Welcome back winter!

 Feb 20, 2026

Language Arts

  • Talked about long ‘e’ vowel teams - ea, ey, ee

  • Next week weekly words will be: boy, follow, came, want, show, also, around, form, three, small

  • Did some writing about the olympics and our weekends

  • Compared and contrasted 2 stories (The Mitten and Deep in the Woods) using a Venn diagram 

Math

  • Continued to talk about different math strategies that can make it easier to quickly add numbers

  • Started talking about fractions and how to take something whole and make it into equal parts



Other fun things!

  • Made paper lanterns to celebrate Lunar New Year

  • Learned about various olympic sports and did some reading comprehension about a sport we chose 

  • Researched an olympic country with our buddies using computers




Looking ahead

February 24                              Jump Rope for Heart Assembly - 8:30am

February 25                              Fun Lunch - Coco Brooks Pizza

February 25                              PINK Shirt Day

February 27                              Non-Instructional Day - NO SCHOOL

March 3                                    Sam Centre Field Trip - Penford/Janisse/Massey

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