March 4, 2021

  Message to Parents & Guardians:

  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night
  • Ask your child about the two places we "visited" while in Meteghan, Nova Scotia


Learning Highlights:
  • Travellers have been learning about the special characteristics and parts of the Meteghan community. 
  • Two important places in Meteghan are the Bangor Sawmill and the Meteghan Wharf











Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

March 7 - Parent Council Meeting 
March 12 - No School for Students, Professional Development Day 
March 17 - Wear Green 
March 25 & 26 - Parent Teacher Conferences 
March 27 - April 7 - Spring Break 
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March 3, 2021



 Message to Parents & Guardians:

  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night
  • Ask your child about representing numbers in equal groups (Grade 1) 
Link to the Grade One Program of Studies: 

  • Represent and describe numbers to 20, concretely, pictorially and symbolically  
  •  Demonstrate an understanding of counting by using parts or equal groups to count sets 
  • Ask your child about even and odd numbers (Grade 2)
Link to the Grade Two Program of Studies: 

  • Demonstrate if a number is even or odd 

    • Determine if a number is even or odd by using concrete materials or pictorial representations 

    •  Identify even and odd numbers in a sequence, such as in a hundreds chart 

    •  Sort a set of numbers into even or odd 



Learning Highlights:
  • Today Mathematicians worked with numbers. using Mathletics and Jamboard 
  • They learned and practiced how to represent and describe numbers 
  • Mathematicians learned the vocabulary even, odd, equal, same, different and not equal 









Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

March 7 - Parent Council Meeting 
March 12 - No School for Students, Professional Development Day 
March 17 - Wear Green 
March 25 & 26 - Parent Teacher Conferences 
March 27 - April 7 - Spring Break 
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March 1, 2021


Message to Parents & Guardians:

  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night
  • Ask your child about their trip to Meteghan, Nova Scotia 


Learning Highlights:
  • Today room 1 students took their flight to Halifax and then by car travelled to Meteghan
  • Room One Travellers used their passports and boarding passes to board the plane to Halifax






  • Students experienced a simulated flight experience to Halifax




  • Travellers also had a chance to reflect on their trip and the important parts of travelling. 








Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

March 7 - Parent Council Meeting 
March 12 - No School for Students, Professional Development Day 
March 17 - Wear Green 
March 25 & 26 - Parent Teacher Conferences 
March 27 - April 7 - Spring Break 

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 Message to Parents & Guardians:

  • The March Calendar went home today
  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night



Learning Highlights:
  • Today grade 1 and 2's celebrated 100 Days in School 


If Ms. Standing was 100 years old, this is what she might look like



Students trying to count all the letters in our 100 Day Poem



  • Students worked on an art piece using primary colours
  • They were challenged to use 100 pieces of paper to create their name
  • Another challenge to the task was for them to create a pattern with the three colours. This could have been completed within each individual letter or letter by letter. 











Students tried a number of strategies to track the number of pieces they cut





Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

March 17 - Wear Green 
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February 24, 2021

 Message to Parents & Guardians:

  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night

  • Ask your child what we have added to our morning meeting learning tasks
  • Ask your child what is the most important part about wearing a pink shirt


Learning Highlights:
  • Mathematicians are learning to build numbers using a variety of digits in order to compare, order and describe them using mathematical vocabulary








  • Today, we had our Friendship Assembly. The focus of the our assembly was to learn about lifting each other up. 



Thank you to all the classes for participating and show casing your work with Mrs. Riopel


Check out our Pink Shirts in Room 1


Check out our Pink Shirts in Room 4


Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

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February 23, 2021

  Message to Parents & Guardians: 

  • Tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day











  • Check out Google Classroom for links to RazKids and Mathletics 
    • Grade 1 and 2 students should be doing 10 - 15 minutes of Home Reading every night

  • Ask your child about the difference and meaning of climate and weather
  • What are some words that can be used to describe the climate? 


Learning Highlights:
  • We learned about the difference between climate and weather. 
Climate is the pattern of weather that occurs over time






Students had a chance to practice and use their new Climate and Weather Vocabulary 






Important Dates to Remember:


Tuesday and Thursday - Soup at Lunch. Students must have a signed permission form. 

February 24 - Friendship Assembly (Virtual)

February 24 - Wear Pink to support kindness and a bully free community
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