As this THURSDAY is NEON day!
Think bright pinks, electric blues,
How about brightly coloured laces on your shoes?
Fluorescent yellows and highlighter greens,
Would look great with a pair of jeans!
Wear NEON colours to show off how bright you are,
As you will be dressed like a star!
Dress in NEON to brighten someone’s day,
Let’s stand out in the most striking way!
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful March Break! It was so great to see all of the students yesterday! This is a reminder that the students will be giving their Robert Munsch presentations this week! I see in the student practice logs that they have been working hard on becoming familiar with their books! Thank you parents for your support and for offering regular feedback to your child.
Here is your child’s presentation date (chosen by the students):
Wed., Mar. 20th: Clara, Alex, Kenny, Feifan, David C., Kayson
Thur., Mar. 21st: Adrian, Aurik, Stephanie, Logan, Viaan, Seyon
Fri., Mar. 22nd: Sofia, Wenger, David N., Zara, Eshaal, Steven, Phoebe, Eric
WEJ’s Annual Spring Talent Show will be on Friday, April 19th! Interested students in every grade from kindergarten to Grade 6 can participate!
After today’s virtual field trip to the Maple Sugar Bush, many students approached me afterwards asking to post the location on the blog so that they could visit the museum and pancake house hopefully over March Break.
Here is a link I found that provides more information and an address.
Good evening parents and guardians,
February has literally flown by. Please enjoy some photos below of some magical moments in room 216!
We have a busy week ahead! Tomorrow we are participating in a virtual field trip to Wheelers Pancake House to learn how to tap trees the way the Pioneers we are studying did way-back-when. After that, we will work together to “churn”/ make butter, that will sit in the refrigerator over night Monday and we will enjoy our hard work on plain saltine crackers on Tuesday morning.
We are starting fractions in Math and continuing on with multiplication, specifically looking at how we can draw arrays to illustrate our understanding of a multiplication problem. More Knowledgehook missions have been assigned to help supplement this curriculum strand.
In Language Arts, we are working on our Author’s Study of Robert Munsch. Students have all chosen their books for their major Story Telling presentation happening the week we come back from March Break. All students have been given their presentation date. Students should be practicing every chance they have a spare moment and should slowly be thinking about props and costume ideas this week. The red folder should be coming to and from school nightly the same way the agenda does. Asking to go to Peer Tutoring for extra practice is also an option on Monday’s and Thursdays if students have busy schedules after school.
For your consideration …
● With the warmer weather there will be muddy areas on the schoolyard. Proper footwear for outdoors and a pair of indoor shoes is needed. Feel free to have extra socks and pants in your child’s back pack. Hopefully we have a quick spring and our yard dries up quickly!
● The upcoming holiday break is fast approaching and Friday March 8th is the last day of school. The holiday break is from Monday March 11th to Friday March 15th during this time there is NO SCHOOL. Some parents have already written to be indicating that their child will be leaving mid week for travel/trip/vacation purposes, I am appreciative of the open lines of communication and this helps with lesson planning and organization.
Thanks to everyone who donated to TOONIE Tuesday, we will listen carefully to the announcements this week to see what WEJ’s grand total was.
Have a fabulous week and thank you for all that you do for your children, they are such a lovely, fun, hardworking bunch!
Tomorrow is Toonie Tuesday! The hallways are lined with amazing posters to remind you to bring your toonies to school tomorrow.
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The students have started delving into the depths of effective storytelling and how to captivate an audience when reading aloud. Students will be exploring different activities based on books by the renowned children’s author, Robert Munsch. There will be reading and listening activities, and assessments related to identifying the main idea and examples from the text to support their BIG IDEA claim. The students have been sampling several books by this author, and will very soon (by Monday of next week) have chosen a book that they feel a connection to or has sparked their interest level to read to the class as their project.
Throughout the course of this unit, the students will rehearse their chosen book at home with parents and at school with peers, practice their oral fluency skills, and hone their presentation skills. The unit will wrap up with each student getting up before the class dressed as one of the characters from their book selection and reading the story to the class. The students should use their time nightly to prepare for their Robert Munsch book presentations which will take place the week of March 18 – 22nd.
The students have been given a booklet of stapled activity sheets for this project yesterday. This booklet is to go home and come back to school every day starting next week until the presentation date. Parents are asked to fill in the Practice Log at the back of this booklet regularly to indicate that their child has been practicing the reading of his/her chosen book! There is also a spot to give them constructive feedback as the students prepare. Any activity work that is not completed in the time given in class at school during the day should be finished at home. You can also help your child with the planning of his/her costume and prop ideas to enhance the presentation.
The rubric for the presentation is in your child’s booklet.
Yesterday, Mr. Jackson and I organized for a Robert Munsch impersonator to come in and imitate how Robert Munsch reads – he was absolutely FABULOUS! The students were engaged and many laughs were. Daniel the storyteller spoke about the importance of using sound effects, onomatopeia, different volume levels of voice, and the use of hand gestures!
Here are a few pictures from previous years of students on their presentation day:
Last week, the students worked on a cross-curricular activity involving art and science. As part of our Science unit on forces and movement, the students learned that the muscles in your body are attached to bones. Muscles pull on these bones. This is called muscular force. It allows you to move in many different ways. The students were challenged to create a sculpture using three pipe cleaners and aluminum foil strips to show how athletes use muscles! Check out their fantastic sculptures below! These will come home later this week to adorn your household decor!
Let’s bring summer into our school,
But remember there will be no pool!
We will imagine that we are on a beach,
While our teachers continue to teach!
Bring on sunglasses, dresses and a floral skirt,
Shorts, straw hats, and maybe even a T-shirt.
Let’s all cheer,
As summer will soon be here!!
