Dear parents,

As we work through these recent challenges, there are several ways that you, as parents, can help us out! First of all, we would like to continue to strongly encourage you to drop-off as close to the 8:45 time as possible. For after school, students need to be picked up before 3:15 at the very latest so we can minimize the congregating of parents and students on the school property.

If your child will be staying home for the next while we have a list of suggested activities that are related to the topics we are studying in class:

Reading:  Students are encouraged to read a minimum of 30 minutes every day, this could be on their own or as a read aloud with an adult. If you are curious as to what your child has chosen to read here are a few discussion prompts to choose from at the end of their reading time:

• What has happened in the story so far?
• What do you think will happen next? Why?
• What emotions is the character feeling? How do you know?
• Are there some parts of this story that are more important than others? Which ones? Why are they most important?
• What’s the big idea in what you’ve read today?
• What questions would you like to ask the author right now?

Writing:  We are working to identify the different elements of a story.  If your child reads a chapter or picture book, have them identify the following:  setting, characters, beginning, middle and end of the story, the problem and how it was solved.  They can do this verbally or in written form.

Math:  We are working with decimals. Have your child look through the grocery story flyers to practice their addition and subtraction of decimals.  This can include things like planning a grocery shopping trip when given a set amount of money, planning a meal and seeing how much it would cost (and if they gave a certain amount, how much change would they get back), or seeing how much of one item they can purchase with a set amount of money (how many jugs of juice could you buy with $10).

Science:  We are learning about the respiratory system.  I would love students to research and find some cool facts about this body system.  They should write these facts out and represent them with a coloured picture.

Lindeman Lake:  Please note that the school has cancelled all upcoming field trips.  Unfortunately we will not be hiking Lindeman Lake on May 27th,

Thank you.

Mrs. Goosen & Ms. Miller