Last week of school!

June 27-29th

Wow! It’s the last 3 days of school already! What an incredible year of memories and learning with our children!

Here are the last few events of the year:

• Monday, June 27th - CGE Assembly 10:45-11:30am
• Monday, June 27th - Report Cards go home
• Tuesday, June 28th - Primary Talent Show 1:00-2:00pm
• Tuesday, June 28th - Junior Talent Show 2:30-3:30pm
• Wednesday, June 29th - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!

School work and notebooks are going home on Monday. Please send in a reusable bag for your child.

Also, please return all library books.

It has been an amazing year. I have loved watching your children grow, learn, and come into their own this year. I have been so fortunate to be part of the St.Cecilia community for the past 3 years. If you didn't already know, I will no longer be teaching at St.Cecilia next year. I will be teaching grade 1 at the new school down the road, St.Benedict. I am full of mixed feelings, happy to start a new adventure but sad to be leaving the large family I have been part of. I just want to say a HUGE THANK YOU for such a wonderful year with your beautiful children and all of your support.

I hope you all have a safe, wonderful summer!

Your partner in learning,

Tiffany Lawless

June 20-24

Hello everyone!

There are only 8 days of school left! Today is also the first official day of summer!! Yippeeeee!!!

The Jump Rope for Heart event was a HUGE success! We had a lot of fun skipping and raising money for a great cause! I hope you had a chance to see our pics on Twitter.

In Math, we are reviewing all our math strands through math workstations with Mrs. D'Ettorre's that I have set-up. The children are very engaged in these activities and it is a great review of our year’s math learning.

We continue to learn about narrative stories through read-alouds. The children are almost finished sharing the story they wrote and illustrated, based on the pattern book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”.

In Gym, we will do fitness stations and parachute games this week.

Please remember to ensure that you have returned any outstanding library books on Monday.

Since the weather is getting hot and sunny, it might be wise to apply sunscreen to your child before school and make sure they have a hat and a reusable water bottle at school. A water bottle would be great for these hot days!

Have a great week!

Tiffany Lawless

June 13-17

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a great weekend. There are only 13 more days of school left… can we make it?!! :)

*** WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR OUR LAST NANNY SUE CRAFT THIS WEDNESDAY… IT IS OUR FATHER’S DAY CRAFT BLOCK 3****

There will be no more NEW word wall words this years. I am sending home a recap of all the words we learned throughout the year and I promised the kids we would do a little spelling bee closer to the last week of school… just for fun!

In Language this week we will be continuing to work on writing and exploring narratives.

In Math we are continuing to work on probability and fractions.

UPCOMING DATES:

Wednesday June 15: Ottawa PublIc Library presentation 2nd block

Wednesday June 15: Nanny Sue Craft block 3

Thursday June 16: End of year Mass (done by the grade 1’s) block 2

I hope you all have a great week and if there are any questions or concerns don’t hesitate to put a not in the agenda!

Tiffany Lawless

June 6-9

Hi everyone!

Welcome to our final week of word wall words! Woo hoo!

Our WWW this week are:

1. brother
2. sister
3. tell
4. day
5. away

A few quick reminders:

1. We are still in desperate need of some 10 oz/250 ml soup cans for our very last Nanny Sue craft. If you have any please send them in as soon as possible.

2. Jump Rope for heart is this Wednesday,June 8th. Please make sure to get your pledge forms in. Also please make sure your child has running shoes to skip with and wear red that day. Thanks

In Language we are continuing with learning about what a narrative is. We are learning about characters, setting, problem, and solutions. The children have been working collaboratively to write their own narrative. This week they will make props for their story so they can act it out in our classroom theatre!

In math we are continuing looking at algebra questions. For example: 3+__= 6. We will also study fractions this week (½ and ¼ ).

In Science we are continuing to look at living things as well as energy sources.

Upcoming Dates:

1. Nanny Sue craft Wednesday June 15th
2. EQAO testing grade 3 and 6 - All done by Tuesday, June 7th
3. Jump Rope for Heart June 8th LAST BLOCK for Grade 1(Rain date is Thursday, June 9th)
4. School Council Meeting - Tuesday, June 7th 6:30-8:30pm
5. Library - Wednesday, June 8th
6. PD DAY - Friday, June 10th - No school

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to drop me a line in the agenda!

Have a great week!

Tiffany Lawless

May 30- June 3

Hi everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful warm weekend we just had. Hopefully it will cool off a little soon, we still have a month of school left before summer!!

A few quick reminders:

1. We are still in desperate need of some 10 oz/250 ml soup cans for our very last Nanny Sue craft. If you have any please send them in as soon as possible.
2. Jump Rope for heart is next week June 8. Please make sure to get your pledge forms in.

3. There will be NO MORE homework for the rest of the year!
4. The last scholastic order of the year is due THIS Thursday June 2nd. Ordering from scholastic can me  much more cost effective than Chapters... trust me I know! :)

Our WWW this week are:

1. Night
2. Give
3. About
4. Family
5. Once
6. zoo

In Language we are continuing with learning about what a narrative is. We are learning about characters, setting, problem, and solutions. The children are going to come up with some of their own narratives and present them to the class.

In math we are continuing with word problems. We will also be looking at algebra questions. For example: 3+__= 6

In Science we are continuing to look at living things as well as energy sources.

*****Family Life:
This week during last block we will be doing our family life unit Created Sexualy. The note did go home to let you know about it last week but I just wanted to give you a reminder. We will be focusing on this unit during the last block of every day.

Upcoming Dates:

1. Nanny Sue craft Wednesday June 15th
2. EQAO testing grade 3 and 6 This week and next.
3. Jump Rope for Heart June 8th

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to drop me a line in the agenda!

Have a great week!

Tiffany Lawless

May 24th-27th

Happy short week everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather this weekend and spent time outside with the family!!

Tuesday May 24 is class picture day! Can’t wait to see all the beautiful smiles!

This week’s WWW are:

1. more
2. people
3. always
4. pretty
5. nice

Tomorrow Wednesday May 25th is our field trip to Baxter conservation area. While on our trip, we will be doing two studies. One will be a pond study and the other will be a animal and habitat study. Please make sure your child is wearing a hat, sunscreen (bug spray) and a pair of shoes they can get wet or muddy in (rain boots are ideal). Also, please make sure to pack them a hearty litterless lunch as well as a water bottle. Tomorrow should be a great day!

Language

Starting this week we will be learning about narratives. We are going to introduce what a narrative is and what makes a narrative. We will also be continuing with recounts and persuasive texts.

Math

Since this is a shorter week we are going to be continuing on with word problems.

Science

Last week we started looking at living things and non-living things. On Friday we did a living things/non-living things hunt outside in our school yard and it was amazing to see what the children found! Check out twitter last week for our findings.

Important Dates:

Tues. May 24- Class photo

Wed. May 25- Field trip to Baxter Conservation

Have a fabulous week!

Tiffany Lawless

May 16-20

Hello everyone.

We had a FABULOUS afternoon Friday watching our movie and eating our ice cream sundaes! A BIG congratulations to the students for doing an amazing job during our read-a-thon!!

Nanny Sue is planning our last craft for June and she is looking for 10 ounce empty cans. If you can help us collect some that would be great! Thanks

Here are this week’s word wall words.

1. don’t

2. won’t

3. yes

4. just

5. many

We have 3 more weeks after this week. That means just another 16 more words to learn. Please take time during the week to practise these words. They occur very often in texts your child reads. Learning how to read these words will help your child with his/her writing as well. Keep up the good work!

In Math, we will continue to work on solving word problems using pictures, numbers and words. Children will focus on learning key words in the word problem which indicates the math operation (addition or subtraction).

In Science, we are exploring living things and their needs. We will go outside and see what they can find in our school yard.

Important Dates:

Tuesday, May 17th - CGE Assembly at 1:00pm

Thursday, May 19th - Kindergarten Welcome Night, 5:30-7:00pm

Wednesday, May 25th - Library Exchange

Wednesday, May 25th - Gr. 1 Trip to Baxter Conservation (more info to follow)

If you have any questions or concerns, please write me a note in your child’s agenda.

Have a great week!

Tiffany Lawless

May 9-13

I hope everyone had a great Mother’s day weekend and you enjoyed your beautiful gifts!

A big thank you to all of you who helped your children read and reach their class and cousin class goal over the last two weeks! The students really worked hard to get their bubbles and because of that Mrs.D’Ettorre and I are rewarding them with a pj/ movie/stuffy afternoon this Friday May 13th. Also, since they reached their cousin goal of 700 books they will also be getting ice cream! (we will be buying the Chapman brand ice cream since it seems to be the safest with our friends and allergies). Congratulations to all of you for working so hard.

Our New Word Wall Words this week are:

1.would

2.how

3.could

4.which

5.should

In Language this week we will be continuing to learn about writing a persuasive letter. We wrote our persuasive letter last week to Mrs.Fulton’s class asking them to join us for a tech block in our room. We can’t wait to get their response!

In Math we are continuing to focus number sense and numeration. We are going to be working on new word problems and making sure we answer showing all of our thinking (using pictures, numbers and words).

Important Dates:

Thursday May 12- Library at 3 pm

Friday May 27- Field trip to Baxter Conservation

If you have any questions or concerns, please write me a note in your child’s agenda! Have a fabulous week!

Tiffany Lawless

May 2-6

HAPPY EDUCATION WEEK!!!!

Read-a-Thon

We are continuing our two-week read-a-thon this week and it ends on Friday, May 6th. Please encourage your child to read each night. You only need to initial or sign each book or chapter and then your child will get a white sticky bubble to add to the fish they coloured last week. Our hope is that the bubbles will reach to the top of the majestic blue ocean we created on two of our hallway walls. The children are really excited to see their bubbles climb up the ocean wall! If we reach our class goal of 500 books, they get a movie and pyjama day. If we reach our goal along with our cousin class (Mrs. D'Ettorre) and together we read 700 books, then we both get a movie, pyjama, stuffy and ice cream block! (With Maybe a few surprises! )

In Language, we will focus on persuasive writing and write a persuasive letter to Mrs. Fulton's class trying to persuade them to do an activity with us. Activity is yet to be determined by our class.

In Science, we have been learning about structures and what makes them strong. We will talk about nature structures this week. We have also discussed different types of energy and the importance of conserving energy. We will create a Chatterpix about energy conservation and/or helping our environment this week.

Here are this week’s word wall words.

1. that

2. there

3. them

4. these

5. thing

 

In Math, we will be completing various word problems this week. They will be expected to show their thinking using pictures, numbers and words.

Important Dates:

Monday, May 2nd to Friday, May 6th = Education Week

Monday, May 2nd - Education Week Liturgy (1:00-2:10pm)

Wednesday, May 4th - Nanny Sue Activity

Thursday, May 5th - Open House (8:00-9:10am)

Friday, May 6th - CHEO Fundraiser (Wear PJ’s for a toonie for CHEO)

Wednesday, May 11th - Library book exchange

*** We are looking for 10 oz EMPTY soup cans for our very last Nanny Sue craft of the year. If you can send any you have in that would be amazing! They need to be 10 oz only. Thank you !!!****

If you have any questions or concerns, please write me a note in your child’s agenda.

Here is hoping for a fun filled education week!
Tiffany Lawless

April 25-29

Read-a-Thon

We are starting our two-week read-a-thon Monday, April 25th. Please encourage your child to read each night. You only need to initial or sign each book or chapter and then your child will get a white sticky bubble to add to the fish they coloured last week. Our hope is that the bubbles will reach to the top of the majestic blue ocean we created on two of our hallway walls. Happy Reading!!

Lotto Calendars

Lotto calendars were due on Friday. If you still need to hand in money, forms or calendars please do so on Monday.

In Language, we continue to write a variety of poems. We will also start persuasive writing this week as well.

Here are this week’s word wall words.

1. fun

2. good

3. she

4. me

5. cat

6. animal

 

In Math, we will be learning about measurement and area. Students will learn how to measure using non-standard units of measurement and describe the area of different things using square units.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, April 27th - Library book exchange

May 2nd-6th - Education Week

Thursday, May 7th - Education Week Open House 8:00am-9:00am (More information to follow)

Nanny Sue is also looking for soup cans for our final craft of the year. We are asking each student to bring in one medium sized soup can if possible. Thank You very much in advance!

If you have any questions or concerns, please write me a note in your child’s agenda.

Have a fabulous week!

Tiffany Lawless