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The Great Canadian Mail Race
The Great Canadian Mail Race is a project in which students “race” to get letters across the country to as many different provinces and territories as possible before the end of the school year. This ongoing activity reinforces letter writing skills, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure, as well as map skills in a fun and interesting way!
The Grade three class was lucky enough to receive a letter from Migizi Wazisin Elementary School in Long Lac, Ontario. Our class then returned a letter to them. Each student then wrote a letter to a randomly selected school anywhere in Canada.
So far, two of our Heschel students have received letters in return!
What excitement!
We hope that all 23 students receive letters in return and gain a possible pen pal!
Check out the location of Migizi Wazisin Elementary School :
Excitement in the Grade Two Classroom
Dear Parents,
We are very excited that as part of the Language Arts Programme, the Grade Two students are collaborating with the Grade Twelve students from Ulpanat Orot to write and illustrate a children’s story book.
The Grade Two students will choose the characters, help create the plot and illustrate the story. The Grade Twelve students will put it all together and turn it into a picture book!
The girls from Ulpanat Orot are friendly, kind and eager to work with our students. They visited our classroom on Wednesday for Language Arts and plan on coming a few more times. Please ask your children about their experience so far. We can’t wait to see the final product!
As part of our Generative Topic, “Water, Water, Wonderful Water”, the children are learning about different aspects of water. The students are listening to a dripping tap, rain stick and different sounds of water in order to make personal connections from their real life experiences. They are engaged in a “stream of consciousness” form of writing, as their pencil keeps moving and their ideas are being shared. They have started to revise and self-edit their work.
During SES, the students are taking on the role of scientists and are involved in various water experiments. They are using the Scientific Method as they are making hypotheses, recording their steps and forming conclusions about the three states of matter. During Tu B’shvat, the students participated in a water audit and checked to see which classrooms had leaking taps, missing aerators and missing signs. As well, they are excited to share their results from their “at home” water audit with their classmates.
Take a look at the photos below to see the students in action at High Park Nature Centre. They discussed the process of water infiltration and the importance of saving water. They also looked at various trees and learned about animals. The students had a lot to share about their great experience!
The Grade Two Team
Tu B’Shvat Celebrations
Last week the SK classes celebrated Tu B’Shvat. We had a beautiful seder in each class where we sang and ate fruits from Israel.
The students followed a Tu B’Shvat seder haggadah.
We spent the week learning about the environment and how we can protect it. SK-A focused on litter and how to reduce it and SK-B focused on how to include the 3R’s (Reduce, Re-use, Recycle) into their classroom. Both classes sorted garbage and determined where different kinds of garbage belongs (e.g. Blue Bin, Black Bin, Green Bin).
Here are some photos from our Tu B’Shvat celebration:
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