A Peek at the Week!

Posted: May 20, 2013

          With an adult, Read every night and practice your sight words.       *Math Outcome-THE BIG IDEAS: number sense! Recognize numerals and match numeral to quantity.  Part-Part-Whole, 5 frames and 10 frames. Students need to have a good understanding of relationships of numbers between 0-10.  Comparing values- Numbers that are more and less than others, the difference between quantities, Here’s   What’s   Up! Go for 42!  The MANGO challenge is on! We are encouraging all Napan Elementary families to rise to the challenge.  A 1 km (or more) family walk each day not only gets your child closer to the 42 target, it provides exercise, outdoor time, quality family time, and math skills- count steps between phone poles, mailboxes etc.  compare steps from walking to running.  Why are they different? If you are participating, please send the kid’s booklet each day for recording purposes. Don’t forget the forms if your child is participating in the fun run in June! May 20-May 24th Read and record each night- Practice spelling and writing your words.  Monday, May 20 –   NO School, Victoria Day weekend Tuesday May 21 HOT lunch day Library Day- bring your library books if you would like to borrow again this week. Begin your new spelling/writing list.  Spell the words orally and say the letters as you write them down to make it easier. Wednesday May 22   Thursday May 23-   Poetry Anthology continue with Nursery Rhyme activity Friday May 24  Spelling test today Pizza Day!  Send students’ money in a container of some sort with NAMES and # of pieces, please.                                       " CLASSROOM NEWS " In April, the Capital One "Rocks and Rings" group visited our school to teach us about "curling" we learned much and the kids had fun. Check out our photos!   To recognize Earth Day, Isabella, from Northumberland Solid Waste Commission came to our class and did a presentation about Recycling.  We learned how to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and how important it is for Mother Earth.  She gave us some pretty neat stuff too. We had some guest readers: Thank you Raya, Madison, and Reese.  Who will it be this week?    Happy Birthday to Lillian!   MUSIC MONDAY!   On Monday, May 6th, Napan Elementary joined schools across the country for Music Monday. This year's was extra special as we could link up with NASA and Commander Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station (ISS) and join in singing Is Someone Singing? (ISS).  Music Monday is a yearly event to bring attention to the importance of Music Education throuth the Music Coalition of Canada.  Check out their site ....and also Hadfield's song on You Tube. Fish Friends:  the fish are really growing! They are longer and darker.  We saw some swimming around but most are still hiding under the rocks.  Mrs. Craig started feeding them a little bit because the food sacs are getting really small.  We will be releasing them in June.   Jessie and Jayden arranged to bring their pet bunnies to our classroom! What fun we had. They wrote reports and read them to the children after morning circle and then their mom brought the bunnies in the afternoon. We got to hold them!  This gave us other ways to explore our 5 senses in You and Your world. Thank you to the Russells for sharing your pets with our class.