IMPORTANT REMINDER:

DISCOVERY SCHOOL FAMILY NIGHT IS THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 11th

In case you missed the letter sent home with your child, you and yours are invited to join as at Discovery School for Family Night.  The theme this year is Carnaval  Students and parents are welcome to wear a mask or a costume.  The evening will be from 5 to 8 pm.  Please contact me if you did not receive a letter, and would like more information about this event.

ADDITIONAL INFO ABOUT FAMILY NIGHT:

The Music department will be devoting their class time this week to constructing musical instruments for the BATUCADA SAMBA GRITÓN group presentation on Family Night. Please make sure that your child brings with him/her the following materials for your child’s choice of instrument by Tuesday morning:

For Drums: An Large Empty Milk Can with its lid (preferably “CETECO” brand, but any will do) OR a medium size plastic bucket, AND a broom stick (with out the broom).

For Maracas: Two small empty cans OR two small Agua Azul bottles.

Please send your child’s materials labeled with your child’s name. If you have extras of any of these materials, please donate them to share with the children who may not be able to bring them. If your child has any stickers or drawings that they would like to use for decorating their instrument, please encourage them to bring them or put them in the bag along with the materials.

We hope you can all join us for a wonderful fun filled evening. 

This Weeks Classroom Activities:

Math

This Tuesday will be our end of chapter test for the Geometry concepts that we have learned over the past three weeks.  As always there will be a practice test sent home tonight (Monday) for students to review prior to the test tomorrow.  Following our geometry test, we will be moving into everybody's favourite math topic: Fractions!  The students will have a re-introduction to the concept of fractions as a part of a whole, and talk about what they already know about fractions and how they are used in day-to-day life.  We will also be using manipulatives to help our visual learners conceptualize the idea of fractions.  

Reading

In reading we will continue to read our class novel, 'Sounder'.  We will be using our context clues to try to understand challenging words that we come across.  We will also be using the story to learn more about some of the effects that slavery has had on American society.  Our new reading skill this week will be summarizing.  The students will work on reading pieces of non-fiction text and summarizing the text into the main idea and important supporting details.

Writing

In writing this week we will begin preparing our 'My Life' timeline.  We will be determining some of the key moments of our lives, and then arranging them in chronological order so that we can make our 'My Life' timelines.  This project will lead into an autobiographical writing project the following week.

Social Studies

In social studies this week we will be preparing our play about slavery for a performance for our grade one reading buddies on Thursday.  We will also be learning about the Fugitive Slave Laws and how these affected slaves that escaped via the 'Underground Railroad'. 

Grammar

We will be looking at prepositions.  We will learn what they are, and how they can be used in our speech and writing effectively.

I hope everyone has a great week.  Looking forward to seeing you all at the Family Night this Friday.  Thanks for reading,

Jordan