Happy Friday Families!

Just a reminder that we will be having our spelling test on Monday.  The words can be found on this blog in a different post.

Our week in room 51 was accentuated by the Kindergarten assembly this morning, which highlighted the Chinese New Year.  Visitors came from the Chinese community to perform special dances and martial arts for all the students.  Ask your child what they enjoyed the most during the assembly.

Our Inuit investigation continued with several art projects: building dog sleds from popsicle sticks and Ted Harrison paintings of the north, as well as, hand-stitched igloos to add to our paintings to make them 3-D.  We will continue exploring their culture over the next few weeks.

Addition and subtraction with regrouping continued to challenge the students this week, with a focus on some quick mental math games of skip counting.  Next week, we move on to begin looking at 2-D and 3-D shapes.  Working on the laptops, students began learning how to use Powerpoint by experimenting with several times this past week.  They will be presenting their "Passion Project" in Powerpoint form before the end of the year.

In Language Arts the students continued their investigation of character traits by inquiring about their own character traits and also focusing on some story characters.  This included a lot of written work and self-portrait sketching.

This was the final week in gym for gymnastics, concluding with "Mission Impossible" of course!  I am sure most of the students will miss this.  Ask your child to share with you their favourite parts of "Mission Impossible"

Swimming will begin in February.  Group B will be going first during the week of February 6-9.  We will keep you posted.

As we conclude our week we say a sad farewell to Mrs. Nestrovich, who has volunteered her time the past few weeks to teach our students how to sew.  As part of our social studies unit on the Inuit, the grade 1s and 2s made a stuffed igloo to attach to their Ted Harrison painting.  We are grateful to her for her time and her talents.

Have a super weekend!

Room 51 - Mrs. McArthur & Ms. Klein