Hello everyone, in preparation for Sunday May 6, our school will be participating in a fundraiser to support Kids Help Phone. This organization offers support to kids who are experiencing cruelty, bullying, the loneliness of depression, anxiety, or feeling the pressures to succeed, compete, or to conform.
When you think that there is no one to talk to, or no where to turn, who can always call Kids Help Phone and talk to someone.
Please help and donate. Your donation forms are due on Monday May 7.
Here is a link to the Kids Help Phone website that you can visit.
As many of you know, Mother's Day is coming up. I have planned for us to make something very special during Language time and during Art time. I will not mention what it is, as some of your moms will be reading this. I hope you are all very excited and ready for an exciting month!
Here are some links that you can go through with your parents to read about the history on Mother's Day.
I am so pleased with everyone's shopping list and how well everyone added their decimals. You all remembered to carry down the decimal and the dollar sign.
Today we learnt about subtracting decimals. I added some links to help you practice subtraction in preparation for our math test on friday.
As many of you are aware from posters around the school and from the announcements made on the P.A system, on May 26, our school will be participating in the Jump Rope for Heart . This is an event run by the Heart and Stroke Foundation . More than 8 out of 10 Canadian children between the ages of 5 and 17 aren’t active enough to support optimal health and development, putting children at serious risk for heart disease at a young age – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Please come to school ready to be active and wearing proper gym clothes (sweat pants, t-shirt, and running shoes).
Parents please find a permission form coming home with your child, please sign it and return them back to school.
As you are all aware that healthy eating and exercise is very important to a healthy and long life. This topic works perfectly with our gym, health and science unit. For homework please do the following:
Find all your favourite foods in your house and write them down in a list.
Look at the side of the food container where it shows you the "Nutritional Facts" (Remember we discussed this during our last health class. I added a photo to help you remember what it looks like)
Write down next to the food how much: a) Sugar there is and b) Calories there is
Please bring this list in with you tomorrow as we will be discussing our findings during science time.
Here are some links for you to research on for the Jump Rope for Heart
Thank you so much for participating in our wear PINK DAY!(click on PINK DAY for more information).As you know, we wore pink on April 11 to stop bullying and discrimination in schools and in our communities. Here is anotherlink you can visit for more information on Pink Day.
Here are some extra links from our school board that will help you for your writing assignment:
Bellow is a video of students from around North America who has participated in PINK DAY and they want to raise awareness to STOP BULLYING! Please watch this, and next year we should think about making a movie to help raise awareness about anti-bullying!
For this week can you please write in your Journal:
What is PINK DAY?
What did you do at school or at home to raise awareness of PINK DAY?
What can you do to prevent bullying at school or at home?
Draw a picture of what PINK DAY means to you!
Remember I have added links about PINK DAY above to help you to write and include details about this special day.
I will be collecting your Journals on Friday so I can mark them over the weekend.
Please remember to watch your:
Spelling
Grammar
Punctuation
Capitals
And your picture should be coloured
REMEMBER: AIM for a LEVEL 4, always refer back to our success criteria for writing that is glued in your journals!
As most of you know we will be starting a new unit in math called Measurement. We already had practice on estimation earlier on in the school year, so my first question to you would be:
Can you ESTIMATE how big our classroom garden is? (your estimation should be in either cm, dm, m or Km).
When we are in class together we will figure out the actual measurement of our garden in class tomorrow as an introduction to our new unit.
Flowers from a Flower Garden
Below are some links to help you become familiar with measurement!
This week is our turn to clean up the school yard of all the wrappers, and junk that is left. Please remember that you are to use the Nipper Reachers, gloves, and to carry around the plastic garbage bags.
Every recess 3 different students will take turns to clean our school yard for the rest of the week.
We will decide who goes first tomorrow morning before first recess.
If you don't remember what the Nipper Reachers are, here is the link.
