I sent home notes to those parents who I could not bring this time, but I do hope you can come next time and volunteer in our class soon. Please email me your availability. There is always something to do!
Thanks!
I will send home a paper reminder about our field trip on Tuesday. Be sure to check the note for last minute reminders.
Yesterday and today we had our 3rd theme day all about brothers. We were celebrating Markus and Lee who both chose their little brothers as their favourite thing on the first day of school! We started out by practising our partner reading, just the way brothers and sisters read together. Then, we worked on thinking of specific kinds of words (e.g., actions, places, adjectives) to fit into a mad lib about a brother. They were really funny!
This afternoon, we finished up our theme day by making growing patterns about brothers, doing a brothers v. sisters obstacle course, and reading a couple stories about brothers and sisters and things getting stuck in trees. Ask your listener how Léo tries to get his ball down from the tree and how Léa tries to get Léo down when he's stuck!
We also squeezed in our presentations for our completed seasons that we built (they look great), our november dictée (rubric to come Monday or Tuesday) and our final art workshop with Donnely. Our wooden sculptures are all painted and look fantastic. Donnely hopes to come back once more just so that we can admire each others' work once it's dry. Despite our aprons, some students did get paint on their clothes (me too!). We did try to sponge it out before it dried, but it will need special treatment if you want it to look like new again. I think most students remembered to wear old clothes, so hopefully it's no big deal.
Happy weekend,
Tamara
