Monday

Hi Everyone!

This morning we did Daily 5 literacy and started our work period. During work period students were working on spelling, writing, and their shape books. For writing, students could choose between a weekend journal or responding to: If you could be any animal which animal would you be and why? The Grade 2s were working on an activity with all of the 3D shapes we have talked about and were finding the faces, vertices and edges of all the shapes. The Grade 1s were looking at hearts and finding 4 objects that were heart shaped. In the middle of work period we took a break to enjoy some Australian Football. Today we practice passing and tomorrow we will be kicking - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS CLOSED-TOE OUTDOOR SHOES TOMORROW. 

Here are our spelling words for this week:
Blue List: paw, saw, draw, crawl, fawn, yawn, lawn, awful
Green List: giggle, goose, gorilla, biggest, begin, forget, dragon, foggy (hard G sound)

In the afternoon we went to the story corner and had a grade 6 student read us a story for mindful minutes. Students then had music and then we enjoyed guest reader. After recess, we got together with Mr. Link's class to talk about our new Character Word of the Week - Gratitude! Now that swimming is almost over we thought it would be a good time to start up these activities again. We talked about what gratitude means and listened to a story about gratitude and making a gratitude jar. Maybe we will make our own gratitude jars later this week!

Tomorrow is our last day of swimming - please remember to send swimming stuff to school! 

As I'm sure you have heard, we have been practicing singing Island In The Sun by Weezer for our June assembly. Here is the video we use to practice if you'd like to practice at home. This can be especially helpful for our developing readers as they can learn by hearing rather than reading the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9uMg2UiHo

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