Mrs. Ly and Ms. Granger's Grade Ones

Thank you for those who have already signed up to volunteer one way or another with our class! Below are the list of dates we have right now for volunteer sign up. Our greatest need right now is our in class activity "Clay for Kids" . The links for sign up will be posted at the top of our blog as well.  Clay For Kids October 17th In-class 8:25am-11:00am 10 volunteers needed Help kids with the art activity. Sign up online https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D48AFAE2EABFD0-clay Home Reading October 16th (and every Wednesday following)  In-class Any time during the day 1 volunteer needed per Wednesday Read with students and help them exchange their home reading books. Sign up online https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D48AFAE2EABFD0-home Book Orders Organizer Once per month At home  Any time  1 volunteer needed per month Teachers will send home materials (book order forms and stapler) with your child, you assemble at home and t

Monday, September 30 th  is Orange Shirt Day. This day began in 2013 when residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad shared how her orange shirt was taken away on her first day at residential school.  On this day, we have the opportunity to commit to commemorating the children who attended residential schools, recognizing their experiences, honoring them and sharing a collective commitment to ensure that every child matters and that each student is welcome, safe, respected and cared for in their learning community every day.  Here is the website if you would like more information:  http://www.orangeshirtday.org/ We encourage Copperfield students to wear either an orange shirt or their favorite shirt on Monday, September 30 th  as we take part in Orange Shirt Day.

Wow! All of the students did amazing at the Terry Fox Run. We ran around the pond once. Thank you to all of the parents who came out to cheer us on. We thought about how Terry ran and how he never gave up. We challenged ourselves to not stop and walk if we were tired. As a class, we raised $104.95 for Terry! That is so amazing. Thank you for all of your contributions. Our class has been so excited about learning who Terry Fox is this week. Here are some of our highlights this week. Our creation of Terry Fox's journey. It starts on one side of our clasrroom and ends on the other side of the classroom Math Number Sense: We have been learning to represent numbers from 1-20. This week, we looked at the numbers 12 and 13. Please review numbers 10-20 with me. I am learning to show them through pictures, tally marks, the numeral and word. Patterning We worked on a math problem this week. "Mannat had a beaded necklace made of 2 different col

**Tomorrow is the Terry Fox Run! We will be running around the pond rain or shine. Please ensure that I am dressed for the weather. Our class will be running at around 10:10am. Parents are welcome to come cheer us on! Look for the Canadian Flag, that is where our class will be meeting. Our class has collected $32.95! I can still bring in a toonie tomorrow if I haven't yet. Rainbow Snack This week we learned about rainbow snacks. Ask me to tell you what they are. We learned that rainbow snacks give us energy and fuels our body so we can learn at our best. We learned that rainbow snacks are things like celery, carrots, grapes, blueberries, watermelon etc. They are fruits and vegetables. We looked at some rainbow snacks and sorted them into colors. We learned that yogurt, fruit roll up, fruit juice and goldfish crackers are not rainbow snacks. We will be tracking our rainbow snacks each day and our goal is to have everyone have rainbow snacks in their lunch kits. At school, I am as

Please practice our new poem this week. It goes to the tune of "are you sleeping?" Our new sight words this week are: I help we me run Today we talked about who Terry Fox is. Ask me to tell you some of the things I know about him. We learned that he is a Canadian Hero. We talked about how he has raised millions of dollars for cancer. You can watch the video we saw today by clicking  HERE We did some art in our visual journals to represent Terry Fox. Ask me to tell you what I did with my shoe!  As a whole class, we decided to build the path that Terry Fox took. It was so amazing to see all of the students come together and connect their learning in this way. We are going to continuously build on it this week. We have the starting point where he started in Newfoundland and the end point where he stopped running. Can you spot Terry Fox? Housekeeping: Terry Fox Run Our Copperfield Terry Fox Assembly and Terry Fox Run will be on Th

Dear Families: Thank you for taking the time to chat with us about your child during parent teacher conferences. We are looking forward to working with you this year to help your child be successful in grade one. Your beautiful hopes and dream messages on your child's rock really show what an amazing parent community we have. We promise to help foster those hopes and dreams for your child every day at school. Sincerely, Ms. Granger & Mrs. Ly

Terry Fox Run: Our Copperfield Terry Fox Assembly and Terry Fox Run will be on Thursday, September 26th starting at 9:30 am. Families are welcome to attend the assembly and the run. Grade 3 & 4’s will be singing “Never Give Up”.  Donate ONLINE: This year our school is raising Toonies for Terry. The Terry Fox Foundation has a great reputation, with $.79 cents of every dollar raised going directly to cancer research. Donate online at  http://www.terryfox.ca/CopperfieldElementary  or by simply bringing $2 on or before Run Day. For more information, visit terryfox.org Conferences: Tomorrow afternoon from 4-8 are our conferences, and Friday from 8-12. We are looking forward to meeting you all! Your chid is welcome to join us at our conference.  Picture Day: Picture day is Monday, September 23. Tomorrow we will be celebrating "Pin wheels for Peace" for international peace day. We read a book called "Peace is an offering" and brainstormed what we t

***Playground We are so excited that we have the playground open and ready for us to enjoy. With a new playground come some changes to support entry and exit into the school. To help support the space around the playground and keeping everyone safe at Copperfield School, we are putting a schedule in place for the mornings before school.  This will help ease congestion and supervision of the students on the playground. Playground Schedule (8:10am-8:25am) K- Friday 1- Thursday 2- Wednesday 3- Tuesday 4- Monday We appreciate your support in helping us communicate and employ this schedule with your students. In addition, in order to ensure the safety of students, there are some entry and exit door changes for certain classes. As of Tuesday, September 17, 2019 the following will be in place. Teachers will be reviewing this change with you children today so they are also aware of their new door. Door F (Green)- Kindergarten (Grant, Montgomery, Norrie, Handelsman

**We would like every child to bring a rock with a relatively flat surface to school next week. You can find one this weekend while you are taking a walk, or maybe you find one in your backyard. The rock should be no bigger than the size of an adult palm. Please have your child bring their rock in by Thursday next week. We completed our first full week of grade one, hooray! We continue to learn our classroom routines and get to know our classmates. We have been practicing our reading skills. We have been working on reading the pictures and decode some words by using the pictures for clue. We call this skill "Eagle Eye". Please help me practice this at home. We each have a grade 3 buddy! They are from Mr. Soulliere and Ms. Reilly's class. It was so exciting to meet them today. We read with our buddies today and got to know them. We will be connecting with them every week. Ask me to tell you my buddy's name if I can remember it. In math we learned a new

**Book orders were sent home on Tuesday. They are due back on Tuesday September 17 **Demographic forms must be signed and returned Ms. Granger and Mrs. Ly are looking forward to meet you next week during our first parent teacher conferences. Conference booking is now open and available online. This conference will be an opportunity for you to share with us about your child and how we can work together to help this be a successful year. Your child does not need to present for this conference. Please sign up by clicking HERE   Did you know that there are 3 ways to read a book? Ask me to tell you the ways.  1) Read the pictures 2) Read the words 3) Retell the story This week, we have been working on reading just the pictures and then reading the words. We are identifying ourselves as readers. We talked about what good readers do. Ask me to share with you what I know good readers do. We have been taking a closer look at who we are and representi