November 10th, 2022

Hello families,

This week we focused on preparing for our Remembrance Day Assembly. We worked with our buddies to make meaningful thank you statements for Veterans, explored the different kids of poppies around the world, and began to gain a deeper understanding of what peace means to us and what that looks like in our classroom, country, and world. During our assembly room 7 and 8 were incredibly respectful and responsible. Excellent work!

Thursday afternoon we walked to MOMMs pet store to deliver the pet donations from our LBS community. Thank you to everyone who donated, it was really nice to see the kids excited about this initiative! The store staff were so pleased and shared that the Veterans Food bank were very appreciative when they picked them up. We are incredibly proud of our students for getting involved in the community and making change.

The Royal Canadian Legion has created a mobile website that allows you to scan your poppy and read stories of Canadian veterans. We explored this resource by visiting https://poppystories.ca/scanner. Students were surprised to read/listen about such a variety of people that fought in the war.

In math Grade 2 students continued practicing representing numbers in expanded form while Grade 1 students worked on ten frames and subitizing. Both grades also continued to explore and utilize the Montessori materials to practice their skills.

In literacy we have been working on our Best Part of Me writing plans. Students were given a graphic organizer for their "just right" level and worked on referring to their brainstorming page to fill out their plan. Our writing goals are incorporating spaces, printing neatly and including sensory language.

We explored the five senses to help us think about sensory language and learned what the word "synonym" is. Instead of using common words like "happy" and "big", synonyms help make our writing more interesting because they are juicy words.

We also began learning about the Four Sacred Medicines this week. Students sketched tobacco, as well as learned about its purpose within the Medicine Wheel and ethnobotany practices.