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| Dental Egg Experiment-Look what pop does to your teeth!! |
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Beach Day Pictures and The Easter Sock Hop!
Saturday, 3 May 2014
May News and a few pics too!
Dates To Remember for May
May 5-8 Education Week “We Are Teachers” theme
May 7 Hats on for Mental Health day! Have your child wear a hat to school today!
May 7 Drum presentation 9-10am and Leader in Me Family
Assembly hosted by Grade 2 “Seek to Understand” 12:30 May 8 Spelling test day today instead of Friday/Cradle Board Presentation 1:00-2:00 /Fun Friends program begins 2:05- 3:05/Sharing Day
May 9 Professional Development Day-No School for studentsMay 11 Happy Mother’s Day!
May 14 School wide Skipathon Day
May 15 Fun Friends program 2:05-3:05/Sharing Day
May 19 Victoria Day-No SchoolMay 22 SAAG Fieldtrip 10:30-12:00/Sharing Day-Thanks to those who have already volunteered to drive. We are still in need of 3 more if you are available please email or drop by!
May 23 Spelling test
May 28 Pioneer Day-Remember Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie? This is a dress up day where we will attempt to use no technology as they did in the “olden” days! more info. To follow soon
May 29 Fun Friends program 2:05-3:05/ Sharing Day
May 30 POW WOW at Nicholas Sheran 9:30-10:30/ Last spelling test day of the year!
June 4 Kindergarten switch day. Grade One students get to go back and visit a Kindergarten classroom, while the K-children check out Grade One!
Grade Ones host Leader in Me family assembly at 12:30. Our theme is Habit #6 Synergize
June 5, 12 Sharing Days!
June 9 Fieldtrip to Galt Museum “Moving Forward With The Past”9:20-10:50 (leaving the school at 9:00 buses provided)
June 15 Happy Father’s Day!
June 23 Farewell to staff Assembly 9:00-10:00am
June 24 Year End Picnic -more information to follow
June 26 Students last day dismissal at 11:45/Year end Assembly 10:00June 27 Professional Development Day for teachers
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
April Events and More!
My oh my where have the weeks gone?! I can’t believe there are 2 days until the Easter Break! We’ve been working hard to finish up some things in class, as well as prepare for Thursday. In Math, we’re working on our Numbers 1-100 unit. We’ve been practising counting to 100 in many different ways all year, and now students are trying out some strategies for how to count out objects between numbers 50-100. Sometimes we count in 10s, 5s, or 2s depending on how many there are.
In Social Studies we’ve been talking about taking care of our Earth, as the season changes to spring and we prepare for Earth Day. There are some really great conversations about what we can do to protect our environment along with some creative new Boom De Yada lyrics!
Thursday is going to be a super busy day. Here’s what’s happening: First off, it’s Dress Like Easter day. I told the kids if they don’t have anything ‘Easter’ to wear, think springtime! Anything with bright spring colours, polka dots, stripes, etc. Remember though, that they should be comfortable and able to freely move around as we will have our Sock Hoplater that day. If you’re around the school around 8:30please feel free to stick around for our Spirit Assembly in the gym. Then, at 12:30, families are invited to come watch our Easter Sock Hop. We will be in the gym at 12:30 with the Grade 2s, performing a number of circle and line dances that we’ve been working so hard on! Then, after the pm recess, we’ll enjoy snacks in our room with a little Easter video. Thanks again to the families who signed up to provide snacks!
We also have a number of field trips that are booked, which I will email reminders out closer to the dates, but I thought I would tell you now in case you’d like to join and have to make arrangements. Here are our field trip dates/ times for the rest of the year:
Monday June 9: The Galt Museum- We will take a bus from MMH that leaves at 9:00. We will be at the Museum until 10:50. If you would like to catch the bus with us, you are more than welcome. Or you could just meet us at the museum. Due to the nature of this field trip, we ask that you do not bring younger siblings. Please email me if you’re interested in joining us!
Thursday May 22: The SAAG- We will be visiting the Art Gallery, and will need parent volunteers to drive us. If you’re able to help supervise and / or drive, we will be leaving MMH at 10:15. We will return just after 12. If you’re able to drive for this field trip, please email me asap!
Tuesday June 3rd- Pancake Breakfast- this a school wide event where families are invited to come and have a pancake breakfast. The breakfast is from 7-8:15.
Wednesday June 11th- Grades K-2 Sports Day! This is an awesome event that is WEATHER DEPENDANT! We are looking for 2-4 parents to help run stations outside. Please email me if this is something you’re interested in!
Wednesday June 18th- Mr. Bryant’s Retirement Assembly. This will be sometime in the afternoon, and we will let you know when the time is set. This is one you won’t want to miss!
Thursday June 19th- This is our back up day for Sports Day in case we get rained out on the 11th.
Monday June 23rd- This is our Farewell Assembly, where we say goodbye to any staff members who are leaving our school. This assembly is from 9-10am.
Tuesday June 24th-This is the date we have set for our Grade 1 Year End Picnic. The details of this event are still in the works, but parents will be invited to come have a picnic lunch with the Grade One students. This is an awesome event and you’ll definitely want to mark this one on your calendars!
Thank you for reading! As always, email me if you have any questions! Have a wonderful Easter Break with your families!
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
April Newsletter
Important Dates to
Remember
April 2-
World Autism Day at MMH Please wear blue today!
April 3
5:30-7:30 Spring Dance in the Gym:
Fairytale Theme!
April 4-
Professional Learning Day/No School for students
April8-10-Dental
Screening Days
April 9-
9:00-10:00 Drumming
April 4,
10, 17 Spelling Test Days
April 3,
10,17, Sharing Days
April
16-AirBand 12:30 in gym
April
17-8:30 Dress Like Easter Spirit Assembly/
Easter Sock Hop 12:30-2:00
April
18- 27: Easter Break
April
28-First day back after break
April
29-Hot Lunch Day for gr. 1-3
Words of The Week
April
1-3 our,
round, how, now, know
April
7-11 boy, there, then, them, of
April 14-17 over, under, after, her, yesterday
Science
We will
be finishing up our Building Unit and starting a plant/animal unit very soon!
The children get to grow their very own plants and learn which parts of a plant
we like to eat and what plants need to survive and much more!
Easter Sock Hop!
The kids have been working on their dances and are
excited to get together with all the ones and twos to boogie
Language Arts
We will continue writing & editing with our Fairytale
Unit until Easter and I have posted the spelling lists on Spelling City so you
can preview over the break if you like. We’ll be looking at ou/ow, oi/oy,and
the er sisters! The kids are always
working on reading strategies and zipping along with Daily Five!
Social
We will be starting a quick little unit on caring for our
environment that ties in nicely with Earth Day! After the break we dive into a big unit called Moving Forward
With the Past! This unit will include a fieldtrip to the Galt Museum and
bussing will be provided.
Gym
Skip-a-thon mini unit has started along with our Dance
unit.
Math
We will soon be starting a BIG unit called Numbers to
100. This unit includes place value,
using the mental math strategy of making 10 for adding and subtracting, grouping numbers to 100 by 2, 5, and 10 , comparing, representing and
, describing numbers to 100 and so much more!
MMH is having a skip-a-thon
which is a school wide fundraiser to help provide extra-curricular activities,
learning resources, and other items for MMH students. More information and
pledge forms will be coming home soon
Thursday, 27 March 2014
The Magic of Reading!
We had a very busy Thursday today but I took a minute to snap a few pictures of the kids this morning during our Language Arts time. One of the kids said, " I L-O-V-E reading!" Music to every teachers ears! We had tons of kids volunteer to read their writing at the front of the room today! Very brave and such great writers! Nice job Grade Ones! Enjoy the photos!
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| Complete Comfort! |
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| Hard at Work! |
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| Laser Focus! |
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| Super Smartboard Speller! |
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| Wrapped up in reading! |
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| Got them all! |
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| Someone loves red! |
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| Writing about Lego! |
Monday, 17 March 2014
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here are a few fun pics from today! The spirit cup challenge was to take a photo in the shape of a shamrock--you can see all the kids on the carpet in a clover shape! Check out these funny faces!
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
March Newsletter!
It is time for Mrs. Payne to buy a new computer! Sorry it has taken a while to get this posted, hopefully you have relied on the hard copy that came home in mail boxes to tied you over. My old laptop is not running blogger very quickly so I am forced to blog from the school after hours! It's a little tricky with the new set up but I think we've got it dialed in! Thanks to everyone who has signed up for the celebration of learning Thursday night 5:30-7:30pm. The kids have been working like crazy to make all kinds of things to show you! See you soon!
Important Dates!
March 4:Home Hardware fieldtrip
March4,11,18,25: After school skate at
Nicholas Sheran 3:30-4:30
March 7,14,20,28: Spelling test days
March 17:Spirit Assembly @12:30 WEAR
GREEN!!!!
March 13 Celebration of Learning 5:30-7:00PM
March 14: Report Cards come home!
March 20 & 21:
Usborne book fair
March 20:P/T evening interviews/regular
classes
March 21: No classes P/T
interview
March 25: Hot Lunch Day
Science
We are continuing our building unit in science and the kids are starting
to use terms like materials, tools, and fasteners! Each project we build is
designed to help the children choose materials wisely and understand that
everything they make has a purpose and a function. This unit ties together nicely with our Fairytale
unit as we will test our bridges to see if they can support the weight of the 3
Billy Goats Gruff and will see if our houses from the Three Little Pigs can
withstand an earthquake or windstorm!
The kids are encouraged to talk about their projects afterward and
decide what materials worked best and what designs they would modify and try
again. Thank you again to our parent
volunteers who helped out with Scientists in School Day! Another exciting part
of our building unit is the trip to Home Hardware where we actually get to use
the drill press , hammers, and nails! The kids will paint their pencil holders
in Art when we get back! Can’t wait to set them on our desks and actually use
them!
Fairytales!
We have so
many things to do and learn this month and they all revolve around
Fairytales. We are starting out with
Jack & The Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Three Billy Goats and will be meeting
The Three Little Pigs plus a few more over the next few weeks. The kids will be writing some fairytales of their own and our focus is making sure we have all
story elements character, setting, problem and solution!
Report Cards
Report cards will be coming home on Friday
March 14. We are having a Celebration of Learning on Thursday
March 13th from 5:30-7:00pm. You will be able to schedule a 20
minute slot using conference manager. This is an evening where your child can
show what they know and update you on their latest projects and progress! Hope to see you there!
Math
Our new Geometry Unit in Math also
ties in nicely with our Science Building and LA Fairytales! One of the big
ideas in the geometry unit is that 2D items are called shapes and 3D items are
called objects. The kids learn to use geometrical language and to describe,
sort, and compare both 2D shapes and 3D objects. And of course, we get to build
by replicating a design that is given and by problem solving the best way to
fit pieces together. And of course we continue to reinforce the basic skills of
number operation and number sense every day during our morning calendar time.
¬ Words Of The Week
March 3-7 too, soon, good, who,
have
March 10-14 when, where, who, what, once
March 17-20 brown, brick, bring,
pretty, from
March 24-28 daddy, mommy, funny, any, every
Usborne Book Fair
March 20 & 21
Times: 8:30-8:00pm Thurs
8:30-11:45 Friday
Payment of
cash, cheque made out to Michelle Conrad, visa or MasterCard will be accepted
March 19-21. The majority of the books will be ordered and delivered to your
school in approximately 3 weeks. There will be a small selection available to
purchase and take home from the fair. Your purchases will earn your school
library 25% in free books!!! Come support your school and your child’s literacy.
All students will be entered to win the $25 FREE book draw that will be
made March 21.
Conference Manager Instructions
Step 1
You can Pre-Register at https://mikemountain.schoolsoft.ca (DO NOT include “www” in the url)You can set up a
Parent Account by following the link below. Click the REGISTER NOW button and
complete the registration form. Your login credentials (email and password)
will remain in the system to make it easy to access the Conference Manager in
the future.
Please note that in order to enhance functionality and security, the
Conference Manager requires you to use Internet Explorer 7 (or above), Firefox
3 (or above) or Safari 4 (or above). If you are using an older browser, the
Conference Manager will automatically prompt you to update your browser and
provide you with a link. This is a one-time process and only takes a couple of
minutes.
Step 2 – Conference Manager
Opens to Parents – Monday, March 10th at 6:00 am.
You can access the Parent Login Page using the
link in the Confirmation Email. If you do not receive a Confirmation Email, you
can login by going directly to https://mikemoutain.schoolsoft.ca
Step 3 -Book Your Time
Select the teachers of the classrooms you want to visit. You will see each
teacher’s schedule. After booking your appointments you can print off your
schedule. You will also receive an email containing the teacher name, time and
location of the visit. You can log into the system at any time to view your
bookings, print, cancel or re-schedule your “Celebration of Learning” time. You
have the option of submitting comments or questions to the teacher as part of
the booking process.
Important Dates
Monday, Mar. 10:
Conference Manager opens at 6:00 am
Thursday, Mar. 13: Conference
Manager closes at 4:00 pm
If you do not have Internet access, you are
welcome to contact the office and we will schedule your conferences on your
behalf. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to
contact the school at 403.381.2211
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