Unfortunately, I was away sick for most of the three days this week, aside from Monday morning, so this week's blog will be short and sweet.

Our focus words were: lost, must, just, best, and fast.

The students listened to stories about love and kindness and wrote ways in which they can demonstrate both this emotion and virtue towards family, friends, and strangers.

We continued to learn about polar bears by reading books and watching video clips and we recorded interesting facts about their appearance, their adaptations, and how they hunt.

In Math, we continued to work at adding 3 addends, practicing different addition strategies, solving oral word problems involving 3 addends, and playing a game to practice identifying odd and even numbers.

The students did a Valentine's heart line-art project which involved using many different types of lines and colours. They also decorated a Valentine's Day card bag.

I will be sending home new books on Tuesday for those who are doing Home Reading. I apologize that I was unable to send new materials home this week.

Please remember that there will not be school on Monday, Feb.19th due to Family Day.

*** Important 100th Day of School Information***

Next Wednesday, February 21, we will be celebrating our 100th day of school. We will be celebrating this day with different learning activities all focused on the number 100. The students will be rotating through 4 stations on Wednesday afternoon to participate in the different activities. We have been learning how to represent 100 through tallies, ten frames, and base ten blocks and we'd love to see other representations of 100 from the students.

* If possible, please have your child bring in 100 small items in a small ziploc bag with their name on it to show to their classmates. The items could be things such as Lego pieces, buttons, macaroni noodles, cereal pieces, beads, dried beans, etc. Please have your child count these with you to ensure you have 100. You may wish to have your child sort the items into groups of 5s or 10s for quicker counting. The items will be returned the following week. We will be making a temporary display of the items in the classroom for the students to see all the different "looks" of 100. Thanks for your support!

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful Family Day long weekend! :)