April 8th

Today we wore pink to show our support for anti-bullying. We also had a special presentation in the gym about bullying and what we can do to stop it. 

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:

   The story is about how Miss Moo leaves her home and encounters some not so nice animals on the way, until she finds some good friends that tell her it is OK she is different! Tied in well with our Anti-Bullying day. 

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 practised sounding out and writing three letter words on our own:

Gym -  sjamslovan.blogspot.com

Language:

Today we worked on learning capital and lower case Xx, we learned the sound it makes and practised writing it:

Math - Today we continued our new unit on measurement. We worked on measuring different Easter objects with a dragonfly ruler:

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

UOI - 

Today we finished our Jelly Fish and then worked on completing a under the sea and on the land picture with different animals. Students had to sort what creature went in which habitat:

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 will be sent home, all proceeds raised will go towards a new playground!

April 17th - Ice cream sundae day - order forms will be 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