Students worked very hard to finish their stories this week! They thought of great adjectives to describe their main character, created unique challenges that their character encountered, learned that the main problem in a story doesn't usually get solved immediately, and came up with wonderfully creative endings to their stories. These were A LOT of work and turned out great!
Our letter focus this week was the letter N. To reinforce our learning of this letter and continue to build upon our math skills, we started an exciting art project to help students learn how to properly form their numbers to 10. We spent time together on the carpet using the whiteboards to practice forming each number correctly. When students were ready, they each received a big piece of paper to apply their newly acquired skills. Students worked in pairs to help each other form their numbers and supported their partner to fix any numbers they had written backwards. On our Early Dismissal Friday, the morning class got messy with oil pastels and paint and created some beautiful works of number art!
Classroom Reminders:
1. Valentine's Day is almost here! Please see last week's post for details.
2. Teacher's Convention takes place on Thursday and Friday of next week. There will be no school for students on these days.
3. Did you know Random Acts of Kindness Day takes place in February? As part of “Our Care” philosophy at Briar Hill, we are going to support the Calgary Drop-In Center through a Random Act of Kindness. We are asking all families who would like to participate in this event to make a loaf of sandwiches on February 15th and send it to school with your child/children. Those sandwiches will be delivered by parent volunteers to the Calgary Drop-In Centre that same morning. The DI distributes over 3500 bagged lunches every week to clients who are employed yet are not able to afford lunch. Include your children in some sandwich making – pick up a loaf of bread and some fillings, bag them back into the bread bag and deliver them to the school to help feed those who need it. Sandwich types may include things like: cold cuts/meats, peanut butter and jelly, tuna salad or egg salad. Any extra sandwiches are frozen for distribution in the future and as such, there are specific criteria for the sandwich contents. Please do not include ingredients such as condiments, cheese, lettuce, tomato or cucumber that would not freeze well. Thank you for your help in this exciting Act of Kindness for our city.
4. There has been some confusion recently regarding our Early Dismissal Fridays. I sent home an additional copy of our ED Friday schedule with the morning class today to ensure we're all on the same page :) I will send this home with the afternoon students on Monday.
Enjoy the sunshine this weekend!
Miss Roberts
