Mrs Soltau-Heller's Class

Our class, our school, what we do….

May 6, 2013
by sarahjane
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Reminder – short week

Just a quick note to remind you that there is early dismissal Monday and Tuesday for Student-Led Conferences.

Also Friday is a Professional Development Day where teachers are in session but students are not.

May 5, 2013
by sarahjane
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Rhino Project – ✔

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A couple of weeks ago Siyanda the Rhino arrived in our class. She was the inspiration for us to learn about the plight of Rhinos in the world.  Rhinos are being hunted to near extinction to be used for medical purposes. Ask any student in our class what you could use in the place of Rhino horn (it’s gross and I am sure they would love to tell you about it.)

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As part of this project we contributed to a collective wiki created by the original sender of the Rhinos in South Africa Kathy Sadler . HERE is this wiki – it is great to look at all the other classrooms around the world and see what they have contributed. It is also very sad to hear that Rhino continue to be poached in Kruger National Park .

This is our contribution to the wiki HERE . These posts have all been researched, created and posted by students in our Grade 2 class.
This project included many of our learning intentions for this year.

Students

  1. described and reflected on experiences
  2. they made connections to extended knowledge and
  3. they used a variety of information and resources to solve problems, investigate ideas and answer questions

and I hope that they enjoyed the learning as well!

April 30, 2013
by sarahjane
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Poetry

Today we will be writing

I Remember Poems

We will write a list of things that is remembered about a person, place or thing.

We will post our poems to our blogs when we are finished.  Please check them out our poems HERE 

Rhinos

April 22, 2013 by sarahjane | 0 comments

We learned about Rhinos because of our visit from Siyanda. These are some documenting we did of our learning. We used the Explain Everything app to create these short recordings.

April 21, 2013
by sarahjane
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Earth Day

April 22, 2013 we will be celebrating Earth Day at Eagle View Elementary School. There will be many activities going on during the day from Kindergarten up to Grade 7. Our day will look different than it usually does. We will be doing several special events to celebrate. From recess until lunch we will be participating in a town clean up. With our Buddy Class, we will be outside in a surprise location somewhere in Port Hardy helping to clean up our community. There will also be students does the traditional River Clean-up (if your child wanted to participate they would have brought home a permission slip to participate)

Please make sure that your child is wearing clothing and footwear that is comfortable and warm as we will be outside for several hours during the day. If you have some garden gloves at home it would be great if you could send them to school on Monday, this way we will not have create more garbage using rubber gloves.

 

Also please cross your fingers for sunshine!

April 20, 2013
by sarahjane
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Learning Intentions in our Classroom

I have struggled to find a way to communicate my learning intentions for your children this year without making them too specific or having to update them too often. Many of you may have heard about the Maple Ridge School District’s new report cards because they have been in the news lately. Maple Ridge has decided that they will not give intermediate students letter grades on their report cards. This decision has caused much discussion around the province.

I have looked at the primary report card and like many things about it, most of all I like that their goals for inquiry learning. As I read these goals I find that they describe my goals for your children in our classroom. They are broad and general but they are ultimately what I hope for your children as they move through this year of learning.  In our class we talk about learning to learn and these goals describe what that process looks like.  I would love your comments and feedback on how you feel about these goals as a way to communicate your child’s progress.  Please feel free to comment on this post or contact me directly if you would like to talk about these.

These are our learning intentions for the year.

In our classroom we are learning to…

Plan ahead and implement ideas

Describe and reflect on experiences

Make connections to extend knowledge

Use a variety of information and resources to solve problems, investigate ideas and answer questions

Use materials in imaginative and creative ways

Borrowed from Maple Ridge School District #43, Primary Progress Report 2013.