March 15/24

 It was great to meet with you this week to celebrate your child's learning and set goals for this last term.  

Div. 13 was very engaged, creative and productive building their leprechaun traps!  Thanks for sending in such great supplies.  I was so impressed with their problem solving and their final products! These are some pictures of our assembly process.  The students also did an excellent job explaining how their traps would work.  I'll be anxious to hear if any are successful catching one of those sneaky leprechauns!

Our field trip on April 10th to Garibaldi Secondary 'Yes Chef' is now on the portal please sign up, we do need parent drivers and the cost is $5.00.   

 

ENJOY!

                                                   
                    

March 8/24

If anyone is able to make some play dough for the class that would be great.  We need both some green and some red for some upcoming projects.  If so please email me, thank you!

One week til spring break but Div. 13 will still be busy...

Please practise your child's Reader's Workshop books as we will be presenting the next few days. Thanks for your support with these.

I changed my mind and we will be doing Spelling.  Lesson 6 is a review of all the vowels, with double the number of words so we will do it over two weeks.   Your child will only be copying 1/2 the words this week, the rest once they are back, and will not bring their duotangs home to finish until the first Wednesday in April and their quiz will be on Friday, April 5.  This is a good opportunity to master all the short vowels.  Check out the Spelling City link on the side of this website for more practise.  

Conferences are this Wednesday afternoon (early dismissal at 11:30) and Thursday all day.  Please sign up on the parent portal.                                  The conference will be a 30-minute commitment, you should ARRIVE  for the time slot you signed up for (1st 15 minutes with your child in the hall to celebrate and go through their work and then up to 15 minutes with me and your child to discuss their report card and set goals for our next term).  I am hoping to meet in person, If you are not able to do this please email so we can set up a different time as I really hope to meet with all of you to celebrate your  child's learning.

Friday, March 15th - Wear Green in honour of St. Patrick's Day on Sunday. We will be building leprechaun traps so have your child think of materials they want to include and bring them in on Friday. We will be brainstorm ideas and making some plans earlier in the week.   I already have toilet paper rolls.  

March 1/24

Div. 13 conferences are posted, you should have received an email from the Parent Portal. March 13 & 14^th are our conference days. Once again, the conference will be a 30-minute commitment, you should ARRIVE  for the time slot you signed up for (1st 15 minutes with your child in the hall to celebrate and go through their work and then up to 15 minutes with me and your child to discuss their report card and set goals for our next term).  I am hoping to meet in person, If you are not able to do this please email so we can set up a different time as I really hope to meet with all of you to celebrate your  child's learning.

100 Day was fun, we did a lot of math discussing all the different ways to make 100, lots of addition, multiplication, and money.  Thanks for your help for the 100 items to be worn, we had a wide variety from fruit loops, stickers on t-shirt and hats, and rainbow loom necklaces, bracelets!  This week we finished our moose art projects, our 100 Day art, writing and focused on the importance of kindness. We discussed why this is a leap year, how many days in a year, explaining fractions 1/2 and 1/4 and the earth's orbit around the sun,  please ask/review at this at home. 

Thanks to Mila for bringing in a hummingbird nest, it was so cool to see! A life time opportunity!

Two weeks until spring break... 

Great Canadian projects will continue.  Your children continue to amaze me, they really are special Canadians!

We will continue to do work on our Canada unit and in math we continue to focus on place value, addition with/without regrouping and review of basic +/- facts, and money.