Friday, January 14, 2022

Good afternoon,

We had quite a busy first week back in room 12. We have a student teacher, Mr. Hochhalter (Mr. H) joining our class from now until the end of February. The students have been so kind and welcoming!

Questions to promote discussion at home:

-What animal are you researching? (Polar bears. So far, we have drawn a polar bear and labelled a diagram. You can ask your child something interesting they learned about the colour of a polar bear's fur and skin).

-What are you going to be making in social studies? (we are building a pop-up community with lots of services)

-What did you do in math this week? (problem-solving and addition facts)

-What is an adjective? (adjectives are describing words, they help make our writing more exciting. We did a snowman writing piece where students had to describe with detail what the snowmen were doing.)

Kid Quotes

"Mr. Hochhalter joined our class." -Nisha

"We did firework art." -Aliyah

"We did science. We are learning about Polar Bears." -Jared

"We did Ketchup. We finished our word search and poetry." -Sahini

"We did health. We wrote goals." -Rakshan

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Overdevest and Mr. Hochhalter

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Good afternoon,

The homework for the week has been posted. Please DO NOT send in homework books tomorrow. Instead, please send them on Friday, and I will check both last week's and this week's homework then. There have been new Mathletics assignments assigned and new spelling words. As we were not in school on Friday, we will do a spelling test tomorrow on last week's words as a quick check-in.

Tomorrow we are expecting a huge change in weather, as it looks like it may get as warm as 4 degrees! Time to get out the shorts and flip flops... Just kidding! Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather, as I am sure the field will be super wet and slushy. We will for sure be going outside for recess and at lunch to take in the beautiful sunshine! It would be a good idea to wear boots and snow pants so that we don't have wet soggy socks and pants for the rest of the day.

I am SO excited to see the students tomorrow! It's been way too long!

Ms. Overdevest

Monday. January 3, 2022

 Good morning!

I am sure that you have heard the announcement from the government by now, but I wanted to remind you that there is NO SCHOOL this week for students, as their winter break has been extended.

As of now, we are expecting students back at school on MONDAY JAN 10. I will let you know if there are any changes or updates to this.

I hope everyone had a great winter break and I look forward to seeing students on Jan 10, 2022.

Happy New Year!

Ms. Overdevest

P.S. If you are looking for some fun activities to do, go to the Virtual Learning Rooms or Learning Resources tab! 

Friday, Dec 17, 2021

Good morning,

Reminders:

-School returns on TUESDAY, Jan 4. 

-Homework is due on FRIDAY, Jan 7 and we will have a spelling test that day as well.

Jib Jabs:

Sled Race

Snowman Scurry

Please have a relaxing and safe winter break. See you in the New Year!

Ms. Overdevest

Friday, Dec 10, 2021

Good afternoon,

We had a wonderful and busy week!  I am sure the students have been telling you about all the silly things our Elf, Sparkle has been doing! Please take a look at the pictures below and ask your child all about it!

In math, we are working on using the 'counting on' strategy to solve addition with sums to 18. We also sorted shapes by different attributes.

In writing, we are working on writing 4 or more sentences.

In science, we talked about things that tell us winter is coming and activities that animals and people do in the winter.

In social studies, we drew maps that had to include landmarks. The students then had to explain why they chose these landmarks and justify their thinking.

In reading, we are continuing to retell stories, make personal connections, and build our sight word recognition. 

We had a virtual visit from the Earth Rangers. We got to meet and learn about so many cool animals!

In art, we made Ugly Christmas Sweaters! There is also a song that goes with it!

Events Next Week:

MONDAY: Formal Christmas Clothing (if you celebrate) OR Formal Uniform

                    Monday is also the last day to bring in Food Bank items, we are up to 110 items!!!! 

TUESDAY: Casual Day-Wear Christmas Light Colours!

WEDNESDAY: Fun Hat Day-wear antlers, elf ears, headbands, Santa hat

THURSDAY: Fun Lunch & Christmas Sweater Day!

FRIDAY: PJ Day!

Kid Quotes:

We did Ugly Christmas sweaters. -Zainab

The elf wore one of the sweaters. -Mirza

We learned about honesty.-Aliyah

We did centres. -Atish

We had recess in the snow. -Hooman

We had our spelling test. -Nisha

We did health. We read our mouth is a volcano. Teddy

We learned, no talking when the teacher is talking. -Jared

We learned about no interrupting. -Helena

Homework:

The next homework that will be posted will run from Dec 14 to Jan 7. Therefore, there is lots of time to complete it. We will also put some extra activities in the file so that students can continue to build their skills over the break!

Pictures:

Sparkle just wanted to use our math tools!

Sparkle tried on our Christmas sweaters!

Here is our food bank tally! We also are learning how to skip count by 5's!

Sparkle got into Ms. Overdevest's supplies!

Sparkle also got into Ms. Overdevest's photocopying!!!!

Friday, December 3, 2021

Good afternoon,

This week at school we had a new friend join our class. Her name is SPARKLE and she is from the North Pole. She is watching us closely to make sure that we are showing expected behaviour and kindness in our classroom. She loves to play tricks and be silly. Here she is enjoying her Elf Ball Pit! I wonder what she will do next week in our class! Ask your child all about this new visitor!

The students worked hard on completing some Shape City math art. They had to cut out shapes to create tall buildings. They had to cut out windows, doors, and roofs as well. They did a great job. I will post a photo next week!

This week the students also designed their own community. They had to think about what important landmarks and services to include in their communities. 

In math, we continued to work on addition skills. We have begun using the counting on strategy to solve addition problems with sums beyond 10. This is tricky, but we are getting the hang of it!

REMINDERS

• We are collecting non-perishable items for the food bank. We are also having a friendly competition with Ms. Oliphnat's class and right now they have collected way more food than our class! If you are able to, please send in a few items for us to donate to the food bank to help out families in our community this holiday season. Thank you!
• Friendly reminder to send winter gear with your child to school daily, especially as the snow continues to fall!
• We are still collecting items for the food bank. Right now our class has brought in 49 items!!! This is awesome. Let's try to make it to 100!

Have a great weekend,

Ms. Overdevest

Friday, November 26, 2021

Good morning,

What to ask your child about this week:

• In science, we did another senses experiment. Ask your child what sense we used and what we did. Hint: the taste test.
• Bonus: can your child tell you the 5 tastes our tongue can recognize?
• In math, we practiced addition strategies. Try asking your child what doubles and make 10 friends are. You could also give them some single-digit addition questions and ask them to show or explain to you how they solve them.
• In literacy, we learned about climbing stories (characters, events, problem, solution)  and walking stories (informational, talks about a topic). Ask your child if they can explain how these types of stories are different. At school, we practiced writing a walking story about Grade 1. Ask them to tell you what a day in grade 1 is like.

Reminders

• We had lots of fun viewing the books at the book fair. If your child did not get a chance to purchase a book, you still can online! Please refer to the email from Mrs. Taylor.
• If you re able to sign up to volunteer for our casino fundraising night, please click the link here!

Have a great weekend!

Ms. Overdevest