RELIGION
Activities surrounding Lent and Easter will be our Our last unit of instruction will explore 'Growth and
main focus this month. Our Easter mass for the school
will be celebrated on May 2nd during Education Week.
We will continue with the Fully Alive and Religion
programs after Easter.
LANGUAGE ARTS
During the month of April, we will begin a unit on
fables and hope to further enhance the students'
understanding of the beginning, middle and end
segments of a story. They will learn about the
different characteristics fables. We continue to focus
on guided reading and comprehensive responses. The
children are learning how to find information in the
text which helps to support the main idea or lesson.
The children are strongly encouraged to be involved
with some aspect of reading on a daily basis both at
school and at home. They are also encouraged to
continue practising the reading, spelling and correct
application of their word wall words. We will continue
to have opportunities to exercise the editing
components of the writing process for the remainder
of the year.
MATHEMATICS
In the subject of mathematics we will continue to
work in numeration with addition, subtraction and
multiplication. We will finish off measurement with
perimeter and area.
SCIENCE
Changes in Plants after their soil unit. They will be
planting their own seeds and conducting a variety of
experiments to investigate the different concepts
in this unit. We will be observing the growth of our
Tomatosphere seeds, some that may have been on
the international Space Station for 5 weeks others
that are a part of a control group!
ARTS
In the Arts, we will continue to
explore concepts in music and movement. Students
will be working on a Holy Thursday, Stations of the
Cross shadow presentation. We hope to be able to
use different rhythm and sound instruments as well.
COMMUNICATION
*Education Week will begin on May 1st. Look for
upcoming information on special events that week.
*As the temperature gets warmer the children get
the urge to take off their jackets. I will use my
discretion as to whether or not they need to
continue wearing them as the days warm up unless
parents inform me otherwise. Please ensure they
have a change of socks for wet feet days, as Im
sure there will be a few during the month.
*Thank you for your on-going support. Please do not
hesitate to contact me with any questions or
concerns.
Yours in education,
Katherine Shaw