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This week the students learned about the sounds made by /oi/ and /oy/. They created some words using these sounds and listened for the sounds in stories and poems.
This week's Author of the Week was Bill Peet. Bill Peet's books are full of colourful illustrations and quirky characters. They are a treasure trove of vocabulary offering many opportunities to learn new words and their meanings.
In writing, students continued to learn about persuasive writing. As a springboard to learning to write a persuasive paragraph, students have been watching some Who Would Win? videos. Each video features two animals, describes their size, defences and other characteristics and then asks which one would win if they were to fight each other? The students worked with partners to list the characteristics that would help each animal win. Then the selected which animal they thought would win for their paragraph.
In math, students continued to learn about 2D shapes. They listened to the story "The Very Greedy Triangle" which talks about a triangle that gets tired of his shape and continually asks for more sides becoming a new shape each time. In the end, he has so many sides he turns into a circle! After listening, the students went on a shape hunt around the school marking down each time they saw an object with one of the 2D shapes they are learning about.
In science, we welcomed some new visitors to our classroom-- caterpillars! We will be observing these little guys as they grow and turn into butterflies. We also began to look at the needs of animals and compared that to the needs of plants. Students completed a sheet showing what animals and what plants need.
In gym, we continued learning our soccer skills. The students rotated through some stations in which they practiced passing, dribbling and shooting on a net.
Important Reminders & Updates:
- RAZ-KIDS: EMJ has purchased a membership to the Raz-Kids website. This is an online reading program with levelled books that your child can practice reading with at home as another option to the Home Reading books that they bring home. Your child had a chance to practice using this site with their Buddies. They have brought home their login information so that they can access the site from home. Please keep this information in a safe place. You will be able to access the site from our Google Classroom or by searching Raz-Kids online.
- Please have your child return their Spelling Booklet each Monday.
- Our Google Classroom is up and running! This is a resource for students to use at home to support learning here at school. You can log into your child's classroom by following the steps below:
- Go to Google. com.
- Click the blue "Sign In" icon near the top right of screen.
- Click on the "waffle" icon and select the chalkboard icon from the drop down menu.
- Enter your child's email address. (this can be found in your MyCBE parent account or you can ask me and I can email it to you.)
- Enter your child's password. (All students have the same password. It is: 12345678 )
- Click on "Mrs. V's Classroom")
- Go to "Classwork" tab for links to games and activities.
*Note: If you have any trouble logging in let me know.
IMPORTANT: EMJ Spirit Days!!! Mark your calendars so you don't forget : )
Upcoming Events & Dates to Remember:
May 29 - No School
June 1 - Zoo Field Trip!!!!!!!
June 2 - Beach Day
June 9 - No School
June 16 - Twin/Triplet Day
June 18 - Father's Day
June 26 - Stampede Day
June 21 - National Indigenous People's Day
June 29 - Last Day of School
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