Happy Family Day
Dear families,
I hope you are enjoying your Pro-D day with your child today, and that you had a wonderful Family Day on Monday. Today I am learning about decolonisation of education and Story Workshop. Feeling excited about some story making and art in the next two weeks before Spring Break.
In the last two weeks we have had lots of fun and inspiration in Division 9. We have been continuing on in our Night Sky studies. We met Van Gogh last week and he asked us to do some sketch work. I truly thought the kids would do some rough sketches but– OH MY! Their work was absolutely tremendous. I am putting it up in the hallway next to our Van Gogh Starry Night mural this week and will take photos. Really beautiful!
We have also been learning about constellations, which has everyone excited. If you have time, warm clothes and a clear sky, go out with your child for a star gazing adventure. See if they can find some of the more obvious constellations in Western myth: Ursa major and minor, Casseopeia, Orion, Pegasus…. I showed them an app called Stellarium which has been a big hit.
In morning work many kids have been enchanted by the New York Times game Vertex- a very challenging form of polygon dot-to-dot.
We continue to do some story writing, word play & sight word practice this week. We are also working on our fine motor skills through a program called Callirobics. I encourage all the students to do fine motor work at home– small lego, drawing small dots and pictures, beading, rolling clay or playdoh into small beads, etc.
In math we have finished up our addition strategies and are flying into subtraction! All our work on addition is helping us understanding subtraction!
I can’t believe we have just 2 weeks left until Spring Break AND that report cards will be coming home just before! Wow! Time flies.
I hope you are all well. If you have any comments or questions leading up to the reports, or afterward, please let me know! My virtual door is always open 🙂