Feb. 23

 Hello everyone!

Yesterday we celebrated TWOsday (2/22/22). We began working on a time capsule for us to open on March 3rd, 2033 (3/3/33))! We drew some pictures, and wrote some things about ourselves now and what we thing life will be like in 2033. We also measured ourselves using string so that we could see how much we grow over the next 11 years! This morning, we finished our last pieces of our time capsule and put them together into a big envelope. We brought our time capsules home today with a letter explaining everything! Feel free to add pictures, drawings, or anything else from home that we would like to add before sealing the envelope.

We had a morning meeting today about Pink Shirt Day. Some of us were familiar with why we wear pink on this day every year. We talked about the story of a boy who wore a pink shirt to school and was bullied. His friends all decided to wear pink shirts to school the next day to support their friend, and to show the bullies that what they did was not okay. We listened to a story called "The Recess Queen" and talked about how the character Jean was a bully. The solution to this problem was that a new girl came to school. She stood up to Mean Jean, and then invited Jean to play with her and was very nice. Sometimes, bullies are acting mean because they are feeling sad, and offering our kindness can be one way to stop a bully. Other times, like when someone is being physical (hitting, pushing, etc.), it is important to tell an adult right away to make sure that no one gets hurt. 

Mr. Wiens came to teach music and then we filled in our calendar for the day. Only 2 days left until our 100th day of school! We had snack and watched another story about bullying called "The Bully-Blockers Club." We had indoor recess and then literacy centres. 

After lunch, we practiced our Wow Words for this week. Then, we did our basic facts in math for this month. We can't wait to find out how much we improved! This month, we focused again on checking our work. So, before handing in their work, everyone went back and looked at each question to check for little mistakes. 

We had our second recess, then took some time to read a book called "Happy in Our Skin." We used this book to help us talk about how our skin is an important part of our body. Many of us remembered why peoples' skin can be different colours from previous discussions, so we reminded everyone and then talked about how our skin being different colours doesn't change what's on the inside. We're each our own unique and wonderful people! And it is important to treat everyone kindly. 

We had a science lesson about light and dark colours. We discussed how we can tell if a colour is lighter or darker, then we compared some colours from our crayon boxes. We sorted our crayons into lighter and darker colours, with some in the middle. We used our crayons to fill in a chart of light and dark colours. 

In the gym we are learning some new cooperative games. Today, Ms. Byrne taught us Pool Noodle Tag, and Human Knot! We had lots of fun playing both. 

Student Shoutouts:

Ava - for helping another group tidying their literacy centre

Rachel - being kind to everyone

Reminders:

Friday, Feb. 25th - 100th Day of Grade 1

March 10th (evening) and 11th (morning) - Parent/Teacher Conversations - appointments will be available to book through your myCBE account soon!

Reading Give it a Shot - Remember to return home reading books when they have been read to receive new ones, and to get points on our Reading Give it a Shot chart! 

Have a great evening!

-Ms. Byrne