Welcome back!

Hi everyone,
Welcome back from March break. I hope wherever you were, you were able to spend some quality time with your family. I headed back east to see my dad and all my friends. The weather however was not in my favor so visiting was a little tricky! I am glad to be back though!

We are all back, refreshed and ready to keep learning. This is one of my favorite themes this month in French. The students will be learning about life on the farm. They will learn all the proper names for the animals. In French, the babies, mothers and fathers all have different names. For example the horse family, (femelle) the mom is une jument, (male) the dad is un cheval and the baby is un poulain. I will send home a sheet with all the names to help your child practice. We will also start to write our own stories in class, which the students love. We will take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words as well as proper punctuation.

In Math, we continue to look at numbers 1-100 and skip counting by 2,5 and 10. We will finish hopefully by next week and start to look at geometry. The students will be looking at 2d and 3d shapes. I will try and tie this in with our Science unit on building.

In health, we will be wrapping up the 4 food groups and starting to learn about our emotions both positive and negative.

We will be finishing up the 4 seasons in science and be moving onto building. Its a very short unit but the students love it. We will look at the different building materials that can be used. If possible could you send in your old egg cartons for a future project.

Our class will be needing 5 volunteers on April 15th for an in class fieldtrip in the afternoon (12:45 start). We do need newspaper for the activity that day so could you please save your newspapers and send it in. Also just a heads up, we have another fieldtrip on May 17th at Butterfield acres. It will be all day. I am looking for 6 parents to join us all day at the farm.

Wednesday April 6th, is student faith day. There will be activities in the morning and in the afternoon for the students. Wednesday is also special lunch.
Library will be on Thursday April 7th. Please be sure to send in your child's book.

I think that's it for now. Keep reading at home and practicing the sight words. I am so proud of all their efforts and yours! Have a great week.
Laurie Anne