TWAS April 13

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying a bit of that warmer sun that is finally poking through!  I know all of us in 73 are really wanting some spring warmth to play in :)

We have had an exciting week.  The children loved getting their monster illustrations and letters from Dr. George and we have them up on display and ready to share with you next week at conferences.  The children are all also very excited to have started creating websites (on their secure CBE Google accounts) for their super cool communities.  We have also been very busy with science experiments, geometry, poetry work, narrative and persuasive writing, in addition to some great phys-ed and music classes.  We hope you enjoy this week's student quotes (posted below) and TWAS letters that went home in the blue folders. The beautiful balloon art is also up and ready for you to enjoy at conferences.

We start swimming this Monday, so please have your little ones wear their swimsuits under their clothes and bring a plastic bag to place their wet items in after swimming.

Here is Ms. Thomas's artist of the week message:

Artist of the Week

The White Stripes:

This week we will be working on learning and “re-writing” the words to We’re Gonna Be Friends by the White Stripes. Additionally, we will be celebrating the awesome, face-melting garage rock duo and looking at the creative ways in which Jack White experiments with guitar tone, and the vital role (contrary to popular belief) that Meg played in the band. 

TWAS Quotes


“This week at school we finished our balloon art.  We learned distance.”  Chloe J.

“This week we started our community websites and we did three reasons why people should move to our community.”  Zurie

“This week at school we wore Jerseys or yellow or green for Humbolt.”  Camilla

“This week at school we are making website advertisements for our communities.”  Caeden

“We put celery into coloured water to see what happens.  We hypothesized what would happen and I said that I thought the celery would change colour and I was right.” Riley

“We started making our community website and we did a science experiment where we used different materials to see if they could hold water.”  James

“We sat on the carpet this morning and got our monster art from Dr. George Stanley.  They wrote us letters.” Jericho

“Today we were making websites on Google Slides.” Tate

“This week we finished our balloon art.  We did it to show distance perspectives.”  Emily

“This week we got our monster pictures back from Dr. George Stanley.”  Malika

“This week with buddies we were playing barn and house.”  Chloe Ma

“We made cool websites about our communities and we did geometry and learning about shapes.”  Kyron

“We finished our balloon art and it was fun to make.” Noah

“At gym we played Turkeys and Vultures.  It was fun!”  Lincoln

“This week we got our monster art from Dr. George Stanley.  I really liked my art and the letters we got from the artists.”  Carson

Have a wonderful weekend — see you Monday 73!

Mrs. McArthur

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