Hello Everyone and Happy Friday!
Our first month of school is behind us and we are excited for what comes next!
This week at school, we focused on Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope. To prepare for the big run, we practiced by running laps in the field. Each lap we did, we got a popsicle stick. We then used these sticks to count how many laps, both as a table and as a class, we were able to run. Once our data was collected we recorded these numbers on a graph. It was hard work but the cause was worth it. The big run was held on Thursday afternoon and we ran all the way to the windmill and back.
This week we were also able to access mathletics and we also got to do some fun math stations!
In music we learned two new songs, "I Gotta Autumn-ish Feeling" and The Terry Fox song, which we sang as a school before beginning our run. Next month we will begin learning how to play precorders and xylophones.
In LA we worked on storytelling and writing. We got to make up stories and act them out in front of the class, we all had quite a laugh at the silly and creative stories. We also used Terry Fox's story and related it to our circle of courage. We will continue our story writing next week.
In gym this week we have our second inline skating lesson! They taught us how to go backwards on our skates, which was really hard, but we enjoyed the challenge. On Monday in gym we learned how to play kickball and a new tag game called, Fishy's in the Sea.
We are also sad but excited that Mrs. McArthur is leaving our room to go to Grade1/2, but we now have Ms. Overdevest as our teacher!
Important Notices
Starting next week, the students will be eating lunch in our regular classroom.
Sincerely,
Room 73
Friday, 30 September 2016
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Hello Everyone,
We hope you're all enjoying a wonderful end of summer, and start up of fall.
Here is our TWAS for the week of September 19 - September 22; we can't believe we're at the end already!!
Again, it's been a very busy week around Cranston school. Yesterday we celebrated national Peace Day with the entire school standing out back in a Peace symbol formation, singing peace songs, while pinwheels that the children created blew in the wind. It was beautiful . . .
One of our students introduced us to an excellent kindness video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU This started us off on some great discussions about kindness, empathy and peace.
We watched a powerful video about Terry Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QOtPDAAeY
The children were inspired by his story and threw themselves into our practice run, doing much more than was required of them.
We had our fist in-line skating on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun; everyone tried their best and the teacher couldn't believe what an athletic and agile group we had. A huge thank you to Ms. Bouman who volunteered with us!
As for the rest of our days: we worked on reading; word work; writing, surveys and graphing; started science with a look at the ear; our first library was this week; began using dictionaries; eye openers; riddles; group/team works; enjoyed our first fun lunch (thank you parent volunteers for making this possible); Dogo news; learned about Walk a Mile in Her Shoes (thanks dads who participated)!!. . . and a million other little things that made our week fly by. A big congratulations to our last week's Random Act of Kindness winner!
Just a reminder that our open house is this evening from 6:30 - 7:30; I really look forward to meeting everyone who is able to come out this evening. As for everyone else, I look forward to meeting you when you have an opportunity.
Thank you also to the parents who are setting up future volunteer times. We're so excited to have you join us whenever you can.
All the best; we wish you all a spectacular weekend!
Sincerely,
Team 73
We hope you're all enjoying a wonderful end of summer, and start up of fall.
Here is our TWAS for the week of September 19 - September 22; we can't believe we're at the end already!!
Again, it's been a very busy week around Cranston school. Yesterday we celebrated national Peace Day with the entire school standing out back in a Peace symbol formation, singing peace songs, while pinwheels that the children created blew in the wind. It was beautiful . . .
One of our students introduced us to an excellent kindness video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU This started us off on some great discussions about kindness, empathy and peace.
We watched a powerful video about Terry Fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QOtPDAAeY
The children were inspired by his story and threw themselves into our practice run, doing much more than was required of them.
We had our fist in-line skating on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun; everyone tried their best and the teacher couldn't believe what an athletic and agile group we had. A huge thank you to Ms. Bouman who volunteered with us!
As for the rest of our days: we worked on reading; word work; writing, surveys and graphing; started science with a look at the ear; our first library was this week; began using dictionaries; eye openers; riddles; group/team works; enjoyed our first fun lunch (thank you parent volunteers for making this possible); Dogo news; learned about Walk a Mile in Her Shoes (thanks dads who participated)!!. . . and a million other little things that made our week fly by. A big congratulations to our last week's Random Act of Kindness winner!
Just a reminder that our open house is this evening from 6:30 - 7:30; I really look forward to meeting everyone who is able to come out this evening. As for everyone else, I look forward to meeting you when you have an opportunity.
Thank you also to the parents who are setting up future volunteer times. We're so excited to have you join us whenever you can.
All the best; we wish you all a spectacular weekend!
Sincerely,
Team 73
Friday, 16 September 2016
Hello families of Room 73,
Here is our TWAS for the week of September 12 - September 16:
Our week flew by! We started with a 'kick off' assembly where the children were introduced to all of the teachers and administration, we read our school book about peace and the children learned about the entertainment books that went home. Our class has continued to centre around the Circle of Courage philosophy and the children are becoming real experts. Ask them about the four quadrants and they'll be able to share the amazing ways that they demonstrate, and work towards strengthening, these qualities regularly.
Some of the other things we worked on/learned about this week: graphing, math problems, what is a 'Canadian,' paralympics, computers/Raz kids (login information went home with them for out-of-school practice), daily 5 writing, word work, story connections/writing, guided reading and poetry.
We had our first fire drill this week and the students did an amazing job!! There are so many reasons to be proud of them. This is such a kind, considerate and thoughtful group. We are so enjoying our time together.
Just a reminder that we start inline skating next week, Tuesday September 20th, so if your child has his/her own helmet, please send it along on that day.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend; thanks for reading,
Sincerely
Room 73
BTW it's Beakerhead in Calgary "A smash up of art, science and engineering" — lots of amazing events and free things for families to do. Today on Stephen Avenue between 4 and 6pm is a whirlwind of fun Beakerhead activities!
Here is our TWAS for the week of September 12 - September 16:
Our week flew by! We started with a 'kick off' assembly where the children were introduced to all of the teachers and administration, we read our school book about peace and the children learned about the entertainment books that went home. Our class has continued to centre around the Circle of Courage philosophy and the children are becoming real experts. Ask them about the four quadrants and they'll be able to share the amazing ways that they demonstrate, and work towards strengthening, these qualities regularly.
Some of the other things we worked on/learned about this week: graphing, math problems, what is a 'Canadian,' paralympics, computers/Raz kids (login information went home with them for out-of-school practice), daily 5 writing, word work, story connections/writing, guided reading and poetry.
We had our first fire drill this week and the students did an amazing job!! There are so many reasons to be proud of them. This is such a kind, considerate and thoughtful group. We are so enjoying our time together.
Just a reminder that we start inline skating next week, Tuesday September 20th, so if your child has his/her own helmet, please send it along on that day.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend; thanks for reading,
Sincerely
Room 73
BTW it's Beakerhead in Calgary "A smash up of art, science and engineering" — lots of amazing events and free things for families to do. Today on Stephen Avenue between 4 and 6pm is a whirlwind of fun Beakerhead activities!
Friday, 9 September 2016
Dear families of Cranston School, Room 73,
We hope that you had a good week. We have had a very busy week here in room 73. We have decided to write you a letter, that we call TWAS (this week at school), each Friday to let you know some of the things that we have been up to each week. This is our TWAS for the week of September 6th - September 9th, 2016.
This week we learned how to draw owls and then we made them all our own, by adding our own special touches. We met our new phys-ed teacher, Ms. Quilley, and learned the game 'elves, wizards and giants." We also met Ms. McArthur (our room 73 teacher) and Ms. Thomas (our buddy room teacher) and Ms. McBride (our music teacher).
Some other things that we did this week: started writing stories for the circle of courage; set up and worked in our daily 5 groups; solved 'eye opener' riddle and number problems first thing in the mornings; completed math tasks with numbers of the day; completed problem solving math art and created our own math word problems. We used popsicle sticks to help us organize the set up of our classroom (bins/coats/chores). We learned about DEAR (drop everything and read) and enjoyed it each day for fifteen minutes after lunch. There are oodles of other little things that filled our days so feel free to comment with some questions and we'll do our best to answer.
We also wanted to send out a huge thank you to council for providing us with that wonderful snack yesterday. It was so kind of the volunteers to offer up their time and add a little something special to our day!
Lastly, we would like to ask any family members who are able to volunteer for our Terry Fox run, this September 29th, to let Mrs. McArthur and/or the office know.
Thank you for reading our first post/TWAS; have a great weekend,
Sincerely,
Room 73
(Thank you everyone who was able to get the first group of forms back so quickly; one more went home today for in-line skating)
We hope that you had a good week. We have had a very busy week here in room 73. We have decided to write you a letter, that we call TWAS (this week at school), each Friday to let you know some of the things that we have been up to each week. This is our TWAS for the week of September 6th - September 9th, 2016.
This week we learned how to draw owls and then we made them all our own, by adding our own special touches. We met our new phys-ed teacher, Ms. Quilley, and learned the game 'elves, wizards and giants." We also met Ms. McArthur (our room 73 teacher) and Ms. Thomas (our buddy room teacher) and Ms. McBride (our music teacher).
Some other things that we did this week: started writing stories for the circle of courage; set up and worked in our daily 5 groups; solved 'eye opener' riddle and number problems first thing in the mornings; completed math tasks with numbers of the day; completed problem solving math art and created our own math word problems. We used popsicle sticks to help us organize the set up of our classroom (bins/coats/chores). We learned about DEAR (drop everything and read) and enjoyed it each day for fifteen minutes after lunch. There are oodles of other little things that filled our days so feel free to comment with some questions and we'll do our best to answer.
We also wanted to send out a huge thank you to council for providing us with that wonderful snack yesterday. It was so kind of the volunteers to offer up their time and add a little something special to our day!
Lastly, we would like to ask any family members who are able to volunteer for our Terry Fox run, this September 29th, to let Mrs. McArthur and/or the office know.
Thank you for reading our first post/TWAS; have a great weekend,
Sincerely,
Room 73
(Thank you everyone who was able to get the first group of forms back so quickly; one more went home today for in-line skating)
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