TWAS April 7th

Hello Families of 51 A/B,

What a beautiful week.  We are all enjoying the spring-like weather so much!!

The students adjusted into their back-at-school schedules beautifully and dove right back into their daily routines.  Here were the things that they noted as standing out this week:

Today was club Friday — always a favourite!

Hip Hop started in Phys-Ed with Mr. A.J.  As expected it's a hit; the students are loving it and they've got moves!!  There will be a final dance presentation during the day on Wednesday April 19th (more details to follow).

The children are also hard at work in music practicing their Arbor Day songs, which is also quickly approaching (May).

Some very creative storytelling is emerging in Language Arts.  The students are hard at work adding lots of juicy details and setting up imaginative scenes.  The characters are starting to develop and little fingers are hard at work typing away in Google Docs, getting these creative works ready for print.

51B continued analog clock reading, and are really enjoying themselves. Ms. Klein had 'time' hidden all over the place, and paper plate clocks make for excellent practice.  Who knew telling time was so much fun!

51A is learning to use number sense to become expert estimators. Test out your child's skills:  cars in a parking lot, cheerios in a bowl, you name it, I bet they'll surprise you.  We also keep our skip counting and anchor numbers alive with math toss.

Science this week is all about Hot and Cold temperatures.  We learned about heat (energy), what causes it and tried to trick our senses with different water temperatures.

Social Studies, continues with our Circle of Courage philosophies, and a study of Saskatoon.  This week began an inquiry into Ukrainian Canadians in Saskatoon, and we were very excited to hear that we have a Ukrainian Canadian student right here in our class!!  We excited to learn some fun cultural tidbits from him.  We've put our own fun personal twists on Ukrainian Egg decorating, and are excited to take it a little further next week.

Speaking of eggs, the children were invited to observe some incubated chicken eggs in the kindie room and then got to see some immediately after they hatched!!

We also found time to share some fantastic passion projects; thanks so much to those who were willing to do so and thanks to EVERYONE who worked so hard this week.  You make 51 such a fun place to be!!

As a final couple of notes, CBE email is only accessible to teachers at the school right now so we won't be able to respond to parent emails this weekend . . . we're not sure how long this will be happening but will let you know as soon as we have an update.  Also we will be staining and painting on Monday so please send your child to school in clothing can tolerate a little 'discolouration' :)

Have a WONDERFUL weekend and thank you for all you do to support your child's learning,

The 51 team!!