Hi parents,
Yesterday we talked about wind energy in science. Our pinwheels are good examples of how wind makes things move and we talked about how large windmills can create energy that we use to power our homes. Ask your scientist if they can explain how wind itself is created. It has something to do with the sun...
In math we finished up measuring distances by racing some little cars down ramps and using rulers to measure how far each went. Next we will be learning how to measure area, mass and capacity.
In French we have added shape poems and colour poems to our repertoire. We also did our April dictée. The rubric is coming home today. I have seen lots of improvements over the past few months. Please help your student select one goal for future writing. For some students this may be checking the word wall or their dictionary for silent letters that are so often on the ends of French words. For others it may be to carefully check to make sure they are using lower-case letters within the phrase and not reversing their letters. If your writer has had the same level 1 or 2 item circled a few months in a row, let's make that their next step! Thanks for reviewing this at home.
A reminder that there is a Hula Hoop contest coming up May 6th. Some students have started signing out our hula hoops to practice at recess! Hoopers wishing to be in the contest were given a fundraising form that must be returned to Madelle Andrews in advance of the competition. More forms are available. All money will be donated to Kids Help Line.
Review of ‘u’
this week. See if your writer can invent some sentences using some of these
words.
For example, J’ai vu une tortue turquoise!
une rue, numéro, j’ai vu, bureau, une tortue, une fusée, une tulipe, j’ai bu, j’ai lu, turquoise
Bonus words: musée, légume