Wishing all students and families a safe and restful holiday break. Classes resume January 8, 2018. Please remember to bring indoor shoes when school begins.
Students received swim forms today inside their report card. Please sign and return them in January. We are looking for parent volunteers. Please contact me if you're available by email.
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Library: Today there was an event in the library during our scheduled time. We will go tomorrow morning instead before recess. Please bring library books for exchange. Students will receive a "library bag" from me that they can use to carry their books each week.
Today was a special day! Grade 4's from Westgate came to our classroom. They read to us and shared their creatures and stories they made at school. Here are a few pictures from our morning. Tomorrow students from Westgate will come and read books in Spanish to our class during the morning. They will also be sharing a dialogue they created and will present it to our students. We are looking forward to building community connections and hearing other students read and speak Spanish to us!
A reminder that Thursday will be the last day of school. Students will bring home their indoor shoes to check for size and wear and tear. Please bring indoor shoes on January 8, 2018 when classes resume. On the last day, students will receive their report card and swimming forms. Please complete swimming forms and return them after the break. We will also do a little celebration of learning on the last day with some special winter activities. It will be a pajama day. Students are invited to wear their pajamas (please ensure they are appropriate for school). If parents would like to provide a healthy snack, please email me. In Science, we did two experiments. Srta. Sandra gave us a bag with different shapes that had different textures. We used our sense of touch to feel shapes with different angles, ridges, roughness, smoothness, and holes and used our words to describe what we felt without looking. Next we used our sense of sight to match it to a picture card. In our second experiment, we used celery and our 5 senses to write words to describe it. For example: hear: crunchy, breaking. touch: smooth, bumpy, wet taste: water, juicy, soapy see: stringy, green, white smell: fresh, strong, In Social Studies we talked about the kinds of groups we belong. For example, Family, school, and community. We made a mind map with our ideas of how we belong in each group.
In Math, we continued our work on solving math problems in Spanish. We are learning to read the problem in Spanish and find important information in the question by: circling the numbers, underlining the question, and placing squares around important information that can help us understand the problem better. A message from the Principal, Mr. Suarez:
Dear Parents/Guardians, It has been an incredible 2017 year at Rosscarrock School! Our students, staff and parent community have dedicated great time and effort into teaching and learning this year. We have seen great growth in students in many socio-emotional and academic areas, and this should be reflected in student Report Cards going home on Thursday. We would like to thank you for volunteering and for your various contributions and supports towards Rosscarrock School. We would not be the great little school that we are without our dedicated families. On behalf of Rosscarrock staff, we wish you a Merry Christmas/Happy Winter break and a Happy New Year! May all of you enjoy the holidays with friends and family and come back well rested. We will see students back on Monday, January 8, 2018! Last 2017- School Update: Tuesday, December 19: Year-end assembly/Caroling in the gym at 9:00 AM. Wednesday, December 20: Grade 5 and 6 to the Bow Cliff Senior Home for Caroling and Handbells from 12:00 to 2:00 PM Thursday, December 21: Report Cards go home. Please keep the envelope in a safe place and return it back on the first day of school. Pijama Day!!!!!! We ask that students take their water bottles home to washJ Friday, December 22: Non-instructional Day (No School). All remaining Lost and Found items will be donated to charity. We start fresh in January. We wish to thank our School Council for giving $500 for a staff, in school lunch on our last day. What a gift, thank you!!! Yesterday we celebrated student learning through our Winter concert. Students were excited this morning to share all the positive feedback about it.
Today in Math, we learned strategies for solving word problems. First we read the problem in Spanish. We then used different colors to highlight and find important information like: 1) Numbers 2) Important words like " how many in all?" 3) Important Spanish vocabulary Next, we drew pictures to show we understood the Spanish vocabulary and represented the problem in pictures. We solved the problem by writing a math equations:_+_=_ and finally, we wrote a sentence answering the mathematical question. A gentle reminder that our winter concert is tomorrow. We will have a dress rehearsal at 9 am for the school. It would be great to have students dressed in their festive outfits for the 9 am performance as well as the evening one. Please arrive at 6pm. Parents will go to the gym and students will go to their classroom to get ready. Students will need to arrive no later than 6:10 pm to the classroom.
Raz Kids I have added the link to Raz Kids under the English tab. Today students received a Raz Kids letter and log in information. They can practice reading in both Spanish and English at home in addition to their home reading. Home reading books will be sent back home later this week. Today we reviewed shapes and colors. We made our own monster drawing using shapes, stripes and lines. Our monsters needed to have all the parts of the body. When we finished our designs. We practiced writing about our monsters in Spanish. We wrote using starter sentences: Mi monstruo es_______ and Mi monstruo tiene______.
For example: Mi monstruo tiene cinco ojos. Mi monstruo es grande. Mi monstruo tiene una boca roja. Mi monstruo tiene manos verdes. Once we are finished, we will use recycling materials to create our monster. Please send recycle materials like egg cartons, cereal boxes, snack boxes, toilet paper rolls, plastic containers to school so we can use them to build our monsters. Winter Concert Updated time and information:
A reminder that our Winter Concert will be on Wednesday, December 14, 2017. Parents pease arrive at 6:00 pm no later than 6:10 pm to the gym. Students will go to their classrooms and will be supervised by teachers until will their performance time. Parents are asked to remain in the gym. When the performance is finished, students will get their belongings and go home. At 9:00 am on Wednesday we will have our dress rehearsal for the school. There will be some chairs for parents who are unable to attend the evening concert. Today Srta. Sandra gave us the most curious question: Which is scarier, a spider or a bee?
First Srta. Sandra had us think about what the word scary meant and what made something scary. We then took a few minutes to make our own opinion about which we thought was scarier. Next with a classmate we took turns giving our opinion. We then switched partners several times, as we heard other opinions we could think of more ideas too. The room was buzzing with opinions!!! It was fantastic!! Next we made a chart, all opinions were welcome. After we shared, we wrote about our opinion. Here were a few of our thoughts: Bee: -stinger -you can get bumps - bees kill spiders -crawl on you -stinger is as sharp as a knife -stingers stay in you until you pull them out -it goes to your food when you eat outside -you can get swollen -it can shock and hurt you (powerful stinger) -when frightened they attack -when they sting you the die Spider: - poisionous -bite (again and again) -big -spiders kill bees -lots of eyes ( 6 eyes, 100 eyes) -they have fangs -arms that wrap their prey -when frightened they attack - eyes on their legs |
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