Zoo Phonics-  Zoo News! During our Friday safari Catina Cat and Dee Dee Deer were located and  are helped learn about letters C and D. Our Value themes”  “We are courteous, caring and capable students.”                  “Don’t give up even if it is difficult.” Stay tuned for more Zoo News! September 23th-27th, 2013 Here’s   What’s   Up! Zoo News!  This week Ellie Elephant and Francy Fish will help us learn about the letters Ee and Ff.  Talk to your children about words that begin like Ellie and Francy.  Have everyone search and find items around your home!  Value Themes:  “Encourage others”                         “We are Fantastic and Friendly children”   ABC BOOM!  This week the children will be introduced to, and practice the raindrop stroke PLOP!! *Math Outcome- Patterns and Relations- we are presently working on sorting items based on various sorting rules.  COLOR is most obvious so we are exploring others attributes such as size and shape and will have our introduction to patterning.       Monday, September 23 – Mad Science permissions due Notes to Home-Hot Lunch forms and Home and School registration    Tuesday September 24 Wednesday September 25   Thursday September 26-  Terry Fox Walk-  you are invited to join us for our annual family walk! Poetry Anthology - sing, read and play with the songs and poems. Point to words and discuss the meaning of each.  Locate letters that we have been learning about!   Friday September 27 Pizza Day!  Remember please, send money in a bag or container showing names and number of pieces.   Deadlines for handing in the fundraiser orders and money

              Zoo Phonics- last week we met our first 2 zoo animals- “allie alligator and bubba bear”.  We discussed the Value Lessons, and we learned the sound and signal (body movement) for each. Students tried to think of words that began like “allie and bubba”…you can try this at home too.  On Friday we had a classroom safari and located our zoo friends! Stay tuned for more Zoo News! value lessons Value Theme: "We are absolutely admirable and angelic children." "Be the best that we can be!" September 16th -20th, 2013 Here’s   What’s   Up! ABC BOOM!  This week the children will be introduced to, and practice the raindrop stroke PLOP!! *Math Outcome- Sorting objects based on one attribute, beginning a-b-a-b patterns.  Discriminating what is/is not a pattern   Monday, September 16 –  students will meet Catina Cat    Tuesday September 17 Wednesday September 18  Students will meet Dee Dee Deer    Thursday September 19-   Poetry Anthology - sing, read and play with the songs and poems. Point to words and discuss the meaning of each.  Friday September 20       Picture Day!   Wear your wonderful smiles - children will remain indoors for early recess, photos are taken first thing in the morning     Scholastic book orders are due. Remember to clip the form, seal it in an envelope with student's name. Cheques are to be made to Scholastic Canada, thank you!   Mad Science registration is due Monday- this is a great “hands-on” learning experience for the children! Deadlines for handing in the fundraiser orders and money and Terry Fox donations are next week.    

            TOMORROW IS PIRATE DAY!                                                Argh! me laddy bucks.   Don your seawear and join us for an afternoon of pirate pranks.         Pirates eat Pizza!  send your child's money in a sealed container with their name and #of pieces. Rock Wall Day.  Your spelling test is today :)           

          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.