Windy Wednesday!

Hi! We are loving this warm, spring weather - but it changes quickly so thank you for sending us with a coat or sweater. We did have a fire drill yesterday and did fantastic - we all made it out of the school quickly and quietly in under 60 seconds! Well done everyone!

This morning we worked on PRINTING- the grade ones printed "ig" words and some "no excuse words" ( at, be, this, have). Grade twos worked on "ing" endings. We had to decide which rule to follow - does it have an "e"? Drop it then add "ing" Does it follow the CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant pattern like the word jog or let?) Then we double the last "c" and add "ing" No e? No cvc? Just add the "ing"! We tried to make rhymes to help us remember!

We had an assembly today hosted by the green team.  Everyone on the compost, recycle, landfill and one-use wrappers had a little commercial to remind us what to do with our food and wrappers after we eat them. Ask me where we put our banana peels, granola bar wrappers and yogurt containers!

We were all excited to hear Dr. E.W. Coffin has been one of five schools chosen to get SOLAR PANELS! A man from the company called Sky Fire Energy told us all about solar panels - ask me what I remember and where they put them. You can check out their website below.

http://www.skyfireenergy.com

MATH - we are working on math problems - little stories that have a problem with numbers that we have to solve. First, it was the hunter and the animals. Yesterday we had one about the Bird Sanctuary Ask me about how many wings and legs we had to find. Today we did a new math problem. Some of us finished and some of us did not but we had fun. It was all about bears and wheels. The three things we have to show is 1. pictures 2. math sentence (4+4+4=12). word sentence (There was one deer, one muskrat and 2 chickadees. Altogether there was twelve legs.)

In gym we have 5 teams and ran relays with dice, hoops, poof balls and rackets. We thought of new ways to move every time.

After lunch we had quiet reading or finish up time, practiced our song for tomorrow's tea and then had MUSIC.

After music we worked on our dioramas. We are trying to include plants, shrubs and trees that grow on Nose hill like buck brush, rose hip, wild sage, willow, aspen. We are thinking of what our focus animal's habitat would look like.

TOMORROW IS VOLUNTEER TEA 2-3:30PM in the Learning Commons. We thought it would be nice if we wear spring colored clothes, but we do not need to be fancy!

FRIDAY, APRIL 27th from 6-8pm is FAMILY DANCE and SPRING CARNIVAL. 

Looking ahead - Citizen Science will be back to work with us on Friday, May 4th, for Fresh Air Friday. 

Friday, May 18 is a non- instruction day and Monday, May 21 is Victoria Day. There is no school Friday or Monday for students. 

Wednesday, June 6th is our Heritage Park field trip.