September 30, 2015

Hello families and friends,

We have continued our work building stamina and practicing rotating between different literacy stations.  The students are able to work for a solid 20 minutes as a group.  Soon we will be putting together our word work and guided reading groups.  In math, the classes began doing rotations between the three teachers.  Mr. Soulliere is teaching the groups about number sense, Ms. McEvoy is teaching the groups about measurement, and Ms. Klein is teaching the groups about shapes.  Each class will work with each of the teachers one day a week, and then will work on some problem solving questions related to the work that they have done through the week.

In social studies we have continued working on our Cranston brochures.  We also talked about "responsibility", and the students wrote about some of their responsibilities at home, at school, and within the community.  Ask your child what they say some of their responsibilities are.  In talking about our community, we have begun talking about our school community as well.  To go along with our map of our community walk, the students have been working on a map of our school.

The 50th anniversary of the Canadian Flag is coming up!  In celebration of this, the school will be singing Oh Canada, and we will be recorded to be a part of the largest collective recording of Oh Canada.  This afternoon we started talking about the flag, and got some of the students' questions about it.  We will be looking more at this through the next week leading up to the date, Oct. 9th.

Oct. 9th is also the One World Drumming performances.  The Harmony wing will be performing from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Please come and celebrate the work that the students have been doing.

Next Wednesday, October 7th, is Photo Day.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!