LITERACY
Our read alouds have been super exciting these days! We are LOVING Elephant Secret! We have had some pretty amazing discussions at the carpet in the morning and the students are always sad when I close the book and return it to my shelf. You should ask your child what the big secret was in the book! They all gasped when I revealed a huge surprise!
We are just finishing up our individual paragraphs and should be publishing them this week! We will be going on to our next theme in our mini writing lessons this week focusing on word choice!
FINE MOTOR TIME WITH AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT
Mrs. Brenda came in for two consecutive weeks to work with the students on sizing and spacing of their letters in both printing and handwriting. We all know how to form our letters in handwriting now so it's time to get a bit picky about the proper sizing of each letter. Mrs. Brenda completed many activities with the students and they all enjoyed the experience! We will continue to reinforce these lessons until the end of the year.
NUMERACY
This week we looked at rounding two digit numbers to the nearest ten. Students learned how to:
- determine the multiple of ten that comes before and after a given number (ie; for the number 46, 40 comes before and 50 comes after)
- determine whether a number is going to round up or down depending on the ones digit (0-4 round down, 5-9 round up)
SCIENCE
This week we tested beam designs and pillars. For the Beam VS Beam challenge, the students were comparing the strength of three different beam designs: accordion, box girder and rectangular beams. For the pillar challenge, students were comparing the strength of cylindrical pillars, rectangular pillars and triangular pillars.
On Tuesday, we have Mr. Caron coming to spend the afternoon with us and we will be focusing on building bridges! We can't wait! Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to come and help us out!
PE
We have been focusing on kicking skills in PE! The students are working on kicking with the inside of her foot instead of with the toe.
OIL KINGS GAME
We had so much fun at the Oil Kings game!!!
Thank you to everyone who came out!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
- please log on to your PowerSchool account and pay the $6 fee for the Building Bridges workshop
- Building Bridges workshop is on Tuesday from 12:45 to 2:15
- Spell-A-Thon money is due on Tuesday
- Spell-A-Thon Wrap Up Assembly is on Thursday
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