We are excited to celebrate Chinese New Year, a time for family, kindness, and new beginnings. This special holiday is also called the Lunar New Year and is celebrated by many people around the world. We wish everyone good luck, happiness, and a wonderful year ahead! It’s the year of the horse.
In class we are reading the book The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. This is a story about a shipwrecked robot who learns to survive by observing and befriending the animals native to her new island. Though Roz is a robot and doesn’t have emotions, she’s thoughtfully observant and programmed to be helpful and kind. 
In our Grade 2/3 class, we will begin to learn about telling time this week. Students will be practicing how to read an analog clock, with a focus on 15 minutes past, half past, and quarter to the hour. We are also working on matching analog and digital times.
To support your child’s learning, it would be very helpful if they could practice telling time at home. This can include:
reading the time on both analog and digital clocks
practicing times such as quarter past, half past, and quarter to
talking about time during daily routines (for example, asking what time dinner starts or when it is time to leave)
Regular practice will help build confidence and understanding.
Thank you for your continued support at home. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
In class we are almost finished reading the book Frindle by Andrew Clements. The novel is about Nick Allen, a mischievous fifth-grader who, to challenge his strict English teacher, Mrs. Granger, invents a new word, ‘frindle’, for a pen. What starts as a classroom joke quickly escalates, spreading through the school and then the nation, creating a linguistic phenomenon. The novel explores the power of language and how a single idea can spread beyond anyone’s control. 
The students have finished the tennis program at our school. They had four sessions and their last session was on Friday. The class had fun learning tennis skills and playing games. A special thanks to Coach Chill for his dedication and enthusiasm.
This week the students in Division 7 will be visiting the public library. We’ll be getting a tour of the library and learn about the Summer Reading program. Those students who have completed public library card application forms will be receiving their new public library cards. We’ll also have time to sign out books. The public library has a much larger selection of children’s literature than our school library. While students enjoy reading fiction like Dog Man they should also consider reading more non-fiction books about dolphins, spiders, earthquakes, and space. I will encourage the students to bring a cloth bag to carry their library books and card. A special thanks to the parent drivers for this field trip.
On Tuesday May 20th five students from Division 7 attended the District Track Meet. They participated in the 100 m, 400 m, 800 m, 4 x 100 m, Medley Relay, Long Jump, and High Jump. Congratulations and thank you for representing our school.
In class we are presently reading The Wild Robot Protects.
Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources.
Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and she sees the devastation caused by the toxic waters. Can the wild robot save the ocean and her island and everything she loves?
This thrilling third installment of the Wild Robot series takes readers on a new adventure through the ocean and to the frigid northern waters where Roz may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Charlotte’s Web is a book of children’s literature by American author E.B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams. It was published on October 15, 1952. It tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered, Charlotte writes messages in her web praising him, such as “Some Pig”, “Terrific”, “Radiant”, and “Humble”, to persuade the farmer to let him live.
