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Sunday, March 1, 2020

Learning Updates for March. 2-6


()(hǎo) Grade 1&2 friends and families,

March三月 is here! Spring 春天 is coming 🍃. This month, we have lots of exciting things happening, please keep on reading and find out more!

Reminders提醒:

Family photo: (Submit to Ms.Fan by Thursday Feb 5). Both classes are starting a Mandarin writing project, we need family picture from you all! If you don’t have a printed picture, please email it to me fahildisheim@cbe.ab.ca.

March is gymnastics month, we will be working on gymnastics skills in gym.

Mar.17 (Tues 星期二): Shared Assembly @ 12:30 pm! All parents are welcome to join us J

Mar. 19 & 20 Student-led parent teacher conference. Mar.19 (3:30pm-7:30pm) and Mar.20 (8am-12pm). (more information will be sent home)

Mar. 23-27 March break! Enjoy J

Plant project: Our tomatoes are growing!! Yay!! We have planted tomatoes 🍅 in our classroomJ our plants will likely to harvest in 60-70 days. Be prepared for some tasty tomatoes coming home!!

This week (Mar.2-6)

Mandarin中文:
Grade 1: This week, we will be learning the next 4 consonants r, z, c, s in pinyin, we will learn about the new vocabularies of the month.

In March, we are starting to learn about nationalities and temperature, we will learn many country names, different language names, how to ask nationalities related questions, and also talk about daily temperatures.

Grade. 2: This week, we will be learning the next 3 compound vowels an, en, in in pinyin, we will also learn about the new vocabularies of the month.

In March, we are starting to learn about nationalities and temperature, we will learn many country names, different language names, how to ask nationalities related questions, and also talk about daily temperatures.

Vocabularies for March 三月 (Grade 1 & Grade 2)
()(where) () (li)(where) (lái)()(come from) (jiā)()()(Canada)
(měi) (guó)(America) (zhōng) (guó) (China) ()(běn)Japan (é)(luó)()(Russia)
(hán) (guó)(South Korea) () (guó)(France)
(péng) (yǒu)(friend) (hǎo) (péng) (yǒu)(good friends/best friends)
(yīng) ()(English) (zhōng)(wén)(Mandarin) () ()(Japanese) (hán) ()(Korean)
(tiān)()(weather) (wēn)()(temperature) ()(degree)
(xiě)(write) (shuō)(speak)
Math数学:
Grade 1: This week, we will build 3D shapes using toothpicks or popsicle sticks and clay, and learn more about cube, cylinder, cone, pyramid, sphere. We will talk about three common attributes of 3D shapes (face, edge, corners).

Starting this week, every Wednesday and Thursday, we will start the day with a 15-20 mins Mental math warm up time. We will review skip-counting, number-talk, days of the week, reading calendar, months of the year. I will also start teaching students about different mental math strategies. This week, Grade 1s are going to review simple subtraction with regrouping.
  

Grade 2: Grade 2s will be building 3D shapes. They will also start on a new math chapter “statistics and probability”, we will learn how to formulate questions that can be answered by gathering information about self and others this week.

Starting this week, every Wednesday and Thursday, we will start the day with a 15-20 mins Mental math warm up time. We will review skip-counting, number-talk, days of the week, reading calendar, months of the year. I will also start teaching students about different mental math strategies.

Grade 2s will be reviewing subtraction without regrouping/borrowing and we will also learn about subtraction with regrouping/borrowing this week.

Science科学:

Grade 1s will continue working on the building a strong house using the materials provided. If majority of the class are done with their building, we will test their house (if it will be easily blow down by the “big bad wolf” hair dryer), otherwise, we will test their house on the following Tuesday.

Grade 2s will be starting the new science unit “exploring liquids”. This week, we will work on an experiment, we will use different types/sizes of containers, and students will make predictions and observations on which container hold the most water, and why.



Thursday, February 27, 2020

Pictures of all the exciting things we have been doing!!(lots of pictures!)

Hi families,

Here are some pictures to show you what we have done in the past little while. Sit back and enjoy some exciting pictures! (maybe grab a tea, because there are lots of pictures!!)😁

Thank you for all your support! 

Love,
Ms.Fan 凡老师

Here are the pictures!

1) Grade 2s are building boats from recycled materials!! (they are testing if their boat/boats will float)

Grade 1s are currently building houses using recycled items! (more pictures will come soon!)







2) Work with our Grade 3 buddy class to learn how to log on to computer!








3) More pictures about our finished boats & testing process!

















4) We are playing Mandarin conversational game! 

Using “你喜欢吃。。。?(what do you like to eat?), 你喜欢喝。。。?(what do you like to drink?)  你有哥哥/弟弟/姐姐/妹妹 吗?(Do you have older brother/younger brother/older sister/younger sister?)








5) more of Grade 2s boats testing! They also reflect on how to make improvements to their boat to keep it from sinking. 









6) Shape art! Inspired by an artist "Kandinsky"



7) Exciting math number talk time!! 

Can you believe these students are only in Grade 1 and 2? They are so smart!!

How many ways can you make 8?
How many ways can you make 5?
How many ways can you make 6?









We came up with more than 22 ways to make 5.


We came up with more than 23 ways to make 8.


We came up with more than 25 ways to make 6.


8) Bread experiment (only 2 weeks, the results have not come out fully yet, more pictures will come soon!)

Our super power-------Hand washing!!






Pictures of curling week

Hi Grade 1 & 2 friends and families, Here are some pictures I took during our curling residency week! We learned so much about curling...