Div. 8 Vancouver Art Gallery Field Trip    Wednesday November 7^th, 2018

Please have your child at the school at 8:15 (Bring your compass card if you have one that is loaded with at least $5 for the return trip)

We plan to get the bus on Gilmore up to Hastings then transfer to the 95 to Burrard Station. We will then walk to the Art Gallery.

Please send a bag lunch, snack and water bottle. Those on the hot lunch program will be provided with a bag lunch.

Please dress for the weather.  Coats, umbrellas, lunches and back packs will be safely stowed away while we tour the art gallery and participate in hands on activities.

• Cash and electronics will not be the responsibility of the teacher or parent volunteers.
• Please call the office by 8:10 if your child is sick and won’t be coming

Thanks

Mrs. Cramb/ Mrs. Wong Reinhardt

We have a fun week in store for us!  Amidst our regularly scheduled activities, we have PUMPKINS arriving on Wednesday to make our very own Kitchener Pumpkin Patch!Please remember to send your child with a Toonie to help us cover the costs.  We will then be doing some very fun pumpkin math, and story writing as well as continuing with our inquiry questions about pumpkins.  On Friday, we hope to carve the pumpkins and experience first hand the insides and hopefully answer some of our questions. Parents and other adult family members are encouraged to help us out Friday afternoon for the carving fun. We have the tools, we just need the helpers 🙂

As well, we are preparing for our field trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery (Wednesday Nov. 7).  We are exploring the works of Robert Davidson, BC Binnings, and Emily Carr, to name a few. These artists all communicated what they saw through different art media and perspectives. The notice has gone home and is due back this Friday.  

When reading with your child, ask them to tell you more about what they are thinking, and what it reminds them of, to help prompt them to make connections between the text and what they already know.  This will help them develop their reading comprehension skills. 

A notice is going home today to let you know more about our learning this term. Thanks, and always feel free to email us or comment below on our blog if you have any thoughts or questions.  Soon we hope to add students as guest bloggers. 

We have had a busy week! 

We have worked on “exploding” sentences to add more detail, increasing patterns in math and asking good inquiry  questions in science. We have also met our new kindergarten buddies, and enjoyed the lovely fall weather outside. Many of us have collected  leaves and other interesting things found on the ground in the fall. 

We have been having fun learning to care for our new fish ” Blueberry”. Everyone will have a turn to feed him. We will be looking for someone to take him home during the winter break.

This weekend’s message is to help your child read for 15 mins every day and take time to play outside and explore nature. We are thoroughly enjoying learning with your children. 

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September 2018

We have had a terrific start to our year.  We have a class that has both grade 2’s and grade 3’s.  We also have two teachers.  Mrs. Wong Reindhardt on Mondays and Tuesdays and me (Mrs. Cramb) on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.  

We have spent the first couple of weeks getting to know each other and our classroom.  We have learned lots of interesting things about our students.  They are all very friendly, helpful and love to learn. This week we started an art project in the style of Todd Parr. We are  learning that its Ok to be different!

We have also been learning how to be great scientists, focusing on the power of observation and recording of what we see. We were even able to borrow loupes  from the school district’s library to look at things up close!  The loupe magnifies and makes it easier to see the tiny details in what you are looking at.  Jewellers often use these to look at gems. 

Stay tuned for more updates about what is going on in our class. Feel free to post a comment and I will try to answer it in a timely manner.  

                                      LIBRARY book return day is Friday!                          Don’t forget to enjoy your books and bring them back so you can        get new ones every Friday.

Do you want to learn how to make a bristle bot and make beautiful interesting art?  Watch this video to get you started. 

Hi folks,

LOTS of things are happening here.  We have recently started to learn about our cultural beliefs about bears and will begin to look more closely at the similarities and differences between the body systems of bears and humans.  We recently watched a video called” Bear Witness: A Film by BC’s Coastal First Nations” about Trophy hunting and a community’s efforts to stop useless waste of bears.  If you want to see it again, click here.  Caution!  Make sure you put your scientist hat on first…there are some gruesome parts in this video which may make some people feel queasy or sick or uncomfortable both with what they see, and how they feel about it. 

Today we are going to begin to learn how to code or if you already know some coding skills, you can develop your knowledge. My hope is that you will become coding mentors for the rest of our school and help your peers (especially the little ones), learn how to code.  To begin, go to  Code.Org 

When you get to this site, click on “Try it”, then choose one of the themes that interests you. You will notice, the themes also have a grade level associated with it to help guide your choice. 

When you post a comment today, please tell people the steps to coding that will help others use this site.  Please write it as if you are writing to a teacher or primary student and helping them learn how to code. 

We are learning about the circulatory system.  Billy Nye has a nice video to watch learn some interesting facts. You may watch the video that we saw in class here. 

Hi everyone,

There are many ways you can show what you know, or what you have learned.  One way is to share using words, another way is to share using pictures or movies (lots of fun).  Remember to always be aware that what you post is public and can be seen by anyone.  If you think you would be proud to have your grandmother see what you have written then it is likely fine.  However, if you would be embarrassed if she saw it, or if it was published on the front page of our local newspaper then you should not post it.  Thank you for practising good posting habits when you were learning about Emily Carr. Now other people who read our site can also learn about her.  I think she was a pretty amazing Canadian woman. 

Your next challenge will be to use comic life.  You will need to take a photo (using the Ipad) of something you are learning about, insert it into comic life, and add text in a speech bubble. After you have finished, share it with me on google docs. You can choose what you wish to take a photo of  but it must demonstrate something you have been learning about.  Happy tech learning time. 

The leaves are falling! The brilliant reds and yellows that contrast sharply with the many shades of green in the trees around her are all falling to the ground!  This is how I know fall has really arrived.   

Many artists like to draw or paint trees.  Click here to see  samples of Emily Carr’s work on line.  She is a very famous Canadian who painted trees in the wild.  Some of her original work is currently on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery. There are a number of websites that you can use to learn about who she was and what made her famous.  Today we are learning a little bit about how to research facts online.  Please click on “Leave a comment” and tell me one fact you find interesting about her.  Remember to always start with a capital letter and end a sentence with a period or some form of punctuation.  Read your classmates comments as well when they are posted to see if you can learn more interesting facts about her.  Remember to check the validity of your source before you post it. 

Hello Windsor Community!

What a wonderful community I have the pleasure of joining!  You have some very special traditions and wonderful “ways of being” here at Windsor. I’m loving getting to know each of you and learning about all the things that happen here.  The biggest event (so far), occurred last week when I found I was cooking turkey for all the members of the Annex!  WOW is all I can say.  It is something a person needs to experience in order to understand how amazing it was. Thank you to all of our potato peelers, cranberry sauce makers and stuffing mixers and everyone who helped make this an amazing and scrumptious meal for everyone! We are especially grateful to all our retired community members who came back to help us out!

On another note, to my students.  Welcome to this blog.  I hope that it can become a platform for communicating our ideas and understandings, as well as a launch site for your e-portfolios and google docs. Please take time to review blogging guidelines and always practice safe, caring and respectful language when using these tools.  

Just to test it out, please tell me what makes the Windsor community special for you by clicking on the reply button and typing your response.