April 10th

French - http://www.stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.ca/

Calendar - Today we learned our  days of the week song, said the date and dressed Charlie for the weather. 

Daily 5 -As part of our daily 5 students will look at stories, do picture walks, independent read, partner read, and listen to others telling stories, and practise writing words.

Today students participated in partner reading, students took turn completing picture walks and telling the story in their own words.

As part of our daily five students participated in listening to reading. Today we listened to the story:

Drama, Integrated Arts:  www.mrmonaghan2015.blogspot.ca

Journal- 

As part of our Daily 5 students will practice working on writing (through copying sentences in their journals) or word work (practicing sounding out words, cutting and pasting words into proper sequence to build words.) Today we began our animals in the barn book which ties in with our new UOI:

Gym -  sjamslovan.blogspot.com

Language:

Today we worked on vowel sounds in words, students had to sound out and decide the missing vowel:

Math - Today we worked on our numbers 11-20, with a crab that ties in with our under the sea theme:

music - Songs on friendship, sight words, phonics, patterning, manners, brain breaks

UOI - 

Today we reviewed what a mammal is

• warm blooded
• their babies are born live, not from an egg 
• they have fur/hair 

We then learned what a reptile is:

• They have scales
• they have cold blood
• their babies are hatched from eggs 

students then completed a sorting activity:

UOI Centres-

Students had to answer trivia questions in order to be able to pick their centre. 

animals,playdough, blocks, puzzles, house centre, art easel (chalk, whiteboard markers, painting) and cut and paste. Working on sharing, manners, fine and gross motor skills, imaginative play, problem solving and working together. 

April 13th/14 – SJA will be selling coffee in the morning – in support of our spring fundraiser (funds raised will go towards a new playground!) April 13th/14 – Students will be able to purchase goodies from the spring fundraiser bake sale

 (funds raised will go towards a new playground!)

April 16^th  - pancake breakfast – order forms sent home, all proceeds raised will go towards a new playground!

April 17th - Ice cream sundae day - order forms sent home all proceeds will go towards a new playground, Saraya's McDonalds birthday lunch!!!!!!!!

April 20 - 24 - Spring Fundraiser

April 22 - Spirit Dress Up Day - Earth Day
April 29 - Casual Day