Week 19 (Jan 20 -24)

 In literacy this week, we began working on writing a small-moment story. A Small Moment story is a personal narrative about an event we can turn into a story.  This week, we brainstormed and created a 'draft' or a plan for our story.  In word work, we looked at the spelling patterns that make a long I sound, /ie/ and /igh/.  We also created a word web, with the base 'light' and talked about all the words that have the base light in it and then sorted them into groups based on the patterns the students noticed.





In our math groups this week, we continued working on addition and subtraction.  This week we built 2 digit numbers and added them together.


In Science this week, we continued looking at sound energy and learned how sound travels through a solid, for the grade 2's.  The grade 3's learned about balanced and non-balanced forces and non-contact and contact forces.  In Social studies, we compared the culture in India and an Arctic community to the culture in Western Canada.  On Friday, we worked with our buddies to create the Taj Mahal.






In the gym this week, we used our arm muscles to play with the parachute in many ways.


Important Reminders & Upcoming Events:

1. Please, NO Toys at school! 

2. Library Exchange on Thursdays

3. NO school, January 31st

4. Please return our STUDIO Bell field trip forms by Thursday, January 30th

5. Report Cards go live on-line, January 27th

6. 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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