Pizza

Our poem for this week is Pizza!


Our Words for this week are:

Grade 1 (the words are not in the poem this week)
The Word Family "at"
at
cat
sat
mat
bat

Grade 2
The Word Family "eat" (2 are in the poem)
eat
treat
meat
seat
beat

On Friday the whole school will have a pizza lunch!

The proceeds from the Lunch will go towards a donation to the trust of 2 of our students who tragically lost their mother in a fire over the summer. If you would like to donate any additional funds, please send them into the office asap.
(Both girls have moved away from Earl Beatty to live with their father, they would have been in Grade 2 and Grade 6 this year)

Lines

We have been learning about straight lines.
Although I didn't ask them to, many of the students labeled their lines horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
We are doing lessons like this in our Art Journals. Sometimes the Art Journal will be for "technical" work like this, sometimes it will be for free, creative exploration.

Names

Our poem for this week is called "Everybody Has a Name"

I am reading many books that have to do with names. We are trying really hard to learn each others names. We are doing lots of activities and games that involve names. I'm pretty sure that everyone in the class knows my name..... although two keep calling me Mr. Brown :)

(I will show more of the name books later this week)

Today our Words of the Week notebook went home. Please review the words with your child and return the book (in the zip lock) on Friday. On Friday we will try to write down the words correctly! At school we will be doing many activities with these words -- and especially trying to use them in context, which makes them much easier to learn. Please see the note that is enclosed in the zip lock baggie for some ideas of how you can reinforce the words at home. If you have a great idea of how to use the words at home, let me know and I will share it on the blog!

This week's words are:
Grade 1
it
is
to
me
be
Grade 2
as
has
was
the
are
(many of the words come from our poems. If it is not in the poem, it is usually a "word family" word that goes with one of the words in the poem -- e.g. as. has. was)

(this is a tiny composition book in a regular sandwich bag)

Welcome to Grade 1-2!

Welcome to Room 15!
We're having a great learning adventure this year -- I'm glad that you have come to join us!
We started the week with a new poem that has lots of high frequency words in it. We put some of them on our Word Wall.


Then we looked at our poems in our poetry books and circled the Word Wall Words (don't worry, Grade 2 parents, the more challenging Grade 2 words will come shortly!)


We'll focus on a different poem every week. Through the poems we will work on our reading fluency, word study, punctuation, visualizing, and vocabulary. We'll be using some familiar songs too!

I'll miss those tadpole days....

(In Junior Kindergarten I was a little tadpole, then in Senior Kindergarten I grew my legs. In grade 1 I will be a little frog, ready for the world)

Thank you, Ollie -- it is too bad that the tadpole days are over. I'll miss all of you tadpoles!

Happy Canada Day!

We made these cool necklaces from juice can lids. The maple leaf came from a punch (we LOVE punching out shapes!). All of the red painted paper came from unclaimed artwork throughout the year. Aren't we eco-resourceful?

Summer ideas

Click HERE for a list of crafty things to do with your children in the summer (compiled by The Long Thread).