We have started our Flat Stanley Project.  Last week we read the story and coloured our Flat Stanleys.  Today, we started the rough draft of our letters.  Ask your child some of the ideas they have to include in the body of their letters.  In Math, we are just wrapping up our unit on two dimensional and three dimensional shapes and figures.  We will start our new unit this week on Measurement.  Make sure your child knows the number of vertices, faces, edges/sides for each shape and figure.  This afternoon, the students were working in groups to perform skits.  They are learning to stay in character.

The students finished writing their letters to either Chester or David today.  Ask your child who Chester and David are.  We also worked on two dimensional shapes in Math.  The grade one students went on a shape hunt around the classroom looking for rectangles, squares, triangles, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. You can do this at home as well.  The grade two students worked on word problems.  They had to come up with different combinations of two dimensional shapes based on the number of vertices.  Ask your child what their combination was.

The grade one students started a new Science unit on objects and materials.  Today, they "investigated" five different materials.  Ask your child what they did and what they learned.

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope everyone has had a fantastic start to the new year. I sincerely wish all the best to all in 2014.  I would like to start off by saying how much I appreciate the wonderful class gift that everyone contributed to.  It was very generous and thoughtful.  I would like to thank all of the parents that have volunteered in the class.  You have made a difference to all the students in the class.  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

As for the first day back, the students wrote a letter to the Vice Principal to review the parts of a letter.  We will continue writing letters until the end of January.  We  also reviewed our addition strategies in Math. Today, we looked at anchoring numbers to the number 10.  That is, 4 is 6 less than 10 or 8 is 2 less than 10. In the afternoon, the grade two students had Science with Mrs. Wilson and the grade one students discussed animal adaptations.  The students then had Computers and Learning Buddies.