April 7-11

Hello families, 

We had an exciting week in room 11! On Monday, students were surprised with some animals eggs. We had fun this week learning about oviparous animals, using clues to try to figure out what types of eggs we have, and eventually learned that the eggs belonged to birds. We have three different types of bird eggs in our grade 1/2 classes. Our eggs are chick eggs! We also have duck and geese eggs! Now that we know they are chicks, we will be able to learn how the eggs are developing each day. We also learned how to candle the eggs to see if anything is growing. We received all of these eggs from a company called Nanny McCluckins and they will be returned there after they hatch. Chicken eggs take 21 days to incubate and we are expecting them to hatch around Monday, April 28th. 




 
We put stars next to the ones we thought might actually be in the incubator! 









This week we also had fun learning about arctic animals. Students used the program Pebble GO to do some research on an arctic animal of their choice! They used a graphic organizer to record their information and many students used step by step drawings to help them draw their animal. We also learned about ecosystems and food chains and how the whole ecosystem can be destroyed if one little part is lost. 





In literacy this week we learned about verbs! The Montessori symbol for verbs is a red sphere. This symbol was chosen because a sphere moves and rolls around (lots of movement and action) and the red also represents the sun which gives us energy and movement! We continued to work on the magic e sound! 

 


Here are our words for next week:


This week we started a new Junie B. book called Junie B. Jones has a Monster Under her Bed. I have to apologize if there has been any trouble sleeping this week!! This is just a lighthearted silly story, but when I started reading it on Wednesday I was met with a lot of concerned looks. I promised the students there's no such thing as monsters (and I would never promise something I didn't mean!) and we talked a bit about not believing everything you see (i.e. AI generated videos). We are going to take a break from Junie B. and will be moving on to reading The Wild Robot! 

In math we continued to work on our number of the day activity each morning and continued practicing missing addends. We also worked on subtraction with a missing subtrahend. This continues to be really tricky which is ok - I've been comparing these equations to number bonds and fact families which students are quite strong in. They are just having a hard time translating this knowledge to the equations! We are going to move on to measurement next week! 

 

We also worked on our artwork for Peace Night! Thank you to the parents who were able to help us with this project! 



You could be the owner of this colourful corn hole AND learn how to "raise an emotionally intelligent child" at the MAPSS Peace Night & Art Auction on April 24th! 


Upcoming Dates
  • Monday, April 14th - Zoo Field Trip
  • Wednesday, April 16th - Cookie Canvas & Purdy's Chocolate Pick Up
  • Wednesday, April 16th - Mother's Day Flower Fundraiser order deadline 11pm
  • Thursday, April 17th - Banzai Fun Lunch
  • Friday, April 18th - Good Friday - No School
  • Monday, April 21st - Easter Monday - No school for students 
  • Tuesday, April 22nd - Earth Day
  • Thursday, April 24th - MAPSS Peace Night (Info below!)
  • Monday, April 28th - Hatching Day!! 
  • Thursday, May 1st - Mother's Day Flower Fundraiser pickup 2:30-4:30pm

The Montessori Alternative Public School Society Presents

PEACE Night with Tammy Shamuhn (R.Psych, RPT)

April 24th, 2025, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Captain John Palliser School

FREE Workshop and Classroom Art Fundraiser

 (Art from all classes of our 3 Montessori Public Schools will be present and part of our PEACE night Art Auction Fundraiser)

TOPIC: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Join us for a night of education and conversation with a registered Psychologist, Tammy Schamuhn, around the topic of "Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child". This presentation covers why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is more important to your child’s success in life than IQ, What the research says about how children develop Emotional Intelligence Helping kids manage their emotions, so they can manage their behavior Secrets every parent needs to know about crying and anger Managing your own emotions so your child learns to regulate their own 

CLICK HERE to get your FREE ticket:

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/peace-night-raising-an-emotionally-intelligent-child-with-tammy-schamuhn 

CLICK HERE to sign up for FREE CHILDCARE at the event:

Go to  www.careinapinch.ca/onlinebooking and click on the link to register your children.

2) When you get to the registration page, under Event Name, select "MAPSS Fundraiser" and write "NA" in the ticket or membership field and follow the prompts

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