March. 16th - 20th

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 Looking Back:

Thank-you to everyone who attended parent-teacher conferences on Thursday and Friday. It was great to share and speak about your child’s progress. 


On Monday we used our plans for our leprechaun traps to continue building! We had to follow our plans to assemble, test and modify our traps…in hopes of catching a leprechaun! Many of us had clever designs, signs, and different kinds of bait to attract a leprechaun. 

When we came in on Tuesday, we were quite shocked to see that leprechauns had visited our classroom….and left a giant mess! There were chairs upside down, shoes missing, and confetti everywhere. Unfortunately no one was able to catch a leprechaun, but we did have a lot of fun writing about what we saw in our journals! 







In UFLI this week we did a review about all the digraphs we have learned! We brought home a new decodable and a Roll & Read game to practice these sounds. There were no new heart words this week. 


In math, we continued to practice solving addition questions to 20 and reviewed different strategies, such as counting on, using number lines, and “friends of ten”.


In Social Studies we continued learning about culture with a focus on French culture in Canada. We learned that Francophone people use wooden spoons to make music and we even got a chance to try out the spoons in our classroom! 


Have a wonderful spring break! 


Looking Ahead:

Please remember to encourage your child to dress western on Monday, March 30th for the MTS Pancake Breakfast. The children should eat a regular breakfast before coming to school, however, as we do not know when each class will get their food.

Upcoming Dates

March 23-27                             Spring Break - NO SCHOOL

March 30                                  Pancake Breakfast

April 3                                       Good Friday - NO SCHOOL

April 16                                     Grade 1 Celebration (More Information to come)

April 22                                     Grade 1 Field Trip to Confluence Historic Site - Carter/Burch/Larmer

April 23                                     Grade 1 Field Trip to Confluence Historic Site - Watson/Fell

April 24                                     Non-Instructional Day - NO SCHOOL

April 29                                     Fun Lunch - Coco Brooks

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