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Our Learning This Week...

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  🌟 Classroom Update: A Week of Exploration and Discovery! 🌟 We had another exciting and busy week in our Grade 1/2 classroom! Students were engaged in a variety of hands-on activities across all subject areas. Here’s a look at what we’ve been learning: 📚 Literacy (Reading & Phonics) This week, students reviewed the long vowel silent e spelling pattern. They practiced reading stories that included these words and worked on recognizing how the silent “e” changes the vowel sound. We also introduced word ladders for the first time! Students enjoyed the challenge of changing one letter at a time to create new words. ✏️ Writing In writing, we began learning about procedural writing (also known as “How-To” writing). Students explored what procedural writing is, looked at examples, and discussed why clear, step-by-step instructions are important. They then began writing their own instructions for activities they know how to do—there were lots of creative and thoughtful idea...
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Our Learning This Week...

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It has been a week full of learning and exploration! Keep reading to learn all about what we have been up to : )  In reading , students continued exploring the silent e spelling pattern and how it makes the vowel “say its name.” They built words using letter tiles and practiced reading decodable texts featuring long e sounds. It has been great to see students growing more confident in recognizing and reading these patterns. In writing , we focused on journal entries about our Spring Break experiences and our exciting trip to TELUS Spark Science Centre . Students are continuing to strengthen their understanding of complete sentences by using capital letters, periods, and proper spacing. They are also being encouraged to expand their ideas by writing longer, more detailed pieces, using a variety of sentence starters. Many students are now working toward writing at least four sentences on a topic—great progress! In science , we began our new unit on computer science by asking the ...
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Our Learning This Week...

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  What a fun and busy week we’ve had in our classroom! In Language Arts , students continued developing their understanding of long vowel sounds, with a focus on the silent e spelling pattern. This week, we explored the long o sound by building words and playing interactive games on the smartboard. Students practiced listening carefully to distinguish between long o and short o sounds, strengthening both their phonics and spelling skills in an engaging, hands-on way. In Math , our focus was on understanding the difference between length and width . Students learned and practiced using comparative vocabulary such as wide, wider, widest and narrow, narrower, narrowest to describe objects. They also continued developing their measurement skills by comparing the length and width of different items. Building on previous learning, students began measuring using a single non-standard unit (such as a paperclip), which required more precision and attention than using multiple unit...
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