Mme Varughese's Grade 1/2 Blog

  Playing race to 100 in math! Students roll the dice and practice saying the words in french to 100, (or 30 for Grade 1s!). First one to 100 wins!  In social studies, we are working on identifying the differences between urban and rural! Students are working together to identify elements of urban communities and take roles in designing specific objects to bring together for a class piece.  In FLA, we have been practicing speaking using structured prompts, as well as writing and labeling in their journals fall vocabulary.  In PE we have been playing various games of tag!  In art, we have worked a piece on fall leaves. 

 Here are some highlights of our week together!  Terry Fox Run  Completing our social studies project on belonging. We talked about our families, school, and groups we belong to, then filled in our bodies!  Themes on belonging to our community. Discussing how to be a good friend and student.  (I belong here). 

We are so excited to be doing our Terry Fox Run tomorrow! Please remind students to wear good running shoes and clothes! Below is more information regarding the event.  Tuscany School will be participating in the Terry Fox Run this year on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 22nd. Students will be taking part in a virtual warm-up video in their classrooms to kick off this event followed by the run around the school and community field during staggered times throughout the afternoon.  Terry’s goal when he started his Marathon of Hope was for every Canadian to donate $1 for cancer research. Inspired by Terry’s goal, Tuscany School has set a goal for our Terry Fox Run this year to raise “A Toonie for Terry” for every staff and student to donate to The Terry Fox Foundation for cancer research. Please consider sending your child with a Toonie on the day of the run to donate to this important cause. If families would like to donate online to The Terry Fox Foundation, donations may...

 Bonjour!  Here are some highlights from our week!  Tracing our bodies and filling them with places we belong: family, school, and next week we will continue with groups (clubs, sports, music, etc)!  Looking at and creating patterns in art!  Finding and sketching what small creatures belong to our community.  Looking into next week.... -We will be having our terry fox run on Wednesday, September 22nd.  -On Thursday and Friday, September 23rd & 24th, we will be having our Virtual Open House!  -You can find details for both events in your emails and the Tuscany School Website!  -Students have received an invitation in their school email to join our GoogleClassroom. Please accept the invite and practice logging-in!

  Bonjour! Today we had our first visit to the library! Our library day is Tuesday. Please bring books back to school before Tuesday of the following week so that students can sign out new books each week!  We talked to students about taking good care of books such as not folding pages, spilling water bottles, or having them chewed by pets! Please remind students to take care and have so much fun reading!

  Bonjour! Oki! Welcome!  I am so excited to be teaching our wonderful class of Grade 1-2s this year! We have an amazing group of students who are so keen to learn and make our classroom a wonderful environment. We have had lots of fun already learning about classroom routines and expectations, and learning to be a good friend. Our guiding concept has been 'belonging' which we have been looking at how we all belong to our classroom community and how we can also make sure others feel like they belong. Ask your student one way they can make our class somewhere everyone is seen (hint: ask them to tell you about 'The Invisible Boy')! We have made beautiful number lines out of beads (see below) to help support us in math this year, and we have explored lots of great books as a class. We can't wait to show off more of our amazing learning! Stay tuned!