May 6

 Happy Friday everyone!

We've been working on a special Mother's Day art project for the last couple of days. We drew beautiful flowers on cards, coloured them with crayons, and painted over them to create crayon-resist art. We used this technique before when we created cards for Mrs. Paolini's family, but we loved them so much we really wanted to make another one that we could take home. We wrote a letter inside our cards to our moms! We all took our cards home today so we can give them to moms on Mother's Day. 

We learned a new strategy that great readers use today - making connections! We learned that great readers think about the story or book they are reading and think about other things they know, have experienced, or have learned about that might help them to feel connected to the story or to understand it better. Since we've been focusing on The Barnabus Project, we each wrote in our journals about 1 thing that the story reminded us of. We will be working on ways to build connections to stories over the next 6 weeks. 

In math, we revisited Fact Families today. We talked about how we can use Fact Families to help us remember simple addition and subtraction facts. Ask us about the 3, 4, 7 fact family that we worked on today!

We took a break from compound games to play some tag games in the gym today. We returned to class just in time to tidy up our room and collect our things for home time!

Reminders:

To pair with our "Building Things" 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 next week to have a collection of building materials!

Friday, May 20 - P.D. Day - no school

Monday, May 23 - Holiday - no school

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. Byrne