Wednesday March 11

Dear Families, 
Apologies for the late blog!

FYI
School Council meeting Wed @6:30 (all parents welcome!)
Dress up as your favorite character Friday 
"Wonder" the movie, Friday 
Conferences March 19&20 (half day Thurs/no school Friday)
Spring Break March 23-27
Fun Lunch March 30th


Our Learning: 
Literacy
-Students have been finishing their haiku's and will be practicing them in class.  I will not post them on blog, instead - students will share their poem with parents at Student Led Conferences.
-Read-A-Thon has been happening at Hawkwood this week where we all STOP and DROP what we are doing to read!
-Our class has been engaged in the Scholastic "Reading is Giving" program with the goal of reading 100 books by the end of May.  Scholastic will then donate 100 books to children in need across the country!  Visit https://canadaclubs.scholastic.ca/s/rco-ca/en/classrooms-care-participation for details and I am including the 'Parent Letter' on blog. See below.
Math
-In math we looked at neighbor numbers and continue to work on think addition strategy when subtracting.
Science
-we made paper boats yesterday, and today we got to do some predictions and test our boats to see if they were able to float.  We realized that the shape of the bottom of the boat is important, and that paper boats sure don't last long in the water!  Ask your child why!  We then tried to see if some of the boats could hold pennies.
-We talked about waterproof/absorbency, stability, buoyancy, water displacement, strength, and purpose of boats.
-We made tin foil boats today, being aware that the shape of the hull matters when building a boat to carry items.  We hope that the boats we built will be able to handle lots of pennies tomorrow!
Social
-We worked on Wow! Facts for our Arctic animal research.

For Homework:
Remember to bring in boat building supplies and 2L cartons - thanks!