April 4-8

Hello everyone.

Lotto Calendars

Order forms for the Lotto calendars were sent home last week. Please send in your payment if you choose to buy one. Send the forms back if you decide not to buy and please return unsold calendars as well. Parent Council is tracking all the forms. All the forms are due on April 22, 2016. Thanks

Here are this week’s word wall words.

1. does

2. because

3. an

4. fell

5. that

We will still review the first 23 weeks to see which words your child still needs to master. It is important that your child can read every word wall word up to now. Please take time during the week to practise these words.

 

In Math, we will continue to learn to identify a variety of coins and make coin amounts up to 20 cents. Last week, we played “Show Me The Money” to practise making money amounts to 20 cents. This week 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. After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, students will have a construction challenge to build a chair for baby bear that can hold his weight for 10 seconds using newspaper, paper plates and tape. More construction challenges will follow and children will explore and learn the characteristics of what makes a good structure.

Important Dates:

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

Tuesday, April 5th - School Council meeting 6:30-8:30pm

Wednesday, April 6th - Gr.1-6 Drumming Workshops (throughout the day)

Wednesday, April 13th - Library book exchange

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

Tiffany Lawless