Wednesday, 6 April 2016

April Newsletter!

Important Dates to Remember

April 4-19 Cancer Fundraising weeks

April 5 Project Based Learning (PBL) Launch! “What makes a bird a bird?”

April 8, *14, 22, 29  SHARING DAY!

April 6, 13, 20,27  Library days

April 12 Cancer Walk at 2:05

April 15 Professional Learning Day
No School for students

April 19 Twin & Triplet Day 8:30 Spirit 
             Assembly
April 22- Earth Day

April 25-Fieldtrip to Lowes 1:00-2:30 Drivers needed please. Return sign up form in corner or email! 

April 26- Hot Lunch Day

Science

We have almost finished our Building Unit and will be starting a plant/animal unit very soon led by our PBL planning.  The children get to immerse themselves in bird habitats, physical adaptations, food, survival behaviours and so much more! They will choose a bird to research and present findings to the class

Lowe’s Fieldtrip!
Our bird and building units tie nicely together with this fieldtrip to build birdhouses (and other fun creations) on Monday April 25th. Thanks to everyone who has responded already!  We have enough drivers for the trip! 

Language Arts
We are launching a big Project Based Learning (PBL)Activity based around the question “What Makes a Bird a Bird?” We’ll be looking at phonics skills like r blends, ou/ow, y as a vowel and continuing with editing skills and research writing all through the theme of their favourite bird.  We continue to work on reading strategies and are zipping along with Daily Five! A HUGE thank you to my reading group parent helpers for your many weeks of service! You made a world of difference for our little readers!

Social

We will be starting a quick little unit on caring for our environment that ties in nicely with Earth Day! After that we dive into a big unit called Moving Forward With the Past!

Sight Words 
April 4-8      open, over, put, round

April 11-15   thank, some, stop, take

April 18-22  them, then, think

April 25-29 when, were, walk

 Math
We continue with Geometry for a little bit longer and squeeze in  Numbers to 100.  This unit includes place value, fact families,  grouping numbers to 100  by 2, 5, and 10 , comparing, representing and , describing numbers to 100. The new mental math strategy is Making 10. We discover all the combinations of numbers that add to make 10!



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