Today's Homework

Phonics page 122. Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

Also, complete all Spelling Test corrections.

Return both tomorrow!

Field Trip Video

A huge thanks to Fiona's parents for putting together this fantastic video from our field trip to the Kenting National Museum of Marine Biology Aquarium last Thursday. It really captures the fun time we had together! Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLaQ9NDlrkg&feature=youtu.be

Parent-Teacher Interviews & Half-Day

This is a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, March 28th will be a half-day with students being dismissed at 12:00.

I look forward to meeting parents tomorrow afternoon for our quarterly Parent-Teacher interviews. If you cannot meet tomorrow, let me know via the Communication Book, if you'd like me to send home your child's report card.

For those who have made appointments, in order to keep on schedule, please be punctual and remember each meeting is ~ 10 minutes.

See you tomorrow!

Show & Tell: Winston

Big thanks to Winston for sharing his Cars watch with us last Friday for Show & Tell! Great confidence and a nice variety of questions asked by the students! 

Today's Homework

Journey's Workbook pg. 97: Choose the correct high frequency word to fill in the blank.

Have students make sentences using each high-frequency word (Her, Would, She, Today, Our, Now).

An Interesting Article I'd Like to Share:

A Healthy Brain Needs a Healthy Heart

by SANDRA AAMODT

FEBRUARY 17, 2014, 7:00 AM

Children need exercise.  Parents often worry that making time for athletics or even for just playing on the Jungle Jim is going to take away from their kids’ academic achievement.  But actually, the opposite is true.  There have been analyses of huge numbers of studies that all show that kids who are fit are better in school, get better grades, and have higher intelligence scores than kids who are sedentary.  And that is probably because across the lifespan, even into old age, there’s a strong correlation between a healthy heart and a healthy brain.  

The brain is the most demanding organ that your circulatory system has to feed.  It takes up a lot of the body’s oxygen and a lot of the body’s energy.  And unlike most of your tissues, your brain can’t live very long without that blood supply.  You cut blood supply off for about five minutes and parts of the brain start dying.  So clogged arteries and little clots that cut off blood flow to the brain in older people are a significant source of cognitive difficulty and cognitive deterioration with age.  And even in little kids, being physically fit clearly enhances intellectual performance.  

The other thing parents should be thinking about is that in childhood your kid needs about 90 minutes a day of active moving around, and parents should really focus, I think, on making sure that that’s fun, first of all.  You don’t want to institute exercise as punishment.  And you also, I think, want to have them doing something that could potentially continue into adulthood.  However much your kids like climbing trees, they’re not going to be doing that when they’re 40, not most of us anyway. 

And if you give them a sport or a taste for hiking or a taste for yoga, something that grownups do, you greatly reduce the chance that they’re going to be one of the large numbers of people who are active children who grow into sedentary adults.  Usually that transition happens around the age of 13 or so.

http://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/a-healthy-brain-needs-a-healthy-heart

Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, who takes the complexities of neuroscience research and whips them into fun reads that give people a better understanding of their minds and behavior. Her books Welcome to Your Brain andWelcome to Your Child's Brain (both written with Sam Wang) are designed to bring neuroscience to a general audience, and they've both been widely translated. Aamodt's science writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, El Mundo and the Times of London.

From 2003 to 2008, Aamodt was the editor-in-chief of Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research. She brings a significant scientific background to the task of explaining new research without creating neurobunk. During her career, she has read over five thousand neuroscience papers, and written many editorials on science policy.

Today's Homework

Phonics page 117-118

Page 117: Blend the individual letter sounds together to sound out the short vowel words. Read each word 3 times. Colour the picture that the word names.

Page 118: Blend the individual letter sounds together to sound out the short vowel words. Read each word 3 times. Draw a line from the word to the picture it names.

Please return tomorrow!