TWAS

Hello 51 Families and Friends,

Hopefully you're ready to keep on enjoying winter for a little while longer 

. . . it doesn't look like it is going away anytime soon.  I'm sure the children will have loads of fun in the fresh new snow this weekend!

Ms. Klein is away so we are very excited to have Mrs. Luca joining us.  She has been in before and it is very nice to have someone we know and love joining our community for the next 2-3 weeks. 

51 A – We start swimming on Monday so please remember to bring towels, bathing suits, goggles (optional) and plastic bags to hold wet items.  

The highlights of this week:

This week in music we played with instruments and listened to musical animal sounds. Gym started with a fun new card game that kept us moving, really really fast, and then we worked on long rope skilling; some of us are close to being able to jump in!  We have continued to work on our Arbour Day project making play-dough animals, nests for our trees and informative 'tree' messages that hang from the branches. Wednesday was Pink Shirt day and our class/school was a sea of pink. We created a tree of hearts outside of our classroom and brought messages of friendship to the 'anti-bullying' board in the hub. 51 A continued to work on visualization, predictions and making connections during readings of Charlotte`s Web; poor Wilbur (the pig) is feeling pretty low, but a kind voice has appeared and we're predicting that "Charlotte" (the spider) has arrived to help him out. For 100 days in school we played shaker dice math, math lego – we built different things using 100 pieces of legos. We drew 100 step chalk designs. We also played Roll and Race to 100. Thursday was movie night at school and it sounds like “Moana” was a hit. The students have been working with their new spelling words and should be ready to go for Monday's spelling test. One of us received a special package in the mail all the way from London England so we had to spend a little time finding out exactly where that is:  North, South, East or West. The children found London on the map and discovered that we need to cross a big ocean to get to the one in England but that there is also one in Canada.   We have watched “Magic School Bus Into the Arctic” and it taught us that cold takes the place of warm; you could use hot tea to warm up an engine; special materials can protect your body from cold. In science, we have continued to collect the necessary materials to start building our boats and will be dividing up the resources on Monday. Today many of us helped the kinders with sewing and we had a “Peace Assembly.”

We can not believe another week has blown by . . .

Have a wonderful and safe weekend,

All the best,

Mrs. McArthur and Mrs. Luca