Bonjour les familles!

We are excited to begin our annual Jump Rope for Heart Fundraiser for Heart & Stroke. 

Jump rope for heart: See our parent letter for more information about fundraising and prizes. There are many fun prizes to be won while students build healthy habits!

Upcoming Field Trips:

We are still looking for more volunteers for our upcoming field trips. 

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities:

• June 7 - Gr. 2 - Bowling field trip (afternoon)

• June 13 - Gr. 2 field trip - Granary Road (All day)

• June 21 - Gr. 2 field trip - Heritage Park (All day)

Please email us directly if you would like to volunteer for any of the upcoming Field Trips! Thank you so much!

Makerspace: Mme Page is collecting old electronics (Hairdryers, VCRs, Printers, DVD Players, etc.). Students love to use the tools to take apart these electronics during makerspace. If you have any you would like to donate, please send them in with students. Thank you. 

Powerschool:

Please check your student's powerschool to see how they are doing across all subject areas prior to report cards being released at the end of June. Power school is an important communication tool where teachers are able to share what students need to do to improve. Grades are updated in real time so you have an up-to-date picture of how your students is doing academically. 

Learning Commons (Library): Please send your students' library books back to school on their designated Learning Commons day. We will no longer be signing out more books, just collecting books in preparation for end of year. Any overdue notices will be sent home shortly. 

Tuesday- Mme Cornell

Thursday- Mme McCaffrey

Helpful Clickable Links:

Absence Choice Board 

Je lis (home reading): https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/student 

Mathletics (Math practice at home): https://login.mathletics.com/

Boom Cards (Phoneme practice) : https://wow.boomlearning.com/

myBlueprint (Student Portfolio): https://app.myblueprint.ca/ 

Parents Guide to Sight Words

Video for practicing the alphabet letters (practice this out of order, for example: in reverse)

Video for practicing sound blends and alphabet sounds (Phonemes)

Wordreference (english-french dictionary)

The Absence Choice Board is available for students that are away and still able to complete work at home. Follow this link for the instructions: Absence Choice Board

Boom Cards: This literacy tool can be used at home. Here is the link to login: https://wow.boomlearning.com/

Please check if you are able to login to myBlueprint as well: https://app.myblueprint.ca/

Airdrie Community Links is offering several Parent supports for a variety of topics such as anxiety, ADHD, big feelings, and social thinking. If you would like further information on any of these supports, and others, here is a link: Community Links Ressources

This week in:

Literacy:

The sound of the week is: ui

The words of the week are: huit, pluie, nuit, fruit, cuisine, ensuite

Home Literacy: Please visit this page for details about our Home Reading Challenge. If your student has completed the challenge, please send in their completed map and they will receive a prize! Also, in preparation for end of year, we will be halting sending home physical copies of books next week, and ask that you please take a look around your home to see if any of our home reading books may have gotten mixed into home libraries. Please send books back with student in the coming days. 

Literacy Routine: Students have been organized into literacy small groups that will continue to receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction. 

Writer's Workshop: Students have been working on fiction stories on Storyjumper - we look forward to sharing these soon!

Numeracy: Students have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes, including their characteristic and which 2D shapes are related to 3D shapes. They will be applying this knowledge through center based activities this week. 

Science: Students will participate in several sinking & floating challenge to put what they've learned into practice!

Social Studies: Students have begun learning about our final Candian community, the Acadian community of Meteghan. We will be taking a "boat" trip to Meteghan (with some help from our imagination in the gym) where we will continue to learn about the geography of this maritime community. 

Phys. Ed.: Students will be practicing their skipping skills as we participate in Jump Rope for Heart over the next couple of weeks!

May Dates:

• May 30 - Gr. 2 - Telus Spark field trip (All day)

• May 23 to June 1 - Sound Kreation Residency (dance)

June Dates:

• June 1- Theme Day: Dress backwards

• June 7 - Gr. 2 - Bowling field trip 

• June 13 - Gr. 2 field trip - Granary Road (All day)

• June 21 - Gr. 2 field trip - Heritage Park (All day)

Thank you, 

Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey

Sound Kreation Dance Residency

Please enjoy this video of students performing their hip-hop choreography!

Art with Geometric Shapes

Students used 2D shapes to create art by changing orientation or position through slides (translations), turns (rotations), or flips (reflections).