Ms. Romanko's Blog

Hello Families, We have been learning about shapes! A shape hunt both inside and outside, had the students searching high and low for different real world representations of 2D and 3D shapes. We learned the names for many 2D shapes and 3D objects as well as how many faces, edges and vertices each shape has. This helped each student to create 'Who Am I?' for a chosen shape. Each student covered the drawing of their chosen shape with a sticky note and wrote down 2-3 statements about their shape. They then shared them with the class, it was quite fun to hear the students try to guess what shapes matched the statements! In Science, we have continued to learn about Animal. This week we focused on Life Cycles and Adaptations. Show your child a photo of an animal and ask them what type of adaptations it has! We enjoyed a visit from The Honey Merchants. Did you know that there is only one queen bee in each hive? Ask you child to tell you fun facts about bees! With it being Mental Healt...

  Fish Creek Field Trip On Tuesday, June 20th we will be heading to Fish Creek Park near Bow Valley Ranche for a field trip with Ms. Midgley's and Ms. Greenhall's classes. We are looking for at least 5 volunteers to join us for this experience. Your responsibilities include supporting students during whole-group activities in the morning, supervising lunch, and leading small-group park exploration in the afternoon. If you have your CBE police clearance and are interested in volunteering on this day, please send me an email. I will do my best to take as many volunteers as I can and will give priority to those who have not had a chance to volunteer yet this year. 

 Hello Families, 30 x 30 Outdoor Challenge We continued to enjoy our time outside this week. Whether is was with our grade 3 buddies or on our own, we were able to get outside every day! We even cleaned up the perimeter of the field one morning. We will continue to be going outside everyday. We do ask you to put sunscreen or bug spray on your child before they come to school. If you are sending it for them to put on, please ensure they know how to do it themselves and that they know not to share with others. Thank you! Math Fractions have been a big part of our lessons these past two weeks and wow, did the students ever pick up on what a fraction was! Learning terms such as numerator, denominator, whole, part, partition, equal and unequal helped them complete their pizza fractions and name fractions with ease! Here are a few examples. Literacy We have been working on learning the rules of bossy 'r'! Each morning our Opening task has had us unscrambling letters to find a differe...

Hello Families, Math We have begun to learn about Fractions! Grade 1's will be learning about one-half as a part-whole relationship and the Grade 2's will be learning how to interpret part-whole relationships using unit fractions. It is quite amazing how fast they are picking up how to write and represent fractions. Ask your child where we see fractions in our world. Walking Field Trip On Tuesday, we went for our walking field trip. The students looked for patterns in nature. It was quite an adventure! Ask your child what their favourite part was! Buoyancy Challenge We have begun to learn about Boats and Buoyancy with an experiment around what items in our classroom can float or sink. Predictions were made and surprises were had!  A message about building materials will come home on the weekend! Artist in Residence We have had two more sessions with our Artist in Residence, Ms. Sharon. This week we learned how to use art pencils and special erasers to draw snowflakes. Using ski...

Hello Families, Here is a rather long blog to catch you up on many things that have been happening in room 13! Math We have finished up Subtraction and will be moving on to Fractions next week! Ask your child how to stack numbers for subtraction-which number goes on the top?  Literacy The students worked hard on creating their own ice cream flavours using alliteration. So much creativity but I can't say I would like to try too many of their creations! Gymnastics With the climber and tressels out, the students were able to experiment more with their movements and experience more risky play. With remembering our 'three in a tree' rule, the students climbed, balanced and had a blast!  Social Studies We learned about the Inuit (Iqaluit) this week. Books and videos were watched to see what the landscape looks like, what the lifestyle is like, what the natural resources are and what kind of transportation is used. Ask your child what fact they found the most interesting! It was a...

 Hi Families! Here are a few things we got up to this week.  Gymnastics began with learning how to use the mats for balances and animals movements.  Please see the previous blog post for how to be ready for gymnastics in the coming weeks! We learned how to draw seven different types of flowers this week and then we created our own bouquet of flowers. Water colour pencils were used to add colour.  We continued to work on subtraction in math. Next week we will work on learning how to solve word problems using subtraction! Upcoming Dates Every Monday - Card Club & Drama Club (for those who have signed up - 2 more Mondays of Drama Club) Friday, April 7th - Good Friday - No School Monday, April 10th - Non Instructional Day - No School Thursday, April 20th - Edo Fun Lunch Saturday, April 22nd - Earth Day Friday, May 5th - PD Day - No School  Monday, May 22nd - Victoria Day - No School Monday, May 29th - PD Day - No School  Friday, June 9th - PD Day - No Schoo...

We have begun gymnastics in our regularly scheduled gym classes.  The gymnastics unit will last three more weeks. Safety routines, cooperation and sportsmanship are taught and reviewed in each class.       This physical activity opportunity will help students acquire individual skills through a variety of developmentally appropriate movement activities.     It is important for students to come to school prepared to be actively engaged. The following guidelines are very helpful…     HEAD TO TOE - READY TO GO!!!       Head ....................... long hair pulled back     Ears/Throat/Wrist ............... jewellery off     Shirt.................................. one layer shirt     Waist ................................................tucked in     Pants.........................sporty pants or shorts, no belts or zippers     Ankles..........................pants rolled up if ...