Good Morning Everyone,
Welcome back to all the parents and children. Over the last few weeks I have heard some great stories about your Spring Break and now we are all settled and ready to continue our third term!
We had a belated start to our Frog unit as the first week back was filled with a lot of exciting activities. We had a free presentation from a local folk singer named "Eric" who sang for forty five minutes, a whole bunch of folk songs that represented a variety of music. He played his guitar and his banjo. The children loved it. Because it turned April while we were gone we also decided to do some rain art and some rain writing. We looked at the cherry blossoms and did some cherry blossom poetry.And of course we worked on our math.The grade two's are now beginning their final unit on math which will take them into double digit adding and subtracting with regrouping and carrying. We will start with our adding and carrying.Please practice this new strategy at home with them. Practice makes perfect. With the grade ones we will be solidifying our knowledge of adding and subtracting to 15, learning and memorizing our doubles and working on different strategies for adding besides using our fingers.
This week:
1. On Wednesday we will have an author visit in the library. Her name is Fiona Bayrock. She is the author of "Bubble Homes and Fish Tails". She mainly writes factual books. I am sure this will be a very fascinating author visit. It will take place at 940 on Wednesday as a result our gym time will be moved to Thursday at 905am.
2.On Thursday our report cards will be sent home. Please keep the inside (the report card) but send back the envelope signed. Last term a few were not returned and we do need to have them.
3. Over the year Catriona has come in as part of a SPEC program to deliver a set of gardening lessons. Right now our garden at the church is sprouting like crazy. The lettuce is up, the radishes are growing, there are long garlic leaves. It is sooo exciting to watch it grow. This next Monday Catriona will be coming in to discuss flowers and the necessity of the flower on plants. For this lesson we are asking if any parent can go to an Iga or Safeway and see if they might want to donate a class set of flowers to our class...preferable ones with visible stamens...ie. tulips/lilies or a combination of them...they do not have to be in the best of shape, petals can be falling off etc....If anyone can do that it would be greatly appreciated. Also for our next set of lessons I will be needing $5.oo from each child to pay for this wonderful program. All money goes directly to SPEC. Send the money in a ziplock, with the name marked on the baggie. Thank you.
Thank you to
1. Chloe's mom and dad for helping us out on Friday. They helped us plant our indoor seeds. We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis, basil and lettuce. These are the seeds that need to start indoors before they can be transplanted and sent outdoors. They will join our SPUDS in tubs that are already sitting by the windows. WE will be watching all of our plants grow and will be looking forward to the harvesting that we will be getting to do in June. Our tummies are grumbling already.
Have you seen the Daffodils?
The daffodils that we planted outside are in full bloom. This is perfect for April as it is Daffodil Month, and Cancer Awareness month. As a result we have made a bunch of daffodils with our buddy class which you will see through out the school and the hallways. So not only are they outside but inside as well!
With that,
Feel free to come in anytime and take a peek at our growing children, our growing spuds and our growing seeds. It is an exciting and wonderful time in our classroom!
Teri
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