Good evening parents! Hope everyone is enjoying the week so far and keep warm! I just wanted to remind everyone of the Gala which will take place on Febraury 22, 2014. Its going to be a great, and I really hope to see you all there :) The grade two's will be having their UOI day on Monday, January 13th, 2014. There will be a scientist in the school who will be conducting a structure workshop with them! It is $8 dollars for each child. The money must be in by this Friday, January 10th, 2013, along with ther permission form. The forms are in the front of their agenda :) Take a look at our day;

Math
Grade 1
Today the grade 1's focused on problem solving. They had to read the problem, and make a plan to solve it. This was difficult at first, however they are slowly getting used to solving math problems. They are to look at what they already know about the question, and how they can use this information to solve the question being asked.
MMS: pgs. 88 & 89

Grade 2
The grade 2's began a new unit today! We are now working on probability and data management. I intriduced a game, and the students had to make predictions based on the number of coloured blocks we had. They then played the game and comapred their previous predictions.
MMS: pgs. 116 - 117

UOI
Grade 1
The grade 1's learned about New Years resolutions today, and how they can  help us organize our year. We discussed this as a class, and the stduents then completed their very own resolutions for 2014!

Grade 2
The grade 2's learned about their summative project today! They read it, and discussed the rubric and any what is expected of them. They also had a chance to ask any questions regarding the project and what it expected of them.

Language
Both grade 1's and 2's worked on their phonics today in their Letter and Sounds workbooks.
Grade 1: pgs. 67 - 68
Grade 2: pgs. 54 - 55

Novel Study
Today we read chapter 5 in our Winnie the Pooh Novel! We talked about what a "Heffalump" was a class. Then the students had to draw a picture of what it might look like, and describe use it adjectives.

Cursive Writing
Both grade 1's and 2's practiced their cursive writing in theit HWT work books.
Grade 1: pgs. 66 - 67
Grade 2: pgs. 60 - 62

Have a wonderful evening everyone :)