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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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Our Learning This Week...

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 It has been another busy and exciting week of learning in our classroom! In language arts this week, students began learning about long vowel sounds . Our focus was on the long a sound with the silent e spelling pattern at the end of a word. Students watched a short video that introduced the Nessy strategy for recognizing and reading long vowel sounds. This helped them understand how the silent e works to make the vowel say its name. After discussing the pattern together, students practiced building and reading words using their moveable alphabets . They created words with the long a, silent e pattern such as cake, bake, make, and mate . Students enjoyed manipulating the letters to see how changing the first sound created a whole new word while keeping the same spelling pattern. This activity helped strengthen their phonics knowledge while also building their confidence as readers and writers. Video:  Nessy Strategy Silent E In math, students began learning about meas...
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