Short Week

Spring is in the air! This week is a short week due to conferences. Thursday is a half day and no school for kids on Friday.

Our word wall words for this week are:

Group A: went, sent, ant, bend, find, mind, kind, want, day, may
Group B: more, store, stand, star, blew, flew, new, stone, sting, ring
Group C: have, give, love, from, live, friend, much, such, old, told

We had a Jump Rope for Heart kickoff assembly this morning. Some people from the Heart and Stroke foundation came to talk to us about what the initiative is to raise money and show us some cool tricks we can do while skipping as well as cool prizes we can win for raising money. We are all bringing home forms today. The foundation asks that we only ask close family and friends for pledges and to NOT go door to door.

This afternoon we had music. Everyone is doing a fantastic job of returning their recorders for the next music class. Our next music class will be Wednesday.

For the remainder of the afternoon we practiced our place value skills. We brainstormed that we practice place value to:
-know our numbers better
-learn how to add/subtract
-learn how to eventually multiply and divide
-for using money and measuring
At our desks, Mrs. G would write a number on the board from 0-999 and we would build it using place value blocks. We even got a chance to build our own number and share with Mrs. G what it was.

This week at school:
-ELA: word wall words, writing good sentences, home reading
-Social Studies: Lets Visit Nunavut - inuksuks, weather
-Science: weather science experiment
-Health: pillars of care, especially care for learning and care for others
-Math: place value from 0-999

Reminders:
-Jump rope for heart forms coming home today
-Book your conferences with Mrs. G if you haven't already
-Half day Thursday
-No school Friday
-Book fair tomorrow-Friday
-Library tomorrow, please return all books!