We have been working on writing a class letter to Mr. Craig as tomorrow is his last day.  Your child may want to write their own letter or draw a picture to give to him tomorrow.    We are very sad he is leaving but happy for his new opportunity as a principal. 

In the morning we worked hard during Literacy practicing our reading and writing skills.  We are learning to look at the text for words to write and check to make sure we are understanding what we are reading.  We also had gym-music flip flop.  

In the afternoon we did a fabulous job problem solving and working collaboratively with our partner to complete another WeDo project.  We are excited to share our projects with our classmates next week and with families at Conferences in a few weeks.

Important notes:
1) April sharing calendar was emailed to families today.  Please let Mrs. McLarty know if you did not receive it.  The topic is sharing a book recently read.  If the book is short it can be read to the class or your child can give a brief summary about the book.  As well, the book can be fiction or non-fiction

We had an excitement this morning when 2 spiders visited our class, one in the morning and then another just before lunch!  We are wondering where they came from.  After being very startled we practiced our deep belly breathing to calm down.  We captured both and took them outside to continue their life in the wild.

​In the afternoon, Ms. Barchuk worked with us to look closely at different drawings of castles.  We identified how each drawing added more details, shapes, colors, foreground and background.  Our ideas showed excellent thinking.  We then worked on creating our own drawings of castles using the models as an example.  We were proud of our castles and shared with our classmates what parts we were happy with. 

Welcome back after Spring Break! 
Today we shared and wrote about our holidays.  When we wrote we concentrated on writing a clear message.  As well, we focused on beginning our sentences with capitals letter and ending with punctuation.  Many students used exclamation marks because they were excited about the fun they had over the holidays.  We also used capitals letters for the first letter of people or places we went to like Edmonton or Mexico.  We are also using spaces between words very well. 
Our new popcorn words this week are:
* were  * stop * fast  * ride  * him 
We practiced printing our popcorn words on our min- whiteboards and wrote rhymes for many words.  
In the afternoon we had a table change, music, recess in the sunshine and "ketchup" up time. 

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Today we finished our St. Patrick's leprechauns and brought them home.  They look so fun and cheerful.  We also got some 'lucky coins' from our Estimation cup.  We were able to fit 102 in the cup!  After literacy we gym / music flip flop.  Ask me to explain the Leprechaun game we played in gym.  Before lunch we had a sharing circle and wrote in our journals about our holidays. 


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Did you know tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day?  We listened to 2 fun stories about St. Patrick's Day
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Clover and The NIght Before St. Patty's Day 
In the afternoon we drew a Leprechaun leaping.  Tomorrow we will be coloring it.
This morning we also read How High Can a Dinosaur Count? which had math problems in it.  We had to listen to the riddles and decide whether to add or subtract.  

Ask me what game we played in gym with Mr. Craig!  It was fun!!

We were very fortuante today to be invited to watch Mrs. Predika's class perform shadow puppet plays in the Learning Commons.  We were impressed that they made their own scripts and puppets.  Ask me which play was my favorite.  In the morning we continued working on our WeDo projects.  We are doing a fantastic job sharing; as well as, building, problem solving and programming together.  

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During Literacy we our working in the same groups as last week.   Our new popcorn words are:  ​* this   * made   *  his   * her   * they 
This morning Ms. Barchuk showed us how to take our 3 Little Pig videos we made using Puppet Pals and put them in iMovie.  We organizes our story parts to show the beginning, middle and end.  

In gym, we played 2 tag games in gym - Pie and Catch tag.  

In math, we counted how many beans are in our estimation cup.  We are learning that the smaller the object ... the more we can put in and the larger the object ... the less we can put in.  

At the end of the day we had a long Science WeDo time to build and program.  Ask me what successes and challenges I had today during WeDo.  

Highlights from the week included:
* recreating 3 Little Pigs story using Puppet Pals on the iPads
* working cooperatively with a partner to complete a building challenge in the Learning Common
* building and programming with WeDo lego 
* enjoying  the Grade 3 & 4 Evergreen's Got Talent show 
* using balance scales to practice addition sentences


Important reminders:
1) Clocks change this weekend - Spring forward 
2) Spring Break  March 18 - 28th

This morning we learned how to use the iPad app Puppet Pals.  We learned how to use different backgrounds (settings) and people / heads (characters).  We also learned how to record our voices telling a story and to take a picture of ourselves to make us one of the characters.  
In the afternoon,  we began a new project learning how to use WeDo Lego building kits.  Once our building project is built we will connect it to the computer to program to make them move.  Today we took an inventory of the kits to learn about the different pieces and to make sure the kit was complete. 

Our new popcorn words are:   * of   * had   * bike   * boat   * plane 

Important notes:
1) Cooking club tomorrow 2:45 - 3:45 for students who signed up
2) Scholastic orders due if ordering

We had a great morning!  We met with our Grade 3 buddies and they shared a Frog story.  We also read stories together.  One of their students impressed us with 'cup stacking.' Ask me what that is.
We also finished up our fun End of the Day poem:
END OF THE DAY POEM
 
See you later alligator
Bye bye butterfly
Blow a kiss jelly fish
Give a hug ladybug
See ya soon racoon
So long King Kong
Take care polar bear
Goodbye said the fly
Out the door dinosaur