes an "i" sound if it is at the end of a 1 clap word like fly. It says "e" if it is at the end of a 2 clap word like funny.

We made videos about our own North Pole that we planned on paper.  The Grade 1's talked about how the elves would get what they need and want.  The Grade 2's talked about the goods and services they think they need in the north pole.    After we worked in groups to plan and then started building our group North pole.  Most of the groups have the roads done but we did not stick the buildings down yet.

Inuit Dogs

Today we learned about two new schools in the letter exchange.  Both of them were from Alberta.  One of the classes only had 11 students.  One of the classes has a real tree growing in their school.  Both of the letters were from Kindergarten classes.

We have been reading lots of books about Inuit people lately.  Today in the story they talked about how it can still snow in the artic in May!  We know there is lots of snow there and they don't usually have pet dogs, their dogs are usually working dogs that pull sleds

We played an odd and even game and if the number on the dice was even then the player that was Even Steven moved.  When an odd number was rolled the other partner who was Odd Todd moved.  We are pretty good at odd and even numbers.  Please ask us about them at home. 

Popcorn!

Today we learned that heat can change things like making things rise and changing its color.  We made popcorn and wrote what we felt, smelled, tasted, saw and heard.
We made a travel brochure about High River and wrote why people might want to vacation here.The grade 1's did a seasons video to tell us all the things that happen in each of the seasons.

Come to High River.

Today the Grade 1 went on a went on a hunt to find the ingredients for a witches brew.  The grade 1's needed to use the room numbers and a map of the school to find the ingredients.
Most of us finished our brochure today.  On the back we drew pictures of the seasons in High River and wrote about them .  On the front we wrote about why it would be good to come here for a vacation and some highlights here. 
We opened the rest of our letters from our letter form the letter exchange today . 

What colour is the bark?

Today we drew a picture of a house and then we painted fire on it with Popsicle sticks and then we added water just like the fire fighter would .

We went outside to look at the bark on the trees.  We saw some yellow on the bark and we noticed that the bottom was darker than the top.  When we came inside we crumpled a piece of wax paper with black and white and pushed it onto a brown piece of paper.  It looked cool.

Surrey, British Columbia

Today we got our first letter in our letter exchange.  It came from a place called Surrey that is close to a big city called Vancouver.  Surrey is a city that is bigger than High River!
We read a book about the 3 little pigs when we looked at the pictures we thought it was going to be different that the story but it wasn't.

Fire Safe!

Today the firefighters came to visit to teach us about fire safety.  They told us we need to call 911 if we need a police, ambulance or firefighters. The firefighters put on all their stuff.  They need to wear a jacket and pants that are made of material like oven mitts.  They have their boots so they can get ready really fast.  They also wear an air tank so they can breath nice clean air not smoky air. We got to go inside the fire trucks and we saw that their were air tanks hooked up to the front seats so they can get to the fire quickly.  They told us that our homework is to talk to our parents about our two ways out of our house and what our meeting spot is in case of a fire.  They also told us we need to know our address and our phone number in case of an emergency. 


Today the Grade 2's did a math activity about how much money if would be to get our names on our Joe Clark shirt.  If the names has 4 or less letters they would be $2 if they had 5 or 6 letter it would be $3 and if they had 7 oir more letter is would be $5. 

How do we feel?

We did all 5 rotation of Daily 5.  One was listening to reading when we did Raz Kids.  In work on writing we wrote what we are thankful for and in word work we made words from the letters in Thanksgiving
We talked about emotions that we feel with Mrs. Kellogs and we made a picture of ourselves when we feel good.  She told us this is what we look like in the green zone
We read a book called "The Bad Mood and the Stick".  We talked about how we get to choose to be in a bad mood or not.  In the story a man made a lady wash his pants but she choose not to get mad.  We talked about how it is OK to be mad but it is not OK to be mean or then you give your bad mood to someone else.

Whole body Listening.

Today we did some weaving with paper.  To weave we just go over and under but it was very hard for some of us. 
We made a video of what  our body looks like when we are doing whole body listening.  Some of the things we do when we are whole body listening are being quiet, and sitting on our bums with our hands in our basket and not touching others.  We read a book called the Lemonade hurricane that talked about the importance of being calm and how when we are not calm how that affects others. 
We got a new seating plan so we can sit beside new friends.  We learned  the difference between bullying and being unkind.  Please ask us the difference tonight.

Terry Fox

Today we watched some videos about Terry Fox.  Terry Fox had a prosthetic leg. We learned he started running at one ocean and he was trying to run across Canada to try to get back to his home in Vancouver.  Every day he ran 42 km or a marathon.  We know he only made it part way before he got cancer again.   He made lots of money that he gave to help do research so other kids don't get cancer like he did. 
Ms. Mahan showed us a video about a man she went to school with that has no arms and legs but he can still drive a tractor.

We have a note in our agenda for you to ask us about Terry Fox and to help us fill out the sticker that we will bring back to school to wear on the Terry Fox run.

Smile!

Today we made an alphabet chart in a group.  We are going to brain storm different places in High River that start with each letter of the alphabet tomorrow. We wrote in our agenda that we are doing the Terry Fox run on Friday.
We read a book that taught us that when we are grumpy all the time everything seems worse than it really is. We need to smile and things seem better.  The book told us that instead of saying "I have to..." we can say "I get to ..." and look for the good things! 

The Smooch

Today we learned more about eyes and we had a special guest called Mrs. Argue come talk to us.  She cant see out of one eye and very little out of the other eye. She lives here in High River.  She can still hear and she uses that sense even more now that she cant see very well.  She had a special stick that she moves in front of her to make sure she doesn't bump into things.  She had special glasses that help her see so she can go for walks.
 She even wrote her own booked called The Smooch and she read it to us.  The main character was frog was named Tag.  He kissed a fairy and she turned into a frog.  The writing in the book was white on black pages and we leaned that most people have troubles seeing can see better with white writing on black paper.  She let us use her machine that made the things look much bigger and even changed the colour of things.  We had to look at the screen and not at the paper to write our name and colour.  It as hard.

We read a book called Happy Dreamer and then we talked and wrote about about our dreams and what makes us happy.

We read a book called I cant believe you just said that taught us about our inside voice and our outside  voice.  We need to make sure that the things we say with our outside voice  go through the social filter so they are not rude and hurtful to others

Changing Eyes

Today we went outside to look for things we see in the fall.  Some of the things we saw were trees with yellow leaves  and grass that is dying.
In music we learned about a world far far away from us. In the song they went to catch seals and they cut open seals and use the fat. 
We learned about our eyes in Science.  We watched each others eyes when the lights in the room got darker and brighter.  It was cool.  We saw that when the room is bright our pupil (black part) gets smaller so not too much light goes in.  When it is darker they get bigger to let more light in.  It was fun to watch our partners pupils change.