Taking our learning outside this morning and using natural materials to create stories. We practiced oral storytelling before representing our ideas in written form. @GWSHill #CBEliteracy

During our math centres today, one student discovered our Mala beads can be a way to measure items around our classroom! @GWSHogan

Kindness lifts us up! Thank you @mstbains for creating a beautiful reminder!

Grade 1/2 had so much fun making their Math Malas. We have a lot of great tasks planned for the next few weeks using this tool. Including developing a growth mindset and solving math problems! @GWSHinder thanks for the wonderful idea!

Yesterday we practiced gratitude in our mindful journals 💜

Grade 1/2’s from every class worked together to build igloos during lunch today!

What better way to discuss kindness then plant flowers? Today we discussed how kind words help plants grow and flourish, just like when we talk to our friends. These plants are a reminder to use kind words towards all living things 💕 #pinkshirtday

Counting all the items in our classroom using our skip counting and grouping strategies!

Grade 1/2 were so happy about the beautiful weather so we could paint in the snow!

Thank you @GWSJones for setting up outdoor centres for us this afternoon! We had a blast!

Yesterday grade 1/2 worked on grouping and skip counting by doing animal word problems. They did so well that I’ll have to turn it up a notch and really challenge them next week!

The newly fixed light table had been quite the hit with grade 1/2!

More grouping and skip counting in rm3 today!

It’s only fitting that grade 1/2 has started to learn about the Inuit with the weather like ours! Today we painted the Northern lights to help us get excited.

Thanks @GWSJones for the math idea!

Today and Tuesday, grade 1/2 worked on estimating! Then l, to check how many was actually in each jar, they made groups to count efficiently!

“This one looks like the top of an eagle head, and this one looks like roads and buildings and this one looks like a grassy hill”. Grade 2 students getting creative with their imagination!

Team work and boat building! Lovely afternoon on rm 3!

Rm 3 is focusing on mindfulness this week and helping our brains be healthy and strong. Hopefully our new mindful journals will help!

Update: we can make clay float! Grade 1/2 were challenged to take a sinking ball of clay and make it float. After many trials, most of us were able to make clay boats that even held nickels!