Parents and Players,

     Hopefully, students today will share with me how they SPOILED and LOVED and DOTED on their moms this past Mother's Day weekend!  I hope all of you moms took time to revel in your great success as parents!  You are ALL level 4 moms!







Tuesday - Reminder, final Swim to Survive tomorrow.  Come with plastic bag, towel and bathing suit.

Homework this week will be MATH everynight.  Be sure to check your child's agenda to see which pages need to be completed.  We are using this homework time to catch up in our final unit of math for the year!

Coach Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  What unit of measure, cm or m, would you use to measure the length of your driveway?

Happy Monday!  I hope you all had a chance to get outdoors this weekend to enjoy some of the sun!

This week...

Tuesday- Swim to Survive for the Grade 3s.  This is our 2/3 visit.  Remember to bring a plastic bag again for your wet clothes.



Wednesday - MATH TEST Students should review their math duo tang tonight and tomorrow night and make sure they can ...

Gr. 2:

• identify movements such as slides, flips and turns
• Move on a grid using left, right, up and down
• locate and read coordinates on a grid using the across axis first, then the up axis
• complete figures to create symmetrical designs
• draw lines of symmetry through symmetrical objects
• follow directions using position words such as over, on top of, under, around, next to, beside

Gr. 3:

• Move on a grid specifying how many units up, down, left or right
• identify and describe movements such as flips (reflections), slides (transitions), and turns (rotations)
• Use correct tools/manipulatives (coffee filters, miras, squares on grids) to aid in identifying turns, flips and slides
• show rotations (turns) on a clock showing the movement with jumps
• label turn centres on turns or rotations
• label the reflection line or mirror line on flips or reflections

That's all for now...

Coach Wilson

SECRET QUESTION: How many lines of symmetry does a square have?

Heads up Grade Two Parents,
     I am sending home a permission form to attend a musical for the GRADE TWOs ONLY.  One of our grade 2 students is performing in it and we are going to support him and enjoy his talent!  The cost is $7.00 per student.  Please sign and return permission forms as soon as possible with $7.00.

Date:  Friday, May 26th
When:  9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Where:  Old Walkerville Theatre Company
What:  Musical:  "Princess Aplenty"
Cost:  $7.00 / student

There is no cover letter accompanying this permission form.  I am only blogging about it.  Thank you for your cooperation!

SECRET QUESTION:  What type of movement best describes a pancake does a pancake typically do in a frying pan to get both sides cooked?  Turn / Flip / Slide?

Coach Wilson

Important Reminder

REMINDER:  Gr. 3: Swim to Survive tomorrow.  Bring bathing suit, towel, plastic bag!

Hello Parents and Players!

This morning the grades 3-8 enjoyed a powerful anti-bullying presentation in our gym put on by Abbey Neves.  Ask your child about it, it was very moving!  Her challenge to us all is to choose the path that allows us all to be US, who God made rather than someone else.

This week:  

Tuesday - (TOMORROW!) SWIM TO SURVIVE Part One of Three - Grade 3s travel to Windsor Aquatic Centre for their first of three Swim to Survive visits.  Have fun!


RECORDERS:  Reminder to bring your recorders EVERY FRIDAY from now until the end of the year.  Music will be on Fridays so please ensure your child has packed his/her recorder Thursday night before school on Friday.

LANGUAGE QUIZ: This Friday, we will be having a quiz on Nouns / Adjectives / Verbs / Adverbs / Plurals.


MATH TEST: This Thursday, we will have our unit end test on Probability.  Please review this week.  I will send home the booklet in your child's agenda.  It isn't in the blue math duo tang, it is a stapled package.

Friday - Catholic Education Week Mass in our school gym at 1:30 pm .  All are welcome!

Coach Wilson

Secret Question:  
What is 9 x 5?

Happy Friday Parents and Players!

Supplies are running out or non-existent...
Please check your child's agenda to see what supplies he/she is in need of for daily work.  It would be very helpful to me if these items could be sent to school by Monday of next week. Thank you!

• pencils
• red pen (many)
• ruler
• glue stick
• coloured pencils

Student of the Month:

Congratulations to Jack and Emily who won students of the month in 2/3W for being extra diligent in caring for our Earth and environment!

GR. 3 - SWIM TO SURVIVE:

Next week, TUESDAY, MAY 2nd, the grade threes will attend Swim to Survive in the afternoon at the Windsor Aquatic Centre. This program is directly linked with our Ontario Health and Physical Education Documents and as such, students will be assessed and given a mark on the ability to complete the following criteria;

                    1.   Roll into deep water

                    2.  Tread water for 1 minute
                    3.  Swim 50 metres

The final certificate will indicate one of two results:  

• HAS achieved the Swim to Survive Standard (3 skills in a continuous sequence) or,
• Has not met the Swim to Survive Standard

Please send your child with a 

1. bathing suit
2. plastic bag (for wet towel and bathing suit after changing) 
3. large swimming towel (large enough to cover themselves with while changing).  

Students will be allowed to change at the lunch hour INTO their bathing suits in order to save time when arriving at the pool. I spoke to the grade 3s about respecting other students' privacy and their own in the change room and to change quickly and quietly so as not to waste any time.  You may want to follow up with a conversation of your own tonight with your child.

To view a video of what to expect tomorrow, check out these two links...
Swim to Survive 1

Information 2

I will attend the final Swim to Survive session to assist in assessing students as they perform the 3 skills.

It will be a lot of fun!  Promise!

Coach Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  What is the 4th number you say when counting by 6s starting at 6?

Math:  
Probability - The chance of something happening.  One can describe the chances using many different words, however, our focus are the following...

Gr. 2 - Probability 

• describe probability as a measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, using mathematical language (i.e., impossible, unlikely, less likely, equally likely, more likely, certain) (e.g.,“If I take a new shoe out of a box without looking, it’s equally likely that I will pick the left shoe or the right shoe.”)
• describe the probability that an event will occur (e.g., getting heads when tossing a coin, landing on red when spinning a spinner), through investigation with simple games and probability experiments and using mathematical language (e.g., “I tossed 2 coins at the same time, to see how often I would get 2 heads. I found that getting a head and a tail was more likely than getting 2 heads.”) (Sample problem: Describe the probability of spinning red when you spin a spinner that has one half shaded yellow, one fourth shaded blue, and one fourth shaded red. Experiment with the spinner to see if the results are what you expected.).

Gr. 2 - Geometry - Movement

• describe the relative locations (e.g., beside, two steps to the right of ) and the movements of objects on a map (e.g.,“The path shows that he walked around the desk, down the aisle, and over to the window.”)
• describe and represent the relative locations of objects, and represent objects on a map. 
• draw simple maps of familiar settings, and describe the relative locations of objects on the maps (Sample problem: Draw a map of the classroom, showing the locations of the different pieces of furniture.)
• create and describe symmetrical designs using a variety of tools (e.g., pattern blocks, tangrams, paper and pencil)

Gr. 3 - Probability 

• describe probability as a measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, using mathematical language (i.e., impossible, unlikely, less likely, equally likely, more likely, certain)
• predict the frequency of an outcome in a simple probability experiment or game (e.g.,“I predict that an even number will come up 5 times and an odd number will come up 5 times when I roll a number cube 10 times.”), then perform the experiment, and compare the results with the predictions, using mathematical language
• demonstrate, through investigation, an understanding of fairness in a game and relate this to the occurrence of equally likely outcomes.

Gr. 3 - Transformational Geometry

• describe movement from one location to another using a grid map (e.g., to get from the swings to the sandbox, move three squares to the right and two squares down)
• identify flips, slides, and turns, through investigation using concrete materials and physical motion, and name flips, slides, and turns as reflections, translations, and rotations (e.g., a slide to the right is a translation; a turn is a rotation)
• complete and describe designs and pictures of images that have a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of symmetry (Sample problem: Draw the missing portion of the given butterfly on grid paper.)

Language:  We are learning about adverbs - words that describe a verb.  To find the adverb in a sentence, ask yourself these questions; How? Where? When?  We will also soon be learning about the features of announcements / invitations / menus and other media writing forms.


Coach Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  What is the title of the fiction text I am reading to the class at the moment?  How to Get ____________