May 12

Friday again already.  Wowza!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
On Tuesday May 16 we will be walking to Dr. George Stanley.  We will be leaving the school around 8:50ish and returning to Cranston around 11:00.  I am hoping a couple parents will be able to help out on this day.  I am looking for 2 or 3 volunteers to help walk over and hang out with us while we learn about DGS.  Please email me if you are available. klsloane@cbe.ab.ca.

Volunteer tea is on May 18.  

This week we have been working on:
- Literature circle jobs
- drawing maps and writing "how to" stories
- Perimeter in metres and centimetres
- animal inquiry (we are almost finished).  


Next week I will start assessing the students in math.  I will be looking at the following skills:
- multiplication, division
- time, reading a calendar
- perimetre and measuring with a ruler
- 3d shapes (edges, faces, vertices)


If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful Moms!!

Happy Friday Families!

What an amazing day we had at Cranston School yesterday celebrating Arbour Day.  I am so proud of all the hard work that was put into our projects.

Here is what we have been working on:
-  learning the lyrics for the songs for Music Monday and Arbour Day
- Literature circles in LA
- Animal inquiry - habitat, life cycle, environment threats, adaptations, diet and parental care.
- in math we have been working on measuring and figuring out the perimeter of objects.  We have also been using a variety of domino games to figure out the missing addend of an addition sentence.
- next week in writing we will be working on how to write instructions.
- in handwriting we did n and m today and we still have v,x,y and z to do before moving onto capitals.

Blogger has introduced emojis.  We are happy about this 😃😃😃

Have a great weekend!

Important Information

1. We are going on a field trip on June 8 to Drumheller to the Royal Tyrrell Museum.  This is very important:

- our bus will be leaving the school at 8am.  Please have your child at school by 7:45 (please have them enter the building through the front doors). 

- we will be leaving the museum at 2:30pm which means we will arrive back at school somewhere between 4:00 and 4:15.  

- we will be travelling to Drumheller on a coach bus not a school bus.

- I will be sending the permission forms home next week.

- I will need approximately 5 volunteers (I already have one volunteer).  I will also need one of the volunteers who is able to drive their own vehicle and the other volunteers to the museum.  Please email me at klsloane@cbe.ab.ca if you are available to help.

2. Tomorrow is Arbour Day!  We have many events going on during the day.  If possible, please have your child come to school tomorrow evening at 6pm.  We will be singing Colours of the Wind and This Pretty Planet at 6:45 and 7:15 in the gym.  You are welcome to come to our classroom to see our projects and also to visit the other classrooms and their projects.

3. On May 30 from 9:30 - 11:00 we will be having an in school field trip with Clay for Kids.  We will be representing a butterfly life cycle on a leaf which ties in nicely to our current science unit.  I also need 3 volunteers for this activity.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have a wonderful evening.