It’s been a super busy week with the Intermediate Musical, our Mother’s Day project, Alphabet Book finish-up, class photos and a discombobulated schedule. We are so proud of our classes for coming through it all with maturity, flexibility and a let’s do this attitude. We know ourselves how difficult it can be when our class’ timetables and schedules get switched around as we try to accommodate everything going on in our school. But we see the benefits of teaching self-regulation strategies to our children, talking aloud about our feelings and valuing the character traits of perseverance and resilience as we’ve pushed through. Everyone should take some well deserved rest over the weekend.

This week we coloured our Alphabet Book covers and glued them to the front of our books. We’re progressing slowly to finish up as much of the missed pages as we can, but we will only continue this for another week or so. At that point, we will send the books home and children can complete missed work at home.

It’s the beginning of May so we completed our beautiful self-portraits. It`s been amazing to watch the children’s skills develop as we revisit this project every month.

We started our study of Shapes and Geometry this week. We read Brown Rabbit’s Shape Book and did a very through brainstorming of know two-dimensional shapes. We will continue to explore the shapes through a variety of geometric math manipulatives, the common shapes we see in our environment and introduce some simple vocabulary.

We’re into Week 2 of Let’s Talk About Touching, focusing on ways to keep ourselves safe and healthy such as visiting the dentist and doctor when necessary. Tools such as toothbrushes, bandaids, soap and tissues are all useful items for looking after our bodies. Our next lessons will focus on fun and helpful touches.

We are successfully exchanging our Home Reading Books in class. We’re so happy to see the children remembering to return their books on the appointed book exchange days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday). Please remember this book is in addition to your daily read alouds at bedtime. Our children still need to hear you reading higher level books so they can learn more sophisticated vocabulary, complex sentence structures and questions and see you model reading aloud with expression and humour. We guarantee that these times of reading with your children will be among those most treasured by them as they grow up.

Upcoming Events and Reminders

We’re back in the gym again for PE next week so please make sure your child has runners on your class’ PE days. We will be working together with both classes to teach the children how to run various relay styles in preparation for Sports Day on Friday, June, 16.