Take a look at the happenings of our week.

Well, we did it! We had our class reward for pushing over 100 marbles. We were the talk of the school because we were in our pyjamas.

Now, onto some sad news. Mrs. Gregory left our school this past Friday. Our classroom community wished her well by making her a card, buying her a gift and sending her off with lots of hugs and warm wishes.  Miss. Natalie will be in our class in the mornings now.

In Math, we started co-creating our anchor chart on fact families. This will eventually lead us into learning how to look at math problems by looking at it in parts to make up a whole number. Once we review fact families, the students will learn the steps needed to follow if one of the parts or the whole number is missing. Stay tuned.

We have started our second type writing -descriptive writing. The focus here is to visualize what a writer is saying  by paying close attention to the adjectives which paint a picture in the reader's head as they are reading. Take a look at the photo below. The first text example had few adjectives. It was up to the children to imagine what the cat looked like. You can see how most are very unique.  The second text example had many adjectives. As you can see, the students were able to accurately visualize what they read. One of our first learning goals will be to know what an adjective is and understand how to use our senses to find adjectives to support the noun they are describing.

A few things to remember.....

The Eco Club has announced that our school will be having Boomerang Lunches every Monday Wednesday and Friday in the hope of reducing garbage at our school. Please try your best to reduce the amount of packaging in your child's lunch. Any garbage on those days will "boomerang" back home via your child's lunch bag.

• Please take a moment to check your child's homework. The reading passage is at grade level. If you feel it is too difficult at the present moment, this is a great opportunity for a parent to assist a student by reading the passage and the question to them while your child is following with their finger.  This will act as modelling how to read and how to make sense of the text by asking and answering questions out loud.