Friday, November 29

1. Students will need to know for the SS quiz on Tuesday December 3
- describe and give examples of the following terms: region, landform, research, identity, natural resources, vegetation.
- label the regions on a map
2. Students will need to know for the Math quiz on Wednesday, December 4
- order numbers, standard and expanded form, even and odd numbers

** Bring bottle caps and popsicle sticks on Monday


Deck the Halls with our Grade 1 buddies:

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Thursday, November 28

- Please bring milk or water bottle caps and small popsicle sticks
- We will have a Social Studies quiz next week.  Students will need to know the names of the Alberta regions and where they are on a map. 
- Deck the Halls tomorrow with our Grade 1 buddies.  Feel free to wear an ugly Christmas sweater, red and green or a Christmas hat. 
- Facial Hair Friday tomorrow. 

Wednesday, November 27

- please review EVEN and ODD numbers with me!
- We are in need of A LOT of milk jug lids and popsicle sticks (the small size) for a building activity we will be doing in the next few weeks

Tuesday, November 26

- Ms Vroom was at her third Land Based Indigenous Learning session today. 
- Deck the Halls this Friday with our Grade 1 buddies! 
- Ask me what the weather is in French.

Monday, November 25th 

- Ask me what the name of our novel is. 
- Math practice:
On a farm there were 11 animals in a pen, some were ducks and some were pigs.  There were 28 legs.  How many were ducks and how many were pigs. 
**Please let me show you how to figure out this math problem

- it was our last inline skating today

Week of November 25th to 29th 

Next week we will be learning:

Language Arts:
- we will be starting a new novel study with Ms Blanchard
- we will continue spelling, new spelling words will come home on Monday
Mathematics
- we will continue with comparing and ordering number and learn some games with Ms Blanchard
Social
- we will research the Parkland region on Tuesday
Science
- we will reflect on our complex machines that we made
Health
- we will begin talking about emotions with Ms Blanchard
French
- we will continue to practice greetings, weather, days of the week and numbers

Wednesday, November 20th 

- we had our second day of Inline Skating today.  Our final day will be on Monday, November 25th.
- Half day tomorrow!
- conferences tomorrow afternoon/ evening and Friday morning
- Movie night notice home with oldest

Tuesday, November 19

We will have another Book Fair Purchase day on Wednesday morning.  Students can bring money at this time.

*** We still need these items for building tomorrow afternoon, if you can donate them, please bring them in!
- feathers
- small boxes
- spools
- milk jug lids
- paper towel rolls
- sponges
- rope
- chop sticks
- cardboard boxes

Monday, November 18th 

Our class has IN- LINE skating Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and on the 25th!!!  Bring Helmets!!!

Please sign up for conferences this Thursday evening and Friday morning.  This is a time for the student's to show you their work and for parents to ask Ms Vroom any questions about their child's learning.  

Friday, November 15

- Conference on- line booking now available.  Please sign up for a time to come and see all of the student's hard work. 

Thursday, November 14

- We started our bean art today
- Conferences next Thursday and Friday
- practice writing the following numbers in expanded form:
1. 10,567
2. 789
3. 34, 138
4. 79, 223
5. 99, 001

Wednesday, November 13th 

We will need these items NEXT WEEK (please do not bring them in until Monday):

- cardboard

- string

- plastic food containers

- plastic cutlery

- milk jug lids

- yogurt containers 

- tape 

- rope

- yogurt container lids 

- jar lids

- chopsticks

- plastic water bottles 

- straws 

- spools 

- feathers 

- sponges 

Tuesday, November 12

- We drew a prototype of a complex machine we will start building next week
- We still need BEANS by Thursday if we want to complete the Social project
- book orders due Tomorrow!

November 12- 15th

This week we will 

Language Arts
- finishing our Narrative writing stories and we will start to type them in Google Docs
Math
- expanded notation with our student teacher Ms Blanchard
Social
- Bean art for the regions in Alberta
Science
- Inventor's workshop where we are inventing and designing a complex machine to solve a problem that we have at school
Health
- Friendship and how to solve difficult problems with our student teacher Ms Blanchard
French
- Weather words

** Our student teacher, Ms Blanchard, From U of C will be with our class from now until December 13th!!  

Friday, November 8, 2019

Forms Home:

1. Inline Skating form - Please sign and return 

2. Snowpass 

3. Hawkwood School Fundraiser "The Mixing Spoon" - Orders due November 28th 

- NO SCHOOL Monday.  

- CLASSROOM BEANS: we are looking for DONATIONS of dried beans and lentils for an upcoming project (stale ones in your cupboard, or bags from the bulk or ethnic section of the grocery store are fine). Please send these in with your child over the next week 

Thursday, November 7th

- Thank you to some families for bringing BEANS - we need MORE

- We experimented with levers and fulcrums today

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Mercradi, Novembre 6

- Book orders home - Due Tuesday, November 12th 
- we read a remembrance day Newspaper article

- we finished our Mystery Math 

- CLASSROOM BEANS: we are looking for DONATIONS of dried beans and lentils for an upcoming project (stale ones in your cupboard, or bags from the bulk or ethnic section of the grocery store are fine). Please send these in with your child over the next week 

Tuesday, November 5

- we continued to solve the Mystery Math problem 

- We will be talking a lot about Remembrance Day this week. 

- Remembrance Day Assembly on Friday

- CLASSROOM BEANS: we are looking for DONATIONS of dried beans and lentils for an upcoming project (stale ones in your cupboard, or bags from the bulk or ethnic section of the grocery store are fine). Please send these in with your child over the next week 

Monday, November 4

- Our Field Trip to Heritage Park was amazing!