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Word families are very important! Instead of sounding out every letter in a word, students learn to read familiar patterns of letters quickly and fluently. Thank you to families who are working with these word families with their child throughout the week. Please keep your sheets at home for the entire week in order to review these word family patterns all week. Sight words are very important in Grade One! Last November, I sent home sight word lists with each student. These lists were highlighted with the words that students knew. I encouraged families to practice non-highlighted words with their child at home. I have resent the lists this week, however these sheets are not highlighted. Please work on these words with your child. Discover which words they still don't know. We do a lot of work with sight words at school but supplementing at home is very beneficial. Sight words comprise most of the words that students will see in beginning reading level books so learning them is vital in Grade One. We have been working on 2D and 3D shapes. Students should be able to name the shapes, identify their attributes (characteristics), be able to sort them and identify the shapes in their environment. We have introduced new math tools called cuisenaire rods. These give students a chance to develop their spatial awareness and the part-whole relationship which is a necessary step in beginning addition and subtraction. We have begun our building unit in science. Students are working in groups to complete specific building challenges. They are exploring materials, discovering how to use them in their projects and realizing what makes a good material for a particular project. Through these challenges, students are strengthening their skills involved in being a great team member. Pink Shirt Day allowed us to deepen our understanding of empathy. We read We're All Wonders by R.J. Palacio and created an art piece based on the main character. Students used their own ideas of kindness to add to their work. Next Week On Friday, students will get a chance to share their sight word learning. Please keep sight word lists at home as a reference for you and please continue working on reading these words. Learning to read these words will very much help your child in their reading journey! Thank you for your on-going support! New word family lists will be handed out on Monday. Send these back on Friday. Continue reading and spelling these words all week for extra practice. Please continue to read home reading books at home. Rereading promotes fluency. Thank you to those families who are reading with their child at home and regularly returning their books on Wednesday for an exchange. If you have lost the book, please let me know. Wednesdays are home reading exchange days.
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*Sorry for the lack of pictures this week. They all deleted while I was trying to attach them! :( This Week: We celebrated our 100th day of school this week! Students had lots of fun while engaged in many hands-on math tasks. We reinforced the idea of counting by 1's and 10's to 100, recognizing numbers to 100, 2D shapes and more! Thank you for helping your child select a character and sharing it this week! The characters will stay at school for the next month as students engage in building tasks related to their character. The idea of empathy will play a large part in this project as they attempt to put themselves in their characters shoes and design building projects keeping their characters at the forefront of their minds. Speaking of building, thanks for all of the supplies that you have donated to our classroom! We sorted all our materials this week and students are very excited to begin using them next week! We are continuing our work with word families. Two word families are introduced at the beginning of the week and students explore those word families all week. On Fridays, they write a "test" to see how much they've learned. Thank you for helping your child explore these word families at home and returning the sheets by Friday. Please continue reading with your child at home and sending home reading books on Wednesdays to be exchanged. Reading with your child is one of the most important things you can do at home! Our Learning: We sorted our collections. ~Ali We are learning about 3D shapes. ~Saavan People brought characters and they tried to draw them. ~Armaan We are learning so much 3D shapes. ~Nicolas It was the 100th day of school. ~Dany We had a little group and we had to find 3D shapes. ~Saavan On the 100th day of school we got to dress up in Superhero costumes. ~Madison We got to play 100 centres. ~Malcolm We brought characters and we shared them. ~Saavan We sorted the materials that people brought and we wrote about our characters. ~Maku We did music. ~Joshua We got lots of bonus points. ~Dany We went to music and then we did a warm up to warm up our voice. ~Wyatt We sorted the objects that people brought. We looked around and thought about building something for our character. ~Saavan Next Week: New word families -ap and -am Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday. Please send your child in a pink shirt to support this event and anti-bullying. * Congratulations Maddison, Makayla, Charleigh, Madison on your fantastic gymnastics performance!
Our Learning: The gymnastics people they practiced very good. ~Amina We had literacy night. ~Marshall We had the gymnastics assembly. ~Charleigh We did our word family test. ~Hooria We builded with stuff. ~Ali We are learning about shapes. ~Saavan We brought boxes. ~Iman Mr. J picked 3 groups to go in the assembly today. ~Maddie We are building with stuff like cups, wooden blocks, cards and pattern blocks. ~Madison We got to watch people from the assembly perform and there were only 3 stations out and people were doing cool stuff like cartwheels and backflips on the bars. ~Wyatt We did music. ~Joshua We completed the Word Collector book. ~Saavan We did homework with home with home families. ~Maddison We made the fans. ~Maku We read the books Triangle and Square. ~Ali We made pigs in our Visual Journals for Chinese New Year. ~Charleigh We cut out tangrams and coloured them. ~Amina We made a picture with tangrams in our visual journal and we traced it. ~Ali On our desks, we used them to make different kinds of animals. ~Maku Next Week: - No school next week on Thursday and Friday - Watch for our new word family homework -un and -ug. Thank you to those of you who returned your homework this week! - Thank you for those of you who have contributed building supplies to our classroom! - Please remember to sign and return your child's word family tests! If your child is interested in handing out Valentine cards next Wednesday, February 13 (Thursday is a non-instructional day), here is some information. We have 22 students in our class, please make sure each child is included. Here is our class list:
Dexten Malcolm Wyatt Saavan Dany Tathya Maddie Joshua Ali Nicolas Maku Armaan Hooria Iman Anna Harrison Charleigh Lana Madison Makayla Amina Marshall Students in our class who were chosen to perform are: Maddison, Makayla, Madison, Charleigh. Congratulations girls!
Our Learning:
We made the art of ourselves. ~ Maddison We painted our skin colour. ~ Ali We learned how to speak Blackfoot voice. ~ Malcolm We worked in our personal journals for Elder Shirley. ~ Dany We do gymnastics. ~ Tathya We went to the science fair with our buddies. ~ Dexten We are making our face colour. ~ Iman In gymnastics, me and my friends get to be in the assembly. ~ Charleigh We brought back our Me Trees. ~ Maku Zero the Hero came and he brought us bubble gum. ~ Armaan We made someday we would be a teacher. ~ Amina We did our community helpers. ~ Madison One of the community helpers was a nurse and a dentist. ~ Makayla We did centres. ~ Ali We did measurement centres. There were 6 centres. After we did our first centre we got to pick another one. ~ Maddison We did our measurement test. ~ Maku |
Lisa Alm
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June 2019
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