Lazer Tag Reading

Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be our first draw for Lazer Tag passes. Students who have read 10 books in the month of April and had their parents sign off on the given paper, will be entered into a draw to win 1 free game for 2 people.
We will start May with a new form! You can fill out as many forms as you want (each one with 10 different books)

Today we chose to use a character from our book as our Star Student! Charlotte was chosen and students will be writing about her all this week. We know lots of things about her. Ask your child something about Charlotte. We have 2 chapters left to read in our book and then we will watch one of the movies.

We are starting a new way of spelling, so we will take a quick break this week and refocus on it next week. Keep working on reading and spelling words at home. I love this time of year, because I really get to see kids take off in their learning. It's such a beautiful thing.

Tomorrow is Library Day - please return your book if you haven't already.

Thank you to the 5 Students who returned their Red Home Reading Logs and Books - you have been consistent with that all year. It's not too late for the other 17 kids. You can bring it in and exchange for new books and stay consistent the rest of the school year.

Reminders:
- return Hot Lunch forms by next Wednesday, May 2nd.
- Spring Photo Day is on May 2. For every student and stuff member that has their photo taken, LifeTouch will donate $2 to our school. Let's get all dolled up and get our picture taken :) "cheese" (no purchase necessary)
- Donate books to the parent council
- Return pink form about next school year

In both blogs this week I've forgotten to put in the spelling words....I'm lost without Ms. Yu ha ha :)
I've taken a look at your child's Spelling over the last several weeks and I feel that there is a change needed. Starting on Monday, we will redo words that we have previously gotten wrong. We will do this for the Month of May and once we've redone all those words I will begin to add in new words again.

Please practice with your child daily. They receive a list of their words at the beginning of each week and are supposed to be practicing each day.

Group A - bad, dad, had, mad, sad, pad, glad, we, see, they
Group B - have, give, love, from, live, friend, much, such, old, told
Group C - lady, ladies, surprise, surprises, toys, shoes, shy, cry, cried, study, studied, story, only, finally, family

Reminders:
- return Hot Lunch forms by next Wednesday, May 2nd.
- Spring Photo Day is on May 2. For every student and stuff member that has their photo taken, LifeTouch will donate $2 to our school. Let's get all dolled up and get our picture taken :) "cheese"
- Donate books to the parent council
- Return pink form about next school year

Fire Drill

Today we had a fire drill and it went less than desirable. Students were in the Music room with the Music teacher. As with our classroom the teacher is the last one out of the class to make sure everyone is out before shutting the door. Students from Room 4 did not follow safety protocol during this drill. Below are a list of issues that happened:

- ran down the hallway and out 4 different doors (3 of the doors were far away from the music room)
- only 1 student went out the correct door
- screaming and yelling
- running outside
- playing tag while names were being called
- talking and fooling around while names were being called

Students were spoken to by Mr. Wiens, the Music Teacher and practiced the route. Afterwards, I spoke with them and most were able to honestly tell me what mistakes they made. Some students still lied but then later told the truth.

Please speak with your child about the importance of fire safety and going out the closest door during a fire alarm.

We said Good-bye to Ms. Yu last Thursday. Only a few tears were shed. We have loved all of her hardwork and wish her all the best in her career as a teacher.

Your child may have worn a blue shirt home on Thursday. That was the Punctuality Award for March. If your child was not late at all in March they should've received a t-shirt. They are big enough for them to grow into over their years at school!

Today was a lovely day. We spent some of the morning reviewing expectations and the Pillars of Care. We will review all of our topics that we have done in the last 2 months and make sure we have an understanding of all our recent curriculum.

We were introduced to double-digit addition today. Ask your child about it. They should've brought home a couple sheets that we were working on. See if your child can explain it to you. We will continue to work on it over the next month.

Charlotte!

We found a spider this morning and have nicknamed her Charlotte because we are reading Charlotte's Web. It was cool to see the kids so excited, but at the end of the day Mrs. Nelson and Ms. Yu released her back into nature.

We have a Spelling Quiz tomorrow morning. Study study study!

Tomorrow afternoon we will have our Pillar of Care Assembly at 1:15pm

We will also say Good-bye to Ms. Yu tomorrow....send tissues ha ha :'-(

Today we did a fun Mystery Box activity where we had to ask questions and guess the hidden shape. Try it at home!

Only 1 more session of Coding Club for some of our Grade 2 students. Ask your child if they are in this club and if they are, ask them what they have been doing.

Students who received Perfect Punctuality for March will be receiving a Alberta Ballet Sharing Dance t-shirt tomorrow. We have put your child's name on the tag to help with lost items ;)

Ms. Yu's last week! Make sure you say Goodbye!

We have been doing so many fun things!

First of all I want to let you all know that it is Ms. Yu's final week here at Beddington Heights. We wish her all the best and have had such a great time with her here.

Secondly, Thursday night is our Math Showcase. We will have a variety of activities throughout the school and in our classroom. We hope you are able to make it. Please sign up through your MyCbeAccount like you would for Parent/Teacher Conferences. There are 3 time slots to choose from.

Our Spelling Words this week
Group A - cap, gap, map, tap, clap, sap, flap, snap, like, has
Group B - her, girl, turn, hurt, first, were, card, part, start, are
Group C - awful, called, falling, mall, small, straw, drawing, strongest, longer, song, along, bough, brought, rough, tough

We made awesome 3-D Shapes with marshmallows yesterday. Some may have snuck into our mouths. You will be able to see those on Thursday night. Today we made some Shape Animals and will do some writing around those tomorrow.

We are learning to stretch our sentences. Adding in who, what, where, when and why to stretch our sentences and give more details.

Yesterday we had our Teacher's Pet program come in and we learned so much more about boats and buoyancy! It was so awesome! We want to still do some activities at school with out boats but students should be bringing them home next week.

Today we finished up our Rabbit Paintings. We can't wait for you to see them on our Math Showcase night next Thursday, April 19th. Make sure to go into your MyCbeAccount and sign up for a time slot. There will be lots of fun math games to play.

Spelling Quiz tomorrow - please look back on the blog to study your words. funwithnelson.blogspot.ca

We've also been working on stretching our sentences. Ask your child what that means.