Happy May!
Thanks for coming out to last night's concert. I am very proud of the whole class and hope you enjoyed our performance. If you haven't yet heard the story of "Café de la Paix", do ask your singer. It's a lovely story and they are very good at explaining it. We still have many fun things planned in the last two months of school and I am looking forward to getting into a new song!
The first fun thing, coming up quickly, is a trip to Roy Thomson Hall to hear the Toronto Symphony perform. This is quite a treat and not something I would do with any grade 1 class, but our class is so musical and so attentive during assemblies, I know I don't need to worry.
The trip is Friday May 15th in the morning. I've said 10:00am - 1:00pm on the form, but I think we may leave closer to 9:30 just to be safe. Please read over the details and
return the signed form and payment by next Friday, May 8th. We will need 4 parents to accompany us. If you are interested/available, please indicate this on the permission form as well.
Yesterday we had our 8th theme day of this school year. It was all about cats and dogs in honour of Nikko (cats) and Clark (dogs). We began by filling in a cute comic strip to show what the cat and dog were thinking.
For science, we talked about animals and what they eat. We also took up our plant experiment. Three weeks later, it appears we have proven that plants need the sun to survive. Water is not enough. Poor guy. We hope he comes back to life if we keep him with his buddy in the window.
In math, we did a group challenge. We had 5 questions about my cats and dogs and groups worked together using various strategies for adding and counting.
In the afternoon we went outside to play a dog v. cat tag game and at the end of the day we read two funny books, one about a book that eats a dog, and one about a cat that probably isn't a cat after all. Ask your listeners about these books! They were quite passionate, especially about the cat not being a cat.
Have a great weekend!
PS - For anyone wishing to enter the balloon car competition, don't forget to bring your creation to school MONDAY along with $1 to enter the contest.
