Week 18

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Jan 282019
 

Hello!

We had a great literacy event this week, with many guest readers come in, and our “dress as a book character” day was a lot of fun!

This week we looked at the letters h, r, m, d, and g. We spelled more words by sounding them out, such as hat, ram, dad, and get.

We worked on the numbers 4 and 5, getting reading to focus on ways to make 5 for the next two weeks.

We came up with a lot of good questions about what we want to learn about for penguins on Monday, they seem very keen on penguins, especially the macaroni penguin.

We worked on p is for penguin art to go with the theme!

And caught up with m is for monkey and g is for giraffe (displayed next week).

We continued our discussion of families this week, and have displayed what our families look like, currently in the hall. Each shows who we consider family, and who lives in our homes, showing however family is different.

Next week we will start looking at some family traditions and types of homes.

On the 29th, we are having the kindergarten vision and hearing screening.

Hope to see everyone Monday, and hope you had a good weekend.

 

Week 17

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Jan 192019
 

Hello!

Another full week of school. We took advantage of the sun earlier in the week while it lasted, with some outdoor games and activities. Hopefully it doesn’t rain too much these next few days. We have a new student in our class, who is starting to make some friends and learn our routines.

We worked on the letters n, c , k, and e, this week, working on adding to our spelling skills with kit, pin, can, set, ect.

Our class dove into our social studies work this week, working a lot on families and how each one is different. Our work will be posted on our board at the end of next week.

We started looking into our next animal: penguins! We discussed what we know about penguins (so far a lot!), and drew some penguins as a class.

We also worked on some aboriginal snowmen with Mrs. Chaves. They were sent home today.

Next week is literacy week, and to get us ready we worked with our big buddies on a number of mini projects. All the completed one’s are in the hallway.

First each student had to interview their buddy to gather information and learn more about each other.

Next everyone had to complete a mini book review about their favourite story. My class would draw, while the grade 5s would write for them.

If they finished that, they would roll for a story, where they would roll a dice and end up with a random character, srtting, and problem, and then have to write a story about it. The stories must have been driven by the little buddy, and written by the big buddy, so they were a little random.

Next week is literacy week, and Ruth King has a lot of activities prepared, such as guest readers and assemblies. I sent home a reading bingo card for you to try and accomplish. There will be prizes given out bases on a draw. Next Friday is “dress like your favourite story character” day, which I will remind students about throughout the week.

Have a good weekend, and see you Monday.

Week 16

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Jan 132019
 

Hello!

And we are back in action this week. Hope everyone had a good holiday, I slept for most of it.

We started back with our letters this week, using the jolly phonics order of s, a, t, i, and p this week. We have also started practicing creating and spelling small words, such as at, it, sat, pit, ect.

With our numbers we have started focusing on specific numbers, this week 1 and 2, what they look like and how we can represent them in different ways.

We have started learning about ourselves and our families this week. We learned to draw a picture of our faces, and drew pictures of our favourite food, colour, thing, and what we want to be when we grow up. Lots of future chefs in our class.

We have also started playing catch up with our letter art, this week was “s is for snake” and “i is for insect”.

We worked on some more soccer skills this week in gym, I am thinking we will start throwing skills next week.

Next week we will look more into families, the similarities and differences between them, and even try to draw our families.

There will be a notice going home next week about a hearing and vision check at the school at the end of January, so be on the look out for it, as well as pizza forms.

Hope you had a good weekend, and see you on Monday.