Week of April 29-May 3

Dear families,

May is here! This week we continued our inquiry on INSECTS and the children had a fun time participating in X-FUSION! We also welcomed Ethan, our new JK student!

The words of the week were LITTLE and OUT. Thank you to our volunteers this week: Mila's dad, Elise's dad and Sophie's mom were Mystery Readers, and Mrs. Mosun's daughter Soheila dropped in for a visit, too! Thank you so much to Elise, who taught us a song about insect body parts and brought in a lovely lift-the-flap book about bees! We will learn all about bees later in May. Thank you as well to Ella, who shared her Eric Carle book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." We will learn all about caterpillars and butterflies later in May!

The Show-and-Tell item for May is "My Favourite Animal." When it is your child's special day, please encourage them to learn what their favourite animal eats, where it lives, and what it looks like. For example, Reina told us all about camels! Mrs. Mosun followed this up by a lesson in the computer lab about camels!

The children enjoyed reading the wonderful Eric Carle story "The Grouchy Ladybug, and they learned about the life cycle of a lady bug, and made a ladybug booklet. They are also learning a song called "Entomologist, are learning how to draw insects, and are learning about the body parts of insects (and how they are different than spiders!). There are a lot of (real and plastic) insects in our Science Centre. By looking through special eye glasses, the children are learning how bugs see their world with their compound lenses.

The children also completed a writing and drawing exercise called "It really BUGS me when..."

The next scholastic order is due May 16. Also on May 16 is our class visit to the Scholastic Book Fair in the library! If you would like your child to purchase a book(s), please put the money in a plastic zip-locked bag with their name on it. Thank you! Our Artist visit is next week! We are going on a field trip to Reptilia the week after next! Lots of exciting things are happening this month!

Next week we will continue our learning about INSECTS and will also learn about which animals eat them, which is...... REPTILES! Perfect timing to learn about reptiles before we go on our trip!

Finally, congratulations to Monty and Evelyn who received TDSB certificates for Co-operation! Well done!

I hope you have a lovely weekend.