Last Day of School Excitement!

What a great way to spend the last day of Grade 1/2 with some Canadian pride, gifts and awards! We certainly were excited to finish up with a bee movie with a theme of ‘beeing’ yourself! Have the best summer break, Busy Bees!

June Estimate Jar!

 

Today, we did our final Estimate Jar for the school year!!   

Each student wrote down their estimate on their white board of how many treats were in the jar. This time they were NOT the same size or item so it made it a little more tricky as our final estimate jar challenge of the school year!  

We decided today we would count by 3's because we know counting by ones takes us a long time, and we have never counted by 3’s! 

Then for the big moment...we all took a turn going around the class and sharing our estimate. We compared numbers and how far away our estimate was from the actual total we had of the candies. We created our multiplication and repeated addition sentences to show what we know about adding groups of the same number. 

Brody, Abigail and Zoe were our winners!! They were both just 10 away from the 90 treats we had in total! Our winners knew our tradition is to share the treats with everyone in the class. So we divided them up to share practicing our division skills we have been exploring in math. Each of the class friends got 4 with our equal sharing with a remainder. The 10 remainder were split with equally but we still had one extra so Mrs. Herbert got the last one. 

Some sweet math on this last day of Grade 1/2 in the Busy Bee classroom!

Reading & Math Home Resources for Summer

  News from the Busy Bees

LANGUAGE & MATH HOME RESOURCES FOR SUMMER

Hello Busy Bee Families,

We are pleased to announce that the following language and math resources will be available for summer use for students. Play based learning shows greater results in retention for students in primary grades and some of these activities are award winning for their support in student learning. These comprehensive learning programs offer unlimited practice across thousands of skills—all of which are aligned to the provincial curriculum. These programs are adaptive and will adjust based on your child's demonstrated understanding of the material. These are great activities to continue to build on skills over the summer.  

Math Resources:

mpower.tvo.org/students (login information on the password page in your child’s planner)	https://www.teachyourmonster.org/account/users/sign_in (login information on the password page in your child’s planner - same as Teach Your Monster to Read) **Website version is free but the app may cost to download on a tablet.**

Language Resources:

RAZ Kids / Kids A-Z **Available until July 31**
www.kidsa-z.com (login information on the password page in your child’s planner) **Website and App both FREE**	www.teachyourmonster.org (login information on the password page in your child’s planner) **Website version is free but the app may cost to download on a tablet.**

Learning About Probability!

The Busy Bees have been busy learning about probability this past month. We have been talking about the chances of things happening in real life, but then also looking at various chances of things happening in certain types of play. We have been exploring spinners, dice, and different situations. Lots of fun as we reason and learn about probability. 

We also have been doing different types of probability experiments and games to explore this idea more to apply our thinking. Today, we played with smarties and completed a probability experiment determining the probability of different colours being pulled from our own bags. Then of course, we ate the experiment!! What a fun way to wrap up some math as we finish the school year!  

Play Day!

The weather cooperated so we could participate in our school wide Play Day!! It was hot but we got to cool down with some great games organized by Mrs. Parkinson and the Grade 6/7 class. Thank you to the Grade 7/8 class for leading the groups! We had a blast and finished up with some freezies as a treat! What a great way to end the day and prepare us for our last day of school tomorrow!

Summer Break Wishes From Mrs. Herbert

  

Wishing all the Grade 1/2 Busy Bee families a wonderful, safe, healthy, and rejuvenating summer break!! 

Thank you for all the wonderful work and support from home to build these little learners! It takes a village to raise such amazing little people! They have grown so much and in so many ways! You should be proud of your little one! 

To our 2024-2025 Busy Bees...Congratulations! You did it! I wish each and every one of you the very best and continued success next year!! Thank you for letting me be your teacher and learning with me. I am proud of you for all you have learned to do this school year and the wonderful character traits you are instilling in yourselves. I just know you will go on to do great things, when you put your mind to it! Have a great summer!! 

We welcome all our little learners back to school on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 for a fresh start to a new year!!

Learning Buddies Year End Celebration!

Today, we celebrated the end of the school year with our learning buddies! We wanted to say thank you to them with a special card we made and indulged in a little 'make your own' ice cream sundae party. 

We so greatly appreciate all the learning buddies have helped us do this year! We are a bunch of smarties thanks to them! 

Have a great summer to Mr. Glover's Grade 5 class!