January 16, 2017

Hello families and friends,

Today we started our day with writing about our weekends.  We have really been working on adding more details into our ideas, using the word wall to help with our spelling, and remembering to put a period at the end of our work.  Then after snack we got into groups and collected some snow in cups.  Throughout the day we made some observations about what was happening in our cups and made labelled diagrams of what we saw.  Ask your child what happened with their snow.  Then in word work we did our words of the week.  To fit in with our work on hot and cold temperatures, our words this week are "freeze", "melt", "water", "insulate", and "temperature".  After that we worked on our Read to Self and Read to Someone skills.

In the afternoon we started with our first day of having the students do the afternoon read-aloud.  We will be having a different student do this each day from Monday to Thursday so that everyone has an opportunity to read a book to the class.  This should be a book that the student has read before, and is comfortable reading independently in front of the group.  Then we continued looking at subtraction with a couple problems, making sure to draw out what we were doing to get our answers.  In gym we started an obstacle course.  Ask your child about this.  We ended our day talking about what happened with the snow we had collected and some ideas for different experiments we could try.

Please make sure that your child's swimming form is returned by tomorrow.  This needs to be sent to the pool in preparation for when we go swimming at the end of February so that the instructors will know which group to place each student in.

This Wednesday is Fun Lunch.

Tomorrow, we will be experimenting with some different insulators.  If you have any spare materials around the house that you could donate (strips of cloth, small pieces of cardboard, styrofoam, etc.) that would be much appreciated.  It does not need to be a lot, but ideally enough to wrap around a plastic cup.

Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere