Thursday December 19, 2013
Today was a fun day of learning with our stuffed animals.  We also had an opportunity to watch our favourite choice of movies. We had a choice of : Monster University (learning about friendship), Planes (learning about courage, motivation and friendship) and Christmas Cartoons (learning about being excited, sharing and caring). 

Ask me what I leanrned from the story of the movie and make a connection.

                                    Our movie graph

What happens if we count till 10..... + 2  and how can we translate 12

Read everyday and go over the blogs to review our learning!

I will see you on January 6, 2014

Wishing you and your family a safe and relaxing Winter break.

Reminder for Thursday (Tomorrow) December 19^th:

-PJ Day

-You can wear appropriate pyjamas to school (clean and covered PJ’s please)

-You MUST wear snow pants if you wear PJ’s (or pants to put over top for outdoors)

                                                                         

You can bring a small stuffed animal 

-Pizza lunch Tomorrow–everyone gets a free pizza, juice and a bag of chips and you can stay at school for lunch             

                   Ask me about symmetrical Patterns

              

               

            

             Ask me which patterns are not symmetrical and why?

                               Ask me about vowels

                          a     e     i    o     u

              Ask me how many vowels do I have in my name?

January Upcoming Events

- Literacy Sharing Event - January 16th 2014

   We will have guests at our school reading with our younger students and donating 

   books

-Swimming

  We will be having swimming lessons at the Village Square Leisure Center 

  January 20th -24th, 2014

-Report Cards

  You will receive a written report card on January 30th, 2014
-Skating

Join your neighbours for some SKATING and hot chocolate!

When: Saturday, January 4th between 1:30pm and 3:30pm

Where: The skating rink in Vista Heights just North of Valley View Road

Who: Anyone who likes to skate, or who likes hot chocolate, marshmallows and

visiting with neighbours.

For more information, please call the Crossroads

Community Association at (403) 277‐6201

Tuesday December 17, 2013

An anonymous lady generously donated a Gingerbread House to Vista Heights

We have to answer the question of the day appropriately to be the winner of the draw! 

Question for today: What does compromise mean?

         

Gr. 1 Room 8 are working hard to answer the question

Today we read the book, " Three Pigs, One Wolf, And Seven Magic Shapes"

            

Ask me about the story and what were the shapes doing in this book

We also read the book, "Shapes"

                    

We looked for shapes in nature

Ask me about these shapes

Reminder for Thursday, December 19^th:

-PJ Day

-You can wear appropriate pyjamas to school (clean and covered PJ’s please)

-You MUST wear snow pants if you wear PJ’s (or pants to put over top for outdoors)

                                                                         

You can bring a small stuffed animal 

-Pizza lunch –everyone gets a free pizza, juice and a bag of chips and you can stay                    at school for lunch             

Monday December 16, 2013

Thank you Mrs. Turk and our buddies Gr. 3/4  for working with us  and assisting us  complete are hibernation comic life stories.     

                              

Thursday, December 19^th:

-PJ Day

-You can wear appropriate pyjamas to school (clean and covered PJ’s please)

-You MUST wear snow pants if you wear PJ’s (or pants to put over top for outdoors)

-You can bring a stuffie (not too big)

-Pizza lunch –everyone gets a free pizza, juice and a bag of chips and you can stay at school for lunch 

                                

               

Quest Theatre
We're very excited to share our story with you TOMORROW! We have been working super hard with our script about " Friendliness" and spent the day perfecting our performance. Here is a sneak peak of what you can look forward to!

Here is some information that you will need to know for the Friday Evening Performance

- Please bring your tickets as we will be collecting them at the door

- Doors will open at 6:10pm for the evening performance 

- Students will gather in their classrooms and wait for their performance time

- The performance will take approximately 45 minutes (starting at 6:30pm)

- All students can be picked up from their individual classrooms after the presentation is complete, approximately at 7.15 pm

**If you have any further questions, please feel free to email me! (almalik@cbe.ab.ca)

If convenient please have your child in one of the following colours based on their character(for both performances):

wild cats: black or gray

mighty ducks: yellow, white or brown

All students will be wearing their indoor shoes and can wear any colour of pants/leggings.

Thanks,

Mrs. Malik

Quest Theatre Performance

Quest Theatre!Artists from Quest Theatre have been working with our staff and students to create a story about specific virtues this week. Our virtue is "Friendliness." There will be an opportunity for our students to share their work with their parents/guardians on Friday, December 13th at 1:30pm and 6:30pm. Please check the yellow notice which was sent home as it outlines how to receive tickets for the performance. 

  PLEASE RETURN THE FORMS EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING. Thank you!

 Come and be an audience for our performance on Friday at 1.30 pm and 6.30pm.  Thank you:)


Ask me what words can we use instead of said to    
    make our writing interesting and fun to read

                    said
talk        speak    told      tell    screamed  called
     shouted     whispered   yelled  say

Ask me how much fun I had learning my prepositions

What is Tanner doing?

                                        He is going over the bridge

Where is Omaira? 
                                  She is under the bridge.

What is Huda doing?
                           She is going through the hula hoop.

 Where is Adan standing?
               Adan is standing between Jared and Avery.
                    

 Where is Alex standing?
                         Alex is standing beside Huda.



Where is Omaira 
                                                            standing?
She is standing inside the hula hoop.

Quest Theatre Performance

Quest Theatre!Artists from Quest Theatre have been working with our staff and students to create a story about specific virtues this week. Our virtue is "Friendliness." There will be an opportunity for our students to share their work with their parents/guardians on Friday, December 13th at 1:30pm and 6:30pm. Please check the yellow notice which was sent home as it outlines how to receive tickets for the performance. PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11th (tomorrow).  PLEASE RETURN EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING. Thank you!

 Look at us practice very hard for the performance day. Please come and see us. Thank you:)

          


Today we read the book,

Ask me about my favourite  part

Whats is the chikadee          saying......?

How many strangers were there?

Ask me about the beginning, middle and end of the story?

What was the problem in the story?

How did the problem get solved?

Ask me about these shapes

hexagon                 rhombus

Octagon                         Sphere

rectangle

Ask me about my shapes