Grade 1 and 2 Learners

February 17th, 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 learning tasks they are completing in Social Studies
Ask your child about Google Maps and how it can be used as a tool

Learning Highlights:

Grade 1 and 2 "Travellers" are preparing for their trip to three unique places in Canada. We will be exploring: Iqaluit, Meteghan and Saskatoon
Travellers have looked at the Map of Canada and coloured in the places they will be visiting.
Travellers have created their travel bags to collect all of their learning artifacts
Travellers have also created their Passports
We are just about ready to "travel" to our first destination but first we must learn a little about the place will will visit first: Meteghan, Nova Scotia.

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INFORM

Students at Vista Heights are not actually travelling our physically leaving their classroom

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Important Dates to Remember:

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

February 5th, 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 vocabulary they learned to today in Math
Ask your child to show you different types of patterns using materials found at home

Example:

AB
ABA
ABB
ABC
AABB
ACBC

Today's Learning Highlights:

Mathematicians in Room One practiced making patterns with a variety of manipulatives
Mathematicians learned what the word pattern means and the word core

Important Dates to Remember:

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

February 9th - School Council Meeting at 6:30 (Virtual)

February 10th - Wear Red and Pink

February 11th & 12th - No School for Students

February 15th - Family Day (No School

February 4th, 2021

Reminder to Parents and Guardians

Valentine Cards must be brought to school tomorrow.

This will allow them to be in quarantine for at least 72 hours.

Valentine Cards will be handed out on February 10th, 2021.

Students have been invited to make a list of their peers to take home.

A class list from the teacher will not be handed out.

February 3rd, 2020

Message to Parents & Guardians:

Valentine Cards must be brought to school before February 5th, 2020. This will allow them to be in quarantine for at least 72 hours. Valentine Cards will be handed out on February 10th, 2021.
Students have been invited to make a list of their peers to take home. A class list from the teacher will not be handed out.
Ask your child about our new learning journey in Social Studies.

Today's Learning Highlights:

Grade 1/2 students have started their learning Journey into exploring Canada's Dynamic Communities.
We have started with learning about Canada as a Country.
We asked the students: Is there a symbol you have seen that would identify you as being Canadian? The Canadian Flag.
Students are busy practicing their fine motor skills and artistic abilities to create the Canadian Flag.

Important Dates to Remember:

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

February 9th - School Council Meeting at 6:30 (Virtual)

February 10th - Wear Red and Pink

February 11th & 12th - No School for Students

February 15th - Family Day (No School)

January 13th, 2021

Message to Parents & Guardians:

Please send an extra mask with your child to school
Ask your child about our new Science Unit

Today's Learning Highlights:

Scientists in room 1 and 4 started to explore building materials.
Our focus is building with three different types of materials.
Today we built a 2D representation of a straw house.

Scientists from room 1

Scientists from room 4

Important Dates to Remember:

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

October 27, 28 and 29th

Message to Parents & Guardians:

The November newsletter was sent home with your child on Thursday. Please check it out for upcoming important dates.

This Weeks Learning Highlights:

This week the students were very excited about the upcoming holiday, Halloween! We focused our learning on Halloween themed activities that students loved!

We used our knowledge of basic shapes and created shape pumpkins! The kids got very creative and loved this activity! See how many triangles, squares, circles and rectangles you can spot.

We also explored different words that began with our letter "S" sound. We created "S Spiders" with them. See what halloween themed and sight words that begin with "S" that you can see.

We also were excited about pumpkins and what they looked like, felt like, tasted like (we didn't taste them just talked about it), smelled like and sounded like. We used our five senses to help us explore them and look what we came up with!

When it was time to use one of our five senses for touch we decided to use the seed to show our knowledge of numbers and how they can be represented in different ways including using ten's frames. Look what we came up with!

It was a great week and we look forward to next week! Have a fun and safe Halloween weekend everyone!

Important Dates to Remember:

October 26 - Hot soup starts today

Students must have a signed permission form

October 29 - Wear your favourite t-shirt today

October 30 - No School, Professional Development Day for Teachers

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020

Message to Parents & Guardians:

With your child, please discuss expected and unexpected behaviours when playing outside on the field or playground. Discuss strategies your child can do to avoid conflict or negative situations.

As a reminder to all students, the first statement in Student Code of Conduct agreement is:

The Calgary Board of Education is

committed to providing students and staff with

a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment that

respects diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

Thank you to all the students who work hard make Vista Heights a better place by being kind and making positive choices.

Today's Learning Highlights:

Scientists in room one and four have been learning about the sense of sight. Today, we looked at understanding how people adapt to the world when they do not have the sense of sight.

Ask your child about the Braille alphabet.

Students can use this video link to review the invention of the Braille Alphabet.

First, we tried reading with our eyes open.

That was easy peazy!

Now let's try with our eyes covered.

Then we created a journal page.

We practiced what our name would look like and wrote three facts about the invention of Braille.

Our last step was to create our names using beans. We followed the Braille System based on a rectangle made up of six dots, numbered pone to six, in a group known as a Braille cell.

Ask me about the process and how I was able to follow instructions.

Important Dates to Remember:

October 23 - Hot soup lunch forms due today

Forms were sent home on October 13th, Orange Form

October 26 - Hot soup starts today

Students must have a signed permission form

October 29 - Wear your favourite t-shirt today

October 30 - No School, Professional Development Day for Teachers