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Swimming Day 3: I am very impressed with how everyone has put so much effort into improving in their lessons each day! It is so enjoyable to walk around the poolside and see all students fully engaged and having fun!
There was a letter sent home today regarding our upcoming Culture Night. We are looking for families who might be able to help make this evening as successful as last year. Please check your child's backpack for this info. Today was our first day of swimming! Everyone seemed to work hard and had fun. I was very proud of how well-behaved our class was while at the pool!
Please remember to dry out and repack bathing suits and towels so that they are ready for tomorrow! Our Words Of the Week (for the next two weeks) focus on 'sh' and 'ch' beginning and ending sounds: change . shout lunch . share chair . show chew . shower bench . slower Today was library day. Thank you to the many students who have returned overdue books!
We built and tested our ice cube insulators today! They ALL worked!! We were excited to see how big some of them still were! Today was I.C.N.R (It's a Crime Not to Read) Constable Suzanne was away so we had 2 visiting constables join us!
We had a change to our Mission Impossible course this week. We found it much more challenging! Yesterday we explored materials we thought would make good ice cube insulators. Today we got into partners and drew out a plan for how to make a good insulator and tomorrow we will test them. Tomorrow is Library Day and it is also Sharing Circle Day! We will begin swimming lessons on Jan 28! This is such a fun component of our day-offering them life long skill and daily physical activity! It also becomes a bit of a field trip through their eyes because we take the bus!
Please pack all swimming items in a different bag apart from their school bag. We will leave the school bag at school and just carry the swim bag onto the bus. Children are responsible for their own bag and items. Please remember to pack a swimsuit and towel every day! Our turn around time to change is quick as the bus goes back and forth to the school for other classes. IF you send your child to school wearing their swimsuit, please remember to pack underwear for after the lessons. Just a note from previous experience-quick, easy, comfortable clothes make for easy, independent dressing. Swimming also makes students very hungry, so you might want to pack more food during the swimming week. Last week we made successful potato insulators that kept our potatoes hot! This week we are exploring how to keep an ice cube from melting. In Math we are working on adding. Grade 3's are adding two 2-didit numbers with regrouping. Grade 2's are adding and subtracting 2-digit with 1-digit numbers, using the strategies of counting on and counting back. Today we tested our Potato Insulators and each group's was successful in keeping the potato warm longer than our test potatoes last week. In other words they stayed hot longer than 2 hours and 25 minutes.
A reminder that tomorrow is Library Day. It is also Sharing Circle Day. Students may bring an object to share or share about something by telling. Today we made a mini book on our Sound Kreations experience. When we are finished with them tomorrow I will bring it home and read it to you!
Today was day 2 of Mission Impossible! In Science we brainstormed materials in our groups that we can use to insulate our baked potato to keep it hot longer than 2 hours and 25 minutes. What a wonderful performance today!! Thank you to all the parents who joined us, especially Max's mom who wowed us with her dance moves!! The following is a letter from Sound Kreations: Hello Parents!
We have had such an AMAZING time dancing with your children! Perhaps you’ve noticed the extra ‘pep in their step’ and groove in their moves! There’s only one thing we love as much as getting your children moving and that’s keeping them moving!The physical, mental, and social benefits of dance are well documented and easily observable in children and so it is important that companies such as ours dedicate themselves to supporting the exploration and integration of dance long after we leave your gym! So, you might be asking yourself... “What next?” The SK team has rallied together and come up with a way to support your young dancers moving forward...SK Monthly. SK-Monthly is a Student-Focused Newsletter built for one purpose: to keep your children dancing. Subscribers receive an Instructional Dance Video every month, created by our own in-school instructors, offering an endless number of dances for them to practice and share with their friends. In addition, the newsletter includes some fun and practical information about dance games, how to hold a Dance Cypher, how to organize your own school dance club and even some positive and clean tunes for them to dance to! This newsletter, available only to those students who have participated in an SoundKreations Dance Program, is set-up to go to the parent’s inbox and is a completely ad-free, spam-free initiative focused entirely on building dance community and keeping kids moving and grooving! If you would like to register your child in the SK Monthly Virtual Dance Club please follow the link below! www.skmonthly.com Have fun and we’ll see you online :) This week in Science we have been exploring Heating and Cooling. Yesterday we did an experiment to see if heat would change a potato and in what ways. We used our 5 senses to record our observations before applying heat and after. Most of us enjoyed tasting the baked potato better than the raw! Today, our experiment was to find out how long it takes for a baked potato to cool down to room temperature. Next week week we will make insulators to try and keep the potato hot for longer.
A reminder that tomorrow at 12:00 is our dance presentation! Keep the swim forms coming in. Also, the grade 2's brought home a dental screening form. Please return by next Wednesday. |
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