Math Fair, Star Wars Day, and New Important Info!

All the students in room four deserve a big pat on the back for all their hard work in preparing for the Math Fair.  Many different logic puzzles, number concept games and pattern work were explored and used as subjects for the kids to explore and then become teachers of.  It was a huge success and lots of learning took place.  Thank you to all the parents who were able to come and see the Math Fair in action.  If you missed it, hopefully you were still able to find out what your child worked on.  Here are some pictures from the big day:






















Terrific job everybody!

This past week the big event was our Star Wars Day on May the Fourth!  We had some fun talking about special events and tied it in with our understanding of persuasive writing.  Can anybody argue that school and class spirit aren't important?  Everyone has been working very hard in all areas of curriculum and we rewarded ourselves with a fun afternoon!  About half of the class dressed up in Star Wars attire and I got many compliments on my brand new Star Wars onesie.  Thanks!  Here are just a few pictures of us from that afternoon:








NEW INFORMATION

We have a fundraising effort that started last Thursday.  It got missed in the shuffle at the end of last week and materials are requested to be returned to the school this coming Thursday.  It's a short time window and it was shortened further by the fund raising pins not being sent home on time.  Sorry everyone!  Information about the fundraising is attached to the material that should be coming home on Monday.

Another important piece of new information is that we are going to be going to the Children's Festival on May 24.  It's going to be a different field trip in that we are going to walk from the school to the c-train on 7th Ave. and then ride the train to Olympic Plaza.  Please look for a volunteer sign up later this week.  I'm hoping that we will have about 6 volunteers to come with us to enjoy the day and to help keep kids organized in what might be a very busy festival environment!  It should be a really fun trip but volunteers will be key to it being a success.  We will be away from the school from 9 - 2:30 on the day of the trip.

Finally, we have a new word family for spelling this week.  It's the "ine" word family!  We will be working with these words this week:

line
vine
fine
nine
shine

If you are able to practice the words at home this week that would be great.  A little reminder to students; kids in grade one are now expected to have all of their letters turned the right way around on their spelling test and kids in grade two are expected to use capital letters appropriately based upon how the spelling word is used in the sentence given during the spelling test.  Work hard and good luck everyone!