Happy Friday! I hope everyone was able to stay warm this week! It looks like the weather will be improving for next week so no more indoor recesses and lunch : ) Here's a look at what we have been up to this week.
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In Language Arts, we continued to look at the parts of a sentence. Students also assessed their own work to ensure that they were remembering to include a capital letter at the start of their sentence(s), spaces between words and also a period at the end. They also began to examine some mentor sentences to identify elements that make a good sentence. For example, this week we looked at a sentence from the book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type". They noticed that the author bolded some words and used words that create a sound effect. The students then created similar sentences modelled on the example with their own animals and sound effects (i.e. onomatopoeia).
In reading, students have also been very busy sorting pictures based on initial sounds, building words containing target letters and reading text using their knowledge of letter sounds and high frequency words. This week students brought home a Spelling Booklet with our first set of words. There are suggestions in their booklet for some fun ways to practice these words and their general spelling skills at home.
In math, students learned how to represent numbers up to 20 using tens and ones blocks. The learned that numbers greater than ten can be expressed as '10 and ___ more'. For example, the number 14 is 'ten and four more'. They worked with base ten blocks to build and identify numbers and played a fun place value game to develop their skills.
In Art, students created some lovely poppies which were displayed in the gym for our Remembrance Day Assembly. The students did an excellent job of participating quietly and respectfully in today's assembly.
Important Information & Reminders:
- Continue with Home Reading. If you are finding the books to easy or to hard please let me know so that we can adjust the level.
- Please have your child return their Spelling Booklet each Monday.
- Students are strongly encouraged to have a water bottle at school in order to eliminate the need for frequent trips to the fountain throughout the day. The BEST bottles have a FLIP TOP not a screw top. Please send one if you have not done so. Thank you!
Nov. 11 - Remembrance Day/No School
Nov. 24 - Parent-Teacher Conferences (pm)
Nov. 25 - Parent-Teacher Conferences/No School
Dec. 5-8 - Book Fair
Dec. 22 - Last Day of Classes
Dec. 23 - Jan 8 - Winter Break
Jan. 9 - Classes Resume
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