April 2, 2019

Hello Families, 

I hope you were able to enjoy some family time over the Spring Break. It is great to be back and everyones work has been exceptional this week! Way to go kiddos!

Yesterday, we learned a new math game called Hundreds Board Connect Four. We played grade 1's against grade 2's, and it was a very close game. This game is in your Math Games booklet that was sent home at conferences. Today, we practiced using skip counting in word problems, and how to represent our understanding with math materials, and pictorially in our notebooks. Here are the different challenge questions students worked on:

Mild Challenge:

Colbie is selling girl guide cookies for $5 each. She has 8 boxes to sell, how much money will she make in total?

Medium Challenge:

 Colbie has a goal to earn $100. If the girl guide cookies are $5 per box, how many boxes will she need to sell to reach her goal?

Spicy Challenge:

 Colbie has $17 in donations and sells 9 boxes of cookies at $5 each. How much money does she have in all?

Within our Montessori environment, students are consistently encouraged to choose work that is "just right" for them, and it was great to see risk taking and independent work throughout this task!

New word lists were sent home yesterday on bright red paper. The word work seems to be going great, with students really building understanding of letter blends, digraphs, common vowel pairings, and spelling. This afternoon, we started categorizing and sorting different color words. This will help develop comprehension, vocabulary, and descriptive writing. Students worked in teams to sort color words based, and as a whole class we will create a vocabulary list to access in the classroom.

We have started up our Laser Tag Reading Rewards program again for the month of April. It will run in the same way as last month, with students being responsible for entering their submissions daily. Thanks for continuing to support the reading at home!

The Scholastic flyers for April were sent home yesterday, and orders will be due on Friday, April 12th. A reminder that the promo code CLIFFORD is still effective for a free book on all orders over $30. Thank you!

In addition, swimming starts at the end of April! We will be in need of parent volunteers (especially men) with valid police clearances to assist with change room supervision. Below are our swimming dates and times, please let me know ASAP if you can accompany us on any of the swim dates! It would be greatly appreciated!!

Thursday, April 25

Tuesday, April 30

Thursday, May 2

Tuesday, May 7

Thursday, May 9

Tuesday, May 14

Ms. Thomas (Room 8) Miss Brown (Room 11)

DEPART LBS: 12:20 p.m.

SWIM LESSON: 12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

RETURN TO LBS: 1:35 p.m.

** As a volunteer, you are welcome to meet us at Trico around 12:25pm/12:30pm to support students getting ready!

We also have a few students left for Guest Reader - 
This week: Wednesday - Avery, Thursday - Sophie T., Friday - Kai
Next week: Monday - Mina, Tuesday - Elise

Take care, 

Lindsay Brown