March 16

 Hello everyone,

Yesterday, we had a talk about the email that Mr. Hebert sent you about the passing of Mrs. Paolini. Many of us didn't know her well because she had been away this year, but it is always sad to hear that someone who is a part of your community has passed. We talked about how Mrs. Paolini was very special to many kids in our school, as well as everyone who works at our school. We talked about how people in our school might be feeling this week, and to be extra kind and understanding to help people. Mrs. Paolini loved our school and everyone in it so much, and we will be doing something special to remember her when we return to school in April. 

We are working on our second walking story. We got to choose if we wanted to follow Ms. Byrne's example and write about our family, or if we wanted to try to write one all on our own using a topic of our choice! Some of us chose to write about our pets, our favourite movies, or our friends. Hopefully our stories will be finished before the break so that we can take them home. 

We filled in our calendar and talked about 3D shapes! When we return from the break, we will be studying and building a variety of 3D shapes, so we started introducing their names and shapes using a song. 

After snack and recess we had literacy centres. 

During math this week we have been learning some games that help us practice our mental math skills! We took some time to practice a making 10 game that we can play with a partner, or on our own. It's simple to play, and great practice for our mental math skills. If you have a deck of cards at home, ask us to teach you the game! 

In science, we painted our very own colour wheel! We each got the 3 primary colours in our paint palettes and we had to mix the other colours needed to complete the wheel. All this practice mixing colours is getting us ready to paint our colourful picture as our final project. Today, we talked about rainbows and how they are formed. We talked about splitting white light into its colours and looked at some prism examples. We watched a video from the Magic School Bus to see them play a game where they had to split white light into its colours, then reflect the coloured light to create a rainbow! We had some questions to think about while we watched and we were detectives searching for the answers to our questions during the video. 

Reminders:

- Spring Break - March 18th is the last day of classes before Spring Break. Classes will resume on March 28th

- This week we are participating in Jump Rope for Heart! I letter was sent home earlier in the week to explain how you can fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation to win prizes!

Student Shoutouts:

Yvie & Rachel - for offering to help Mrs. Ruiz 

Have a great evening!

-Ms. Byrne