Grade 1/2 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
We are working out of the library while our classroom is being painted.
Yes, I know the date is wrong … I noticed it after I had taken the photos and gone home 🙄😂
With a bit of luck we will be returning to our classroom by Wednesday or Thursday next week. We will definitely be appreciating being back ‘home’ 😊
Students were given paint palettes with three colours of paint – red, blue, and yellow. The instructions were to paint any picture they wanted but they needed to show six colours – both primary and secondary colours. To be fair, they mostly made ‘intermediate’ colours as the colours they created were most likely not of equal amounts of primary colours. Most students managed to make secondary colours (orange, green, and violet). Some people discovered what happens when they mix too many colours – they get brown.
On Wednesday we had a lesson, and discussion, on what are the ‘elements’ (foundational parts) of art. These are noted above. Most are fairly obvious such as: colour (those found in the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet 🌈); line (curved, straight, or angular); shape; and form (3-D objects).
Texture is the way something feels, or the way it looks like it feels. Value is the lightness or darkness of a colour by either adding white (to make a tint) or black (to make a shade). A value is also black and white and all the gradients in between. Students learned that black, white, grey, and brown are not true colours.
We used a variety of ‘shading’ waxed crayons, and rubbing tiles or templates, to create these lovely pictures. You should be able to see all the elements of Art, in each picture, with the exception of ‘form’.
We are settling into our class now. Intake Interviews are happening this week. We have a ProD day on Friday. Our schedule is mostly set.
Next week we will get started on our routine activities: Jolly Phonics, Printing Books, Reading Groups, and Spelling / Daily Language (Grade Two’s).
Establishing a Routine
As we move into learning at home it will be important to set up a daily routine. I invite you to design a routine that will work best for your family. Your child’s day should be balanced between ‘academics’, exercise, nutrition breaks, hands on learning, and free time. If possible, get outside daily for both a change of scenery and for some fresh air. If there are other siblings in the house, or you are working from home, do the best you can! The amount of time you schedule for each learning activity will depend on your child and their ability to focus. As a rule, block in 15 to 30 minute periods.
Ideas to Consider:
Below is from the Ministry:
K-3 Suggested Learning Framework Overview:
Areas of Learning: SEL and Connection: 20 minutes / day
Literacy: 20 minutes / day
Numeracy: 20 minutes / day
Flexible Learning: Flexible Timeframe
How that looks for Division 6:
SEL and Connections are covered in our Small Group, and Whole Class, meetings each day.
For the Literacy area, your child should be using RAZ-Kids (for Reading) and their Journal (for Writing). I monitor the RAZ-Kids activity each Wednesday and can see how your child is doing. For Writing, I would appreciate if you could take a picture, and upload it to Teams, of their Journal once a week so I can see how they are doing.
For Numeracy, they have their booklets on Measurement as well as their Zorbits accounts. I will be monitoring these accounts, as well.
Our “Flexible Learning” is, for now, our weekly ADST projects. Other things may be added in as this situation continues.
I hope this gives you some helpful ideas!
Email me if you need support with anything.
Mrs. S. Temple
We spent time last week working on posters to introduce ourselves. Over the past few weeks students have been practising printing their names – especially in lowercase letters which is the normal way we do most of our writing. They also counted to see how many letters are in their names; thought about what is special about their names; and tried to make other words using only the letters in their names. These posters are on the bulletin boards outside of our classroom, in the hallway. Here are a few:
We now have our classes set and are looking forward to get going on Monday. Our K’s will have a gradual entry this upcoming week and will be with us full-time beginning on Monday, September 17th.
I am excited to have the ones and K’s all in class together for their learning and growing through shared experiences.
Wow, have we ever been busy!
We have finished our Christmas concert🎄🎶, had a fun (and snowy🌨❄️) field trip to Heritage Village Museum), and today created our gingerbread houses! In between we actually did other school work, as well😏
Here are some photos from today:
Tomorrow we will have our Pancake Breakfast thanks to the PAC! Between Recess and Lunch we will be doing our school-wide bingo. In the afternoon we will be enjoying a Christmas movie🎬
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas 🎄and a healthy, happy New Year🎉
P.S. I hope you all enjoy your clay Christmas presents 🎁
Our grade two students led small groups in studying about a particular invertebrate. This was a project planned and organized by our student teacher, Ms. Darcy Teal.
Their end result was a poster which had an answer sheet (about some key points) and a life cycle of their chosen animal.
This afternoon the groups presented their findings. The grade two in each group read the information they found out about: how their animal moves; how it catches its food; where it lives; how it protects itself; and other interesting facts they found. The grade one(s) described the animal’s life cycle. All students in each group answered questions from their classmates about their animal.
I was very impressed with how well all students presented their work. I have included pictures of their posters here, which are displayed on the bulletin boards outside our classroom. The grade twos have taken photos of their individual posters and will post them next week on their ePortfolios. They will also help the grade ones post them on their ePortfolios, as well. We cannot do them this week as the ePortfolio site is down for maintenance.
This was a great learning experience for all students. The grade twos are developing their leadership skills and the grade ones are learning how to work well with others, and how teamwork can be successful.
Here are the finished posters:
