Odds and Ends
- Most of you have your Power school online account set up. If you did not I sent home a letter earlier this week. Please set up that account as soon as possible. Once it is set up please go on there and sign your child's permission form to partake in the Terry Fox walk on the 29th. .- Thursday will be our next color themed day, please send them to school in yellow.
- The hot lunch online registration opened on Monday, you do not have to sign up for the entire year you can do it monthly. The due date for the October hot lunch is on September 28.
-If you were interested in ordering spirit wear for your child orders need to be in by the 21st.
- We will be having our first every spelling test next Friday! Do not stress about them but please help your child in preparing for them and practicing.
Math: We finished our review of numbers 1-10. We also worked on our subitizing skills with a dice game. Next week we will begin looking at the numbers 11-20 and how to represent them concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
Science: We took a break from creating color earlier in the week and looked at summer. What are some of the activities we do in summer, what do we wear in the summer, what do the days look like in the summer etc. Later in the week we learned about 'lighter and darker' colors, we did a Smartboard activity sorting a variety of items from lightest to darkest; we organized the class based on what we were wearing from lightest to darkest on Red day. The students were so excited when we started our art project using white paint to make various colors lighter. We will be finishing this project next week and cannot wait to show you!
Language: The students learned three different ways someone can read. I demonstrated a picture walk for them, then we did one as a class. We have been practicing our 'Read to Self' skills as well as building up our stamina, we got up to four minutes once of uninterrupted reading to self! We read our first story ever called "Yellow." The students listened to this story, we read it as a class, they took turns reading it to a buddy. They then reconstructed the story. I had the story printed on strips, with pictures that matched the story. They had to cut and glue the words in the correct order of the book. We continue on with our phonics review. The beginning of the week we looked at simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words that used the short /a/(for example van and cat). We have worked through three more individual letter sounds /t/, /p/ and /i/.
Social: We read the story "Only One You" and talked about the ways in which we are all unique. We looked at physical traits as well as personality traits. This was our next cross-curricular art project the children made a self-portrait that represented how they are unique. We have started brainstorming the different groups we can belong to. We read a poem called "Belonging' and have had some amazing discussions on how it feels to belong, how we can make others feel when we include them etc. This part of social is perfect for the beginning on grade one as we learn the expectations. Please send a group item for Tuesday. It could be a medal your child won in a sport, a picture is easy of your family/a team etc. Help your child brainstorm what they are going to say about that group and we will be sharing our stories with each other.
Gym: With the gym still under construction we have been going outside everyday for gym along with Mrs. Derechey's class. We are learning how to play together on the park and working on our playing together skills while being 'hands off.'
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