🍃🍃Time to Explore During Week Four 🍃🍃

Hello my friends!

Although I wish we could spend time together in person, I had another lovely week spending time with you in our online classroom! I have enjoyed reading through your Problem/Solution responses and seeing all the great math you completed. I am also really happy with how well our first ever online personality bag went! Addison did a wonderful job sharing his favourite things and the class did a great job asking questions and commenting. Below are some great examples of work submitted this week!

Weekly Spelling Sentences:

Sophia: 
My eagle flys away and he is red and blue he also does funny tricks he is a good eagle, he sometimes help me.

Gabby:
- I like to play with cars & blocks in class.
-Will you please tell me a story before I go to sleep.
-A garden is a place where rain helps flowers grow.

How many spelling words can you include in one sentence? 

Math - Counting Collections 

                 

Writing - Problem/ Solution 

You all continue to impress me during this time of online learning. I am so impressed with how hard you are all working and the amazing work you are creating. Please feel free to check out the optional work over the weekend for Earth Day! You can find it on our Google Classroom. Here is some work that has already been complete: 

       

Also, here is the link to the staff video from the teachers at Capitol Hill School! 

(If you have troubles with this link, the video is uploaded onto the "Stream" part of our Google Classroom. The file is too large for our Blog post).

Capitol Hill Staff Thankful Video

Have a lovely weekend!! 

From, 

Miss Caughey 🌳

Happy Earth Day!

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all having a great Earth Day and are taking some time to appreciate our lovely world! Please see the Google Classroom for three fun optional tasks you can take part in to celebrate Earth Day this week. As well, take some time to think about all of the things you are grateful for that come from the earth! 


One thing that I am very grateful for is all of the wonderful indoor and outdoor plants. Not only do some of them provide us with food, but I think they are so beautiful to look at and they help me feel calm and relaxed. I wanted to share with you how much the cucumber plants that we planted have grown in the past month!




One thing we often forget about plants is that they are living things! I was reminded of this when I noticed our cucumber plant was starting to become active! It had reached out and grabbed onto the cord on my blinds (I think to support itself and to stretch closer to the sunshine). 




After I noticed this, I decided to try and take a time lapse (a video taken over a long period of time and sped up when you watch it) of our cucumber plant. After two hours, this is how much our cucumber plant moved all by itself. 

I hope this inspires you to care for the plants around you and treat our natural world with respect. Perhaps you can even work with your family to care for your own plants, in your house or in your backyard! There are so many other things you can do to help our earth. Once again, please look to the extra activities posted on the blog to see the different things you can do. Lets do our part to make everyday earth day! 


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Happy Earth Day Everyone! 










From, 
Miss. Caughey 🌎

A Wonderful Week

Hello everyone,

Thank you for all of your hard work this week! You all did such a wonderful job completing your learning tasks. I really enjoyed reading about your characters and your math story. It was great to see that some of you are also completing the optional work!

Here are some great pieces of work submitted this week: 

Character Writing:




Grade 1





Grade 2


Math - One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab:





Grade 1






Grade 2 



Here is an additional piece of writing by Hannah, a Grade 2 author, that I would like to share with the class. In her extra time, she has been working very hard to create this very creative short story! 

Easter Art

Thank you for sharing your Easter art! Here are some lovely pieces of work from some students in our class.



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Sophia                                                            Gabby






Jac                                                                   Alex





Hannah

Our First Week Online!

Hello everyone,

It has been great to meet online and see and hear all of you! You have all done a great job completing and submitting your work online. I know this has been a huge change for us so you all deserve a pat on the back for your hard work and perseverance during this time! 


Here is some work that I could see a lot of effort went into this week! 

Reading Response:


Drawing






Writing




Character Writing:





Grade 1







Grade 2




Math - 12 Ways to Get to 11





Grade 1





Grade 2




I have attached a link to a video from CBC Kids news. This is a video of our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, and our Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, answering children's questions across Canada about or related to COVID-19.

CBC Kids News



From, 
Miss. Caughey 

Week 1 Optional Learning Tasks

Hello families,

As stated in the previous messenger, I will be posting optional work on our Blog weekly! With Easter weekend approaching, here are a couple of seasonal activities. 


Peeps are a sweet delicious treat that people of all ages love to eat. Have you ever wondered how these cute little chicks are made? Watch the video below to find out. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbQ7YT2yfg

Literacy (listening, reading, writing)
1.) a.) Watch the Video about how Peeps are made
      b.) Write five to ten Did You Know ...? facts you learned from watching the video. 
           For example:
           Did you know that Peeps come in many different flavours like lemon lime, sour cherry and there are even mystery flavours?

Numeracy (addition)
2.) Choose one of the photos below and calculate how many eggs or Peeps are in the picture. Don't forget to communicate your mathematical thinking on paper. In other words show the strategies you used (drawing a picture, making groups of 10, tally marks, skip counting by 2s, 5s or 10s) to figure out the total number. Do not just write the number sentence with the answer.



Option 1.




Option 2.




Body Break
3.) Just Dance Kids - The Chicken Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip013AKz1Ko

Art
Here is an adorable Art Hub drawing that you can complete. You are more than welcome to share your finished art work and I can post it on our Blog. Enjoy! 


How to Draw an Easter Pug Bunny


I hope you all have a hoppy long weekend! 🐰🐰🐰

From,
Miss. Caughey

No Online School Friday or Monday

Hello everyone,

Just a reminder that Friday is Good Friday (no school) and Monday is a PD day. Our Weekly Schedule we still be available to view on Sunday, however, students are not expected to complete any work on these two days. 

Have a great long weekend! :)

From, Miss. Caughey

Digital Citizenship

Hello everyone,

As we continue to dive into our online learning, I would like to take a moment to share some information about everyones digital citizenship. Please remember to be cautious as you go online for your daily learning. Listen to your gut, head and heart as you proceed to access new information online, talk with your classmates and post your own work. 




From, 
Miss. Caughey

Spring Break

Hello everyone,

After talking with everyone and hearing how hard you have been working over the past few weeks on your own learning projects, I thought it would be wonderful for the class to see videos and pictures of what that looked like! 


Simon shared, "I made 1.5 Star Wars books." 

Alex shared, "My dad and I built a paper volcano. Then after we were done building it, I exploded it with baking soda and vingear, but the explosion was small."

Finley created a video called Duck Pond. He presented about a walk he went on with his mom and used lots of juicy words and similes to describe what he saw! Please click the link below to watch his video presentation. 

Duck Pond





Please feel free to continue sending pictures or videos of your work so we can continue to share our learning! :)

From, 
Miss. Caughey 🎒😸