April 20th

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 wrote I like to  _________ in puddles. Students had to copy the sentence and then fill in the blank: Gym -  sjamslovan.blogspot.com Language: Today we worked on the last letter in the alphabet Qq. We learned the sound it makes and how to write it in capital and lowercase: We also practised writing letters we have previously learned: Math - Today we continued to look at coins. We reviewed each coin's name, what picture appears on the coin and how much it is worth. We then worked on a worksheet that had us find and colour the coins different colours: music - Songs on friendship, sight words, phonics, patterning, manners, brain breaks At the end of the day we headed to the gym for our daily Spring Fundraiser assembly to hand out awards and since we raised our goal of $3000 a student got to wax Mr. Palumbo's leg. Our next goal is to make it to $5000 so we get to throw a pie in Mr. Sawatsky's face. Parents please keep in mind that the money we are raising is for new playground equipment. If you are going door to door for pledges this is a good way to position it to your potential pledgers!! April 20 - 24 - Spring Fundraiser - Coffee and Tea Sale this week April 22 - Spirit Dress Up Day - Earth Day April 24 - Bowling - $35 in pledges must be collected to attend. April 29 - Casual Day