Symbols

Dear Mom and Dad:

We talked about what symbols mean today. We looked at some photos of symbols that are found in our city of Calgary.  We saw a picture of the Saddledome and the Calgary tower and right away we knew it was a picture of our city!

In grade 1 and 2, I can:

Tell you what helps us to recognize different groups or communities (e.g., landmarks, symbols, 
colours, logos, clothing)?

All three classes had gym today with Mr. Southworth and Mr. McDougal.

Question of the day: Post on the blog symbols that you spot over the weekend around our city.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!

* Mrs. Ly’s students had their home reading books exchanged today. Starting next week, we will be moving our home reading day to MONDAYS (Thank you to an awesome parent volunteer who will be exchanging them each Monday). Please make sure that your child has their home reading book in their red folders for this Monday December 1.

Rainbow City

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!  We will need all the items by Friday December 5. Thank you so much to everyone who is able to help these families J

Dear Mom and Dad:

I might come home with some paint on my class. Don’t worry, It is tempera paint and will was off in the washing machine. We continued building our city. It is looking awesome. We decorated the outside of our buildings, some of us even made cars, trees and roads! Our space is limited in our city and we talked about how we might have to build “up” because we don’t have enough space to build outwards. Ask me to tell you what I added to my building or city today.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Rainbow City

**if you have any kind of tape at home (masking, scotch, packers tape, duct tape that you can send with your child tomorrow to donate, that would be greatly appreciated. We discovered that an important material that we need is tape for our city.

Dear Mom and Dad:

Rainbow city is now under construction! Today I worked in my building group to bring our ideas to reality. We had a city meeting and talked about what a city needs and how we can all work together as a triad to build our city. We talked about how we would need to space out our buildings such as hospitals and police stations and important buildings that we would need to construct. I used different materials to build today. We talked about how each structure should have a purpose. I can’t wait to show you our city next week during parent teacher conferences.

We continue to work on number sense in our math groups. Ask me to share with you what I did today.

All three classes had music today.

In gym we are working on patterns and assessing our work with a partner.

Question of the day: What structure did you build today and why?

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

Don't forget that I have Raz Kids and Matheltics login information in my red folders. These sites can help me build up my skills. 

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!

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Booking a conference with Mrs. Ly

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Mapping

Dear Mom and Dad:

All three classes had mapping today. It is so neat to be an explorer of the world and discover that there is so much in the world to investigate. Today we went on a scavenger on our huge map. It is so big that I am not even as big as Alberta! Ask me to tell you all of the things that I found on the map.

We read a book called “I know here” and wrote about a special place that we know. Some of us wrote about our classroom. Ask me to tell you what I wrote about.

In gym we continued exploring movement through drumfit.

Mrs. McEvoy’s class had music today.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Question of the day: Post on the blog something you found on the large map today.

Housekeeping:

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!  

City Planning Committees

Dear Mom and Dad,

This morning we spent some time with the Giant Floor Map. We talked about Canada's endangered species and how the National Parks protect them. We also talked about migration.

In the afternoon, we broke into teams of city planners, and began our planning process. We thought about what a city needs and then as a team, we chose buildings that our city needed. We drew a plan of our buildings. Tomorrow, we will hopefully begin building our cardboard city.  I wonder if there will be any challenges along the way?

Question of the day:
Ask me to tell you what building I am making and how it is important for a city.  Ask me what sort of details my building will have.

Have a great day!

Literacy math night

It was great seeing everyone this evening for literacy math night. 

There is no school tomorrow. See everyone Monday!

Telus Sparks Field Trip

Dear Mom and Dad:

We had an amazing day today at the Telus Sparks Science Centre! a HUGE thank you to all of our parent volunteers. We appreciate your support and could not have done it without you.

We are an amazing triad. Overall we were really respectful and represented Cranston well. Great job. Our teachers are gleaming with pride :)

Question of the day: Post on the blog some things you experienced today during our field trip. 

Love,

Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

Photo retake orders are due back Monday November 21. 

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!

We are looking for materials that students can experiment with. If you, or your neighbors have items such as: cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, coffee tins, pringle cans, cardboard etc. Anything that we can build with! Thank you.

There is no school this Friday because of PD day. 

If I built a house...

Dear Mom and Dad:

We are going on our first field trip to the Telus Sparks Centre TOMORROW! We will be bringing our backpacks so please pack my backpack as usual with a snack and lunch.

Sorry for missing our last blog entries. Here are some things you can ask me about:

• -       letter writing to a peer.
• -       Adding poems to our poetry folders
• -       Reading “If I built a house”
• -       Designing our own house and rooms
• -       Drumfit in gym
• -       Word work

Question of the day: What are you most excited about for our fieldtrip tomorrow? What do you think we might see?

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!

We are looking for materials that students can experiment with. If you, or your neighbors have items such as: cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, coffee tins, pringle cans, cardboard etc. Anything that we can build with! Thank you.

There is no school this Friday because of PD day. 

Grounds for Change

Dear Mom and Dad:

We have a new student teacher! His name is Mr. Link and he will be with our triad everyday until the beginning of December. He is going to teacher school to become a teacher and we are very excited to show him what teaching will be all about. We added two new poems in our folders today. Ask me to tell you what the poems were about.

We are working on number sense in math. We are in new math groups today and began to talk about what representing numbers mean.

Mrs. Ly had Roots of Empathy today. Ask me to tell you what story we listened to and what feelings we discussed.

In the afternoon we met with Mrs. Drissler. She is from a program called “Grounds for Change” from the Calgary Zoo. We are thinking about an outdoor learning space for our school! We went outside today to see if we can find shapes and patterns in nature. We also talked about what it means if something is manmade or natural.

We have a new dance teacher. Her name is Ms. Janelle, she taught us how to swing today! So much fun! Ask me to show you some of the moves I learned.

There has been a lot of mix ups with gloves, toques, hats, scarves and snow pants. It would be really helpful if all of your child’s belongings were labeled. Thank you very much!

Question of the day: what shapes and patterns can you find in your home or yard? Post your findings on the blog, also post if it is man made or natural material. 

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

We have three blog postings for each teacher to post what items you will be able to donate. Please post on the blog “Families helping families” under your child’s teacher if you are able to help. Thank you so much!

We are going on a field trip to the Telus Sparks Centre on Wednesday November 19 for the entire school day. There are still a number of students who have not returned their forms. Please make sure your child has returned their fieldtrip forms ASAP. Children without signed forms will not be able to come on

We are looking for materials that students can experiment with. If you, or your neighbors have items such as: cereal boxes, paper towel rolls, coffee tins, pringle cans, cardboard etc. Anything that we can build with! Thank you.