Dance-a-thon & more!

Hello again,

I got to see some stellar dance moves today at the rally for Dewson's upcoming Dance-a-thon! Each dancer now has their fundraising envelope and a note. Please be sure to return this envelope, regardless of whether you raise any money, by Thursday, April 4th. The dance-a-thon is Friday the 5th.
There is a cool website where far-away relatives can make online donations in your student's name, and where kids can request songs!

A reminder that we would appreciate having snack contributions back by this Friday. I've received a lot already. Thanks for supporting the snack program!

When we got back from the rally today, the kids kept their promise to me and were able to settle down enough to complete some fun math work. As a first step in practising our counting to 100, we have been working on filling in an incomplete hundreds chart, dividing it into pieces and cutting them out to make a puzzle. The kids spent a good amount of time diligently trying to put each other's puzzles back together. It's not so easy! Look for this coming home later this week and try to do your wizard's puzzle!

During this exercise, we have noticed some patterns that help us fill in the grid, and learn our numbers. For instance, in each row, the first number stays the same and the second number goes up by 1. In each column, we count by 10.

 

We have learned how to say all the 'tens' (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100) in French, and armed with this information, we can read pretty much any number on the grid. This is a great thing to practise once it comes home. Here's our class reference sheet for at-home use:

Starting this week there has been one big change at Dewson, and that is our morning and afternoon recess entry routine. All students are now being let in by the teachers on-duty, and supervised by the rest of us in the halls until the teachers have all gotten to their classes. Ask your student what they do while they wait for me to get back from my supervision post.

Here is the result of our printmaking activity I was telling you about. Isn't it gorgeous? I've already received complements on it! I think the stencils themselves are pretty to look at with their colour still on them, so they are decorating our board as well. When they come home, they can be used again to make more stamps, just brush or roll a thin layer of paint on and press it firmly onto good paper. For now, students (except the artists of the month) have brought home an individual print that they did in addition to the mural.