dates!

Whew!  We've been so busy I have not updated the blog in a while.

Reading:  We are reading non-fiction books and looking for pages that WOW us!  We have learned about text features such as a table of contents and bold words.

Writing:  We have been writing our non-fiction stories as well.  Hopefully all of this prep work will make the Animal Research project a breeze!

Math: We are working on addition and subtraction with base ten concepts.  We continue to review counting, number formation and shapes.

Science:  We successfully released 3 butterflies into the garden last week when it was sunny and warm!  It was so fun watching the life cycle!

5/1 ABC countdown begins!  This is meant to be fun.  If it ever becomes too much- just skip that day.  No problem!  If it interferes with another day- simply choose. 

May 2: Thursday- Sports Hat Day - wear your favorite sports
hat to school and bring a water bottle to use if you have
one.
May 3:
 Friday- School Spirit Day - wear Irving school clothing or
anything with red and white in it and make sure to get at
least 10 hrs. of sleep tonight.

5/10 Irving Sleepover

5/16 Animal Research project due

5/24 Olympic Day- kids wear PE shoes and parents consider volunteering

5/27 No School

5/29 Picnic - all Kindergarten families are invited to attend this picnic.  It looks like we will be at Barrie this year but I will keep you updated if anything changes. 

6/6 Last Day

Upcoming Dates:

4/16 Mrs. Parkinson out  Substitute during the day 

4/17 K-2 Spelling Bee

4/19 No School

4/21 Book Fair starts!

4/24  Academic Fair 5:30-6:30 . Come see all the great projects! 6:30: I'll be signing books at the book fair!  I would love to see some friendly faces!

5/1 ABC countdown begins!

5/4 District Fun Run

5/9 Art Fest in the evening

5/10 Irving Sleepover

5/24 Olympic Day- kids wear PE shoes and parents consider volunteering

5/27 No School

6/6 Last Day

Reading: This week we set goals for ourselves during writing.  We are powering up the super reading strategies that we sometimes forget to use.  Students are learning that sometimes they need to use ALL the strategies to figure out an unknown word.  

This week we also learned that readers love to talk about books with other readers.  We sometimes even have reading play dates!  Here are a few students playing teacher during a reading play date.  Students also learned how to play a game called, SNAP IT!  This game helps us practice our snap words. 

Writing: We finished up our Opinion Writing and we are now working on All About Writing.  This is a great opportunity for your child to really shine!  They write about things they know a lot about.  We have Sea Creature experts, Dragon experts, Garden experts, Sports experts...you name it!  I love hearing all the fun facts your children know about different topics.

Math: In math we are working on teen numbers.  We are building teen numbers and writing number sentences with teen numbers.  We are also making sure that our facts that add to ten are fluent.

Science:  We have Caterpillars!  We now have 5 caterpillars living in our room.  We are observing them and learning about the life cycle.  Here we are at morning meeting practicing the stages of the butterfly life cycle without any words.

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One Book One School
Irving School is reading a book together!  Your family will receive a copy of the book on Thursday.  (The title is still a surprise!) . We will read the first two chapters with our Eagles Nest.  Optional trivia questions will go home.  If students return the questions they are eligible for a raffle.

This week we are doing Anti-Bullying Lessons every day.  Students are learning to identify what bullying is.  Bullying is generally defined as  intentional, repeated behavior targeting someone specific.   Students are learning how and when to report  bullying and how to act as a friend to someone who is being bullied. If your child comes home and mentions bullying- be sure to ask if it is repeated behavior that is intentional. 

Academic Fair is Wednesday April 24th.  This event is a science (or social studies or math...) event for anyone interested.  Simply have your child ask a question and then help your child discover how to answer it.  It is meant to foster curiosity and problem solving.  It is 100% optional.  Most students do posters or make a model of some kind.  We will walk through the fair as a class during the day and then students who participated will come back at night and stand by their project to discuss it with other families as they walk around.  Click here for more information.