Poster Contest

There will be an Eco Fair on April 22nd and for that, there was a poster contest.  The contest is about "How to make the Earth a greener place"....so what can we do to help our environment.  Boys and girls did a great job and I just sent the entries out.  Good luck to everyone!!!

Spelling Poem #25: March Wind

It is the last week of March and the weather has been having its highs and lows.  Hopefully Spring is on its way and all the rain, wind, and chilliness will go away! 

Spelling Words:

1) wind
2) inside
3) outside
4) call
5) ball
6) hall
7) mall
8) each
9) teach
10) reach

Additional Questions:

1)  What does ''jolly'' mean? ____________

2)  Can you write a sentence with the word ''jolly''? 

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3)  What does it mean when the March wind likes to ''joke and play''?

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4)  Compound Words are words that are made up of two words.  For example, ''butterfly'' is a compound word because it is made out of ''butter'' and ''fly''.  Can you find some compound words in the Spelling Words?

5)  Write all the words in the ''all'' word family from the Spelling Words.

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Limericks

Limericks are silly poems that are made up of 5 lines.  They often don't make sense.  They have a pattern of 8, 8, 5, 5, 8 syllables for each line.  Here are some of our limericks!  Enjoy!

Planting for Spring!

Today Ms. Stephanie had a neat activity where we welcomed Spring by planting some grass seeds!  For this, we needed soil, grass seeds, cups, water, and sunlight.  We reviewed procedures and are hoping that our grass grows soon!  We have been watering it everyday and placed it near the window for some sunlight.

Spelling Poem #24: St. Patrick's Day

Welcome back to school!! It was St. Patrick's Day on March 17th!  How many of you celebrated it?  St. Patrick's day is an Irish celebration.  Originated in the country of Ireland, people usually wear green shamrocks on their jackets and hats.  Four-leafed clovers are supposed to be very lucky, so if you find one, make sure to treasure it! 

Spelling Words:
1) maybe
2) some
3) one
4) two
5) three
6) four
7) over
8) under
9) green
10) see


Additional Questions:

1)  Write a sentence with the following words:

maybe: ____________________________________________

some: ___________________________________________

green: ____________________________________________

2)  What is the synonym of ''jig"?  ____________

3)  When you think of St. Patrick's Day, what do you think of?

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4) Which words are opposites?  _______________

5)  Think of other words that are opposites.

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Happy March Break!

March Break is here!  There were lots of suggestions on my newsletter of places to go over March Break...some of them including the ROM, Ontario Science Centre, and the Public Library.  Remember to read and go on RAZ-kids!  Review your food groups as you are eating and see if you can spot any 2D or 3D shapes wherever you go!  Have a very fun and safe March Break and I can't wait to hear all your stories when we come back to school!

Visualizing

When reading, good readers need to visualize in their heads what they are reading.  The picture changes as you get more information from what you are reading.  Today we listened to a funny short description and drew our visualizations.  

Here is the story:

I saw a man with a big big nose;

and spikey hair;

and long, long, toes.

He had bells on his fingers,

and bells on his feet,

and he went DING-A-LING,

up and down the street.

 

Here are some of our visualizations:

 

 

Our Shape Monsters!

In Math, we have been learning all about shapes.  We created some monsters out of shapes!  We then introduced our monsters and wrote descriptions about them.  Here are our monster friends:

 

Spelling Poem #23: Snowball

This week I have a funny poem about this boy wanting to keep a snowball for a pet.  Enjoy!

Spelling Words:

1) make
2) made
3) can
4) could
5) would
6) should
7) think
8) keep
9) my
10) myself


Additional Questions:

1)  What really happened to the snowball?

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2)  ''made'' is the past tense of ''make'''.  You use past tense when you have already done the activity. For example: "I will make a cake for my mom." and "I made a cake for my mom yesterday." Make a sentence with the following words, remembering to use the PAST tense for the second and fourth words.

can: _____________________________________________

could:  _____________________________________________

think: ______________________________________________

thought:  ____________________________________________

3)  If you were allowed to have a pet, what kind of pet would you get?  Why?

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4)  Other than a snowman, what else can you make with snowballs?

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Food Groups!

As part of health, we have been learning about healthy eating.  We need to make sure we eat enough foods from the 4 food groups in order to be healthy.  When eating, think about what we are eating and whether or not we are eating healthy!

Pedestrian Safety

Since we learned that one way to save our environment is to walk to places more and drive less, today we talked about how to cross streets safely.  It is very important to look left and right and again to double check for coming cars.  It is the same when we are biking.  Everyone got some reflectors to hang either on their backpack or on their jackets.  This will help cars see you if you are walking.  Be safe everyone! :)