May 2

 Hello everyone!

We started our day with our Wow Word review. We got our new Wow Words. They are:

1. if

2. her

3. not

4. your* (this is our red word, because the u is not making it's usual sound)

5. yesterday

We were very excited to see a big word in the list! We practiced clapping the syllables in "yes-ter-day." We noticed that the word "yes" and the word "day" are hiding in there too! So, it's actually not that difficult for us to spell!

We decided to use words with "er" as our bonus words this week. We picked all 2-syllable words, so they might be tricky!

1. bigger

2. faster

3. smaller

4. taller

5. slower

We had music with Mr. Wiens and then went out for recess. After recess we filled in our calendar. May is a busy month! There are lots of special days and events going on at the school, so we reviewed all the special days on the calendar. See the Reminders section of our blog posts to keep up to date about special events!

We had literacy centres and got our first chance to test out our new groups. Our reading groups were practicing sounding out 2-syllable words, and then they read "The Peanut Butter Rhino"!

After lunch we had mindfulness and then we took some time to practice our new Wow Words. Some of our friends had some painting left to do on their science projects, so they worked at the back table while the rest of us learned about our new science unit - Building Things! We introduced the idea of this unit today by reading a book about how roller coasters are built. We learned that building new things can be a long process with lots of steps! You have to design, plan, model, and find the right materials before you even begin building! We're excited to see what will be learn in this unit. 

To pair with this unit, we will be doing some building in our classroom. To support us with this, if you have any recyclables (ex: cardboard, small bottles or boxes, toilet paper/paper towel rolls, etc.) or spare material (ex: fabric scraps, string) that you could send to school, we would very much appreciate it! We will be collecting materials for the next 2 weeks to have a collection of building materials!

We had our second recess and then came back inside to work on our 3D shapes book. We filled in all the information about cones using the cones we built on Friday. Then, we looked at nets for triangular prisms. We built our own triangular prism and we will talk about different kinds of prisms tomorrow. 

This week we are having our P.E. time outside to practice the compound games. Because our P.E. is right at the end of the day, you may see us on the compound when you arrive for pick-up time. Please wait until we tidy the compound area and are dismissed by Ms. Byrne so that she is able to dismiss everyone safely!

Reminders:

Wednesday, May 4 - Hats On For Mental Health Day

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne