Week 18 (Jan 13- 17)

In literacy this week, we focused on identifying the differences between a sentence fragment and a complete sentence.  We also unscrambled groups of words to make a full sentence and sorted sentences into their correct categories. On Friday, we discussed the importance of adding capital letters at the beginning of sentences and periods at the end.  In word work this week, we looked at the vowel teams /ow/, /oa,/ and /oe/ that all make the long o sound.  




In math this week, we began our math groups again and the students worked with their groups.  In our math groups, we are all focused on subtraction and how we can use subtraction from 1-20 to solve problems.  We learned about tools such as number lines, blocks, and ten frames to help use subtraction numbers between 1-10.




In social studies this week, we continued looking at India for the grade 3's and a student from our class just came back from India and shared many pictures about what he saw and did there.  The grade 2's continued looking at the Arctic community and learned about the early days in the Arctic.  In gym class, we completed our floor hockey unit with a big game of hockey with our whole class in the gym.



Important Reminders & Upcoming Events:

1. Please, NO Toys at school! 

2. Library Exchange on Thursdays

3. NO school, January 31st

4. I am still looking for Volunteers for our February 6th Field Trip to Studio Bell, please email Mrs. Stringer. We still need one more volunteer or we will not be able to go.  

5. Please sign up for Healthy Hunger : https://healthyhunger.ca/

Jan 30 - Boardwalk

Feb 20 - Swiss Chalet

Mar 13 - Little Ceasars

April 24 - Subway

May 22- A & W

June 19 - Mucho Burrito

Thanks,

Megan Stringer


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