Thank you to everyone who made the time to come to student led conferences last week.  I know it meant a lot to your children that you cared about and celebrated their learning.

Please remember to send an extra pair of socks and mitts with your child as I foresee a lot of soggy recesses in the future.  Students are also welcome to leave a change of clothes in the classroom.

Please remember to complete the report card reflection page and return it in the report card envelop as soon as possible.

Literacy:  Please continue to listen to your child read/read to them each night.  When you are reading with your child try stopping throughout the book to ask them questions about what is happening, how they think the characters are feeling and if there are words that they don’t understand.  We are focusing on making personal connections to the story during our read alouds. 

We are reviewing nouns, verbs and adjectives during word work. We are also revisiting the long and short vowel sounds during mini lessons.

In writing we are working on adding details to our writing using adjectives.  We want to paint a picture in the reader’s head.  We are also working on editing our writing pieces. 

Math:  This week our numbers will be 121-125.  You can ask your child to show you the number as tens and ones, get them to skip count to that number, make an addition or subtraction equation with that number as the answer, etc. 

Some students are working on adding two digit numbers while others are continuing to work on building their mental math strength with sums to 20.  We are also practicing subtraction strategies. In addition to finding the correct answer students should also be able to explain their thinking and show the strategy they used.  We’re beginning to work on solving and writing our own word problems.  We will continue working on our measurement unit.  This week we will be creating our bar and pictographs based on the data we collected last week.

YAYW: We will be learning about the life cycles of animals such as frogs, butterflies and birds and the life cycles of plants.  We will also continue learning about bees.  I am looking to gather some examples of older technology to share during our unit on changes in technology.  Things that I’m looking for include: record player, Walkman, corded phone (rotary dial if possible), film camera, etc.

Dates to Remember

Monday, April 8: Papa John’s

Tuesday, April 9: Tots n Taters, breakfast program   

Wednesday, April 10: Library books due, Movie night form and money due

Thursday, April 11: Great Canadian Bagel

Friday, April 12:  Tots n Taters, Book orders due, Family Movie Night: Hop 6:00

Have a great week!​