​Bring on the April showers.  Please remember to send an extra pair of socks and mitts with your child as I foresee a lot of soggy recesses in the future.  Students are also welcome to leave a change of clothes in the classroom.

The students have been working hard to prepare for their student led conference with you.  They will be sharing work samples and demonstrating their learning.  If you are unable to make it during your assigned conference time, please let me know and we can look at rescheduling.

Please take the time to read over the report card with your child and discuss their strengths and next steps.  Remember to complete the comment sheet and return it in the envelop.  The report card is yours to keep.

We are excited to have a new classmate join us this week.  Welcome to MAS Kelsie!

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. 

We are reviewing nouns, verbs and adjectives during word work. 

In writing we are working on adding details to our writing using adjectives.  We want to paint a picture in the reader’s head.  We are also working on editing our writing pieces.  During Student Led conferences you will be introduced to Eetchy. Students are continuing to practice using this tool to describe things and demonstrate their knowledge.  Last week we used it to write about bees and we realized we knew more about bees than we thought we did.  Hunter brought in a book about bees to share with us.

Math:  This week our numbers will be 117-120.  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. 

Some students are working on adding two digit numbers while others are continuing to work on building their mental math strength with sums to 20.  We are also practicing subtraction strategies. We’re beginning to work on solving and writing our own word problems.  We will continue working on our measurement unit.  This week we will be visiting the other classes to ask them a question that students wrote last week.  We will use the results to create a bar and a pictograph to display our results. 

YAYW: Last week we wrapped up our unit on states of matter and the water cycle.  Next we will be learning about the life cycles of animals such as frogs, butterflies and birds and the life cycles of plants.  We will also continue learning about bees.  We decorated beehive box has been returned to the apiary and we are looking forward to getting updates on ‘our bees’ once the flowers blossom.

Dates to Remember

Monday, April 1: Papa John’s, report cards go home

Tuesday, April 2: Tots n Taters, breakfast program   

Wednesday, April 3: There will be no library today so students can keep their books at home.

Thursday, April 4: Great Canadian Bagel, Student Led Conferences in the evening                            

 Friday, April 5:  No school for students, Student Led Conferences in the morning

Have a great week!​