Hello Families!
Important Dates:
May 8 - Hats on for Mental Health
May 17 - Non Instructional Day (no school)
May 20 - Victoria Day (no school)
Our learning:
Literacy:
- We are continuing to build our spelling and reading skills by engaging in word sorts as well as making words. This is when we give the students a mystery word and they have to make as many words out of those letters as possible (ex. mystery words: pictures and spinach). See how many words your child can make out of these words.
- We have added a new centre to our daily 6 literacy tasks where we practiced our no excuse words (words we read or write automatically).
- In writing ,we learned about personifications and how we can use them to make our writing more interesting. Ask you child to tell you what a personification is and an example of one they created.
Math:
- In grade one, we completed estimation tasks as well as math games to help strengthen our addition and subtraction fluency. We also practiced the variety of strategies to add and subtract numbers to 20.
- In grade two, we learned and practiced subtracting 2 - digit numbers using intuitive procedures.
- The strategies that we learned included subtracting in parts, subtracting by adding, overlaying, compensating and subtracting by using related subtraction expressions.
- We also engaged in mathematical problem solving tasks throughout the week.
Inquiry:
- You may have heard we have caterpillars!! We have been so excited to watch them eat and eat and eat and some of them are starting to change.
- We have been learning about these caterpillars, their life cycles and metamorphosis. We are so looking forward to watching them grow and change. Ask your child what stage will be happening next.
- On our Coulee walk we attempted to find crocuses as we have been learning about them in the classroom. However, due to the mud we had to turn around before we found any flowers. It was a fun and exciting walk regardless!
- In the classroom, we created crocus art and heard about the story of the crocuses. Ask your child to retell the story.
