Monday Sept 13

 Hi all,

Today we started our day with calendar and quiet reading. We then watched the story The Calameade Dragon which is about a poor dragon who is judged before the town get to know him. We then thought about all the ways that we are special and unique. We had music after recess and then did a quick math assessment sent to us by the government to get a baseline of where we are at right now. It is not for report card marks or anything but gives us some insight as to what we have to cover in more detail this year. 

This afternoon we finished our zones pages and thought about what we look and feel like in the red zone. We had gym on the compound and then watched a little more of Inside out. We will finish it tomorrow.

Please return your grey digital citizenship forms and stapled packages as soon as possible. 

Friday Sept 10

 Hi all,

Today we worked some more on our silent reading, we are up to 9 minutes now! We are aiming for 20 minutes right now and see how we do. We had music with Mr. Wiens and gym with me where we played tag games and some races. We finished off the blue zone work and talked about how we look and feel in the yellow zone (high energy - either good energy or bad energy). We ended our day watching a bit more of Inside our which goes with our Zones of Regulations work. 

Please return the student information forms and the grey technology use forms asap.

Have a great weekend.

Wednesday Sept 8th

 Hi all,

Today we worked more on our reading stamina after our calendar. We made our personal dictionaries so that we can have something in our desks to help us with our writing this year. We made a graph in math about how we get to school. We talked about how we look and feel in the green zone and started watching the movie Inside out to go along with our zones lessons. 

Please return those forms from yesterday as soon as you can. 

Have a great night!

Tuesday Sept 7th

 Hi all,

Hope you all had a great long weekend! Today in class we did a whole bunch of health work. We talked about the pillars of care (Care for self, others, learning, and place) and how we can show the pillars inside the classroom and outside at recess and gym. We also talked about the zones of regulation. We went over the 4 zones and how it can be really useful to know what zone you're in. There's green zone - calm and ready to listen and do your work, blue zone - tired, sad, sick, run down, yellow zone - high energy, silly or upset, and red zone - lost control, angry, upset. We also talked about how we all experience the 4 zones all the time and that's ok but in class we need to try to stay in the green zone as much as possible. We will go over some strategies later on and think about ourselves in the 4 zones. We also did a math assessment and wrote the numbers 1-100. We read for 5 minutes today. We had music with Mr. Wiens. We went outside for gym too! Busy day.

Some forms are in your backpacks. Please review the stapled package and return asap. The loose papers are for you to keep. 

Have a great night!

Fri Sept 3rd

 Hi all,

Today we worked on our silent reading stamina and read for 4 minutes. We will keep going till we reach 20 or even higher. We talked about the Golden Rule (treat others the way you want to be treated) and how that is a good rule for our classroom. If you wouldn't like it, chances are others wouldn't like it either. We all signed a paper that shows that we will try and follow the Golden Rule in room 6 this year, We had our first music class with Mr. Wiens. We did a basic facts check in for math (adding and subtracting numbers up to 10). And we played some racing games in the gym. 

It was a great first week and we had lots of fun and learned a couple new things too, Remember Monday is a holiday so I will see you on Tuesday at 7:55!

Have a great long weekend everyone!

Thurs Sept 2nd

 Hi all,

Today we started building some stamina with our silent reading. We talked about how stamina is being able to do something for a long time without giving up. Today we read for 3 minutes. Tomorrow we will read for longer until we build our stamina to about 20-30 minutes!! We also talked about how we can read the words, read the pictures, and retell the story to ourselves. It all counts as reading. 

We did some grade 1 review in math to see where everyone is at. We finished off our art masterpieces of the first day of school. We added details to the background to give it more information and really see what pictures we could create. 

We went outside for gym and recess and then came in and did a first month writing sample. I'm already impressed at how much we can write so it will be amazing to see where we get to in June!

Our line ups are getting better but we are still working on we don't touch the person in front of us or behind us. With so many kids it's easy to jostle each other around and get hurt. 

Have a great night and we will see you again tomorrow.

Remember that Fridays are short days and we will be in school from 7:55-11:50. We will have a snack in class but no lunch time. 

Wed Sept 1st

 Hi all,

What a great first day! We got through so much today and did a whole bunch of running around so I would imagine you have a lot of tired children coming home today.

We went over some classroom routines and did a tour so hopefully we know our way around the place. We went to the gym and went over expectations in there. We also had time to play some games.

We did some math and talked about our number of the day sheet which we will practice more throughout the year. 

We started a little art project called self portrait of my first day of grade 2. We talked about adding details that make it a better picture. 

Hopefully you have a bunch of happy and tired children full of stories from their first day of grade 2! If there are any issues you need to discuss with me feel free to email me jdbeechey@cbe.ab.ca and we can discuss them there. 

Have a great night, get some sleep, and we'll do it all again tomorrow.

Mr. Beechey