March 29-April 1

I hope you had a wonderful Easter long weekend with your family!

Just a note we have 3 confirmed cases of head lice in our class. Please make sure to check your children.

Due to the two short weeks, we will not be doing any new words this week. We will continue to study last week’s words and do a brief review of all the words to date. A copy will be sent home with your child for you to review with them. Here are last week’s words:

1. tall

2. when

3. kick

4. but

5. old

 

In Math, we will continue to learn to identify a variety of coins and make coin amounts up to 20 cents. We will open up a store for the children so that they can practice using money amounts to buy small items from our treasure box.

In Science, we will continue our exploration of various objects and the materials that they are made of (e.g. a pencil is made out of wood from trees, our chairs are made out of plastic, our school is made out of bricks etc.). We will follow this with making structures out of various materials to test their strength and durability.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, March 30th - Library exchange

Tuesday, April 5th - Easter Mass 1:30-2:30

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

Have a great week!

Tiffany Lawless

March 21-24

Welcome back from your break! I hope everyone had a restful March break.

St. Cecilia Lenten Project

Thanks to those families who have sent in a donation for our Lenten Project. The money raised will benefit refugee families who have come to live in Ottawa as well as families in Africa who don’t have access to clean water. Our children are learning that everyone at any age can make a difference in the lives of others in need. A very important life lesson! We have one more week to collect donations for this project.

Here are the new word wall words for this week and next week:

1. tall

2. when

3. kick

4. but

5. old

 

Over the next two weeks, in Math, we will finish our study of 3D solids by exploring which 3D solids can slide, roll and stack. We will also continue to learn to identify a variety of coins and make coin amounts up to 20 cents.

In Science, we will continue our exploration of various objects and the materials that they are made of (e.g. a pencil is made out of wood from trees, our chairs are made out of plastic, our school is made out of bricks etc.). We will follow this with making structures out of various materials to test their strength and durability.

Holy Week Project

The Holy Week Project is made up of a variety of students in different grades. Some grade 1’s are singing a worship song. Some grade 3’s are involved in presenting the Stations of the Cross. A group of grade 4’s are dramatizing the Last Supper and two different grade 1 and 4 classes have worked on special Holy Week art to display in the foyer area.

Our class and Ms. Lawless’s class are singing a worship song. You are welcome to come and see it but we have changed the time of the presentation. You can come see your child sing the song the song on Thursday, March 24th at 10:45-11:45am. Our song is the last part of the Holy Week presentation.

*Please have your child wear dark blue or black pants if possible. Thanks

Important Dates:

Wednesday, March 23rd - Nanny Sue craft 1:00pm

Wednesday, March 23rd - Waste-Free Wednesday

Thursday, March 24th - Holy Week Presentation 10:45am **Our worship song

Friday, March 25th - Good Friday - No School

Monday, March 28th - Easter Monday - No School

Wednesday, March 30th - Library exchange

**If anyone is able to help volunteer for Nanny Sue’s craft on Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:00pm please let us know by writing a note in your child’s agenda. Thanks

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

Have a great week!
Tiffany Lawless

March 7-12

St. Cecilia Lenten Project

Thanks to those families who have sent in a donation for our Lenten Project. The money raised will benefit refugee families who have come to live in Ottawa as well as families in Africa who don’t have access to clean water. Our children are learning that everyone at any age can make a difference in the lives of others in need. A very important life lesson!

Here are the new word wall words for this week:

1. name

2. our

3. teacher

4. goes

5. has

 

In Math, we are studying 3D solids and how they differ from 2D shapes. 3D solids are not flat like 2D shapes. They have different names to describe their properties (e.g. 2D Shapes: sides and vertices, 3D Solids: edges, vertices and faces). We will continue to explore which 3D solids can slide, roll and stack. This week, we will walk around the school looking for examples of 3D solids in the real world and create a pic collage of our findings.

In Science, we will continue our exploration of various objects and the materials that they are made of (e.g. a pencil is made out of wood from trees, our chairs are made out of plastic, our school is made out of bricks etc.).

Holy Week Project

The Holy Week Project is made up of a variety of students in different grades. Some grade 1’s are singing a worship song. Some grade 3’s are involved in presenting the Stations of the Cross. A group of grade 4’s are dramatizing the Last Supper and two different grade 1 and 4 classes have worked on special Holy Week art to display in the foyer area.

************Our class and Mrs. D'Ettorre’s class are singing a worship song. You are welcome to come and see it but we have changed the time of the presentation. You can come see your child sing the song the song on Thursday, March 24th at 10:45-11:45am. Our song is the last part of the Holy Week presentation.*********

Waste-Free Wednesdays

Waste-Free Wednesdays are going pretty good. We are trying to BUMP UP the number of waste-free lunches. It would be super if we could increase the number of waste-free lunches each Wednesday. This initiative helps our children understand the importance of pitching in to help reduce waste in our environment. We regularly talk about where items get put into each day (e.g. paper towel, straws, yogurt containers, plastic wrap, food scraps etc.) I monitor the garbage container daily to ensure our children know where their items go. They are incredible at doing this! I am so proud of our class for their efforts! We are recycling superstars!!!

Important Dates:

Wednesday, March 9th - Library Exchange

March 14th to March 18th - March Break - No School

Thursday, March 24th - Holy Week Presentation 10:45am **Our worship song

Friday, March 25th - Good Friday - No School

Monday, March 28th - Easter Monday - No School

Have a wonderful week and a fabulous March break!!!

Tiffany Lawless