This Week

This week, we talked about what we have learned so far and how we can share it on our bulletin board outside our classroom. 

We also took care of our composting and recycling. 

We had fun with our floor hockey game in gym class again, and reading with reading buddies for the first time!

Cougar's Arcade

Cougar’s Arcade

Hello Cambrian Heights School Community,

The grade five and six students are excited to invite you to share in our learning at our upcoming “Cougar’s Arcade”. Inspired by the Video about Caine’s Arcade we have created our own arcade.

When is it happening?

On Wednesday Feb 6^th 2019, you are invited to come into school and try out Cougar’s Arcade. 

Our school community is invited to enjoy our arcade during the following four timeslots:

10:15 – 11:00 AM Kindergarten

11:00 – 11:45 Grade 3/4

12:45 - 1:30 – PM Kindergarten

1:30 – 2:15 Grade 1/2 

Families are invited to attend any of the four timeslots.

Each time slot will include:

·      A video presentation to explain all of the hard work and learning that has occurred

·      An opportunity to play the games and win tickets

·      A chance to trade in tickets for prizes

All students that attend Cambrian Heights School will be able play for free however there will be an opportunity to donate money to Caine’s Imagination Foundation http://imagination.org. The mission of Caine’s Imagination Foundation is to find, foster, and fund creativity in children around the world to raise a generation of innovators and problem solvers, who have the tools they need to build the world they imagine.

All Arcade goers visiting the school will have an opportunity to buy different play passes for either $1, $2 or $5. We will donate all of the money raised to the Imagination Foundation.

We look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday!

Mr. Kwiatkowski

Mr. Close

Ms. McCowan

Tuesday

Today we revisited our first habit for happy kids: be proactive.

Today, we also took a look at the new Canada Food Guide and discussed healthy eating.

We did really well with floor hockey during our gym time with the 5/6 class.

Our music class continues to be filled with the sounds of recorders!

Monday

Today, we enjoyed another visit from Constable Rich, who read us Stone Soup. We talked about how we can be a community and contribute to community soup with positive choices. We watched a video a while ago that illustrated a similar idea! (One Human Family, Food for All)

We watched a step by step drawing video that taught us to draw a deer after we brainstormed animals we see in the winter and how they stay warm and what they eat in the winter. We connected it with how we stay warm in the winter! (How to Draw A Deer)

Today, we continued our Friday discussion about what the grade 6s are excited for and worried about in their upcoming transition to middle school.

We reviewed the orders of the months and days of the week and started to think about which months were in which season.  We also started looking at our February calendar and filling in our events and holidays!

Forecast Friday

Happy Friday!

 Report cards went home today, along with a copy of your student's Individual Program Plan.

Yesterday, we played some new math games using dice.

Today, we watched a video about perseverance and connected it with a beautifully illustrated version of the story The Tortoise and the Hare.

Students were challenged to draw and fill in the numbers and hands on a clock to see what they had remembered from reading groups about calendar and time this week.

We have also been challenging students to write more of their own goals and feelings each morning without the sentence starters by looking back at past goals and copying the work, or attempting their own spelling and then seeking assistance to correct it.

Our recycling and composting collections continue twice a week.

Next week, we will be working on updating a February calendar with class routines and school events, holidays,etc. to help us keep track of our days at school and practice our calendar and time skills!

We will be reviewing our classroom rules and creating our own visual reminders.

Tomorrow, Monday, January 28, 2019, Constable Rich will be joining us again to talk to us about Community Soup!

On Wednesday, January 30, 2019,  it is Hawaiian day!  :)

This Week

Tuesday, we made a list of things that we know about snow and brainstormed questions about it.

Wednesday, we watched videos that taught us about temperature, snow, and ice.  We will see what questions we still have left tomorrow!

This week we watched three videos learning about empathy.

We started reading a book called Lemonade Wars connecting to our studies about money, time, and calendar.

We are continuing to connect coins and bills with prices that we see in grocery store flyers.

We are building on our calendar knowledge and connecting it with telling time and our daily routines.

 Our goal board

 Learning about time

Forecast Friday

 Happy Friday!

Next week, we will be continuing our money and calendar studies as we read aloud books and participate in guided reading of related books and determine how much we think items cost and how much they actually cost.

We will also be learning more about mindfulness and character traits through educational videos.

We will also be reviewing the food groups,  discussing where our recycling goes and what it gets turned into, as well as reviewing what our composting is used for.

We will think of what we know about snow and see what else we can learn about it!

This Week So Far

 We have been looking at identifying bills and their value.

We have been practicing our sight words this week and reviewing our letter sounds.

We are continuing our study of the calendar and applying them to read aloud books, including books by Eric Carle that teach us about days of the week, such as The Hungry Caterpillar.




This week we have been working on mindfulness through grounding, breathing, and stretching.


We have also been discussing taking care of others, being a good friend, and saying sorry.

Today, we played some cooperative games in the gym to remind us about how things go better for the whole group when we are in control and work together.

Forecast Friday

Today, we enjoyed CAD!

We completed composting.

We discussed the lesson we can learn from the story The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

We also had some hot chocolate and started watching Tuck Everlasting to compare it with the book.


Next week, we will be continuing to look at our calendar and money skills.

We will be continuing to read character trait books, practicing goal setting, identifying our emotions and tools to address them, and reading social stories.

This Week So Far

This week, we have been reviewing our days of the week, parts of a calendar and how to read a calendar.

We have also been reviewing money coins and what they look like, what their names are and we will be looking at their value.

We have been reading about sharing with friends, having good sportsmanship, it is okay not to win, etc.

Today, we listened to O Siem, a song about working together, being inclusive and celebrating our differences.

We have been reviewing our Zones tools and reflecting on how we can be in the green zone.

We have also been creating illustrations for our class peace book capture what peace looks, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds like.

Our composting program continues as well.

Today we had fun playing badminton with the 5/6s and playing tag outside.

Welcome Back! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful and restful winter holiday with family and friends. 

 Please touch base with me via phone, email, or homebook about any noteworthy events or happenings over your child's break. 

Today, we reviewed what goals were, why we set them, and what kind of goals we should be thinking of making. We are continuing to work on our goal booklets.

We also worked on our handwriting, did a pre-assessment for calendar knowledge, Dolch sight words, and money coin knowledge.

We also talked about a social story about standing for our friends and read a book about loyalty.

We also read a silly book called The Wonky Donky.

We enjoyed reflecting and sharing about all we did on our winter breaks!

We are excited to welcome a new student to our class :)

Keep on practicing and sending in those home reading books!