Our Weekly Reflection- Nov. 24-28

Here are some words to describe our week:
-nice and very good (Jordan, Daniel)
-exciting and happy (Jenna)
-great and good (Emily)
-good and amazing (Brandon S.)
-awesome (Jayden) 
-fantastic and amazing (Remoy) -fun and awesome (Kimmy and Jason)
-good and amazing (Lucas)

We learned more about:

-sounding out big words (Remoy)
-homework (Jordan)
-playing football at recess (Daniel)
-hockey skills (Jayden) -new words in our novel study of Sadako like, Kokeshi doll, musty, clammy 
-the 67's and the Canadian tire Centre (CTC)
-long and short vowels
-Lucas' last day 
-telling time
-the IN and ING word families

We are really good at:
-soccer (Jenna
-bowling (Jordan, Brandon, Jayden) -listening on the field trip
-listening at assemblies
-summarizing chapters

I need to work on:
-baseball
-listening
-my homework
-keeping my desk clean
-not interrupting
-learning more about my new school
-keeping my desk clean
-learning the long and short vowel sounds
-practicing to read high frequency words
-using google docs 

Next week I will;
-raise my hand and wait patiently
-ask questions and handle the changes well
-use google docs everyday to write my journal
-work quietly during independent work

Our Weekly Reflection for Nov. 10-14

Here are some words to describe our week:
-busy and fun (Jason)
-bad and okay (Chance)
-fine and okayish (Kimmy
-exciting and awesome (Evelyn)
- bad and miserable (Lucas)
-good and happy (Brandon B)
-good and cool (Emily)
-awesome and fun (Brandon S)
-really fun (Jordan)
-fabulous and fantastic (Jenna)
-funny (Daniel and Samantha


This week I learned more about:
-volleyball (Lucas and Chance)
-football  and reading new words (Kimmy)
-digital citizenship, do not trust anyone online unless you know them, do not post pictures online unless you have permission 
 (Evelyn, Jason, Brandon B)
-the internet and how dangerous it can be sometimes (Chance)
-Remembrance Day (Brandon S., Daniel, Jordan, Jason)
-basketball (Jenna) 
-football (Daniel)

We are really good at:
-math (Jenna)
-football (Jordan)
-driving a race car (Daniel)
-catching a ball in volleyball in gym (Brandon S)
-catching in volleyball (Lucas)
-jumping high to catch the ball (Kimmy)
-serving the ball (Brandon B)
-bumping the ball (Jason)
-Newcomball (Evelyn)

We need to work on:
-speaking to each other nicely
-not calling out
-calming down when I feel angry
-using my time better in class to get my work done
-raising my hand more
-doing more math work
-science
-paying attention
-soccer skills
-learning more about engines


My goal for next week:
-practice my soccer skills with the boys
-do more math at school
-think before I act when I feel angry
-use strategies when I feel angry
-take deep breaths when I feel angry
-walk away when I feel angry
-listen to my classmates when they give their opinions
-to start my bell work right away

Our Weekly Reflection Nov. 3-7

Here are some words to describe our week:
-fun and unique (Evelyn)
-wonderful and cool (Kimmy)
-fun and awesome (Jason)
-fun, busy and fantastic (Mrs. Kirkham)
-fun and cool (Remoy)
-an awesome (Brandon S.) 
-great (Jayden)
-good (Emily)
-nice (Jordan)
-fast (Daniel)
-fantastic (Madison)
-okay (Samantha)

This week we learned more about:
-beyblades (Jordan)
-how to draw shapes in art (Emily and Samantha)
-how not to crash with a monster truck (Daniel)
-how to type on my computer (Remoy)
-our guessing game in math (Brandon S.)

-volleyball (Kimmy)
-new words like temple, nervous and pride in our Sadako novel study (Kimmy)
-new word, dizzy (Chance)
-Sadako novel study (Evelyn)
-pulley and gears (Kimmy)
-how to nail in a stake using a hammer and it uses less force (Chance) 
-the gospel value- dignity and respecting everyone (Jason)
- the short e vowel sound, like end and rest and the long e sound in the word eat, sleep, queen and sheep

I am really good at:
-playing soccer and basketball (Remoy)
-running like a Mustang (Daniel)
-playing with new friends (Brandon S.)
-singing (Emily)
-making paper airplanes (Jayden)

-using resources, technology and tools in the classroom to help me find the answer (Jason)
-gym and learning about volleyball (Brandon B.)
-doing my work (Evelyn)
-writing summaries, the main idea of a story or paragraph (Kimmy)
-reading Dr. Suess books (Chance)

This is what I need to work on:
-not my new monster truck game (Danniel)
-spelling (Emily)
-learning vowel sounds 
-learning how to read bigger words

Next week I will:
-practice my reading at home by using raz kids, read a library book and using websites from our blog
-try my best at everything (Jayden)

Our Weekly Reflection - Oct. 27- 31

Here are some words to describe our week:
-fine
-good
-okay
-awesome
-swagging
-cool
-fun


We learned more about:
-playing football in gym (Kimmy)
-looking at the pictures and looking for word families when reading
(Chance)
-the suffix (word ending) SION and how to read and spell the word, DECISION
(Jason)
-the opera and taking the OC Transpo Bus (Lucas and Brandon B.)
-how my book ended and it was a sad ending (Evelyn)
-the suffix ABLE, and how to read and spell WASHABLE (Jason)
-how to write a summary of chapters read in SADAKO

We are good at:
-soccer
-basketball
-taking the OC Transpo Bus
-listening on the field trip the first time
-being a respectful audience at the opera
-making spiders, pumpkins and bats
-summarizing chapters

We need to work on:
-using my agenda to show my notes on time to my parents
-doing my homework on time
-my math

My goal for next week.  I will:
-show my agenda each night and return notes on time
-do my homework early in the week
-practice on mathletics and dreambox at home each night

Our Weekly Reflection for Oct. 14-17

Here are some words to describe our week:
-awesome
-o.k. or okay
-amazing
-fantastic

I learned more about...
-location and vacation both end in the suffix- tion (Kimmy)
-playing touch football (Chance and Lucas)
-the word family ATCH (Brandon)

I am really good at:
-dodging balls in dodge ball
-soccer
-touch football


I need to work on
-being more organized
-staying on task and doing my work
-working well with other student

My goal for next week:  I will
-clean my desk each day
-put away my items
-raise my hand at least once each teacher lesson
-think before I act and take deep breaths

Our Weekly Reflection September 22-26

Here are some words to decribe our week:
-awesome
-tiring
-active
-an okay
-alright
-very fun
-really good 
-need for speed
-pretty good
-difficult
We learned more about:
-riding horses
-kick boxing
-trying out for the running team
-odd and even numbers
-playing catch the chicken (Emily)
-driving in games (Daniel)
-soccer (Lucas)
-using opposites to write a goodbye/hello poem (Jason)
-Terry Fox (Kimmy and Brandon S.)
-using the prefix im  (immature) and in (incorrect)
(Chance)
-using perspective in Art (Kimmy and Chance)
-how to draw an apple


I am really good at:
-playing Dodgeball (Kimmy)


I need to work on:
-keeping my desk clean
-not drawing during teacher lessons

I will:
listen during teacher lessons
-give homework
-do my homework
-have a positive attitude
-do my homework without my mom or dad reminding me

Our Weekly Reflection-September 13-19

Here are some words to describe our week:
-awesome
-good
-busy
-fun
-fantastic
-funny

We learned more about:
-the store and how to draw a truck (Daniel)
-milk delivery (Brandon S.)
-how to become a knight in Medieval times (Kimmy)
-the Landlords in Medieval times (Chance)
-kids followed their dads footsteps in Medieval times (Brandon B.)
-how to draw using perspective (Evelyn)
-how to write number words (Jason)
-writing the date in numbers (Chance)
-more about August and his first day of school 
-delivering milk
-library rules and we each have a library bag to help keep our books looking new
-how to play soccer

Here are some things we are good at:
-looking at nice trucks
-drawing truck, faces
-driving video games
-playing soccer
-delivering milk
-going to gym
-reading chapter books
-making the soccer team
-raising our hands
-helping each other
-helping the kinder class

Here are somethings we need to work on:
-staying calm
-raising our hands
-keeping my desk clean
-making the teams fair when we are playing at recess
-having more fun at recess
-my football skills
-letter sounds
-fix raz kids
-writing smaller
-training other helpers Here are some goals for next week:
-have 0 four step plans
-remember to return our library books and bag on Mon.
-trying our best at new things
-participate more in gym or class
-read more at home
-entering the class quietly during transitions
-show our blue folder to our parents and return it signed on Monday
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Welcome to our new school year 2014-2015!

Welcome back to a brand new school year!  We have had a wonderful start! 

Here are some words to describe our week:

-fantastic
-good
-fun
-awesome
-perfect
-cool
-amazing
-active
-busy



Here is what we learned more about this week:

-soccer skills and how to dribble and kick the ball (Jason and Kimmy)
-Medival Times and that it is a time a very long time ago in Social Studies (Evelyn)
-reading and making words (Chance)
-writing the date using numbers (Brandon B)
-a new chapter book called Wonder (Lucas)
-using mathletics and raz-kids (Jason)


Here are some things we are good at:
-playing hockey (Brandon B)
-raising my hand and participating (Brandon, Evelyn, Chance, Kimmy, Lucas, Jason)
-writing the date using numbers
-participating in gym with our other class and our whole class
-making people happy
-listening to stories
-listening to our teachers
-scoring goals in gym

I need to work on:
-raising my hand more often
-my soccer skills
-reading more books
-complete more mathletics activities

A goal for next week is:
-give a compliment to one person each day
-read at home more
-use raz kids at home
- score a goal in gym class

What did we learn this week?

We learned...

-how to have fun on the slides at the barbeque (Neithen)

-how to do different types of skipping (Emma)

-to group coins together in groups of 25 cents or 10 cents (Brandon B.)

-that the play structures are going to be installed on Monday May 26 (Evelyn)

-that we have to plan ahead in order to  complete tasks like homework, putting in a play structure etc. (Emma)

-more about outer space (Neithen)

-that text/words underlined in red means it could be spelled wrong or the computer doesn't recognize it

-word family EE, the word glee means joy/happy (Emma)

-more about the word family ILL (Brandon, Jenna, Samantha)

-how to make groups of 10 (Brandon B and S)

-more about the talent show and that Andrew is really good at beat boxing

-responding to feedback by listening the first time to teachers (Neithen and Jason)

-resiliency- when something changes or a when there is a problem... we can handle it (Evelyn) like the Olympian Silken Laumen who had a very serious injury before the Olympics.   She didn't give up and she finished third and won a bronze medal.  

-when we are mad we can let it go and when we are sad it is hard to learn , so when we feel mad or sad we need to calm down and choose a strategy to help us feel better, then we can learn better (Evelyn and Samantha S)

-how to write a poem using our five senses, sight, hearing, taste, smell and feeling.  (Andrew, Kimmy, Neithen, and Emma)

What did we learn more about this week?

We learned more about...

-using skip counting and the hundreds chart to help us count money (Neithen)

-Jump Rope for Heart (Emma)

-the swim meet (Brandon S.)

-how to race at the swim meet (Brandon B.)

-seeing Ainsley at the swim meet (Brandon S.)

-it is fun to try new things like the Jump rope for heart activities (Kimmy)

-a dog that almost attacked a boy riding his bike (Evelyn)

-water safety- never dive in shallow water

-always check with adult and lifeguard to see if water is deep enough to dive

-walk when you are around a pool

What did we learn more about this week?

We learned...

-how to do step dancing (Jenna, Samantha)

-how to play a song on the tin whistle (Emma, Brandon S.)

-our left hand goes on the top of the whistle and our right hand goes on the bottom (Devin)

-more about the prefix AL (Emma)

-using adjectives (Emma)

-how to draw a creeper (Kimmy)

-more about the book fair (Evelyn)

-more about water safety and taking a swimming test (Brandon S, Samantha S)

-more about taking OC Transpo

-walking to the park safely (Emma)

-counting money- 25, 50, 75, 100 (Brandon S)

-Bollywood dancing- modern day Indian dance

What did we learn more about this week?

We learned more about...

-skip counting by 25s- 25, 50, 75, 100 (Brandon S.)

-flight- thrust, drag, lift, weight (Andrew)

-new word families - AY,  ENT, AG (Emma, Brandon B, Neithen, Chance)

-writing a DIAMANTE poem about ourselves (Neithen)

-what a snowy owl looks like (Samantha C)

-we got a new sign for our new name ST. John XXIII because Pope John XXIII was declared a saint on Sunday. (Samantha C)

-more about what birds look like

-being a responsible digital citizen and that we are not allowed using facebook, snapchat or instagram at school (Lucas)

-thinking that are parents are beside us when we are online

-listening to teachers and saying yes when we are asked to do something

-Jump Rope for Heart  (Emma)

-skipping- GREAT JOB EVERYONE and Congratulation to BRANDON B. for skipping in front of the whole school.  Way to go, Brandon.  That took a lot of courage.

-Basketball (Neithen)

What did we learn more about this week?

We learned more about...

-more about counting money using a hundreds chart and adding on

-different ways to make one dollar

-using skip counting to count money (Emma)
-25, 50, 75, 100
-5, 10, 15, 20, 25....

-word family ell (Brandon S., Samantha S)

- Earth day (Evelyn)

-how to write a diamante poem

-when a word ends with y and you are adding an ending like ed you drop the y and add an i
for ex. marry, married, marries,

What did we learn this week?

This week we learned more about...
-Holy Week
-Palm Sunday
-Holy Thursday and the Last Supper
-Good Friday, the day Jesus died
-Easter Sunday, when Jesus rose from the dead
-the 12 disciples/apostles

-when we reach our goals and make good choices, we earn extra tickets for the store
-the OT and the OST family
-counting by 1's, 5's 10's and 25s to count money
-25, 50 75, 100
-when you add 10 to any number you can go straight down on the hundred chart

-word endings like ING, ED, ES
-using adjectives to describe people, places or things
-guessing is the same thing as estimating and there are no wrong or right answers, its just a guess

-word family AN- pan, man, Dan, can, fan...

What did we learn more about this week?

-using adjectives in our writing to describe people, places or things
(Lucas, )
-that adjectives are words to describe us (Brandon S)
-the word family OW (Jenna)
-how to make a mystery number (Brandon B)
-how to write a wordle

What did we learn more about this week?

-how to play basketball (Brandon S.)
-how to be a good sport (Neithen, Brandon S, Samantha S)
-adding tens (Brandon B)
-using a venn diagram to show information (Emma)
-word families (ail, at, ack) (Emma)
-how to draw an airplane (Chance)
-passing the ball to everyone on the team (Jenna)
-the golden rule which is to treat others the way you would like to be treated (Evelyn)
-what it means to make a commitment (Jason)
-concrete poetry (Lucas, Brandon S)
-using the speak it option on our ipads (Emma)
-using kids journal to write a journal entry

What did we learn more about this week?

-building words game (Andrew)

-Earth hour (Emma and Brandon S.)

-how to make and keep friend

-the ote and oat word family (Kimmy)

-how to do a lockdown (Kimmy)

-how to write sentences in our journal (Andrew)

-reading the duck book (Evelyn)

-reading (Chance)

-if we use body contact at recess, we stand at the wall and then play with other people for the rest of the day (Mrs. K)

-if I choose body contact I am choosing to stay away from the group 

-using our WITS when we have a problem (Chance)

-the importance of being a good sport

-a good sport doesn't yell

-a good sport passes the ball to all team mates

-a good sport is fun and safe

-a good sport gives compliments

-a good sport doesn't push or use body contact 

-a good sport helps others and stops playing if someone is hurt

How was your week at school?

Here are some words to describe our week:
-fun, exciting, awesome, fantastic, wonderful
-amazing, beautiful, fabulous
By Kimmy, Lucas, Emma and Andrew

What did you learn more about this week?

We learned more about...

• tchukball (Lucas, Neithen, Jason, SS, BS, AD and Brandon B)
• how to count money (Kimmy and Samantha S)
• handball (Chance)
• His Grace, our archbishop (Evelyn)
• how to be a good friend (Jason and Jenna)
• Father Jeff, who is a priest who helps His Grace (Brandon S)
• His Grace and that he is in charge of over 100 churches (Neithen)
• archery (Devin)
• His Grace, and his church. (Caleb)

Describing Words

Here are some adjectives to describe our week:
-amazing, excellent, awesome, wonderful and fun
-fantastic, great, exciting, unusual and busy
By Kimmy, Lucas and Andrew