Outdoor Learning

 Hello Families, 

With the warm weather this week, we are planning to have some outdoor learning times on Wednesday and Thursday! Please ensure your child has some sunscreen and a water bottle for these days!

Thank you!

Ms. Brown

May 27, 2021

 Hello Families, 

Return to school this week has been wonderful! It is so nice to be together as a group again. 

We have been working on the next steps for our puppet show! We talked about story mapping this week and practiced mapping the characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end. Here's a link to the very cute short film we watched: https://youtu.be/07d2dXHYb94. If you'd like you can watch it at home together and review the story elements as a family!

Then we started planning the problem that will happen in our puppet show through puppet play. When we are ready to share the puppet shows with our classmates we will also record them for posting on Google Classroom!

This week we learned strategies for adding and subtracting with 9's this week by using 10 as the anchor number an adjusting, or decomposing the numbers. We played a few games at varied ability levels to support this skill.

We started exploring buoyancy though experiments and predictions about classroom objects that sink or float. We also learned the vocabulary of prediction and observation. Next week we will use this knowledge to begin designing boats for our exploration of boats and buoyancy (grade 2 science) and building with a variety of materials (grade 1 science). 

Hope everyone is doing well!

Ms. Brown

Puppets

 Hello Families, 

As you likely already know, I have been teaching remotely for the past two weeks as I am currently on isolation due to close contact with a positive Covid case. During this time, we have been working with Ms. Whitney for our Open Minds Arts Commons experience and making puppets. 

The puppets will be taken home by all students today! They are beautiful! We will be using these puppets for ongoing writing work during home learning and using them for acting upon return to school. Puppets will need to be returned to school on May 25th after the home learning period ends. I communicated this information to all of the students today so they should be communicating this, also!

Thanks in advance for all of your help and support with the upcoming home learning period. I will have more information for you regarding scheduling etc. soon!

Take care,

Ms. Brown