Week of 14-18

Dear families,

I hope you are having a wonderful Victoria Day weekend!

This week we finished our learning about Canadian coins and their values. The children's "Money" folder is in today's mailbag. They learned a song in order to help them identify and learn the value of each coin, learned what each coin looks like, and learned about each of the symbols on the coins and why they are important in Canada. The children learned a little bit about other ways to pay, such as bank cards and gift cards. They completed booklets about money and some of the children brought in coins to show their friends.

We also finished our learning about where food comes from and how plants grow, and we are still watching our carrot, green onion, celery, potato and pineapple scraps sprout new roots in water. We'll plant them in soil next week. We learned about what our bodies need to stay healthy and which foods have them: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. We also learned that grain-eating animals such as horses and cows have different teeth than we do, and the children watched a video about an old grain mill that still uses a water wheel and gears to grind wheat into flour, just like the Old Mill used to do.

The homework is to complete the mini read-and-write THERE and THAT books.

On Friday we started two new inquiries - on Fairy Tales (starting with the Three Little Pigs), and Safety. We read the Three Little Pigs story, sequenced it (re-told it), and did a dot-to-dot exercise. I also taught the kids how to draw a pig with the white boards. Our first lesson in safety was obeying stop lights. We will learn a lot more about how to stay safe in the coming weeks and will put all our work in a folder to bring home.

Thank you so much to our Mystery Reader this week who was Mrs. Mosun;s daughter Daria.

Have a terrific weekend!