April 22-25

Hello families! 

Here's what we got up to this week! 

We're continuing to learn about our little chicks and are so excited for hatching day on Monday! We candled the eggs again on Day 15 and they appear to be growing well! We also learned about the different parts of an egg and what they do and students were challenged to make a chicken lifecycle out of loose parts. On Friday we had our "chick lockdown" day which means we are no longer able to open the incubator. We took a look at the chick's habitat and students sketched and labelled the habitat from a birds-eye view. We are feeling prepared for hatching day on Monday! Don't worry I will take LOTS of chick pictures! 










This week we also celebrated Earth Day! We had fun measuring eco-friendly items on Earth Day! We learned important rules for using non-standard units of measurement and recorded our findings in a table. We learned how to measure using the tiling strategy as well as iteration - ask your child about the difference between these two strategies! We also continue to work on our number sense every day with our morning math activity! 





 

In literacy, we continued working on the magic e with the vowel 'u' and learned that it can say "oo" like in tune or "yu" like in cute. We also continued learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives. Students had fun searching for words about our chicks all over the classroom and recorded the words in a chart to show whether they were nouns, verbs or adjectives. We then collected them and sorted them as a class. 


 


Here are our words for next week! I couldn't resists some chicken themed words. There will not be a quiz on these words! 


This week we started reading The Wild Robot! We've read a few chapters and have been working on comprehension questions and learning new vocabulary words. This week we talked about the words: chaos, curiosity, activate and instinct. 


We also started a writing activity inspired by the book "Real to Me" by Minh Le. Students created their own imaginary friend and are developing the character before they write a story! We also learned that every story has a problem and solution using one of my favourite stories, "The Panda Problem." Students brainstormed possible problems their imaginary friend may encounter. 




In gym we had fun with the parachute this week! 



Upcoming Dates
  • Monday, April 28th - Hatching Day!! 
  • Thursday, May 1st - Mother's Day Flower Fundraiser pickup 2:30-4:30pm
  • Thursday, May 1st - Taco Time Fun Lunch
  • Monday, May 5th - Music Monday
  • Thursday, May 15th - OPA Fun Lunch
  • Friday, May 16th - PD Day - no school for students 
  • Monday, May 19th - Victoria Day - No school
  • Thursday, May 29th - Papa John's Fun Lunch

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