A great end to November !

Highlights:

•  We put together our 3D shapes and made them into cites. 

• Then, we pinned them to the wall to create a very large city. Some people are still working on it though. 

• We also played the shape review game! We each took a white board and had to draw the shape that Mrs. Yoon called out, or write the number or edges, vertices, or faces the shape had.
• For word work we learned about the "-at Family" words

From this we learned that "a" has 2 sounds: a long and short vowel sound. When it is beside another vowel (such as "e") the long vowel sound of the first vowel is what we say.  So for the word "eat" we say the long "e" sound and do not say the "a" sound in that word. A fun way to remember that is to sing "When 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking"

• We met with our big buddies and finally got to share all of the work we have been doing in our visual journals (such as the flower facts, color wheel, and ROYGBIV)

  

 Afterwards our big buddies showed us their book project, where they take a book and modify it into their own stories. We helped them by sharing some of our ideas on what would be interesting in their stories!

• In music we started preparing for the Festive Evening - the song will remain a secret until the event!

Reminders:

• Please remember to bring library books back for Monday :)
• Starting next week, Dec. 2 - we will be starting to share the artifacts from home that represent our family traditions - please remember to bring this in :) 
• Please also return the form with questions about family traditions to help guide the presentations in December. 
• Each class we hope to have about 5 students share about their family tradition.
• Festive Evening on Thursday, Dec 12th 

Week 13

Highlights:

•  This week the school's spirit team arrange for us to have PJ and stuffy day! It was so fun to bring in our favorite stuffies!

• For our color unit we learned about shades and tints. We chose a color and mixed in bits of black to create darker and darker shades of that color. 

Here is a finished product:

• Then, the next day we used that same color and mixed in bits of white to create lighter and lighter tints of that color!

• For social studies, we started a new unit on Traditions. After reading the book "This Next New Year" by Janet Wong and learning about some of traditions that Mrs. Yoon shares with the character in the book, we got into groups to share some of our own traditions from home. 

We created a definition of tradition based on our understanding of it and realized that at school we have some special traditions too!

 This group made a web about Dr. Coffin traditions

 This group did webs about Dr. Coffin and Family traditions

This group did a web about Chinese, Brentwood and Family traditions! 

This group did a web about Chinese tradtions

• A letter has been sent home with each student asking for some information about family traditions and treasures. Please read it over and help your child fill out the form and return it to class.
• In gym we started playing floor hockey games and are working on team work and passing before scoring. We have some safety rules that we must remember: (1) Sticks stay below the knees (no slap-shots); (2) Sticks are tools not toys (or weapons); (3) Eyes on the puck and around us; (4) No laying on the ground during floor hockey; (5) have fun (no fighting)

• We took our 3D shapes and started creating cities and towns:

Reminders:

• Tomorrow morning (Thursday) Mrs. Yoon will be absent so our guest teacher is Mrs. Johnson :)
• Soft Entry has started early! As of today, the doors to the school open at 8:30 and supervision will be provided inside until 8:40. Students will be able to choose: (1) Classroom for quiet reading or sketching; (2) Gym for active start: Station dots for movement; (3) Learning Commons for mindful brain exercises (Rubik's cubes, puzzles, mazes, etc.)

• For Fresh Air Friday please remember to dress for the weather!
• Please remember to fill out the questions about your family's traditions and return it to school by next week.

Week 12

Highlights:

• This week was very exciting! First, we learned that we will be starting a "Soft Entry" for the school in December. To get ready for it, we have started practicing soft entry this week! Please read below in the "Reminders" section for details.
• We also had our first lock down drill of the year! Ask us what we have to do during a lock down.
• Then, we got to practice the CBC Music Challenge on Tuesday at the dress rehearsal! 




• In math we have been busy working away on our 3D shapes and pattern designs.
• In Word Work, the grade 2s had a spelling quiz on the "A-List" words that they have been working on over the past weeks, while the grade 1s had printing and book time.
• In science we had a color assessment which tested our understanding of the primary colors and secondary colors. Asks us what these are and which colors are created when you mix:
• red + blue
• blue + yellow
• yellow + red
• Then we had our CBC Music Challenge recording!! It was awesome!!

 This is the singer group

 This is our xylophone & piano groups

This is our percussion group.

Make sure to check out the performance on YouTube - link coming soon!

Reminders:

• Parent Teacher Conferences start tomorrow (Thursday, November 21, 2019) from 4 pm to 8 pm, and again on Friday, November 22, 2019 from 8 am to 12 pm. 
• November 26th is the Stuffy & PJ Day!
• We will be practicing Soft Entry for the next two weeks from 8:40-8:50.  Soft Entry will officially begin on Dec 2, 2019.  Here are the guidelines:

1. Entry doors will be unlocked for students at 8:30. They will remain unlocked until 8:40. Parents should not be coming in the student doors. If they need to come into the school, they should be asked to go to the front door to enter and check in at the office.
2. Students will enter the school, hang up coats, change into indoor shoes.
3. Chose soft entry location/activity:
   

   · Classroom for quiet reading or sketching

   · Gym for active start: Station dots for movement

   · Learning Commons for mindful brain exercises (Rubik's cubes, puzzles, mazes, etc.)

4.  As we start this new plan, at 8:39 an announcement will be made for all students to head to their classrooms. Eventually we would hope that students and staff would be aware of the time and start cleaning up and head back to class.
5. 8:40 bell will ring, and students should be ready for learning back in their classrooms. The doors will be locked at this time. Students who are late would be coming in the main door and getting a late slip.

FAF #8

Highlights:

•  We had the opportunity to meet author, G. C. McRae! He read us some of the books he wrote: The Tooth, Party Ballerina, and The Cannibal Anaconda. 

• If you would like to order a book from him, he will be in our school again next week (Wednesday, Nov. 20), so you can fill out an order form (see below) - these will be available if you ask Mrs. Yoon or Mrs. Kidd on Monday. 

• We also met up with our big buddies and had some reading time together!

Our big buddies learned about how to read to an audience, so they were practicing their reading skills on us! Then, we had the opportunity to share a book that we chose and read to our big buddies. 

• For outdoor learning, we went on a color hunt! Using various color samples, we had to go outside to find those colors in nature. It was really fun!

 This was a dark reddish-brown

 This was a deep red

 This was a light yellow

 This was a light grey

 This was light orange

We found so many different colors in nature from things such as the leaves, berries, and grass! 

• For science we learned where colors come from! White light is made up of all of the colors of the rainbow. Rainbows are made when light passes through the water droplets in the air and the light splits into the different colors. Here is a fun song we watched to help us remember the colors: ROYGBIV
• We painted a rainbow using the "ROY G BIV" letters:

• We also learned that things look like they are certain colors because they absorb (take in) some colors and reflect (give off) other colors. The colors that we see are the colors that are reflected. 
• So if a leaf looks red, it is because the leaf is reflecting red. 
• If something is white, it is because they are reflecting all of the colors. 
• If something is black it is because they are reflecting none of the colors (they are absorbing all of the colors)

• We also added up our minutes of movement break, and the total came to 29 minutes! We were not able to meet our goal of 45 minutes, so we are going to try for it again next week :)

Reminders:

• Please remember to bring library books back for Monday :)
• Treat Day is Tuesday, Nov. 19th 
• CBC Music Challenge Dress Rehearsal is on Tuesday, Nov.19, from 1-2pm
• Filming for the CBC Music Challenge will take place the morning of November 20 (10:45-11:45am)- final work will be submitted on November 25, 2019.  Go Dr. Coffin Students!  
• Parent Teacher Conferences will take place Thursday, November 21, 2019 from 4 pm to 8 pm and Friday, November 22, 2019 from 8 am to 12 pm.  You will be able to book a 15-minute conference starting at 6 am on Saturday, November 16, 2019 until 6 pm on Thursday, November 21, 2019.
• Starting next week, we will be practicing "Soft Entry" (Students will be introduced to the "Soft Entry" plan on Monday and will learn the expectations for it over the next two weeks)
• Soft Entry will officially begin on Dec 2nd 
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