Week of March 11 - 15

This week in writing students wrote an original story based in the Arctic.  We will use this story as a base line as they explore story elements such as developing strong characters, creating an interesting beginning, describing the setting, setting a problem and having a solution within an Arctic story.    This week we focussed on describing a character using powerful words.   

In Inquiry students continued to work on their animal research and began putting the information they gathered into a google slide presentation. We also began to work through the design thinking process  to design a thermos that will keep an ice cube from melting. Ask your child about their hypothesis and the type of insulation they are going to use to keep the ice cube from melting.

In math students began a tee shirt investigation which is challenging them to think about place value while applying our double digit addition and subtraction skills.  Please continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts to twenty at home.  

 Conferences: This week the conference book system opened. If you haven't had a chance yet please take some time to sign up for your child's student led conference.

From The Green Team
 “No-Waste Wednesday:"The Green Team is working hard to promote reducing our Carbon Footprint by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. We will be having our first “No-Waste Wednesday” (aka Litter-less lunch) on Wednesday, March 20^th. We encourage kids to bring no prepackaged food to school and to be creative in using only reusable or recyclable containers to pack their snacks and lunch. After this Wednesday, these “No-Waste Wednesdays” will occur once per week for the remainder of the year. We will be weighing the impact of this initiative in Green Team Club by looking at the amount of landfill garbage we are able to reduce for the months of March, April, May and June.

Check out this quick video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4FHuEqa5s

Just a quick friendly reminder that we are still collecting plastic milk jug, water bottle and juice bottle/carton lids to use for our Green Team Club recycled art project. Please continue to send in with your child, in order to ensure that we have enough combined to make a wonderful art piece for our school! We will continue to collect these plastic lids until the week after Spring Break April 5^th,2019.

The Green Team Club

Upcoming dates:

Mar 21 and 22 - Conferences

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 dentist presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development