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September 19th 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,


We have been busy the past few days! In science, we have been learning about the primary colours and mixing colours. We have worked with a variety of materials, including: pencil crayons, paint, plasticine and food colouring. Below are some samples of our work:




We did an experiment where we filled 3 beakers with water. We then added red, yellow or blue food colouring to 3 of the beakers. We then added empty beakers between the filled beakers. Finally,  we placed paper towel into a full beaker and placed the other end into an empty beaker. Ask your children what colours appeared in the beakers that had been empty! (HINT: Look at the picture below that has all of the colours😊)






The students each received a few pieces of plasticine in the  primary colours and mixed them together to see what would happen.



We were lucky, because a student brought in the book below to share with the class! It tied in nicely with our colour discussions.



In math, we completed a seasonal sort that was sent home with your child. We have started to work on recognizing, creating, extending and naming AB patterns. Furthermore, we have talked about attributes (this describes what something looks like) as this will help us to name and describe our sorts and patterns.

Have your child complete the pattern below and name it using letters:

😀😍😀😍😀😍😀 ____

On Monday, we wrote in our journals and focused on using our knowledge of letter sounds to
 s-t-r-e-t-c-h out unfamiliar words. We have also worked on printing the letter "o" this week and discussed the short sound it makes. Each day we will continue to read our sight word poems to increase our recognition of high frequency words and our fluency!


Requests:
  • We are looking for a few items to complete projects over the next few days. If you have any extra at home, can you please send them in, DO NOT go out and buy anything:)
  • Magazines (that are appropriate for student's to look at.) We will be cutting them up for a science project. Therefore, they will NOT be returned to you.
  • Paper towel tubes (the empty tubes)
    • Please help your child to collect 3 leaves to bring into school on Monday.

    Reminders:
    • Parent/ Teacher conferences are this Thursday evening and Friday morning. 
    • There is NO SCHOOL for students on Friday, September 22 or on Monday, September 25.
    • If you wish to order a Fun Lunch from Subway for your child to eat on October 13, please visit: www.healthyhunger.ca before October 7 to place your order.

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