Garage Sale!

Dear families,
As you know, Area 24 has been working on adding and subtracting strategies for the past several weeks. Check out a few of the excellent strategies that students have come up with for helping with problem solving!
Before March Break, we would like to put our skills into action in a very real scenario. We will be having a class garage sale! Students will each be given an equal amount of school money to spend, and will really be able to keep the item(s) they purchase. Before they are allowed to buy anything, they will need to decide what they would like to buy and add up their total. They will also have to calculate how much change they should receive.
We will work together to organize our garage sale, placing items into price categories. Students will need to decide how they would prefer to spend their money - buy a few less expensive items, or save their money for one special thing.
I will provide many items for our sale, but we are relying on donations as well. Each student is asked to donate one very small item. As with any garage sale, this should be something that you no longer want, but that someone else might still enjoy (so nothing broken). Good ideas would be a book, small toy or a small game. Please do not send anything edible, clothing or hats. It would also be best if all items are small enough that they fit easily inside a backpack. Please help your child think carefully about the item they choose to donate - they will not be able to get it back. After our event, any items not purchased will be donated to Value Village.
Please have your garage-saler bring in their donation by the end of next week, March 6th.

Yesterday we did a fun science experiment to see if different materials were absorbent or not. Ask your scientist what materials did soak up water and which did not.

In our next science unit, after March break, I would like to set up a few rather involved hands-on activities, that we could use help with. In addition, we have some books that need repair, glue bottles that need unclogging and refilling and markers and pencil crayons that could use a once-over. These last jobs are boring, I know, but definitely contribute to our days running smoothly.
If you are interested in helping with any of the above, please email me and we'll set it up.
Thanks in advance!

Gymnastics is over, but there is more fun stuff happening in the gym. Grade 1 house-league begins Monday. House-league means going to the gym at AM or PM recess and participating in a friendly game between teams. Interested students already had a chance to sign up and will learn which team they play for on Monday. The schedule of games will be posted, but it's best to send them dressed for gym (regular gym clothes & shoes) every day in case of changes. Bonne chance!

This week we did our February dictée and it's coming home today. We're getting better and better! Bravo to Club de Lecture Rouge for writing such a great story this morning at the writing centre. I didn't help one little bit with this!