This Week in Room 21...

Here's a sneak peek at our week.....

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Over the last couple weeks in Language Arts we have explored fairytales and the different story elements. This week students began retelling and writing their own stories. They have been drawing, colouring, writing and expressing their creativity. 

In math, we started talking about measurement and did various activities for measuring length. The students and I explored the length of objects and non-standard units we can use to measure things. We worked on using the terms shorter and longer and measured various objects throughout our classroom! 

This week’s Author study was Leo Lionni. We are going to continue looking at his books next week as well. The kids love the colourful art he incorporated into his books. 

In Science, we continued learning about plants and introduced the difference between living and nonliving things. We even went on a scavenger hunt on Tuesday and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine outside! The students searched the field and found various living and nonliving items. We also got a class Jade plant. The students are very excited about having it in our classroom and eager to care for it. We also did a fun, sticky note activity where students thought about different living and non-living things, then stuck them to our anchor chart!  

In gym we continued with gymnastics. Each student explored new movements and activities using trestles and mats. It has been great watching them try new things. They have learned how to safely climb over the trestles, use the benches in a variety of ways-- as a balance beam, sliding on their tummies, slidng backwards, sideways and much more-- and move on the mats in different ways.

Important Reminders & Updates:

• GYMNASTICS has started!! Students are required to wear comfortable, properly fitting clothes (No jeans or skirts/dresses or hoodies) as these items can get caught on equipment posing a safety hazard. They are also not able to wear any jewelry and all long hair must be tied back to prevent injury. Students should wear sweatpants/stretchy pants to school each day. We do not have time to change clothes before and after gym so they must come properly dressed in the morning. Thank you for your support of this program!

• RAZ-KIDS (NEW!) : EMJ has purchased a membership to the Raz-Kids website. This is an online reading program with levelled books that your child can practice reading with at home as another option to the Home Reading books that they bring home. Your child had a chance to practice using this site with their Buddies. They have brought home their login information so that they can access the site from home. Please keep this information in a safe place. You will be able to access the site from our Google Classroom or by searching Raz-kids online. 

• Please have your child return their Spelling Booklet each Monday. This week's spelling words were: 

• Our Google Classroom is up and running! This is a resource for students to use at home to support learning here at school. You can log into your child's classroom by following the steps below:

1. Go to Google. com.
2. Click the blue "Sign In" icon near the top right of screen.
3. Click on the "waffle" icon and select the chalkboard icon from the drop down menu.
4. Enter your child's email address. (this can be found in your MyCBE parent account or you can ask me and I can email it to you.)
5. Enter your child's password. (All students have the same password. It is: 12345678 )
6. Click on "Mrs. V's Classroom")
7. Go to "Classwork" tab for links to games and activities.

*Note: If you have any trouble logging in let me know.

Upcoming Events & Dates to Remember:

Apr. 25 - Last day with our Student Teacher

May 4 - School Dance 

May 5 - No School

May 12 - Mother's Day 

May 22 - Victoria Day

May 29 - No School

June 9 - No School

June 29 - Last Day of School

June 18 - Father's Day