Un gros merci!!!

We realized today after parents had left that we didn't say a proper thank you after our spectacle. We are thrilled with the students performance and very proud of their hard work and the tremendous progress they have made over the past months. We hope that you enjoyed the 'spectacle' today and we are so thankful that you were able to join us. Thank you also for working tirelessly on the songs and play lines that went home. It is so wonderful to have such a helpful and supportive parent community. 

Merci!!

Reminders

A couple friendly reminders:

-tomorrow Wednesday June 3rd is our play "Les trois petits cochons" at 2:15 in Room 20. 

-please return the interview request forms  by Thursday June 4th. If you did not receive a form, please let us know by email

-please send back any library books or book-in-a-bag books to school

-please remember to keep checking and returning your child's note tote. As the year comes to an end we will have many things to send home and a note tote helps to keep us all organized. If your child has misplaced their note tote, a lare zip loc bag will do with their name on it :). Remind them (as we do each day) that it is their responsibility to bring it to and from school. This is great practice for future grades! 

Thanks for your continued support! Liking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow!

Interviews, Spectacle and more!

Hi parents!

Lots of exciting things happening in Room 20 lately! I'm sure many of your kiddos have told you about the newest addition to our class-- baby chicks!!! (Well 'des oeufs' for now but in the next few weeks we hope to seem some 'poussins'!) We are learning all about chicks and chickens an Mme Gilda is teaching us all about how to use a flashlight to see forming veins and body parts of little chicks in their eggs!

We are also doing chick crafts and making egg "protectors" that you may see coming home. 

Reports and Interviews:

In the next day or two you will see a note come home in your child's note tote about upcoming report cards. Please take a moment to fill out the form an return by June 4th. As always, we welcome your questions!

Also, a quick reminder that Wednesday June 3rd at 2:15 is our Room 20 End of the Year Spectacle!! We will be putting on the play "Les trois petits cochons" and singing some songs. We look forward to seeing many parents then!

Check back soon for a calendar of events (June is a very busy and exciting month!) for the next month of school :) 

Field trip postponed :(

Hi parents,

As you may have guessed, we had to postpone our field trip today due to bad weather. Thank you for your support and offers to volunteer. We will be rescheduling the field trip for Friday May 15th at 1:30-3:00pm and crossing our fingers for good weather. 

Due to the change of date, we will need to have new permission forms filled out and these will be in your child's note tote today. 

We do not NEED parent volunteers but always welcome them. If you would like to join us, please fill out the form again. Sorry for all the confusion and extra paperwork :(. We are looking forward to a less soggy and much more fun and educational trip on Friday. 

2 reminders

Please check your child's note tote for a field trip permission form.

Also, Book Bonanza is tomorrow. If you would like your child to purchase books, please remember to send in money in a labelled container or ziploc bag.

Thank you!

Book Bonanza

A quick reminder that parent council is currently looking for used book, cd and dvd donations for the annual book sale next week. Please either drop them off in the gym before school (labelled with the class name) or send them with your child and we will forward them on. The sale begins next Wednesday.

April Update

 A LITTLE UPDATE...

News Items:

Many parents have been asking when we will be performing our play "Les trois petits cochons". We will be putting a special open house and 'spectacle' in early June and we will let you know shortly the exact date and time. 

Inquiries:

We are very busy in room 20 right now and we have a couple different inquiries going on. The students are interested in plants and flowers and have opened a flower shop in our dramatic play area. They have also planted beans and making keen observations and drawings of their growth. We are also interested in clouds and are learning all about different types of clouds and how they are formed. Another mini inquiry (sparked by an impromptu introduction of fancy hot wheel cars to the toy bins) is ramps and tubes. Many of our boys and girls have experimented with building ramps and slides out of blocks and paper towel tubes to test how far or high their cars will go!

What We're Working On:

Math: 

We have been learning about number patterns and reviewing counting by 2s. We will also be reviewing many of the math concepts we have been working on throughout the past few months as we approach the end of the year and continuing to work on simple addition. 

Literacy: We will continue to work on recognizing high frequency sight words in French such as 'les', 'le' 'la', 'ma' 'tu' and 'je' and will be expanding our list of words we can read at a glance.  We will also continue working more on our writing journals in French and English and writing full sentences with appropriate punctuation. We have also been focusing on developing critical thinking skills through literary experiences and have read many fairy tales and other stories and begun to ask deep thinking questions and writing an drawing responses to what we've read. 

Science: We have have been learning about the life cycle of plants and watching our beans grow!

Sensory Play: Gardening centre!

Art: we are currently displaying beautiful mixed media paintings/collages of rainforest birds for Arts Alive a have just completed a top secret art project ;)

Home Connection:

1) Our home reading program will continue until the end of next week but will then be wrapping up. ** Please send back any books tounmay have at home and your child's reading program ziplock.

We encourage you to continue reading daily with your child in French and English but will not be sending home books on a weekly basis. We will instead be sending home a simple math problem solving booklet that can be completed once a week an returned in the ziplock. Instructions will be included in the bag. 

*please note that we will not be "correcting" or marking these math problems. They are simply for practicing and reinforcing the skills we are working on in class. 

2) As it seems that spring is finally here and warmer weather is coming our way, please remember to send your kiddo in layers of clothing (since temperatures seem to change quite a bit throughout the day) and with a hat and sunscreen so we can safely and happily play outside and enjoy the end of our hibernation season. :)