I just can't believe we are approaching our last 5 weeks of school! 

Looking at the calendar, the last few weeks have just flown past us! 

Having said that, there's a million things to do BEFORE the end of the year

so I'll just have to put my energies there otherwise things might get a little

teary over here!

 

First off, thank you to the drivers for our Arts Alive field trip! This is

one of my favourite field trips as it's different everytime, and it's so

interesting to hear the students perspective on both the student and

professional art they see at the Gallery. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week, we have 2 main events happening:

 

On Monday May 27th we have our mini performance of Henny Penny in
the music room at 11:15!  I really can't thank Ms Nevels enough for all of her
time that she puts into our Music program at MMH.  Really, if you have
older children at the school, you've definitly seen one of the bajillion
performances that Ms. Nevels is directing.  It's especially neat for the
Grade 1s to see the older kids perform, as they look forward to their turn
too!

 

We will be heading to the Galt Museum to learn about Lethbridge's past on Tuesday, May 28th.  We will be taking a bus, which will leave MMH at 12:30.  We will return to the school around 2:30.  If there are any parents who would like to join us on the bus, you are more than welcome to! You can also meet us at the Galt Museum even if you only have an hour or so. Please let me know if you are able to attend! 

As June approaches, the days on the calendar start filling up and up. We also get closer to finishing up our last few units.  Here is what we've been up to:  In Language Arts, we've completed our Grade 1 sight word list, and have already started working on Grade 2 words (wahoo!).  We continue with writing lessons, the most recently being "My Seed Story" which the students are SO proud of!  We will hang on to them for a bit here, as the Grade 1s are going to read them to their Grade 5 book buddies. 

 

In Math, we are continuing with our addition and subtraction with

numbers 1-18.  In Science, we have just wrapped up learning about plants

and their needs, and will now start to look at animals and their lifestyles.

Each student will complete a mini research report on an animal that is local

to our area. 

 

Social Studies has been fun lately as we've been learning about each

student and their families! We've also had to rewind our brains a bit, and

think about Lethbridge in the past. We've talked about how things change

and why things change, and the students have had a lot of fun learning

about the 'old days' or 'good ole' days'. 

 

I showed this video to the class today, and needless to say their eyes were

GLUED to the screen! http://www.youtube.com/watch

v=faIFNkdq96U  It's about a young boy named Caine who built an entire

arcade center out of card board boxes.  I wish I had seen this earlier in

the year as it would have been great inspiration for our building things

unit, but even still, it got the students excited for building things. Perhaps

you could add it to your Rainy Day bucket list this summer!

 

Here are the important dates for the next few weeks. I'm sure we'll add

on to this list as we get closer and closer to the end.  Remember to check

out the school website for the MMH Newsletter for school-wide

happenings! 

 

Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful weekend!

-Anna Tsentouros

 

*Please note! Our class will have our own year end celebration, as parents

signed up at the beginning of the year to bring snacks. When a date has

been finalized, those parents will recieve a reminder email. It will be a

'breakfast themed' party, and it's usually sometime in the last week of

school.  Thanks!

 

Tuesday May 28^th- Galt Museum Field Trip (TBA)

Tuesday June 4th- Pancake Breakfast

Monday June 10th- Kindergarten / Grade 1 Switch Day! (AM)

Tuesday June 18th- Sports Day

Monday June 24th- Farewell Assembly

Tuesday June 25th- Grade 1 Year End picnic

Wednesday June 26th-  Grade 1 Year End picnic back up date

Thursday June 27th- Last Day of school!

Hello Readers!

Thanks for checking in to our classroom blog!

Dare I begin by saying...I think spring is finally here...? Hopefully I didn't jinx us.  Mother Nature must have taken our hint when we were bundled up for our "Spring"field trip to the Helen Schuler Center in winter jackets, hats and mittens.  Our students were such troopers though!  No one complained of the cold.  Not even the parents who came to help!  Thank you to those parents who were able to help out and high fives all around!

Next week is "Education Week" and we've got a number of things lined up around our school.  We'll begin the week by celebrating "Music Monday".  If you haven't heard of this special event- google it!! It's such a neat idea- people around the world at the same time will be singing with Commander Chris Hadfield (who is in SPACE!!) a really neat song called "Is Somebody Singing".  Ms. Nevels has been working hard to rehearse our kids and I bet if you YouTube it at home, your Grade 1'er will be singing in perfect key! If you're around MMH on Monday at 10:30, we will all gather in the gym for a *quick* assembly to sing, and logging into a LIVE webcast with Commander Hadfield!! How cool!!

Tuesday, May 7th is the day we've all been waiting for!! The Grade 1s are hosting an MMH Family Assembly!  This is the day that we're asking each Grade 1 student to wear something special for their song.  Girls are invited to wear dresses or skirts, and boys are invited to dress nice as well! We discussed in class that if students do not want to dress up, they can always choose to just wear a solid coloured shirt, and dark pants as well!  Please join us if you can in the gym for our Family Assembly at 12:30.

On Wednesday and Thursday of next week, in order to promote "community" at our school, we're having a "Teacher Switch", where teachers will visit different classrooms and share favourite books with students from different grades.

Did you know our school is 25 years old!? We've got bulletin boards all around the school with a "25" theme.  Check them out if you have a chance!

Our Math A  Thon went really well on Wednesday, and it was nice to see the students confident in their work!  We munched on "Lucky Charms" and everything went really well!  Remember you have until May 15th to work on collecting the pledges, and the brown envelopes can be handed into the office or in your chid's agenda.

We have a field trip booked to the Art Gallery!  Our Grade 1 class is going to see the art exhibit called "Arts Alive and Well in the Schools".  This is an exhibit with pieces of art from students all across the city of Lethbridge!  This is honestly one of my favourite field trips to go to! We are going on Friday May 17th, from 9:00-10:30.  If you are able to help drive students for this event, please email me back as soon as possible!

We are also in need of 5 more egg cartons!! If you have any more please send them in!

Thanks for reading!

-Anna Tsentouros

May 5th- May 11th: Education Week!

Tuesday May 7^th- Family Assembly Grade 1s perform @12:30

Friday May 10^th- PD Day No School

Wednesday May 15th- Math A Thon pledges due

Friday May 17th- Arts Alive field trip 9-10:30

Monday May 20^th- Victoria Day no school

Thursday May 23^rd- Spirit Assembly @1230

Tuesday May 28^th- Galt Museum Field Trip (TBA)