April/May news

Dear Parents,

I’d like to share a few things we are doing in the class. In Science, we are studying plants. We will be planting seeds and recording its growth. We are learning parts of the plant and learning how water reaches the leaves in a plant. As a class, we added food coloring to water and placed celery in the water. We observed that the leaves turned red after 24 hours.  We tried the same experiment using the blue food coloring.

We will begin our unit on Building Things. We are making robots. Therefore, we will need toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, a few small boxes for the body, arms, face, and legs. Please bring these items by Thursday. In May we will be building other items as well, and we will need other items as well. Please bring extra items to share with others.

In Math, we have started our unit on Measurement. We are also working on adding and subtracting numbers from 10-20. This week, we will be exploring those numbers using manipulative. We have been playing Smartboard games in Math to practice our numbers. I encourage the students to continue to practice numbers 50-100.

In French, we have been talking about Spring and writing sentences about weather and activities we do during Spring.

In Social Studies, we are talking about the past, and comparing life to the present.

The Desk Fairy came to visit our class, and I’m happy to say she though every student deserved a reward for having a clean desk. I hope she will visit us soon again.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Celine