Hello families!

Thank you for having a look at our class webpage/blog! It is my hope that a classroom blog will encourage a strong and positive community connection between school and home for our families and myself.  I feel this is especially important this year when parents cannot be present within the school. Hopefully, the photos that I will be posting will give you a sneak peek of the activities your child is involved in at school.

What have we been doing at school so far?

During our first full week, we had the opportunity to explore sunflowers. We learned about their parts, life cycles, measured them, and learned how to save the seeds to plant in the Spring.

In Math, we have been exploring patterns and number concepts. The Grade 2 students go to Math class with Mr. McKay, and his Grade 1 students join our Grade 1 students in our classroom.  Here are some patterns that the Gr. 1 students created:

I will be using a wonderful program called “Second Step” throughout the school year. This program teaches work habits, problem solving, emotional regulation and learning about compassion and empathy. We have already learned the 4 steps for attentive listening: eyes watching, ears listening, mouth quiet, and body still.

We had fun creating art with our names.

Above all, we have had so much fun playing in September! Through play, the students have connected and are developing friendships. Play will be a big focus in our classroom this year as so many of us have not had opportunities to play with others over the past months. I like to provide open ended play opportunities including a “making” table where students have access to lots of materials to “create”.  We will also be exploring the outdoors a lot this year.

Thank you very much for your incredible patience as we get this school year operating in a safe way! I am looking forward to officially meeting all of you during our online intake meetings this week.

Please remember that dismissal on Mondays is always at 2pm.

This week we will be having early dismissal on both Thursday and Friday at 1:50.

School will be closed on Monday October 12 for Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful week!

Hello families of Division 14!

This is a test blog entry.

Please email me to confirm if you received this message. You can simply reply to the email alert of this blog entry.

Looking forward to being able to communicate using this blog,

Take care

Jennifer

jennifer.capitanio@burnabyschools.ca

Learning at home for the week of June 22-25 (our last week) 

Special announcements:  Happy Birthday to the following friends: 

Alejandro – June 23 

 Isaac and Eden – June 25 

Amanda – July 18  

Hridaan – July 22 

Hazel – August 14 

Uk – August 16  

A separate email will be sent including the zoom links for the following class zoom sessions: 

• Monday 1:15 – 1:45 – Zoom Music with Ms. Gaspar 
• Wednesday 1:00 – 2:00 – Whole Class Zoom – To celebrate our last get-together of Grade One we are going to have a “beach party” themed meeting. We will be visiting the Monteray Bay Aquarium (featured in Finding Dory). Come prepared to share what your favourite sea creature is. 
• There are no small group sessions with Ms. Mah this week as Thursday is our last official day of school. 

Please have a look at your scheduled “Report Card” pick up time on Thursday June 25 posted on our blog.  

Also, a reminder for the “in class” learners that Monday will be our last day of in person instruction at school. There will not be any class for Div. 14 students on Tuesday June 23. 

Here are some activity suggestions to try this week. Families can choose how to best to fit these into your week.  Do one or do some!  

It’s hard to believe that this is our final “Sharing our Learning from Home” blog entry. Ms. Mah and I were just saying that we are especially emotional this week as we see all of the growth in your work. We are incredibly proud of every one of you as you have risen to the challenges of learning at home and have always done your best.

HRIDAAN

JAYDEN

Hopefully, you have all received an email from Ms. Aujla outlining the plans for next week.

• Monday -The students who have been attending school will attend on Monday, June 22 ONLY next week.
• Tuesday – There will not be school for students attending Div. 14. You may continue with online lessons from home.
• Wednesday – We will have a “beach party” themed zoom meeting on Wednesday to celebrate our last time together from 1:00 to 2:00.
• Thursday – Each student has been assigned a time to come to school to pick up their report card, say goodbye, and pose for a socially distanced photo. Please see schedule below. If the assigned time does not work for you, we can arrange an alternate time. This is the last official day of school. Have a wonderful summer!

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO DROP OFF YOUR REPORT CARD ENVELOPE FROM LAST TERM, PLEASE DO SO IN THE POUCH ON OUR OUTSIDE DOOR BEFORE NEXT TUESDAY.

Report Card Pick up / Good bye Schedule

Thursday June 25, 2020 

Learning at home for the week of June 15 – 19 

Special announcements: Happy Father’s Day on Sunday! Check out the link in “Get Creative” to make something special. 

In case you missed it last week, here is the link for a “Memory Book”. 

A separate email will be sent including the zoom links for the following class zoom sessions: 

• Monday 1:15 – 1:45 – Zoom Music with Ms. Gaspar 
• Wednesday 1:00 – 2:00 – Whole Class Zoom – This week is “Animal week”. You are invited to wear a costume (maybe your Halloween costume or dress up like an animal)! We will be visiting the San Diego Zoo to check out the live-camera feeds. If you want to share an animal joke that would be GRRREAT (have it prepared and ready to read)! 
• Thursday/Friday – small group sessions with Ms. Mah 

 The highlighted activities will be covered in class.

Here are some activity suggestions to try this week. Families can choose how to best to fit these into your week.  Do one or do some!  

Graphing, goal setting, giraffes, Happy posters, inventions, and crazy hair! We love the way you continue to do your best work and take pride in your assignments!

Reminders: 1)If you have outstanding library books, you would have received an email from me. Please return library books as soon as you can. 2) Please remember to complete the “Self-Assessment of Core Competencies” survey by next Friday.

DANIEL

ERIC

Learning at home for the week of June 8 – 12 

Special announcements:  Happy Birthday to Jayden on June 12! 

BONUS PROJECT: If your child would like to work on a “Memory Book” for this school year, I have attached a link here. If you do not have access to a printer, your child could easily create the pages with the same titles.  

Memory Book Link

I have 2 booklets (Place Value and outdoor learning activities) to provide to families who are continuing with home learning (the same ones that were offered last week). If you would like these booklets (not required), I can leave them outside our classroom door on Monday or Tuesday for you to pick up. 

If you have any library books, RED folder books, or other books from school, please drop them off in a bin that I will leave outside our classroom door between the hours of 8:30 and 3:30 on Mondays and Tuesdays. 

A separate email will be sent including the zoom links for the following class zoom sessions: 

• Monday 1:15 – 1:45 – Zoom Music with Ms. Gaspar 
• Wednesday 1:00 – 2:00 – Whole Class Zoom – This week is “crazy hair day”. You are invited to attend with some crazy ponytails, spiky hair, or wearing a coloured wig! We will be watching a science lesson from “Telus World of Science” together. 
• Thursday/Friday – small group sessions with Ms. Mah 

Here are some activity suggestions to try this week. Families can choose how to best to fit these into your week.  The highlighted lessons will be covered in class. Do one or do some!  

Thank you for being flexible as our scheduling changed once again this week! It was wonderful to see so many students participate in our class zoom session on Wednesday. Looking forward to seeing you again this Wednesday with CRAZY HAIR while we watch a Science lesson from Science World.

Whether you participated at home or at school, the learning continues to happen and we are amazed at the results!

If you are able to drop off your hearts in the pouch on our outside classroom door, I will put them all in our classroom window. Mr. Watts has collected all the hearts from today and placed them inside for safe keeping. The more hearts the better!

Here are some photos from our learning this week:

Hridaan