Hello Room 51 families and friends,

Hopefully you are on your way to enjoying a much warmer sunny weekend!

Once again our Friday whipped by, as did the entire week.  The students have been hard at work on so many different things.  Their puppet theatre STEAM projects have turned out beautifully; most of the filming is complete and posted to IRIS. The next step will be using their puppets and the green screen to make fun movies with an assortment of backgrounds.  The students are also engaged in a beautiful art project that is based on the works of Ted Harrison.  They are multi-medium works that involve painting, sewing and yarn and WOW are they looking great!!  We have some amazing little sewers in our room and more on the way next week (speaking of art, we are always thrilled to have volunteers for our Thursday afternoon art projects, or anytime you feel like dropping in).  In math the students are working on addition and subtraction, with and without regrouping, to 100 and beyond; yes the grade 1's are working with some of those great big numbers too.  They are starting to get quicker with their math fact recalls, but can always use more practice so maybe spice up those car rides with some addition math drills :)

There has been a lot of invested non-fiction reading this week as we've started our passion "I Wonder" projects, and research for our Inuit unit.  It's amazing what many of them have managed to find out in a very short period of time.  They have been creating polar bear "wheels of wisdom," and there really is a lot of wisdom showing up!  This week was mission impossible in gym and we also had Club Friday today.  Everyone found their way to their new clubs without incident, and there was a lot of excitement after so though we didn't have much time to talk about the clubs it is definitely sounding like a good time was had by all.

We are still collecting swim forms so please send those back with your children if you have one at home, and if you are able to volunteer for swimming please let us know so that we can sort out our numbers.  We will especially be looking for dad volunteers to help in the boys washroom.

Have a fantastic week,

The 51 team