Reminders & Summary from this week (week of Nov.15)

Hi families,

Reminders:

1) Parent-Teacher conferences are on Nov.20, 21, 22. Please log into your "my CBE" account to book your time. Booking starts on Nov.16.
https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/home.html

2) Next week is a short week!
Thursday (Nov.21) is half-day, dismissal time is at 12:05.
Friday (Nov.22), there is NO SCHOOL for students.

3) Please check the audio files in our weekly Homework & Dictation page, if the audio files are not working for you, please let me know. (It usually works better with Google Chrome browser) 

Summary of the week:

3) MATH
-Grade 1s are working on simple subtraction questions, students should be able to use number-line/draw pictures to solve subtraction questions.

-Grade 2s are working on double-digit addition questions with REGROUPING, everyone in the class understood the strategies, and they did amazing on the daily math practice worksheets.

4) Mandarin
-Grade 1s, from our dictation results, many grade 1s still need to practice on "我， 你，家" and our new words for this week will be "冬天（winter）秋天（fall）”

-Grade 2s are learning about Mandarin words for four seasons春天 (Spring), 夏天(Summer), 秋天(Fall) and 冬天(Winter) and 季节 (Seasons). 

5) Science

Grade 1s finished their listening experiment, and we started our new science unit –Seasonal change. We talked about seasons in different countries, and what caused seasonal change.

Grade 2s finished their thermometer experiment, we talked about extreme hot and extreme cold temperature.

6) Gym

In gym this week, we practiced on our Starting in November, we practiced many basketball drills. We worked on ball handling (on spot), tap the ball(finger tap from side to side, tap above the head), throw up the ball and catch it, dribbling (various exercises), both hands cross over dribbling.

Hope you all have a good weekend! See you next week.

Ms.Fan