April 15-18

Hello families,

Here's our weekly update!

Reminders

Sound Kreations dance forms came home this week. Please return them as soon as possible! 😊
Home Reading folders will start on Monday for those who expressed interest - thanks for your patience!
Thank you to everyone who offered to volunteer for the grade 1/2 art blocks. We have all the volunteers we need now!
An email was sent earlier this week about some online sessions regarding speech and reading. RSVP by Friday, April 19th.

Science & Social Studies

This week we've been enjoying learning more about water! Our sharing assembly on the 30th will be all about water and Earth Day! We learned that not everyone has access to clean drinking water and we came up with ways to conserve water for Earth Day. Students made posters to share with the rest of the school. Earth Day is on Monday, April 22nd! We also made some water inspired art that will be in the display case near the front office.

For our assembly we are learning this song about the water cycle. We have a class of singers and they're very excited so I said I would share the video on the blog so they can practice at home. Time permitting... I may learn it on guitar so we can perform it without the sound from the video. The lyrics are below!

Water Cycle by The Bazillions ©2015 All rights reserved. The clouds fill up and then let go with rain or hail or sleet or snow That’s precipitation And all that water collects and waits in puddles, oceans, streams and lakes That’s accumulation And ‘round and ‘round it goes from high to down below The plants need it to grow and when I wash my clothes Like a wheel that rolls it might go fast or slow From mountain tops and over rocks it never stops the water cycle goes The sun makes water rise up high becomes a gas or cloudy sky That’s evaporation Now in the sky it gets cold and then the clouds turn into water again And that’s condensation (Chorus) Without you where would I ski Without you nothing’s in my tea Without you there wouldn’t be chicken soup or mac-n-cheese Without you Niagara falls is nothing but a big stone wall Without you where would I be you’re 62% of me (Chorus) From mountain tops and over rocks From winter snow to spring raindrops And it’s at work around the clock it never stops the water cycle goes goes and goes

We are learning a little more about the Maritime provinces! We are investigating landforms, geography, clothing, celebrations, Acadian history, animals, etc. This is what our artwork with Ms. Davies is focused on!

Math

This week grade 1s learned how to use tens frames to show subtraction and grade 2s learned how to use open number lines. We further explored the relationship between addition and subtraction by learning about fact families!

Grade 1: subtraction using tens frames (12-5)

Grade 2: Subtraction using an open number line

During math groups, some grade 2 students were learning how to subtract with borrowing. This is a super tricky concept! We use the golden beads to help us model borrowing a ten and breaking it down into ten ones so we can subtract!

Literacy

We are finally (almost) done our Who Am I? writing good copies! Students have learned a lot about the Writer's Workshop process. We're hoping to do at least one more writer's workshop where students will be revising and editing their work more independently.

In UFLI this week we learned about the 'y' ending of words and that 'y' at the end of the word sometimes says ī (like in sky) or ē (like in puppy).

We finished up My Father's Dragon and enjoyed watching the movie together on Monday. The movie is on Netflix if you're interested in watching it at home. On Tuesday, students worked in groups to compare the book and the movie using a Venn Diagram.