My apologies for this late entry. I had to leave school right after our afternoon meeting yesterday and completely forgot to post this.

The sight words we focused on this week were: went, have, her, off. Please remember to look in your child's backpack for a word list each Monday.

The students completed a page in their winter booklet about activities people enjoy doing in the colder months. We also learned about hibernation, migration, and adaptation and the students worked in small groups to sort animal pictures into these three groups. We watched a short video about Arctic Foxes that showed how the fox uses its sharp sense of hearing to track where rodents are hiding under the snow. Once they determine where the rodents are, the fox does a big dive/pounce to catch their prey. We loved watching the fox in action!  Here is the link to view the video, if you wish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTvYMlRO9g

In Math, we continue to develop our number skills and estimation skills by doing an Esti-Mystery each week. Here is a photo of this week's mystery. The answer is 37.

We also looked at the following photograph to determine and discuss which sign does not belong. There are many possible answers.  You may want to ask your child which one they would choose and can share your thinking with them as well. It is always interesting to hear the different perspectives. The students are becoming keen observers and can articulate their reasoning well. We have just started to learn how to effectively use a number line to help us reach the sum of an addition question.

The students did a lot of writing in their notebooks this week. They enjoy the opportunity to share their work during Author's Chair where a few students are randomly chosen to read their writing. This week they wrote about 4 or 5 things they did on the weekend and wrote sentences to describe a picture they were given of a boy and a girl in their backyard.

We have a new Music teacher named Mrs. Darr. The children had Music twice with her this week. 

Please return Home Reading books on Monday and library books by Tuesday.

I hope you all can find time to get outside and enjoy the warm(er) weather this weekend. Have fun! :)