A few reminders....

• A copy of our Christmas Concert songs was sent home today. Please practice with your child.
• Words Their Way Spelling Test tomorrow
• Return Home Reading
• The December Newsletter has been posted
• No School on Friday - Professional Development Day 

Today during our MindUp lesson, students learned stuffie breathing.  Ask your child to show you this easy and fun self regulation technique tonight.

Scholastic Book and Hot Lunch orders due TOMORROW!

Today we read the story, Even Steven and Odd Todd.  Then played a game with the same title using dominoes.  Identifying even and odd numbers is a tricky task, but we have been hard at work and are becoming stronger at this skill.  Continue to challenge your child at home ("There are 4 plates on our table, is that even or odd?" or "you can play xBox for 31 minutes, is that even or odd?"), the repetition aids in facilitating proficiency!  

Jersey Day .....Wear your favorite sport jersey or Raptors wear tomorrow!

Tasty Tuesday was a success.  Thank you to Aiden's mom for providing the ingredients for this month's tasty experience! 

In our MindUp lesson today, we listened to the story, Mindful Monkey and Happy Panda. 

“Oh, I get it!” said Monkey. “Mind-full, like your mind is full of the present, full of right now. That’s definitely how I want to be!”

Library Tomorrow!

Today during our MindUp lesson, students reviewed the 3 parts of the brain and listened to the story, When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang. After reading the book, we discussed how reflecting rather than reacting can have a positive effect on our behavior.

Wise Owl - Prefontal Cortex

Guard Dog - Amygdala

Happy Hippo - Hioppocampus

Reminders:

• Friday, November 25th is Jersey Day!

We are boarded and ready for take off!

Air Canada Flight 018

Bus Selfie! Here we come, Meteghan!

We are excited to be exploring and learning about Meteghan for the next few weeks!! 

A whole bunch of catching up....

This week, we launched the first of 15 MindUp lessons.  MindUp is a research based mindfulness curriculum.  Over the next 8 weeks, students will learn about attention, self-regulation, building resilience towards stress and maintaining a growth mindset.  The program has been the focus of the Black Gold CAP team for the past two years, and we are excited to be using it, alongside Zones of Regulation, again this year.  

Students learned three parts of their brains and a character that they can relate to each: amygdala (guard dog), hippocampus (happy hippo), and the prefrontal cortex (wise owl).

This afternoon, the Grade 2s researched the weather in Meteghan in preparation for our big "flight" tomorrow.  We learned that the weather today was 10C and students created puppets that wore weather appropriate clothing to take with us tomorrow. Students had their passport photos taken this afternoon, hoping they arrive in time for our "flight" tomorrow.

In Math this week, students completed 24 Number Scoots, where they had to identify the number that is missing on a number line.  They also recorded numbers that were hidden by snakes, on a hundreds chart.