Week 23 ( March 4-8)

 This week in literacy, we began learning how to do cursive writing.  We started learning about making the 'mountain climbing' letters, such as b, l, k, and u.  We also wrote thank-you letters to school council, to thank them for paying for our swimming lessons.  We explained why we enjoyed swimming so much and all the different skills we learned.  We also talked about synonyms and how we can use them to add variety to our word choices when writing.  In word work this week, we leaned about silent letters, kn, mb and wr.





In math this week, we continued our work with repeating patterns.  We build and drew examples of repeating patterns and identified the core in each pattern.  We used the large math carpet this week to make it into a hundred chart.  We worked as a team placing all the numbers in the correct places and then discussed different patterns we noticed in the numbers when skip counting by 2's and 3's.




 In Science this week, we began looking into light Energy and how it behaves.  We learned about sources of light, examples of artificial and natural light and how light can be transparent, opaque and translucent.  We also do several experiments to discover reflection and refraction of light.





Looking Ahead to Next Week:

1. In Literacy, we will begin looking at our 3rd purpose of writing, persuasive writing.

2. In math, we will explore building, extending and finding the pattern rules in growing patterns.

3. In Science, we will look at dispersion, prisms and our final light project.

Important Reminders & Upcoming Events:

1. Library Day - Thursdays!

2. Continue with Home Reading - READO!!

3. Healthy Hunger lunches - please sign up on-line 5 Days before

Looking Ahead to Next Week:

1. In Literacy, we will work on writing Thank-you letters to parent council about swimming lessons.

2. In math, we will extend repeating patterns and learn about growing patterns.

3. In Science, we will begin looking at light energy.

Important Reminders & Upcoming Events:

1. Library Day - Thursdays!

2. Continue with Home Reading - READO!!

3. Healthy Hunger lunches - please sign up on-line 5 Days before

4. Please sign up for Parent Teachers Interviews on March 21-22nd

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