Division 10's News of the Week

Good Morning everyone!I hope everyone is enjoying some of this crazy spring weather. Yesterday in one day, in a matter of one hour we had extreme wind, some hail, some snow, some rain and then ending the day with sunshine. If one is outside it is difficult to know what to wear! My hair was in a mass of knots after all that!! But it sure was fun! We have been enjoying this spring weather and all the changes and have taken the opportunity to get outside whenever we can to observe the changes that the Spring weather is bringing for us. On Tuesday we looked at a few plants just on the periphery of the portables. The children were invited to sketch two plants of their choice. They could choose to draw the blackberry bush, the raspberry plants, the grapevine, the apple trees in blossom or the rhubarb plant. I had the children sit around the rhubarb plant and really take a look at how it grows. It is a very interesting plant where the stem is the edible part, much like the celery. I told them also that the leaf of the rhubarb is toxic and that they should never put anything into their mouths unless their parents okay it first. I have rhubarb starting to grow in my yard and I will bring some in once it gets mature and send some home for you and your child to try. They were pretty excited about that! WE have been doing a lot of plant science and will continue to do this for the next few months. We have been watching our plants grow inside. The potato plant is huge and is following the sunshine. On Friday we hilled it. Ask your child what that means. In other news....The grade twos are really coming along at adding double digits where they need to carry the one. They think its easy!! and FUN!! Meanwhile the grade ones are learning that two parts of a number equals the whole...and they are also loving math!! We write every day in one form or another. This week we were writing lots of things to do about rain!! We have started a poetry unit and all wrote rain poems. WE did some descriptive writing about rain and read a lovely book about the Umbrella by Jan Brett. The children brought home their Jan Brett Author study on Friday. Hopefully you had a chance to take a look at it and see how their writing has improved! Finally just a few reminders: 1) we will be having individual pictures this Friday, they will be outside. 2) I have requested a virtual FireHall tour so that will be happening on Friday as well. 3) I will not be at school on Tuesday, we will be having a guest teacher, please go over respectful behaviours with our guest teachers 4) Please send in your egg carton and your seeds by April 22nd. And with that..enjoy the numerous pictures. I love taking them and they love having them taken. See you all tomorrow. Enjoy your sunday! xo teri