Friday, May 17

Hello Families!

Important Dates:

May 20 - Victoria Day (no school)
June 3rd - 7th - Coulee School (we will be in the Coulee for at least some part of each day during this 

week)*

*A link for a sign up genius will be coming home for volunteers for this week. 

Our learning:

Literacy:

• We learned about contractions and completed a word sort to reinforce our knowledge about this concept as well as completing another making words out of a mystery word.  See how many words you can make out of the word "flowers"
•  We continued practicing our printing to ensure that our writing is clear to the reader.
• In writing, we learned about acrostic poems and worked with a partner to use the word spring to create a poem using double and triple school word sentences.  
• Later in the week, we created our own acrostic poem using the word flowers.  We examined a rubric to help us understand what success looks like, which included using single/double school words, connecting words to the topic, begin to use descriptive writing devices (ie. similes) as well and using proper finger spaces, punctuation and clear printing. 

Math:

• In grade two, we used our knowledge of 2-digit addition and subtraction to solve word problems.
• We are also strengthening our understanding of equality and inequality and used pan balance to balance equations. 
• In grade one, we have begun learning about fractions and the term one-half. 
  
• We are learning to recognize breaking shapes into different equal parts.  

Inquiry:

• We have begun a Mars inquiry!
• We have started by discussing the components of Earth.  Ask your child these different components.  We then watched videos on Mars and make a list of comparisons of what we have on Earth vs. what has been discovered on Mars. 
• We will continue next week asking ourselves Can we live on Mars?
• We had 14 Chrysalides change into butterflies!  We so enjoyed watching them change and grow, however yesterday we did need to release them into their true home in the wild. 
• We thanked them and said our goodbyes (there may have been a few tears) and released them in the field.  If you see any Painted Lady butterflies around your flowers, they might just be ours.