Week of June 4-8

Dear families,

This week we did a Springfest Tally, acted out "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," continued our learning about Fairy Tales (Cinderella this week!) and started learning all about frogs.

We are learning Cinderella sight words, vocabulary, how to make Cinderella sentences, re-telling the story (different versions), and we did a count/trace/write the number word activity. Thank you Maya for bringing in a glass slipper, and thank you Rielle for sharing her Fairy Tales book! We'll do more literacy and numeracy Cinderella activities next week. We will also read The Frog Prince to tie in with our learning about frogs!

In our Frog inquiry, the children watched an excellent video called "Life Cycle of a Frog" two times and we talked about amphibians, metamorphosis, where frogs live on the Earth and the frog's life cycle. The children completed several activities following the video. They coloured in a map of the world and glued frogs wherever they live (everywhere except Antarctica just like owls!; they completed a frog life cycle reading comprehension activity; we learned a song called "Metamorphosis" and they children coloured a matching booklet; and they looked at a photo that Kate brought in of a tadpole with legs! Thank you Kate!

We also had fun reading Froggy books, starting with "Froggy Goes to School." They re-told the story and drew pictures with words to retell parts of the story. Then they made a "peek-a-boo" frog on top! Their work is on display in our classroom.

We also talked about the classic "Frog and Toad" stories (thank you, Hudson, for sharing your book!) and we watched a Frog and Toad episode. We'll read more stories next week and will also compare real frogs and real toads.

The homework for this week is to complete the "WANT" booklet and the "Chewy Addition" page. If necessary, the children can use small manipulatives such as pebbles or Smarties (!) to help them add.

With our Grade 3 Reading Buddies, the children made a beautiful Kandinsky-inspired tree.

Our words of the week were KITE and KITTEN.

We also read "Author's Family Vacation" and did a "Summer Bucket List" activity that is on display in the hall.

Thank you so much for the lovely Teacher Appreciation Lunch - it was wonderful!

Bubbles the classroom Beta Fish needs a home for the summer! He is very easy to take care of! If you would like to take care of Bubbles for the summer, please send me an email. Thank you!

Please return any outstanding Snuggle Up and Read Books. Today is the last day they are being handed out so that we can do inventory.

That's the news from Room 166! The PA Day is a Report Card writing day. Enjoy the long weekend!