Hello! What an absolutely beautiful day! The weekend looks great, too! Hope you can get outside and enjoy it! We took a little "trip" to the continent of Africa to visit Namibia. We're helping Dr. Muntifering gather information on his hypothesis. Each Tuesday and Thursday we talk to Beth and Curtis live through Go2Science. We are looking at the relative abundance between carnivores and herbivores. We have learned lots of new vocabulary this week! We are also still working with rainforest and Miss Russell, our student teacher, started some lessons on Earth Day. There is so much going on!
READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
We are doing a poetry unit. We have been reading from our Poetry Books and even writing our own poems. This week we wrote acrostic poems and limericks. We love reading poems that rhyme! We also have been having fun reading Iza Trapani books. She is a Russian author that takes well known children songs and changes the words to write stories. We will be trying our own hand on that this spring!
Reading gets more exciting each day. We love watching the kids become fluent. Many are able to read chapter books now and are working on the comprehension piece. We are working on keeping movies in our heads so we can visualize what we read. The more reading that happens at home, the more of a bookworm your child will be :).
MATH
We worked with three dimensional shapes and venn diagrams. We used venn diagrams to look at the differences between shapes. We were specifically looking at flat faces and curved surfaces.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
* Many students planted acorn seeds with Mrs. Richard this week during recess. More will plant next week. We will also be starting in the green house after vacation!
* We could hear the frogs croaking at recess! How exciting! If you are looking for an awesome place to walk, the Mount Hope Cemetary has a pond that you can always see turtles and frogs in.
* A huge thank you to Josie, Liam, Eli and Teo for brining in prizes for our prize box. Also, we thank Vincent and his grandmother for donating more masks!
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PLEASE send in a bag (a re-usable grocery bag would be perfect) for your child to take everything home with them on Friday. We are doing a major clean out. They can bring back towels/blankets and extra clothes/shoes after vacation. THANK YOU!!
HAPPY WEEKEND!
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