This Week in Room 21....

This week has been a blur of activities and adventures! Take a look!

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This week in Language Arts we continued building our awareness of letter patterns and sounds using our Making Words activities. We introduced a new sound-- the 'ng' sound. Students listened to a story and identified the different words with the 'ng' sound in it. They also learned that 'ng' can come after a number of vowel letters as in: -ing, -ang, -ong , -ung.  They completed a sorting activity listening for the various 'ng' endings. 

In math, students have been rotating through a variety of math centres practicing their skills in skip counting, building numbers using place value blocks, using 100 Charts, counting sets of objects and more.

In Science, we reviewed the signs of winter for people, plants, animals and weather. The students began creating a "Signs of Winter" wheel sorting pictures into each of the four categories. 

On Friday, we went outside to explore and look for signs of winter. We also listened to an Indigenous story called "The Legend of the Chickadee and the Spruce Tree", that talks about why evergreen trees never lose their needles. In the story a chickadee is looking for a home in the cold weather. It goes to a number of trees and asks if it can live in their branches but they all say no.  Finally, it asks a spruce tree. The spruce tree says yes. As a reward for helping the chickadee, the spruce tree stays green all year. 

In health, we discussed what New Years' Resolutions are. We listened to a story about a squirrel who wants to make a new years' resolution but isn't sure what to do. Everyone else has a resolution but him. He ends up helping his friends to achieve their resolutions and discovers that he wants to do something to help someone everyday. Students learned that a resolution is like a promise you make to yourself to change or improve something over the next year. They then came up with their own resolutions to write and draw about.

In gym, we finished up our floor hockey unit learning to pass, shoot and play a small game. 

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.

• Please ensure your child has proper clothing for the weather. While we may not be going out for recess and lunch on really cold days there is always the possibility of an unexpected fire alarm, late busses or other events in which warm clothing is necessary. 

Upcoming Events & Dates to Remember:

Jan. 30 - Report Cards go live in Powerschool

Feb. 3 - No School

Feb. 16-17 - Teachers Convention/No School

Feb. 20 - Family Day/No School

Feb. 28 - Telus Spark field trip