Friday March 29, 2013

I am sorry for all of the confusion surrounding the field trips but I feel that the changes are for the better.  Below are the updated field trip dates.  We are buying a block of 20 tickets and will have a few extra left over.  If any friends or siblings would like to join us could you please let me know.

Fruit Market Thursday April 11^th 9:30

Post Office Thursday April 18^th 11:00

Baby Boss Thursday April 25^th 8:30-4:00

Fire Station Wednesday May 1^st

Due to the rain on Wednesday the Musical Scavenger Hunt is now going to be Wednesday April 10^th at 9:30, if it is raining again (fingers crossed) we will postpone it until the following Wednesday. 

For the past few weeks during our math centres the students have been playing the card game “Go Fish.”  If you have time next week during Spring break could you please let them show you how to play it?  It is a great game that involves many math, language and social skills.  All you need is a deck of cards and a flat area to play on.  Here is a link with the rules (we usually play with 5 cards each).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fish

What we did in our centres this week.

Literacy Centres

1.      Computer story “Duck Rabbit” and Starfall word machine game

2.      Acrostic poem name hunt

3.      Word hunt

4.      Phonics Review

Math/Science Centres

1.      Measuring string using blocks

2.      Measure the room with blocks

3.      Go fish card game

4.      Making rockets, planets, etc. with play dough and toothpicks

Word of the week:  and

Student of the week

The student of the week is Winston.  He has made breakthroughs with his reading abilities and now loves to spend any free time engulfed in a book.  This has been one of his biggest areas of improvement since August.  Ms. Vicky and I are so proud of this accomplishment!

Reminders and Notices

1. April 1-5 Spring Break
2. April 5^th Tomb Sweeping Holiday
3. April 9/10 Parent Teacher Meetings
4. April 11^th Fruit Market field trip
5. April 17^th Pottery Day
6. April 18^th Post Office field trip
7. April 22^nd Earth Day
8. April 24^th Science Fair
9. April 25^th Baby Boss field trip
10.  May 1^st Fire Station field trip

As always, if you have any questions or concern you can always write me an email at bsharp.his@gmail.com or come by and speak to me in person.

Cheers

Vicky and Braedon

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” 
Mahatma Gandhi

Easter, Centres, Measure the School and more Rockets