Cranston Grade 1 - Room 71

Hola families & friends, Our short week began with the students writing about their weekend, striving to write at least 3 sentences and to add details to their journaling to describe their weekend activities by asking themselves questions such as who, what, where, when, why and how, in addition to using "juicy" words (adjectives and adverbs), in order to stretch their writing and make it more interesting. In Language Arts, they also wrote about different parts of their field trip to the Leighton Centre and drew a picture of their favourite part of their adventure to this art centre, beautifully nestled in the foothills of Alberta.  The trip was spectacular for the students in many ways, even though it was a drizzly dull day and the skies were not clear enough to see the Rocky Mountains at a stones throw away.  They painted a water colour landscape of those mountains, while learning specific water colour painting techniques.  What masterpieces they created!  Following

Bonjour Families, What a fast week this was!  We started the week off with an assembly for "Music Monday", where choir students sang their hearts out for all who attended.  Then we had visitors, on Thursday, from Quest Theatre.  They performed a shadow puppet show called, "We Are Treaty People", followed by a round dance that we all participated in.  The students were all thrilled! The students finished writing and sharing their "Sylvester" stories this week and then got to hear the real ending of this old old story.  We started generating ideas for a new story, as a group, and then the students went off to draw 3 different pictures of their new story.  Ask your child what their new story is all about.  They also completed writing about their 5 senses with spring in mind and completed their accompanying art work of a pot of flowers.  Their writing was on the pot with numerous beautiful straw-stemmed flowers sprang from the top of the pot.  The grade 1s

Hello Families & Friends: Please note this important message from our music teacher Ms. Thomas: Hello Families: This Monday, May 7th, the Grades 1/2 and Grade 3 choirs will be performing for our Music Monday assembly. If your child is in choir, please feel free to join us for the celebration at 10:30.  In addition, if your child is in the Grade 3 choir, they have been tasked with making a tinfoil space helmet. If you could please remind them to bring it to school before the end of this week, that would be wonderful. Thank you! In Room 71 last week: MATH - Measurement (last week and this week upcoming) Make comparisons between objects (longer, taller). Order lengths of objects (shortest to longest). Compare the areas of objects by covering them with different materials. Practice the language of measurement using  words such as longer/shorter, as tall as,  more/less, heavier/lighter. Compare the capacities of containers by filling them with water and