Welcome to Miss Mah's Class!

It’s coming close to the end!  Don’t forget to keep on reading and spelling at home please!

The words this week are fast, last, nest, must, most, step, stamp, still and the bonus word is Winnipeg

The sentence dictation this week are: Did most of the birds fly fast to the nest?  and, This must be the last stamp.

Sharing items this week are to be connected to CANADA.  And sharing is on Friday once again!

Grade 8 Buddies are on Monday, we will be working on our portfolios.

Community Walk About with Mrs. T’s class is this Friday, 9:00-10:00, parent chaperones welcomed.  See you here!  Don’t forget to fill out and return the GREEN 3040-D forms.  Still missing forms from Cheyanne and Elena

I hope you all read the colourful notices that went home to you last week!  There were lots of details of all of the upcoming events, including lots of 3040-D field trip forms!

WOW!  What a beautiful surprise!  Thank you so much for the wonderful decorations and the food!  We had some very yummy treats!  I brought in creamisicles for the kidlets, but I’ll let them eat it tomorrow (and spoil their dinners two days in a row!)

This week for sharing, the letters of oo and they can be anywhere in the word!  The number is 200!

The words are ropes, bones, kites, bees, cakes, boxes, foxes, roses, and Edmonton is the bonus word!  The sentence dictations are: 1. The bees were in the boxes of roses.  2.  The foxes ate bones.

Don’t forget that we have a field trip to Bamberton Provincial Park for their Beach Seine program!  Remember to pack your water shoes, a towel, extra socks, a hat, a rain jacket, your lunch, and your positive and happy attitude!

This is Mrs. Hillier’s last Friday with us!  We are going to miss her!

And this is Mrs. Ogden’s last week of music with us too!

Things are starting to come to an end, but don’t forget to keep on reading and sticking to the routines so that our last month of school is still running smoothly!!

Just over 5 more weeks left of school!  Can you believe it?

Please keep reading with your child!  We need to read read read!

The letters of the week are ee and they can be anywhere in the word!  The number is 90

The words are late, gave, cone, line, snake, feet, jeep, use, and Victoria is the Bonus word

The dictations are “I gave my snake a late lunch.” and “I can use my feet to make a line.”

PAC lunch is on Wednesday, please let’s not have any sick kiddies this month!  Mrs. G and I do not want to clean up vomit!!

THURSDAY is Math Morning.  Please join us for cool games and stuff that morning!

Still missing some Bamberton field trip forms.  And speaking of field trips, please book June 28th, Tuesday off of work, for our end of the year Chinatown trip.  We will need drivers, and we would love for you to come.  It will also cost 12.00 for student and for parent!

What a great week we have planned!  Please remember to send your child off to school with a jacket, it is still very cold for May!

For sharing on Thursday, the letter combination of the week is “ing” and the number is 60!

The spelling words are go, so, no, home, note, robe, do, you, and Ottawa is the bonus word.  The spelling sentences are: “The note said to go home.” and “Do you have a robe?”

Monday we have a ROCK and ROLL Literacy presentation

Tuesday we have a First Nations Storyteller booked, and it’s our Parent Appreciation!  Please come to the multi-purpose room for an omlette or a muffin or a cup of coffee!

Wednesday we will be learning how to make PomPoms!

And… We have booked a field trip to BAMBERTON on June 2nd!  We will be going with our Grade 2 Buddies!  Please get those 3040-D permission forms in ASAP!

MONDAY, May 16th

Community Circle and Calendar: One event from your weekend

Math: Adding using skip counting, grouping, other strategies than counting by ones, and fill in the missing numbers

Literacy: Scaredy Squirrel books, What are the advantages and disadvantages of your Scaredy Squirrel?

Presentation: Rock and Roll Literacy — super cool!  Ask your child about the connection between music and writing

Buddies: Helped us with writing sentences

Spelling: Words of the week

Don’t forget to sign permission forms for our Field trip to BAMBERTON on June 2nd!

Can you believe there are only 41 school days left?!

It is still quite chilly out so please send your child to school with a jacket!

The letters of the week is ‘th’

The number is 15

The words are gate, rake, name, bake, fine, bike, hide, mine and the bonus word is New Brunswick

Class photo day will be on Friday!

WEDNESDAY, May 4, 2011

Math: Subtraction stories

Literacy: More Dr. Seuss, the Main Idea ship, Horton Hears a Who!

PE: California Kickball outside

Technology: Explored www.drseuss.com!  A Dr. Seuss site where you can play games, watch video clips, and learn all about Dr. Seuss

Guided Reading Groups

Spelling: There are 2 sentences for dictation now.  1.  That bike by the gate is mine. AND 2. I will bake a fine cake.  Test is on Friday!

MONDAY, May 2, 2011

Grade 8 Buddies

Math: addition stories

Printing Practice: a poem with margins and capital letters

Reading: Dr. Seuss.  Reading Train books went home today, and yes, they are a little harder.

Exercise in the classroom

Buddies with Mrs. Ts class, sang a movement song with Mrs. Hardcastle

Science: Push and Pull

Calendar: May Calendar of events went home today!

I hope you had a fabulous Easter Weekend!  It was nice to almost have a full class back today!

Earth Day and the Field trip were AWESOME!  Thank you to all of the parent chaperones, and to Trevor for all the lovely trees!

The spelling words for this week are: five, time, like, dime, ride, nine, my, by and Saskatchewan.  Spelling Test is on Friday!

The letter combinations are ‘sh’ and the number is 20.

PAC hot lunch is on Wednesday

WE NEED GLASS JARS, of any size or shape for GRADE 8 buddies on Monday, May 2nd please!  Bring it in early!  And if you have extras, we would love to have those too!

WEDNESDAY, April 27, 2011

Math: Addition using pictures

Gym: gymnastics and skipping stations

Guided Reading Groups

Spelling: Sentence Dictation: I can ride nine times for a dime.

Technology: How to insert pictures into our powerpoint family presentations!  Still waiting for some of your pictures please!

TUESDAY, April 26th, 2011

Spelling: Test today and new words today!

Math: Addition word stories

Literacy: The Sneetches, and did a sentence about how the book made you feel

Guided Reading Groups

Art: With Renee Salal from CRAFT, we did the glazing portion of our ceramic pieces

Library Book Exchange

Music

Remember that this week there are only 4 days!  Happy Easter weekend!

We have a very exciting week planned, including JUMP ROPE for HEART on Monday, WITTY’S LAGOON field trip on Thursday, and JADEN’S DAD is coming to talk TREES with us for EARTH DAY on Thursday too!  Please remember all the things we need to make this a successful week!

The spelling words for this week are: make, came, lake, game, shake, ate, tape, come and Lake Huron is the bonus word.  Spelling Test will be on TUESDAY (when we return Easter Weekend)

The letter combination of the week is ‘ch’ and the number is 75.  Sharing is on Thursday too!

WEDNESDAY,  April 20, 2011

PHEW!  What a busy couple of days we have had!

Art Project: Paper Weaving and Egg Designs!  Yay Easter!

Gym: Doctor Doctor Dodgeball!

Guided Reading Groups

Literacy: Earth Day books

Spirit Assemblies with the entire school!

Technology free time IF finished the Earth Day assignments.

MONDAY, April 18th 2011

Grade 8 Buddies: Thank you so much Jaden’s Mom, Julie, and Casey’s Mom, Becky for hardboiling all those eggs!  We really loved decorating and dying the eggs today with our Grade 8 Buddies!

Library skills, don’t forget that tomorrow is Library Book Exchange

Literacy: Dr. Seuss author study continued!

Reading Train books are little readers, do the best you can each night, and we will have these books all week.

Spelling

Science: Force and Motion, and introduction

Gym: Jump Rope for Heart!  Let’s try to get it all in by the end of the week please!

Mrs. Donlevy has now started her 5 week practicum with our class!  She will be teaching some Dr. Seuss literacy units, Numeracy (addition and subtraction to 20) and some Science (force and motion)!  We are excited to have her join our class!

The Spelling words this week are: she, ship, shell, dish, wish, and the bonus word is Miss Donlevy.  The spelling test is on Friday.

The letter this week is Xx and the number is 50.  Uh oh, what food item will I come up with that starts or ends with the letter x?  Sharing is on Thursday.

PAC lunch orders were due on Monday, we have schnieder electric coming in on Tuesday, a pottery lesson on Wednesday, and Popcorn day on Wednesday.  Don’t forget your loonie!

CAN YOU HARD BOIL SOME EGGS FOR US?  I will give you the white eggs, we just need them boiled up!

THURSDAY, April 14th:

Sharing and Calendar

Literacy: Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham, Reader’s Theater

Art: Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham type art

Guided Reading Groups

Gym: California Kickball

Math: addition sentences shown in two ways, algorithms and counters (pictorally)

Music with Mrs. Ogden

WEDNESDAY, April 13th:

Community Circle and Calendar: What under water sea animal would you be!

Math: Addition and Subtraction Role-Play stories with Mrs. D

Gym: California Kickball

Reading Train

Presentation: Renee from “Crafty” was here to help us and show us how to clay pencil pots or flower pots!  She is awesome!  We are friends and she’s very patient with the kids!

Spelling, shape of the word and the spelling dictation: She saw a shell in the dish.

Technology: Making Powerpoint presentations about our families!

TUESDAY, April 12th:

Community Circle and Calendar: Which would you prefer, to be a miniature or to be a giant?  Why?

Presentation: Schneider Electric came in today to teach us about Electricity?  Did you know the hair dryer is one of the most expensive small appliances in your home?  As well as those game consoles?  And don’t forget about that toaster!

Guided Reading Groups

Reading Train

Mrs. D/Literacy: Dr. Seuss rhyming lesson

Library book exchange

Music with Mrs. Ogden

MONDAY, April 11th:

Community Circle and Calendar: What did you do on the weekend?

Spelling

Literacy: Scaredy Squirrel books, Today we worked on the page “Scaredy Squirrel is afraid of…”

Library skills, and Library Book exchange will be tomorrow

Printing Practise

Read an Easter book

Exercise: AfroLatin cardio funk!

Buddies: Spring Poems and Reading

Mrs. D: Dr. Seuss introductory lesson

Easter crossword

Centres if finished!

Rain rain rain!  Lots of rain!  Remember that when it’s raining lots outside, we keep your child inside during recess and lunch.  This means they may be very restless at the end of the day and need to get some fresh air!

You will be getting a field trip notice to Witty’s Lagoon this week!  We need lots of parent volunteers please!  If you would like to see the information handout, follow the link on the right.

THANK YOU TO THE PAC WHO ARE NOW FUNDING THIS FIELD TRIP!  THEREFORE THE PRICE TO YOU IS ZERO!  Please remember this the next time there is a PAC fundraiser!

This week the letter is Zz and the number is 25.  Sharing will be on Thursday!

The words this week are hill, bell, fell, ball, fall and Alberta is the bonus word

There is a FIRE SAFETY presentation on Tuesday, it will take place in the parking lot, so please make sure your child has a jacket in case it is raining.

WEDNESDAY, April 6th

Spelling Dictation: The ball fell down the hill.

Gym: California Kickball with the red bouncy ball!

Printing Practice and Guided Reading Groups

Literacy: Scaredy Squirrel WARNING PAGE!  and finishing our covers!

Reading Train:  We are so ready for the next level!

There was a band presentation from Bayside for the last 40 minutes of school today!  So cool!

I will be at an all day eye doctors appointment on Thursday, tomorrow.  Mrs. Briggs will be in for me!

TUESDAY, April 5th

Today we had our Fire Safety House presentation.  Be prepared, the kids will be asking about exit plans, addresses, and fire alarms.  Does your child know your home address?

Math: Fire House Math, an addition and subtraction story

Printing Practice and Guided Reading Groups

Gym: California Kick ball with the huge yellow bouncy ball!

Library Book exchange

Music with Mrs. Ogden!

MONDAY, April 4th

Calendar: Did the APRIL calendar together as a class, took note of PAC lunch, PAC popcorn, Mrs. D’s first day, Lego club, Easter and Field Trip.

Math: Word problems, one with minusing the other with simple multiplication.

Exercise in the classroom today

Social Studies: Self and identity

Spelling: practising the words

Reading: Scaredy Squirrel has a birthday

Literacy: Started writing our own Scaredy Squirrel books, Scaredy Squirrel goes to…  We established criteria, and a list of pages we need to do!  Today we finished the cover, for three checks it must have: 1. the Title, 2. your name, 3. a connected picture

Buddies: Got to see the Grade 2′s incubation project, growing ducks!

Welcome back and I hope you all had a restful and relaxing Spring Break!

The letter of the week is Qq and the number of the week is 10

The spelling words are cats, pigs, beds, bugs, tops and Oceans.  Spelling test is on Friday.

There will NOT be a walk about or read around this week.  We think we’ll put it on hold until the weather and field clear up!

The Wednesday is a PAC lunch day!

THURSDAY, March 31, 2011

We had a First Nations Storyteller and Drummer come into our class for a story about a magical raven!

Sharing: Today we tried Quinoa!  YUMMY!

Spelling

Social Studies: My life timeline and all about me!

Printing Practice and Guided Reading Groups

Gym: California Kickball

Math: Used our counting beads to help us with addition!  Also used other strategies too!

Music

WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2011

Exericse inside today, gym was being used!  But, we would have been playing California Kick Ball!

The Victoria Art Gallery was here doing a music and art lesson!  We looked at famous pictures with music, and then drew our own pieces using pastels.

Reading Train: Everyone remembered their reading train book!  YAY!

Social Studies: Still working on “Me” stuff and family stuff as well as roles and responsibilities!  Please send me a family photo as soon as you can!

Spelling Dictation today: The cats and pigs are in their beds.

Technology class: Using and setting backgrounds for your personal space.  IF your child remembers his or her student number, she or he can show you, log on to the district website and log on to our Linux system!  Let me know if you want to see!

MONDAY, March 28, 2011

Community Circle and Calendar, welcome back to Elisha!

Journals: What I did over Spring Break

Printing Practice

Presentation: An Orca/Killer Whale presentation presented by the Sidney Discovery Centre.  Did you know there’s now only 84 Killer whales living in our Salish Sea?

Spelling

Math: Word problem and reading a graph

Spring Clean up