Another short week last week!  I guess we just weren’t meant to have a full week of school in February L  While we have missed several days this year, there is still lots of the school year left and we are on track curriculum wise.

We are excited to welcome Bentley back to our class this week.  When we return from March Break we will be welcoming a new student, Jayden, to our little family.

We had a great time last week at the Superstore.  We learned about the 3 star rating system, which body parts/systems benefit from the different colours of produce and the importance of making informed food choices.  We bought ingredients for blueberry muffins, which we baked and shared with the rest of the school the next day.  During baking we talked about fractions and the importance of reading a recipe accurately.  Real life application of literacy and math lessons are the best!

Literacy:  Please continue to listen to your child read/read to them each night.  When you are reading with your child try stopping throughout the book to ask them questions about what is happening, how they think the characters are feeling and if there are words that they don’t understand.  We are focusing on making personal connections to the story during our read alouds. 

Our No Excuses words for this week are: after, before, could, some and when.  We will continue learning about contractions.  While you are reading you can have your child look for contractions and ask them what words were put together to make that contraction.  We will be reading books about Valentine’s Day this week.

In writing we are working on adding details to our writing using adjectives.  We want to paint a picture in the reader’s head.  They are loving writing ‘stretch sentences’.  I give them a simple sentence and they write their own detailed version.  When we share with the class we can see how different people can interpret the same thing in different ways.      Ex: The girl ate.

The little girl ate breakfast with her mom in the early morning at a hotel.  This would be a great activity to practice over the break as it’s quick and can even be done verbally while you wait in line at the grocery store.

Math:  This week our numbers will be 99-102.  You can ask your child to show you the number as tens and ones, get them to skip count to that number, make an addition or subtraction equation with that number as the answer, etc.  We have started using coins to represent our number of the day as well. 

We decided to celebrate the 100^th day of school today (even though it’s only day 99).  We estimated quantities, did activities with the hundreds chart and had a special scavenger hunt.

We are continuing to work on doubles and doubles plus one facts and on representing numbers to 100 in several different ways.  Please practice skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. Students are continuing to work on identifying coins by their name and value.  Some students are beginning to work on adding two digit numbers while others are continuing to work on building their mental math strength with sums to 20. 

Our math lead Mrs. Thomas introduced us to a website that the class loved!  Gregtangmath.com has several games that are at our level and the website will work on a tablet.  If you’re looking for extra practice over the break you can also play abcya.com on a desktop/laptop.  It’s another favourite.

Dates to Remember

Monday, February 25: Papa John’s

Tuesday, February 26: Tots n Taters,Tuesday breakfast program

                                           Cat in the Hat Day

Wednesday, February 27: Library Books due

                                                   Pink Shirt Day, Wacky Wednesday (formerly Mixed Up Monday)

Thursday, February 28: Great Canadian Bagel

                                             Lorax Day- Wear orange/moustache (they have stick ons at Dollarama)

                                             Outside activities- Dress to be outside for the afternoon.

Friday, March 1: Tots n Taters

The Sleep Book Day- Wear a fresh pair of PJs, skating.  If students don’t want to wear their PJs to the rink they are welcome to bring a pair to school to change into after we get back.

Dr Seuss movie with the whole school in the afternoon.

Monday, March 4: March Break!  Have a great week with your child!

Have a great week!​