Hello Families,
Our sharing assembly today was a tremendous success! Students were so proud of their hard work and effort and are really enjoying the descriptive writing guessing game we created for the whole school!
The video is accessible for you to watch on Google Classroom, please use your child's login that was provided a few weeks ago. There are links for the presentation and the videos that were shared with the school today!
Enjoy!
Ms. Brown
Hello Families,
We are gathering bottle caps for an upcoming "major interdisciplinary project". If and when you have any can you please clean them and send them to school for us to use. Caps for milk jugs, gatorades, pop bottles, salad dressings, etc. will all be suitable.
This collection will be ongoing for several months. Thanks for your help!
Ms. Brown
November is movement month at LBS! We are encouraging students to be active throughout the winter with a movement challenge for move-ember :).
Students are encouraged to keep track of their movement minutes outside of school time from November 1-30. The class that earns the most movement minutes at the end of the month will earn a special reward! Please support your child in tracking their movement minutes either on Google Classroom or hardcopy (this will be specified by your child's teacher).
*Room 2 - I will send a hard copy home on November 1st. Additional copies will be available on Google Classroom if needed!
Let’s encourage each other to be active and healthy! See the video for more information about our at school and at home challenges for the month.
Hello Families,
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I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving weekend! Sounds like there were lots of fun festivities happening!
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This week we have been working hard getting prepared for the October learning assembly where we are sharing the work we have been doing around descriptive writing with the whole school! We have been learning about and creating our own similes to assist in descriptions and today we talked about the importance of being as specific as possible. Here are some of our classroom thoughts about descriptive writing:
What is descriptive writing?
- Words that explain
- Writing about something really descriptive, the writing has a lot of detail
- Using specific words
- Going beyond the obvious and looking for the unique features
- Thinking outside the box
- Using sight, smell, hearing, taste, feeling/touching
- Helps people understand what you’re talking or writing about
- Uses similes
- Follows a theme!!!!!
**Paints a picture in your head about what is being described!**
During our October assembly, we will be creating and sharing our descriptive paragraphs about our Halloween costumes. We are hoping they will be descriptive enough for the audience to be able to guess. We will also be creating an interactive board in the hallway for guesses to be ongoing in hopes of engaging the whole school community.
We are also going to be creating artwork around our simile learning to share in the school display case near the office. I will be sure to post pictures as we complete the work, however, here is the exemplar I created showing the combination of 2 ideas into one piece of art.
This week for outdoor learning, we learned about, sketched, and labeled the cedar tree. We also used cedar to smudge and learned it is another sacred medicine that is used for clarity of mind. We were able to spot many cedar trees in and around the school.
Tomorrow, we will learn more about building structures and towers and revisit a challenge from a few weeks ago that paired with one of my favourite classroom books, Iggy Peck, Architect!
We have also been learning lots about place value and playing some place value games. The game we learn next week will be easy to play at home. Next Tuesday, ask your child to share the place value game with you.
Thanks so much to everyone who purchased or returned their ADmazing Savings Books! Today, student passwords for RazKids and computer logins are going home. Please keep these somewhere safe so they can be referenced over the years at LBS!
If you would like to order from the online Scholastic catalog for October, please place your orders online! :) Classroom code: RC134162
Upcoming Dates:
October 18 - PD Day
October 21 - PJ Day
October 27 - our assembly (will be recorded and distributed for families)
October 29 - costume day at school - no full face masks (covid masks only), no weapons, no blood/gore, no shared snacks
Take care,
Ms. Brown
Hello Families,
We have been slowly working on developing our skills for descriptive writing! Ms. Kassam and I shared this information through a teacher and school lens at the LBS parent council meeting last night. I have attached images from the slides we shared to give you some insight about what we are doing in the classroom and to understand some of the things we will be looking for in grade 2 and 3 writing.
Enjoy!
Ms. Brown
Hello Families,
This week, we focused on exploring Truth and Reconciliation to honour Indigenous people. We had a class discussion about what it means to wear orange and why this is significant. Students demonstrated varying levels of understanding around this topic, however, students were all able to think critically and demonstrate empathy. We did some activities about what makes school a safe place to be and completed reflections on the stories we listened to. This learning was also supported through an assembly hosted by two of the grade 4/5 classes. Through our weekly outdoor learning times, smudges, and connections to storytelling about the land, we will continue to explore Indigenous ways of knowing and being throughout the school year.
We also achieved our goal of 25 minutes of silent reading during our Daily 5 time, horay! This means we can slowly being to integrate different types of reading practice into our daily routines, including buddy reading, reading on Raz Kids, etc.
We are continuing to investigate probability and data collection in math and refresh our basic addition and subtraction skills through games. Next week, we will begin assembling our 3D graphs, pictures to come!
A couple of reminders:
1. Students do not have a microwave available for their use at lunch. Lunch and snack are "pack in, pack out" meaning students will take everything from their lunch back home again for disposal. Additionally, students require their own cutlery, if required.
2. Due to covid restrictions, we are still not allowed to access water fountains in the school for drinking. Please send a water bottle daily.
3. Personal items such as cards, stuffed animals, toys, etc. must stay at home. They become very distracting for students. Please ensure your child is leaving all personal items at home.
Thanks for your support!
Ms. Brown
