March 9

Hello everyone,

We spent lots of time working on our walking stories today. Some of us needed extra writing time in the morning. Then, we talked about "editing." We did some practice editing on sentences that Ms. Byrne wrote to look for capital letters in the wrong place, and to make sure a sentence makes sense. Then, we got together with a partner. We read over our walking story with our partner so that they could help us find any mistakes. Then, we edited those mistake to make our stories even better! Next week, we will be working on one more walking story. We can write the story about our family if we want to follow Ms. Byrne's example, or we can choose another topic that we know lots about. 

We filled in our calendar and then had snack and recess. We had literacy centres before lunch. 

After lunch we practiced some helpful 2-letter sounds like /aw/, /ee/, and /ew/. Now that we are sounding out words on our own, it is important to know those tricky letter combinations to help us read bigger words! 

In math, we have been using blocks to solve subtraction problems. Today, we tried that strategy out on our own to solve subtraction up to 20. We did a great job using the strategy and were able to solve most of the questions on our own. Sometimes, Ms. Byrne will ask us to double check on of our answers to see if we can find the mistake, but we've all been able to do that successfully! We just need a little more practice counting our blocks carefully to avoid counting mistakes. 

Yesterday during science we used primary colours to mix all the secondary colours. We painted circles to show which 2 primary colours need to be added together to make a secondary colour. Today, we did an experiment using the colour black. We each coloured a black dot onto a coffee filter. Then, we sprayed water at the dot. When the marker ink started to run, we could see many other colours! Most of us saw blue and pink, some purple, and even some green, orange, and yellow. We learned that this is because black ink is made by mixing other colours together. We are waiting for our experiments to dry so that we can get a good look at all the colours we discovered!

Reminders:

- March 10 and 11 - Parent/Teacher Conversations - appointments can now be booked through your MyCBE account. If you have any issues booking an appointment you can email me and I will book an appointment on my end. 

- No School - Friday, March 11 - due to Parent/Teacher Conversations

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

Student Shoutouts:

Kayla - helped Nola write her walking story today

Rachel - for helping Ramsh with his walking story

Have a great evening!

-Ms. Byrne