New addition to our outdoor learning space

Yesterday SJV had a delivery....of some very large tree trunks for our outdoor learning area.  They will be benches, balance beams, discovery areas, and...who knows what else they will become this year!!!

We will be spending time in our outdoor learning space over the next week gathering data to use for our first math project.  The students will be creating tally charts, bar graphs and pictographs about the data they collect.  Stay tuned for Math Project Updates.

Today we went to check it out...

'Photo Booth' Fun!!!

Thank you to all of our families for stopping by SJV tonight for our
Meet the Teacher Ice Cream Social.  It is always great meeting and
visiting the families of the children we teach!

Social Studies Information

Your child will be bringing home their Social Studies Text Book periodically over the next month or two.  Please read the pages indicated in your child's agenda and return the book to school the next day.  

The Grade 2's will be working to answer the Big Question, How do physical features and climate affect how people live?  In trying to answer this question they will be studying different communities around the world.  

The Grade 3's will be working to answer the Big Question, How are the people and the land connected in Ontario?  In trying to answer this question they will be studying the three different landform regions of Ontario (Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canadian Shield, and the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands).

Stuffy Day

 Friday was Stuffed Animal Day!

The kids were asking to bring stuffed animals to show their friends...

...so we turned it into a fun math activity.  As an introduction to Data Management, 

(a unit on organizing data) their stuffed animals helped make a 'live' pictograph

right on our classroom carpet.  The animals were sorted into different categories

and labelled.

Literacy Centers are up and running!

Literacy Centers

During Literacy Centers the students work in small groups doing different 

activities.  The kids did a great job learning the routines of our centers.  

They rotated through four different activities.  

One activity was journal writing.

Another was reading poems and jokes.

Everyone had a turn to listen to a story on the computer.

Word Work will be a center each week, where the students will work 

with spelling and letter patterns to help them improve their spelling skills.

The activities in the word work center will change frequently but the focus

will always be on spelling.

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