Mrs.Yasmine and Ms.Reems Super artists newsletter!

May 17-21

Show & tell V: Thursday May 21st

Dear Parents: Hope you had a relaxing weekend! This week the kids were so happy displaying their art projects to you and to all AIS parents and visitors through our art show display by the main gate. Another great event that took place this week was the visit we had from Mr.Bryn Bernard one of the high school teachers and a really unique and remarkable artist! He demonstrated to our kids how to draw a dinosaur with chalk and other art material in an interactive way with the kids and they had a real wonderful live art experience!

Literacy Inquiry: This week we will be focusing on letter V. We will be creating a volcano activity , a vegetables salad, working on our journals for letter V and we will be working on our leveled books.

Math Inquiry: We will continue working on subtraction through different games and activities. We will also continue practicing counting till 100 and reviewing our various mathematical concepts.

Unit of Inquiry: Central idea: Expression of ideas and feelings can be

demonstrated creatively through the arts. This week we will be focusing on expressing ourselves through feelings , we will be discussing facial expressions and how our feelings can be depicted from the way we look or behave. The kids will have lots of acting activities where they will be asked to express to their friends a particular feeling, Happy, sad, angry, sleepy,..etc.

Important dates: This Wednesday May 20th : Student-led conferences 5:30-8:30. Monday May 25th : Water table day Wednesday May 27th : Water pools day. Thursday May 21st : School spirit day. Thursday May 28th : Dress down day. Monday June 1st : Students last day.

Home Connection: You can help your child read and/or write sight words and simple sentences like I am a boy/girl, This is a caretc. Lets have fun learning!