Hello everyone,

The students have been writing procedures and practicing using transition words.  They have started to make their own procedures.  Ask your child what procedure they wrote about.  This week in reading, the students have create story cubes.  They toss the cube and answer different story elements.  The six sides are: characters, setting, events, problem, solution, and connection.  You can ask your child to identify these story elements when reading at home.

In math, we have started our new unit on addition.  We are learning two different strategies for addition: counting on and doubles.  We will continue to look at these two strategies next week.  We have also discussed what a number sentence.  Ask your child what a number sentence is. 

The students also did their first presentation on their energy chains.  We discussed the importance in using a loud and clear voice, as well as, giving eye contact to the audience.  In art, we learned different lines.  Ask your child what their favourite type of line. 

Things that the students should have brought home:
class picture
data management unit
patterning unit
energy chains
Piet Mondrian paintings
daily and seasonal changes unit
doubles book