Education week.

What a great week we have had at East Elementary for education week.  On Monday the kids got to experience Drum Fit.  What a great experience for everyone.

On Thursday, we got to experience a Zumba class. Another fantastic period of activity.

A bust week of activity also included "Hats on for Mental Health" day.  There were varying types of hats to support and acknowledge mental health and its prevalence in society.

Language Arts

Writing:

We began this week our Unit on fairy tales.  We read a few different fairy tales, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella.  We are now focusing on Goldilocks.  The students are now going to re-tell the story in their own words.  We are using a picture sequence to go through the story part by part so they can focus on including as much detail as possible on one part before we move on to the next.  As always, there is a focus on conventions and sentence structure in their writing.

Math

In math we have been working really hard on addition and subtraction of 2 digit numbers.  The students are working with many different strategies to solve 2 digit equations. Writing equations vertically is a good way to help distinguish the ones and the tens place and help with more accurate solutions.

Odds & Ends

Today a second field trip form was sent home.  This one is for the annual Track and Field day in Devon.  We are again doing a hot lunch order form for that day.  The permission form as well as the lunch order form and payments need to be returned by next Thursday, May 14th.  The forms for Fort Edmonton with payment, if you have not done so already, need to be returned by next Wednesday, May 13th.