It is great to feel as though spring is in the air!
This week is Catholic Education Week and we have many exciting activities planned.  Please see the Weekly Memo to ensure that you are aware of the activities each day.  Tomorrow is School Colours Day and Cleaning the Capital.  Your child should wear blue and/or yellow, or school spirit wear. If your child has not yet returned the permission form for Cleaning the Capital, please have him or her do so tomorrow in order to go off school property with the rest of the junior students.  We will have the Lollipop Guessing Jar all week for students to buy ballots for $0.25 (twenty-five cents) each to write his or her guess of how many lollipops are in the jar.  The closest guess wins the lollipop jar.  Students are welcome to purchase as many ballots as they would like.
Please see the math and language updates below:
Math:  We have been exploring fractions represented as decimals (e.g. 1/2 is the same as 0.5) and identifying both fractions and decimals on a number line.  We have also been working with equivalent fractions (e.g. 3/4 is the same as 6/8) and exploring strategies to create equivalent fractions.
Language:  The students have been presenting their "Gritty" Person interviews to the class.  There have been some amazing goals set and achieved.  We have been identifying and recording both motivators and strategies to help people achieve goals.  These presentations will continue this week.