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Friday October 5th

Today we did silent reading and our daily circle. Ms. Adamson got to start the circle because she's leaving! We went to gym and did some exercise and lots of running. We did our letter I today. And we did finish - up time. Lots of people got free time because they finished all their things this week! It was teacher's appreciation day which means we should be really nice to teachers today. She got an apple pie from Mr. Rainbow Ms. McLaren We are going to listen to a story now, before we come home and everyone is going to give Ms. Adamson a huge hug before they leave today!

See you soon.

Rm. 18

Thursday October 4th

We will be going to gym today. We did our daily circle. Alyciana was kid of the day, so she did our calendar. Tomorrow will be Ms. Adamson's last day. We wrote Ms. Adamson a letter telling her something we will remember about our time with her and we drew her a nice picture. She is going to make a book out of all of our stuff. We did silent reading. We are going to watch the Lorax, which teaches us about taking care of earth. We did math- Grade 2s had to do a color by number which turned into the Lorax, when we were finished we could play a math game; Grade 1s had to sort glue sticks into piles of 20. Grade 1s in writing had to cut up and glue a sentence together so that it made sense and then copy it in their own writing; Grade 2s had a picture of a witch and they had to write about it using at most one sentence that started with 'I'. It was Jashan's birthday today he gave everyone a glow pen, an eraser and a pencil. Happy Birthday JASHAN! 

Wednesday Ocotber 3rd

Today we did math, Grade 2s cut our hundreds charts up and made them into number lines. We did our daily circle. We played basketball in the gym. Keerat was kid of the day and he did calendar for us. In science we did a test to show Ms. Adamson what sense the people in the picture were using. We made our own bookmarks today for our reading time. Friday will be Ms. Adamson's last day and when we all come back from fall break we will have a new teacher. This is why Ms. Adamson sent a form home for parents to fill in if they hadn't already done so... this makes it much easier for the new teacher to learn all about her new class. 

Tuesday October 2

We did our daily circle today. Ms. L did some reading with small groups of students. Myrah was kid of the day she did our calendar and also got to start circle. We are going to music soon. We watched a video about our sense of taste , then we used our pinkys to taste a little bit of salt and sugar, then we cut and glue salty and sweet food pictures. We did math where we made our own hundreds chart.  Then in writing we had a pirate picture that we had to write about, with only one or zero sentences starting with 'I'. We all worked on letter H today.

Monday October 1st

Today we had an assembly about Orange shirt day. We wear orange shirts for all the people who went to residential school. We also did circle today. Arfa was kid of the day so she did our calendar today. We also did silent reading. Grade 2s did a test in math, and in writing we wrote about a picture Ms. Adamson found of a squirrel who was unzipping his fur and underneath had a superman costume. We wrote about what could be happening in the picture.

Thursday September 27th

Today we did calendar, Maddi got to do it because it was her last day and she was also kid of the day! Grade 2s did a writing test today, they got a picture and they had to write sentences about the picture, when they finished they had free drawing time. In math we did more problem solving, using an increasing pattern counting by 2s, but there was a mistake in the pattern and we had to find it. We didn't get to do our Terry Fox run, so we watched a video about him and then drew a picture of ourselves running with Terry Fox. Grade 1s watched a story and then they wrote a review. Grade 1s also had to figure out how to spell the number. Now we are heading to gym! SEE YOU SOON!!!!!

Our Terry Fox run was rescheduled for tomorrow, hopefully we will have better weather!

Wednesday September 26th

Today kid of the day is Labiba. She did our calendar for today! We listened to a story about 7 seven blind mice, because we were learning about our sense of sight. The mice were using the their sense of touch to figure things out, we know we could use our other 4 senses to figure things out if we were blind. We did sketching outside after our story. We did some silent reading today. We are going to music today! In math, Grade 1s had their last day of patterns, they made caterpillers all the way up to sixteen circles. Grade 2s did problem solving with drummers in an increasing pattern and had to figure out if the drum line kept growing to be 10 rows long how many drumsticks would be in the 10th row. We did the letter F today. We did our daily circle. We had time to go to the learning commons today, and will have more time tomorrow for people who didn't go today or forgot their books.

Tomorrow will be the Terry Fox run! Please bring any last minute donations.


Bye Bye for now!

Tuesday September 25th

We had a little Lorax booklet and we wrote about pollution. The 4 different types of pollution are water, air, land and noise pollution. Grade 1s did shape and number patterns, we had to make a pattern out of foods. We did silent reading. Grade 2s did a review of the book "The Boy in the Drawer" and that will be our last review. We are going to do a writing test on Thursday so today we did a practice test. We got a picture of elephants and a little girl and a dad and we had to write about it. Shubkarmen was the kid of the day so she did calendar for us. We did our daily circle time. We did the letter 'E' today. We had to write the letter 'E' draw things that start with 'E' and even grade 2s wrote things that start with 'E'. Ms Mazurak taught us how to say the letter 'E' in sign language. Now we are going to gym.

Parents:
Today is our first school council meeting. If you would like to attend, please feel free. This is an adults only event.

Monday September 24th

We read a book called "Only One You". We used pastels to color fish really nicely and richly just like the fish in our book, except we all made our fish a little bit different, we are all unique. Grade 2s listened to the book "The Boy in the Drawer" then we wrote some words that could help us to do a review tomorrow. Grade 1s did writing about a picture. We did silent reading after lunch. We did our daily circle. Armaan did the calendar today because he was our kid of the day. In math Grade 2s did problem solving about a caterpillar. We had to figure out what will the caterpillar look like when he is 6 days old. We saw how he grew each day for 3 days and then had to figure out how much more he would grow by 6 days. Also we worked on the letter D today! We are off to gym! See you later!!!

Written by room 18!

Thursday September 20

Today we did silent reading. In Math Grade 1s had a test about patterns where they had to fill in the missing spots. Grade 2s created their own increasing and repeating pattern to show the difference and then wrote the pattern rule. In writing Grade 2s took some free writing time where they could write about anything they liked. Grade 1s continued working with letters and their sounds. We also did some finish up of all the work that we have been working on all week. Mr. Rainbow (our assistant principle) came in for a visit and was happy to see everyone hard at work. In the afternoon we did some science and learned about our sense of smell. We listened to the story the Lorax which talks about what might happen if we don't respect our environment. Then finally we went to music at the end of the day!

Parents, it's been lovely seeing you all for conferences.

Apologies for the late post.

Wednesday Septmeber 19th

We started our day with silent reading. We finished getting everybody to library. We did our respect booklet, we talked about respecting ourselves. We did math, working on patterns . Grade 2s made little patterns where we had to complete the pattern- the shape gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Grade 1s made a pattern using chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and banana ice cream flavors. They also made a pattern all by themselves after some practice doing it together. We did our daily circle. Now we are off to gym. See you later!

Tuesday September 18th

Today we did silent reading. We will be going to gym at the end of the day. There is a lot of unsharpened pencils and some of them are too small for the pencil sharpener they fell on the ground. Ms Adamson will have to get them. We did math, Grade 2s did increasing patterns again. Grade 1s did shape patterns. We started going to the library today, we go two at a time, we exchange our books, we get a timer and a pass and we get to go all by ourselves, with our friend. We also did our daily circle. Sirat did our calendar today because  she is kid of the day! Ms Adamson read the grade 2s a book called 'If you Ever want to bring an alligator to school, DON'T!' and then we wrote a review all by ourselves. Grade1s did letter 'I' with Ms Mazurak. We are also going to watch a movie called Inside Out.

Please don't forget to sign up for conferences on Thursday and Friday!

Monday September 17th

Good afternoon!

Today we worked on patterning in Math. In writing Grade 1s continued to work on letters and Grade 2s wrote another review about a boom called 'The Pigeon Needs a Bath'. We listened to a story about our bodies and talked about personal space, how to respect others and what to do if someone is invading our personal space. In the afternoon we started working on a project about our emotions and have also started watching the movie Inside Out which ties into our work.

Parents,
Please don't forget to sign up for conferences happening this Thursday and Friday, another notice went home to parents who have yet to sign up as well as a paper for you to fill out with your child and bring to conferences. If you require a translator please send this paper with your child by Wednesday so that arrangements can be made. Finally, if you are having trouble signing up, I will be bringing my laptop outside tomorrow to sign up anyone who requires assistance so please make sure you catch me at the end of the day.

Thank you

Friday September 14

Today we did a fun science experiment where we tested our sense of hearing! We had a great time and everyone did an excellent job of listening. We finished up some things that hadn't gotten done in the week, especially some fun art that Ms. Adamson has put up on display for Parent Teacher conferences. If and when we were all done our work, we got free time to explore our math blocks, draw on the personal whiteboards, do coloring pages, mazes and other fun activity sheets. Finally we went to music and then we watched a video about hearing and sound waves.

If you have not already done so, please sign up for conferences online. If you are having any trouble contact Mrs. Nelson or Mrs. Cleroux at 403-777-6270, extension 0.

Thursday September 13th

Today Navraj did our calendar because he was kid of the day! We  did silent reading and circle time where everyone shared how they felt. Ms Hume came to our class and read a book called 'The OK Book'  then she gave us a piece of paper and we had to write our name, we wrote a sentence about what we feel like you can do but you need more practice. We drew a picture with colors and we traced it with a black marker and she is going to make a book out of all of our pages. Now we are going to gym! We did math today, Grade 1s did patterns with blocks and then we made 'abab' and 'aabb' colorful patterns. Grade 2s did more increasing patterns. In writing Grade 1s worked on the letter 'G'. Grade 2s wrote a review of the book 'Mom, the School Flooded'.

Wednesday September 12th

Today we started our day with Math. Grade 2s started working with increasing patterns. Grade 1s learned about the letter names for patterns like 'abab' and 'abba' and 'abcd'. We also had a fire drill today. We were safe, silent, and serious. Ms. Adamson was so proud because we did an amazing job!! We also  learned about our sense of hearing. We will be working more on this on Friday. We had circle time and since Gurnoor was kid of the day today he got to start circle and also did our calendar for us. Finally we got a new friend named Furqaan today who has joined our class!

Tuesday September 11th

Today we did silent reading. In math we worked on patterns. Grade 1s worked on the letter 'e' and drew pictures of things we eat. Grade 2s did patterns in math and we had to finish the patterns that Ms. Adamson made. Grade 2s read a book called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and we wrote a review all together, then by ourselves we wrote about our favorite part of the book. We also started our alphabet book, we started working with the lettter 'A' and will be doing the whole alphabet! Someone new came today her name is Orfa, and tomorrow we will get one more new friend! So exciting!!! Pretty soon we will go to music. We also worked more on our respect booklet. We talked about respecting the outside, otherwise called the environment. We can respect the environment by keeping your garbage in your pocket till you get home instead of throwing it on the ground outside. You have to stay on the cement and not go on the grass, or the grass will get ruined and other nature things like plans, flowers, and insects.  Kid of the day did the calendar today- and that was Fatima.

Monday Again

Today we did calendar and circle time. Today we did social studies with Ms. Mazurak's class. She taught us about respect. We got a booklet that is all about respect. We had a page with 4 bozes where we wrote one thing in each box about respecting others. We started kid of the day today. Ibrahim was our first kid of the day, and he got to do lots of helpful jobs for Ms. Adamson. We got circle mats today to sit on and be more comfortable in front of the smart board. Today the Grade 1s worked on writing. The Grade 2s worked lots on Math and making patterns in different ways. We talked about attributes and we played a game in partners where we took away parts of our pattern and our partner had to figure out what was missing, we know that the core is the most important part of our pattern, so we had to leave that part or our partner would not be able to guess our pattern. We did silent reading this morning. We also got a new cat in the hat poster in our room that says some of the rules of our classroom like 'Share, Listen and Be a Friend'.
We are heading to gym now! BYEEEEE!!!! SEE YOU LATER!!!!


NOTE TO PARENTS:

If you have not already sent back your permission form for the Dental Bus, we encourage you to do so, it is a free service offered to all of our students.

Also don't forget to book conferences for next week!

Thanks,

Ms. Adamson

Friday September 7th

Today we did our picture, we cut out our faces and then had colored paper and we cut them to make ourselves and our clothing and Ms Adamson is going to put them all up on the wall around the circle of courage. This is because we learned that we all belong in our classroom and at Taradale school and in Calgary.  We did some learning today in the Library where we learned how to take care of our books, our homework today from Ms. Samran was to find a safe spot to keep our book because sometimes there are children in our houses who don't know how to keep them safe. We started the morning with silent reading. Now we are going to finish up all the work that didn't get done this week. We will be very busy, so we'll talk to you at the end of the school day!

Bye bye for now,

Room 18

Thursday September 6th

We did partner reading this morning and we got to share our book with a friend. Today we described how different things feel -smooth, soft, rough. We played a game where Ms. Adamson described different objects and we had to pull the object we thought she was describing out of the bag, the first person in each group who pulled out the correct object told Ms. Adamson which object she was describing. Today we had a Welcome Back Assembly, some of the Grade 3s and 4s sang songs and did poems, and some of us got to see our friends perform, we all sang Oh Canada and then all the teachers came dancing through the middle of the assembly.  We listened to a story called 'A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue'. We drew a picture of how we look when we are in the Red Zone- which can be Angry, Out of Control, Feel like yelling. We also did Calendar, we are already up to 15 days of school.  We are off to gym now.

Wednesday September 5th

We did silent reading and circle time. We drew how we look when we are in the Blue zone- sad, crying, bored, sick, sleepy. We did a review of the book "The Story of Babar" and Ms. Adamson posted it on the Calgary Public Library website. We learned the difference between telling and tattling and sorted pictures to show what we should tell an adult and what we can solve on our own. Everyone did math, Grade 2s did math about patterns where we built patterns with at least 2 attributes.

Back to school Tuesday

We had circle time today and we met our new grade 2 students Aroosh and Sainaath. We did quiet reading time this morning when we came in and again after lunch. We are getting better at using that time to read by ourselves. We had some health time where we sorted between healthy and unhealthy foods. In Math we worked on more patterns- Grade 2s are learning patterns with 2 different attributes (ask your child what that means!) and Grade ones worked on more simple patterning. In Grade 2 writing we wrote a review about the rainbow fish together for Ms. Adamson to put on the Calgary Public Library website. We are going to write lots of book reviews together and are learning what is important when we are telling about a book. We are off to the gym now, see you soon!

Friday of the long weekend

Today we organized the books by size to keep our classroom clean. We did story time today about not hitting people with our hands and other things that our hands should be used for, then we made our own pages so that we can make a classroom book. Quiet reading happens now every morning. We had gym. and we talked about healthy foods to bring for lunch. Have a great long weekend!

Thursday August 30th

Today we did a puzzle piece, our picture went in the middle of the puzzle piece then drew things that were important to us around it, we cut it out and Ms Adamson is going to make it into a big puzzle on our bulletin board. We had our daily circle passing our sweetgrass and had our final name challenge, Aleeza was able to get everyone's name! In math we worked on patterns. We read a book about belonging because we ALL BELONG here in this classroom. We did some writing about what we learned yesterday from our special presenter from the Dental Bus. Grade 2s also wrote about what they wished their teacher knew about them, grade ones worked on their letter 'a' and some cutting and gluing work. We also did some partner reading in the morning and silent reading in the afternoon. Now we are off to gym. We'll see you soon.

Special Visit

The dental bus came today and gave us lots of information about how to take care of our teeth, they gave us toothbrushes, and they also gave us permission forms to go to the dental bus when they come to visit over the school year. Students can go to the bus for free with a signed permission form! We learned about eating healthy foods, and that unhealthy food should only be for occasional treats as they can be bad for our teeth. In math we worked on making different types of patterns. We also did some writing, grade ones wrote sentences with Mrs. Mazurak and grade twos wrote about their summer with a picture with Ms. Adamson. We did silent reading today, added two days to our calendar as we ran out of time yesterday, did our daily circle time and ended it with a challenge, most of us are able to get nearly everyone's name. Now we are off to music, see you soon!

Tuesday August 28

Today we did math. The grade 1s showed Ms. Mazurak their progress from Kindergarten while Grade 2s made patterns out of shapes with Ms. Adamson- we had partners and took turns guessing which pattern their friend had made. We started science and started learning about our 5 senses smelling hearing feeling tasting, sight. We did lots of silent reading today. We listened to a story about a mouse who got a new purse and wanted to share it with her class really bad, but she got in trouble because she was sharing it during class time and finally we did our daily circle. We are headed to gym now! Talk to you later!

Monday AGAIN!

Today in Math the Grade 2s worked on patterns! They built them and then drew them in their math books. We have continued working on our calendar, we are already up to 8 whole days! We did some writing today we turned our 'Brown Bear Brown Bear story' into a story about ourselves. We did a word search which some of us are bringing home to work on. We took some time to read today. And finally we talked more about filling people's buckets and we sorted through pictures to show which ones were bucket fillers, and which ones were bucket dippers. Again today we did circle time, afterwards we did our challenge to see if anyone could remember everybody's name Myrah and Olivia were able to do it!

Last day of our first FULL WEEK

Today we started our day with silent reading. Then we ripped up colors- red, orange, yellow, green, and blue and violet to make a rainbow. ROYGBIV. This will end our review of colors. We did circle time, we talked about how we feel today- this is what we are going to do every circle time so Ms. Adamson knows how we are feeling. We did the calendar and finished off our first full week. We had some story time.  Today we also had some free choice time where we could do dot to dots, easy medium or hard and we also had easy, medium or hard word searches. We also did an art walk to see everybody's buckets. Then we chose which one we did the best, and Ms. Adamson is going to put them up on the wall.

Thursday August 23rd

Good Afternoon!

Today we learned more about how to be a bucket filler. Being a bucket filler means doing nice things for other people to fill their bucket, when we do mean things their bucket slowly empty's and they don't feel happy. We all want to be bucket fillers not spillers!

We also worked more on our number and color recognition, as well as our writing. Grade 2s were able to work all by ourselves while the rest of us Grade ones worked with Ms. Adamson. In Math the Grade 2s made our own 100s charts and then learned a game called 'Race to 100' where we used adding and subtracting in our goal to reach 100.

It's Thursday! We are almost done our first full week of school! Students come to school tomorrow well rested and ready for a bit of Friday Fun!

Tuesday August 22

Good Afternoon Parents!

Today we read some of our classroom books with a partner. The Grade 2's are starting to make some Grade 1 buddies and are helping them with their reading! We also had some writing time today looking back at our 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear' story and writing color and animal words. In the afternoon we listened to a story called 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today' talking about being a kind person and a friend. Then we got a bucket printout to color with oil pastels, we tried to use every color in the box. Finally we had gym today- for those who were here yesterday it was our second time. The rest of us met Mr. Draper and used the skipping ropes and played games.

The day with half a class

Today we colored by numbers to work on learning our color words and number recognition. We read the Kissing Hand and we talked about how he felt after his first day of school and how we felt after our first day of school. We also did circle time where we tell everyone our names and we also told each other about our weekend, only one person is allowed to talk at a time while everyone else listens. We worked on writing slanted lines and built up to writing letters - XAZV. We kept working on our calendar and our days of the week. We also started counting up how many days of school we have had. We are already up to 4!

To those of you who were missing today, we are excited to share some of the work we did today and hope you had a good celebration. 

Monday August 20

Today we finally went outside to play! We sorted the pencil crayons by color to keep them nice and organized. We started our calendar which we will be working on everyday from now on. We did circle time where we told each other what makes us happy. We listened to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear and then put the animals in order and colored them to match the book. And finally we had music class to finish off the day.

Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!

To those of you who will be celebrating Eid tomorrow, Eid Mubarak. 

Ms. Adamson

End of Week One

Boy, that was quick!

Parents, today we went to music class and met Ms Fung who will be teaching us music for the rest of the year. Then we traced our hands, cut them out and decorated them to be posted on our hangers so we always remember where to hang our things. We also spent some time today writing and drawing pictures to tell Ms. Adamson a bit more about ourselves. Finally we spent some time getting to know each other with a fun activity where we had to find someone in the class who had done or liked certain things. This helped us feel more comfortable with each other and get to know each other a little better. 

Students and Parents, I hope that you have a fantastic weekend. Get lots of sleep and come in on Monday ready to learn. 

Ms. Adamson

First Day of School

Hello parents.

Our first day of school was a success! Today we went on a scavenger hunt around the school to find important places that we need to be able to find like the music room, the washroom, the learning commons, the gym and the office. We were able to answer clues about each room to figure out where we were going next. We also showed Ms. Adamson all of the things that we know how to do like: write our name, write letters and write numbers. We drew her pictures to show her what we did on our summer vacation and some of us also wrote sentences about our pictures. We learned sign language to ask to go to the bathroom and to get water. Finally we did a sharing circle to tell all of our classmates our names and a little bit about ourselves. Lots of us made new friends and caught up with old ones.

Students, I am very excited to see you all again tomorrow!

Ms. Adamson

Good Morning

Good morning to those of you who dropped your children off this morning and decided to check out our classroom blog!

Everyday I, with the help of the students, will update you on the goings on of our Grade 1/2 classroom including exciting upcoming events, what we are learning throughout the day, and any reminders or notices for parents. I hope that you will continue to check our blog on a regular basis in order to stay updated on your child's learning and what is going on around the school.

I am excited to have your child in my class and cannot wait to get started! We are going to have a great school year.

Your child's teacher,

Ms. Adamson