Communicable diseases

We spoke a lot this week about ways to stay healthy and prevent the spread of communicable diseases. Be sure to talk with your child about all the things we can do to stay healthy, and what to do when we aren't feeling well. 

Here is the explosion of 'friendly germs' reminding us to be healthy. 

It's wonderful to be back at school! I missed the kids very much and often wondered what they were up to when I was away!

Now that I'm back, I'm looking forward to continuing our daily 5 literacy, and getting a change to read with small groups more often. We are also continuing our space unit, and will soon be delving into more in-depth learning about each planet.

I wanted to share with you this blog post that I found that is about a very cool app that lets students build structures. If you have an 'iDevice' this could be a great way to keep learning about structures! http://digitaldivideandconquer.blogspot.ca/2013/11/cargo-bridge-app-more-engineering.html

You are invited to come visit out class tomorrow between 9 and 915 to come see the structures the kids have made. Nothing big, just a quick walk-through! 

Also, a reminder that the scholastic forms are due on Monday the 18th so that we can be sure we will get the books before we go on holidays!

Just for fun

I wanted to share this with you all because #1 it's so much fun, and #2 I love the bit at the end about why they do 'dinovember'. Enjoy!

https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/6f4cb1886d41

Note home November 12th 2013

Dear div 1 families,                                                            Nov 12 2013

What a busy month October was! I can’t believe how quickly it flew by!

I have been writing a bit about what we have been doing in class on the class blog. Don’t forget to check it out http://mmejessicachapelski.blogspot.ca/

Here are a few notes about the next few weeks:

We will be starting a literacy program called ‘les 5 au quotidien’, or the daily 5. For this, we will have a listening center. I am asking that each child brings a set of headphones for use in class for health reasons (I prefer not to spread lice through the class). You can get decent headphones for relatively cheap from dollar stores, or even London Drugs or Shoppers. The kind that go over the head is best, so that we don’t have them falling out all the time. As always, if this is not financially feasible, please see Mme Alain in the office and we would be able to help out. Please send these headphones to school in a ziplock bag labeled with your child’s name. Merci!

There was a bit of a hiccup with the progress reports. I will be sending these home the week I am back. Thank you for your understanding. Also, please make sure to send the goal setting sheets back to school so I can compile these.

Also, I wanted to let you know that I will be gone for school next week for personal reasons. I will be gone from Monday November 18^th and return Tuesday November 26^th. Please don’t worry! I am fine, and I will definitely be coming back to school! My TOC will continue to check agendas for notices and notes so please continue to communicate in this way. Also, make sure to stop by and introduce yourself, and help our guest teacher to feel welcome at this wonderful school!

Merci!

Mme Jessica

Remembrance Day

What a busy week we have had! Lots of activities related to Remembrance Day.

One of my favourite parts was a discussion we had about what peace is. Students came up with AMAZING ideas of how to create peach in our community. I will make sure to post a picture on Tuesday! 

Thank you everyone for coming in for conferences the past two days. It was great to see you all, and hear about the kids' goals! I'm looking forward to working on these all together. 

This weekend's homework is to finish and re-write their spooky stories for Monday. Don't worry about everything being perfect. We will be editing these on Monday all together. Part of the homework is also to underline words that the student thinks aren't quite correct.
The students did a wonderful brainstorm about what we would see/hear/feel in a haunted house. I have attached a picture for inspiration with writing. 

I've also attached a few pictures of what we have been up to the past few days. Please enjoy! 

Finally, we will be doing a haunted house with our gr 1 buddy class. We are looking for parent volunteers to come in the afternoon on Oct 30^th to help us and our grade 1 buddies turn our class into a haunted house.  We are also looking for parent volunteers to help supervise our haunted house in the morning on Oct 31^st and to supervise the activities in the afternoon.  Please send me a note in your child’s agenda or an email mme.jessica.chapelski@gmail.com if you are able to help us on either the 30^th in the afternoon or the 31^st in the morning and/or afternoon.  If your child has any decorations homemade or otherwise (snakes, spiders, pumpkins, etc) that they would like to bring to add to our haunted house please make sure they are labelled with his/her name and send them on the afternoon of the 30^th.   Children are invited to come to school dressed in their costumes on October 31^st! 

Just incase you don't have this werk's dictée words, here they are 

Today we started writing our first letters to our new pen pals! How exciting! We have no idea who they are, or anything about them, so needless to say, our letters were full of questions! 

Students wrote their dictée pre test today, and if they had their dictée book, they brought it home. If your child forgot their book at home, please help them to remember it for tomorrow!

A big merci to everyone who gave us boxes, tubes, etc to help build our houses. If you still have things hanging around home that you could donate, we could still use them! 

Oops! There were notes to go home about the bake sale this week. It is div 1's turn this Friday. Reminders will go home tomorrow! 

Thanksgiving

Here are some pictures of what we have done for thanksgiving. Needless to say, I was exceptionally impressed with all the things they came up with in their brainstorm of what they are thankful for. 

There are also some pictures of the mindful drawing we did in class today. Be sure to ask about all the steps it took!