Hello everyone!
Valentine's Day - You may have seen in the principal's message sent out yesterday that the decision has been made that students will not be handing out Valentine's cards brought from home this year. We talked about this today and decided that we will work on a special Valentine's art project that day to celebrate instead.
We have been working hard this week to finish up our Star Student pages for our book. We have completed 2 pages so far this week, and we have 4 friends who are still patiently waiting for their turn. Once we finish all our pages, we will be making a cover page and putting our star student pages together to create a book to bring home. We've been ordering the pages so that you can see how much our printing has improved throughout the year, and how much more we are able to write now!
Mr. Wien's came to teach us music. We got to play xylophones!
We filled in our calendar and had a class meeting about how February is Black History Month. We will be reading books during our snack time that introduce important black figures in history (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, super star athletes like Jesse Owens, etc.). February has so many important and special events!
We had our snack and learned about today's important person - Rosa Parks! We had indoor recess and then had literacy centres, while also switching out our library books.
Yesterday in math we were practicing completing addition and subtraction on a number line. We used the number lines on our desk to help us complete some tricky questions. Today, we got to have some Mathletics time and practice our number line addition there! We've been tracking our Mathletics points to challenge each other to put in our best effort in Mathletics. So far, our reigning overall champion is Jayla! Last week's top points went to Gabe - he earned 730 points! Today, we were even more motivated and we beat all our records! Serena finished our math time on top with 1560 points - amazing! Izzy came in second with 1087 points! Since both of them got over 1000 points, Mathletics sent Ms. Byrne an award for them, which she printed and gave them to bring home. We're excited to see if more of us can get some awards next week!
We started a new social studies project today. We read the book "Snowmen at Work," and talked about how the snowmen all play different roles in their community. We shared some important jobs we know of in our community, and some of us shared the important jobs that our moms and dads have and how they help our community too. Tomorrow, we are going to work on an art project to create our own snow-person at Work and decorate them to match different community jobs. We will use our art projects to do some writing about how our snow-person helps their community.
We had some more time to practice our curling skills in the gym.
Student Shoutouts:
Finn - We wanted to give Finn a shoutout today because he has been working very hard to do his neatest printing recently. He wanted to show you all an example, so he wrote one of our star student facts on a whiteboard and took a picture of it to share!
Briella and Gabe - They have been taking their sweeping staff job very seriously this week and keeping our class neat and tidy for everyone! Thanks for being great members of our classroom community Briella and Gabe!
Reminders:
- Please review this week's Wow Words at home - with it being a short week we haven't gotten to practice as much as usual at school! This week's words are: am, me, he, with, going
-Your child's report card is now available for viewing through your MyCBE account
- Thursday Feb. 17 and Friday Feb. 18 - No School - Teacher's Convention
- Monday, Feb. 21 - No School - Family Day
Have a great day!
-Ms. Byrne
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