St. Augustine School Lenten Project 2021

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11MrtgeotQ_BzY8h_YaPDayRxTz5DMJw1wZcNVNPPmS8/edit

Update from Grade 4/5

Our first week of school went really well. The students got back into the swing of things surprisingly quickly. This week we also received a new member of our classroom and we are so happy to have him with us in grade 4/5! 

In Math we are starting a new unit on Data Management.  Grade 4's will be learning to create, read and interpret a variety of graphs including 'stem and leaf plots. The focus on grade 5 will be on interpreting data from various types of graphs and determining the mean.  More details about the focus of these units can be found in their student math workspaces in Hapara. 

Please continue to have your child practice their numeracy skills at home each evening by spending time on Mathletics through their student portals and/or competing extra practice worksheets that can be downloaded from the web (see the links on the left side of the blog page).

In Language we are going to start e-penpals with the residents of the Ravines Retirement Residence. I have been in contact with the social coordintor at the Ravines to set this initiative up. Students will learn how to properly write a friendly letter and practice these skills through this e-penpal initiative.  It will also be a wonderful opportunity to foster community connections. To address privacy concerns, all correspondence will be vetted through my work email account and students will only utilize their first names. 

We continue to receive new words each week. As part of their daily routine, students are asked to review these words by writing them out, using them verbally in sentences, etc.  Again, the weekly words can be found in the student language workspace in Hapara. 

We are doing very well with the '30 Book Challenge.'  If we keep up at this pace, we will have no difficulty reaching our goal of 570 books by the end of May. We are currently at just over 260 books!!

Just a reminder that we will not be able to exchange Valentine's Day cards this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. 

Welcome Back!

 It was so great to have the students back in school today! It has been way too long and I think we all felt better just being together.  We are easing back into school-based routines which will take some getting used to this week (e.g. agenda routine, getting dressed for recess, socially distancing, etc.).  Despite the chilly weather, it was warm enough for the students to go outside first recess. I think they enjoyed that. They are recommending that students wear masks outside so please send in extra masks with your child each day. We have updated our '30 Book Challenge' tracking thermometer - we are already at 250 books!!! Whoo hoo!