REPORTS

Your son or daughter has received his or her report that they wrote on Bats. This was sent home tonight (May 23). On this report you will notice that there are blue and yellow highlights on the rubric. The blue highlights represent the first mark that your child recieved on this report.  At the bottom of the report you will find my comments to your child regarding his or her strengths as well as a question and next step. This mark and feedback was given to each child independently and orally. They then had time to go back and try and improve right after the oral feedback.  The new improvements were looked at and the report was remarked. This is why there is yellow on the rubric and the comment at the top relates to the changes.  I hope this clarifies things.
Miss. Chittle

Upcoming Tests

SCIENCE

Another Science Unit, on Life Systems, is being completed.  Your child will be tested on their current learning within this week or early next week.

Everyone Should Know, and will be testing on The Following:

How humans help and harm living things

The needs of all living things

Grade 1's Will also be tested on:

Living and Non-living things

What plants need in order to survive

Five Senses and the body parts that are used for this sense. For example, Hearing is a sense and we use our ears to hear.

Body Parts and their importance (both internal and external)

Grade 2's will also be tested on:

Ways animals help and harm humans

Life Cycle of a frog, chick, or butterfly

The different animal groups, characteristics / definition and examples of animals in this animal group

MATH

There will be a math test for both grades on Friday May 17.  A review is being completed in class with both Grades on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The students will need to be able to add, subtract and solve problem solving questions.  The Grade Ones will also be expected to create their own problem solving questions. The review package will be sent home on Thursday night.

Mini Language / Daily 5 Lessons

In language for the past month your child has been learning about vowels (both long and short). This will not only help them with their writing but also with their reading.  Some activities that we have done in class which can also be done at school are the following:
- build words with scrabble letters and sort them into categories (long and short vowels, long a and short a, long e and short e, etc.)
- Write words that have long and short vowels and sort them into their categories.
- Find long and short vowel words in books and underline the vowels in the words

We have also been working on periods and capitals and fixing them in our afternoon messages.

Below is a picture of a class chart that we generated together to review what letters should look like when we are writing.  When your child is practicing writing at home, review their writing and take a look at how their lowercase letters look.

Some letter stay in the middle of the line and touches the bottom, like the a. Other letters , like the b, touch the very top of the line and the bottom too.  Finally, there are some lowercase letters that go below the bottom line.

Word family words has also been an ongoing language lesson during our afternoon messages.  We have created a list of word family words that fall under the "all" category like call and ball, the "an" family, and the "in" family.

Valentines Day Information

Valentines day is coming up! With this celebration a tradition that is very common is to hand out Valentines cards to classmates. If you are planning to have your child take part in this tradition, please have them sign ONLY their name on the card. Do not address the cards to any student in particular. This makes it easier to hand out the cards.

Also, our school is allowing students to purchase Laura Secord lollipops for 50 cents each. In your child's agenda, their was a pink form that had many coupons on it.  If interested, your child needs to bring back their coupons with the correct amount of money by Monday Feburary 11th. These lollipops will be delivered, with the coupon, to the person of their choice on Valentines Day.

SOCIAL STUIES

CELEBRATIONS AND TRADITIONS
LEARNING GOALS:
We are learning about celebrations and traditions.
We can name many different celebrations and traditions that are celebrated in Canada and in our family.
We understand the difference between a celebration and a tradition.

Dance Program Donation

All donations have now been brought in for the dance and the students are having a great time!  They can not wait to show you what they have learned on Monday.

Our Latest Recount Adventures!

Science Test Wednesday January 9

Another Science Unit, on Life Systems, is being completed.  Your child will be tested on their current learning within this week or early next week.

Everyone Should Know, and will be testing on The Following:
How humans help and harm living things
The needs of all living things

Grade 1's Will also be tested on:
Living and Non-living things
What plants need in order to survive
Five Senses and the body parts that are used for this sense. For example, Hearing is a sense and we use our ears to hear.
Body Parts and their importance (both internal and external)

Grade 2's will also be tested on:
Ways animals help and harm humans
Life Cycle of a frog, chick, or butterfly
The different animal groups, characteristics / definition and examples of animals in this animal group


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WOW!  WHAT GREAT LEARNING AND STUDYING OUR CLASS DID FOR THEIR SCIENCE TESTS. ALL SCIENCE TESTS HAVE BEEN HANDED BACK IN THE AGENDAS TODAY (MONDAY JANUARY 14TH). TAKE A LOOK AT HOW YOUR CHILD DID ON THEIR TEST!  GREAT WORK GRADE ONES AND TWOS!!