Hello Families!
Some Important Dates:
May 17 - Non instructional day (no school)
May 20 - Non instructional day (no school)
We will go for a Coulee Walk next Friday May 3rd at 9am - 11am. If anyone is interested in volunteering please email Mrs Day or Mrs. Khan.
Our learning:
Literacy
- This week during our writer's workshop we learned all about what similes are and how to use them in our writing.
- We wrote similes about Spring and later in the week we described what we like about ourselves using similes. Ask your child what their favourite simile was that they wrote about themselves.
- We also drew self portraits and incorporated our similes into the drawing.
Math
- In grade 1 we introduced money and how to count coins and bills. This allowed us to practice skip counting by 5s, 10s, 25 and also learned how to add the different types of coins together. Take a look at some pictures below of us counting.
- We also introduced fact families to work on our addition and subtraction skills and learned what relationships different numbers have to each other. Noticing the patterns using fact families helped strengthen our understanding of how parts can be added to make a whole and how a part can be taken away from a whole number to give us another part.
- In grade 2, we introduced 2 digit addition (ex. 25 + 42) and learned different strategies such as skip counting using a 100s chart, using base 10 blocks and an open number line to strengthen our understanding on how to add 2 digit numbers as well as working on regrouping with bigger numbers.
Inquiry:
- During social, we continued to learn more about the Acadian communities and how they use natural resources and turn them into goods for example, turning lobster into food.
- This week we had a special guest come in to talk to our kids about Earth Day - Mrs. Khan's husband! Take a look at the pictures below.
- The kids learned about how a sustainability engineer helps to sustain our Earth's life by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. We had a great discussion to see how we can make an impact to take care of our environment and how to be kind to the land.
- We also made a Earth Day pledge on what we will to take care of the environment and did an art piece of a globe to celebrate Earth Day.
