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Monday, 11 May 2015
Friday, 8 May 2015
Education week.
What a great week we have had at East Elementary for education week. On Monday the kids got to experience Drum Fit. What a great experience for everyone.
On Thursday, we got to experience a Zumba class. Another fantastic period of activity.
A bust week of activity also included "Hats on for Mental Health" day. There were varying types of hats to support and acknowledge mental health and its prevalence in society.
Language Arts
Writing:
We began this week our Unit on fairy tales. We read a few different fairy tales, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella. We are now focusing on Goldilocks. The students are now going to re-tell the story in their own words. We are using a picture sequence to go through the story part by part so they can focus on including as much detail as possible on one part before we move on to the next. As always, there is a focus on conventions and sentence structure in their writing.
Math
In math we have been working really hard on addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers. The students are working with many different strategies to solve 2 digit equations. Writing equations vertically is a good way to help distinguish the ones and the tens place and help with more accurate solutions.
Odds & Ends
Today a second field trip form was sent home. This one is for the annual Track and Field day in Devon. We are again doing a hot lunch order form for that day. The permission form as well as the lunch order form and payments need to be returned by next Thursday, May 14th. The forms for Fort Edmonton with payment, if you have not done so already, need to be returned by next Wednesday, May 13th.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Swimming has been great!
Grade 2A has had a wonderful time swimming this year. Everybody is geared up on the bus of our second last day!
Monday, 13 April 2015
April 13-17
Good day everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. A couple of things to note this week. We are swimming today, Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday is our last day of swimming. The students have done a great job listening, following directions, and getting changed quickly following to ensure we arrive back to school for dismissal at the end of the day.
A reminder that Wednesday is popcorn day. Bring 50 cents and get a bag of popcorn for snack.
This Friday at East elementary we are hosting pool D of the Grade 5-6 floor hockey tournament. The Eagles play their first game at 4pm in the gym. There will be a concession put on by EEPA, with funds being returned back into East Elementary Programs. If you have children or siblings playing come out and cheer them on.
One last important reminder, our class pictures will take place next Monday, April 20th.
Language Arts
Spelling:
This week our spelling words continued to work on adding endings. This week all the words are "short" vowel words that you have to double the last consonant before you add the ending. For example, map would become mapping. The exception to this rule is a word ending in x. You do not double the x. The spelling words for this week are as follows;
jogging running trimming skipping shopped sadder gladdest hopped winning mixed
Writing:
We continue to look at informative/expository writing versus narrative writing. We have been comparing strong paragraphs of writing to weak paragraphs. The students are really starting to grasp the kind of detail required to capture and captivate the reader. Identifying why a paragraph is strong or weak is very important to being able to write yourself.
Math
The last few weeks we have had a strong focus on 2 digit addition. Mastering basic math facts (1 digit addition like 8+6) is a great skill and the foundation for 2 digit addition. The students have been learning many different strategies for doing 2 digit addition. They have been using hundreds charts (counting by tens and counting by ones), using base 10 blocks, using snap cubes, and we have just started doing vertical addition. In vertical addition we like to begin with adding the ones together, then add the 10's together. The ones are red, the tens are green. In the end, this will probably be the easiest and quickest strategy, especially when they eventually get up to 3 digit addition and higher.
32
+ 46
78
We will continue with addition and later on subtraction of numbers to 100, into May.
I hope everyone has a great week and weekend ahead.
Mr. Aasen
A reminder that Wednesday is popcorn day. Bring 50 cents and get a bag of popcorn for snack.
This Friday at East elementary we are hosting pool D of the Grade 5-6 floor hockey tournament. The Eagles play their first game at 4pm in the gym. There will be a concession put on by EEPA, with funds being returned back into East Elementary Programs. If you have children or siblings playing come out and cheer them on.
One last important reminder, our class pictures will take place next Monday, April 20th.
Language Arts
Spelling:
This week our spelling words continued to work on adding endings. This week all the words are "short" vowel words that you have to double the last consonant before you add the ending. For example, map would become mapping. The exception to this rule is a word ending in x. You do not double the x. The spelling words for this week are as follows;
jogging running trimming skipping shopped sadder gladdest hopped winning mixed
Writing:
We continue to look at informative/expository writing versus narrative writing. We have been comparing strong paragraphs of writing to weak paragraphs. The students are really starting to grasp the kind of detail required to capture and captivate the reader. Identifying why a paragraph is strong or weak is very important to being able to write yourself.
Math
The last few weeks we have had a strong focus on 2 digit addition. Mastering basic math facts (1 digit addition like 8+6) is a great skill and the foundation for 2 digit addition. The students have been learning many different strategies for doing 2 digit addition. They have been using hundreds charts (counting by tens and counting by ones), using base 10 blocks, using snap cubes, and we have just started doing vertical addition. In vertical addition we like to begin with adding the ones together, then add the 10's together. The ones are red, the tens are green. In the end, this will probably be the easiest and quickest strategy, especially when they eventually get up to 3 digit addition and higher.
32
+ 46
78
We will continue with addition and later on subtraction of numbers to 100, into May.
I hope everyone has a great week and weekend ahead.
Mr. Aasen
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
April 7-10
Happy April. I hope everyone had a great spring break. Just some reminders about swimming. This week we are swimming on Thursday, the 9th, in the afternoon. Next week we are swimming Monday the 13th, Wednesday the 15th, and Thursday the 16th. Thursday the 16th is our last day of swimming. Please don't forget to send a swimsuit on those days.
Spelling
Our spelling words for this week are as follows;
worked sending wants glasses sees burning reached boxes wishes opening
Spelling
Our spelling words for this week are as follows;
worked sending wants glasses sees burning reached boxes wishes opening
Monday, 23 March 2015
March 23-26
It is our last week of school in March and before spring break begins. Just a reminder that there is no school beginning Friday, March 27 up until Monday, April 6th, which is Easter Monday. School resumes Tuesday, April 7th. Also if your child could have their swimming wear and towels dried every evening so they do not have to use wet clothes and towels, that would be excellent.
Spelling:
Our spelling words for this week are as follows;
world girl skirt her first worth word sir turn were
Monday, 9 March 2015
March 9-13
Odds and Ends
A couple things to talk about this week. If you have not returned your permission forms for swimming, or the money, both are due on Friday, March 13th. We start our swimming on Monday, March, 23rd. Also, this Friday is a theme day. It is dress like your favorite celebrity day. Come dressed as your favorite athlete, singer, actor, etc.
Language Arts
Spelling:
Our spelling words this week are all contractions. A contraction is two words combined together with an apostrophe to make one word. The 10 words are as follows;
you'll they're it's we're isn't let's aren't I'm can't we're
Math
This week we are finishing up out unit on Measurement. We have covered how to read calendars, days of the week, months of the year, length, mass, size, and volume. Our unit test will be on Thursday.
Science
We will continue with our unit on exploring liquids. We have looked at different kinds of liquids, properties of them (freezing, melting, thickness, flow), states of matter (Water can be solid, liquid, and gas), as well as dissolving a solid in a liquid and evaporation. Over the next couple of weeks we will be exploring different materials and how they absorb water and materials that are waterproof.
Health
With the start of our Tutti Fruitti Tuesdays, where we are having a contest to see which class has the most students that bring in a fresh fruit or vegetable for snack, we will be exploring Canada's Food Guide and healthy eating habits.
I hope everyone has a great week ahead (Minus the 1 hour of lost sleep).
Mr. Aasen
A couple things to talk about this week. If you have not returned your permission forms for swimming, or the money, both are due on Friday, March 13th. We start our swimming on Monday, March, 23rd. Also, this Friday is a theme day. It is dress like your favorite celebrity day. Come dressed as your favorite athlete, singer, actor, etc.
Language Arts
Spelling:
Our spelling words this week are all contractions. A contraction is two words combined together with an apostrophe to make one word. The 10 words are as follows;
you'll they're it's we're isn't let's aren't I'm can't we're
Math
This week we are finishing up out unit on Measurement. We have covered how to read calendars, days of the week, months of the year, length, mass, size, and volume. Our unit test will be on Thursday.
Science
We will continue with our unit on exploring liquids. We have looked at different kinds of liquids, properties of them (freezing, melting, thickness, flow), states of matter (Water can be solid, liquid, and gas), as well as dissolving a solid in a liquid and evaporation. Over the next couple of weeks we will be exploring different materials and how they absorb water and materials that are waterproof.
Health
With the start of our Tutti Fruitti Tuesdays, where we are having a contest to see which class has the most students that bring in a fresh fruit or vegetable for snack, we will be exploring Canada's Food Guide and healthy eating habits.
I hope everyone has a great week ahead (Minus the 1 hour of lost sleep).
Mr. Aasen
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