Dear families,
I hope you are having a nice weekend! Last week was very busy in room 166 as the children learned about temperature, area, and weight, and then consolidated their learning about measurement at various hands-on centres. The children estimated, weighed classroom objects, balanced scales, compared the temperature of ice water and room temperature water, measured the length of classroom objects using standard and non-standard tools, and measure the area of shapes using smaller objects. Great job! All their hard work went home in Friday's mail bag.
We are having lots of different kinds of weather this month, from warm days to 70 km/hour winds to snow! We will start a new inquiry on the weather next week!
We have started a new nature unit on Birds! We started the inquiry with a K-W-L (Know, Wonder, Learned) chart, then learned about the life cycle of birds, compared different kinds of feathers on birds, looked at a robin's nest and egg shells, learned about why different birds have different beaks, and saw nests of hummingbirds, eagles, blue jays (Go Jays!), robins, storks ad=nd sociable weavers on the SmartBoard. Thank you so much to Maya for sharing her beautiful book about birds with us! April is Earth month and learning about our natural world always interesting!
The words of the week were WAS and I'M. I have sent home WAS booklets for homework. The children received their new April words and April Homework Bingo. They also completed their "This is me in March" writing and drawing, and calendar.
Thank you so much to Ethan's dad who was this week's Mystery Reader!
The children enjoyed going to the Mables's Fables this week! Thank you for supporting your child's literacy and Mable's Fables!
Exciting news! On Monday we will welcome a new JK student named Lily to our classroom! Welcome, Lily!
That's the news for this week! See you on Monday!
