Yesterday N.D. brought three tadpoles into our class for us to watch grow! We are very excited to see the life cycle of a frog. We are learning about the frog life cycle in science right now, so it is the perfect time!

Right now the tadpoles are very small and they are dark in colour. They are eating a lot of lettuce. This reminds us of our caterpillars at the beginning of the year when they were eating a lot of milkweed.

As a class, we wrote a persuasive radio commercial explaining why we think Fieldcrest is the best school. We have been learning about how to write persuasively. Here is the success criteria we came up with for persuasive writing:
- a topic sentence with an opinion
- at least 3 strong reasons (our commercial has 6!)
- an ending statement
- 5 star sentences
You can listen to our commercial below and I think we will convince you that we really do have the best school!

We had a great time at Jump Rope for Heart today! The weather was a bit cool, but the sun started to come out while we were outside and it turned into a beautiful day. There were 10 different stations that students had a chance to try, including free skipping, limbo, scooter boards, hula hoops and much more! The Grade 7 and 8 students helped out by running the activities and leading the primary students around the stations.

We rewrote Dr. Seuss' The Lorax in our own words.

As we head into the final stretch of school before summer vacation, I wanted to review the six learning skills we focus on in elementary school. These are the learning skills that are reported on each term on report cards. We discuss these skills daily in our classroom and talk about the ways students demonstrate them at school. Students set goals for themselves in the portfolios that relate to their learning skills. The six learning skills are:
1. Responsibility
2. Organization
3. Independent Work
4. Collaboration
5. Initiative
6. Self Regulation
Please click on the pictures below to see the posters that we have hanging in our classroom that describe the behaviours we are focusing on for each learning skill.

We had a surprise visitor in our class yesterday. It was a baby pig! We formed a circle and she walked around and let us pet her. The pig was confused and cold because she was not used to being in a classroom. Then the pig had a washroom accident on our floor (oops). Don't worry though, we cleaned it up! The pig even had a chance to sniff Vivi the teddy bear!

Our class is very excited to be participating in a teddy bear exchange project with a class in Taiwan. We sent a teddy bear named "Brad" (named after Bradford) to Taiwan, along with some information and treats from Canada. We recently received a teddy bear from the class in Taiwan named "Vivi." Please visit the new "Teddy Bear" section of our class website for more information on our exciting teddy bear exchange project!