Week 23

Dear Parents and Students,

Literacy Week has been a lot of fun, and we have enjoyed plenty of extra activities over the past five days. We began on Monday reading Aschenputtel, and compared this Brothers Grimm story to the Caribbean story, Cendrillon, and to a number of other versions of the story most of us know as Cinderella. We read to the Grade 1s on Thursday, dressed up as our favourite book characters, and we presented our Book Promotions before the class. A link to photos of these activities, along with  a few others, is included at the end of this post.

We continued our study of decimals in Maths this week, and we practised adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals and whole numbers. We will review Topic 13 on Monday, and the topic test will take place next Tuesday.

 In our Literacy Workshop, we spent some time enjoying reading and listening to various tales  by the Brothers Grimm, and we also spent completed our Book Promotions, including giving our presentations on Thursday and Friday. Next week, we will begin or next grammar unit, dedicated to capitalisation and punctuation.

In Science, we we reviewed what we have learned about electricity, and we have begun discussions about the upcoming Science Fair. We will begin proper planning for the Science Fair next week, including deciding on topics and finding partners for the project.

In Social Studies, we continued our study of the American Southeast, including the celebrated Cherokee father and daughter, Sequoyah and Anyokah. Anyokah was only six years old when she joined her father in designing an alphabet for their native language. Before this, there was no written form for their language. It took them 12 ears to complete, and when they were done, members of their tribe began to learn to read and write their language within months. We will continue our studies of the American Southeast next week.

We finished our week off with the Monthly Assembly. Congratulations to all students who received a certificate for increasing your lexiles through Achieve 3000. Well done!

As you know, there are only three days of school next week, as we have a long weekend for 2/28 Peace Day. This and other important dates are listed below, as always. Enjoy your weekend, and I'll see you all on Monday.

Important Dates:

Tue,  Feb 26:    Maths Test: Topic 13
Feb 28-Mar 1:  Peace Day Public Holiday
Mon, Mar 4:     After school clubs begin
Mar 11-15:       Spirit Week
Wed, Mar 13:   Race Day – parents welcome
Thu, Mar 28:    International Expo – parents welcome
Fri, Mar 29:      Monthly Assembly
Mar 30-Apr 7:  Spring Break – No school

Click here for photos ofGrade 1 and Grade 4 Reading Buddies:

Click here for all Literacy Week photos (including Reading Buddies):

Students of the Week

Nao, Rachelle, Janelle