Tomorrow the students are invited to pass out Valentine cards to each child in our room. The names of the students are...Hailey, Audrina, Izhaan, Muhammad, Eisley, Jacob, Caeleb, Addy, Kingston, Nana, Tea, Britney, Chloe, Vincent, David, Taylor, Autumn, Liam, Ian, Mason, Finn. If the Valentines have a toy, pencil, eraser..., we will ask him/her to remove them prior to passing out his/her cards. This is an optional activity. 

There is no school on Thursday and Friday due to teacher's convention. There is no school on Monday because of Family day. 

Today we talked about the new research project that we'll be working on for the next few weeks. We'll be using a variety of sources, including non-fiction books, approved websites, Google Docs, pictures and videos to find information about a local wild animal. We talked about the categories your child will have to locate information on (appearance, habitat, food, enemies, behaviour and special facts). The first step will be to think of questions they want to know about, use the sources mentioned to research jot notes for each category and then use these point form facts to write sentences about the animal your child is learning about. We will be also doing a special building project about our animals.

We continued to practice problem solving involving addition and subtraction in math. This includes showing HOW they arrived at the answer. 
Please try to work this practice into your everyday life. For example, encourage your child to solve problems such as...

• We need a fork and spoon for each person in our family. I've already put a fork and spoon at my plate, how many more do we need, so that everyone has one of each?
• If you need 21 Valentines and you've already made 10, how many more do you need to do?
• You have 15 toys. Your sister/brother has 8 toys. How many toys do you both have altogether?
• Daddy has 12 candies. You have 10 candies. How many more candies does Daddy have?