Odds and Ends
-We started our home reading this week. This is an excellent nightly practice to do with your children. As we are still working very hard to develop our reading skills it is not critical for you to receive a new book everyday. Please aim for fluency with the books. If the books your child is receiving seem too easy or difficult, put a note in the agenda and we can alter it to what fits your child's need. Most have gotten in the habit to bring up their duotang once they have completed a book, if you do not receive a new book I did not receive the duotang, just once again put a note in the agenda and I will ensure they take it out and get into that habit.
-I put a notice in their kanga pouches today, please go on Powerschool and sign the permission form for them to partake in the Halloween parade at Salem Manor across the street from the school.
-If you want signed up for your child to receive photo retakes those will be taking place on Wednesday
-The milk program and popcorn day will be starting next week!
-See below blog post to sign up for Parent Teacher conferences!
Language
We talked about why we celebrate Thanksgiving, then went to our writing notebook and completed the three sentences "I am thankful for my______." We continue on working on our phonics focusing on individual letter sounds. On Rainbow day we read some silly poems about eating a rainbow and a poem to remember the colors of the rainbow. We have also been practicing the skill of labeling a picture. This is a great way to introduce them to identify details that they see in an image. We are also practicing finding the right word for the specific item by thinking about the sounds we hear and matching it to the words in the word bank. We also introduced the skill of "Work on Writing" for our Daily 5 program. We will be working further on this later in the week. We had our spelling test this morning but it was my week teaching the gym so I will have them marked for Tuesday!
Gym
We have introduced basketball to the students! They have loved learning how to dribble, weave through pylons and shoot on the basket. Basketball is also a great way of talking about keeping our heads up and being aware of the people around us!
Math
We are still practicing our numbers to 20. We focused on looking at the 'teen numbers.' A very common mistake in grade one that we are working at is the children look at the second number and use that first (for example: the number 14 some will say 41 or just 40 and drop the 1 completely). I gave each of the children a number sign and we practicing lining up starting at 1, then starting at 20, we also started looking at skip counting by 2's(but this is still a work in progress, ask us about it next week!) We have been looking at ten frames for the numbers and working with flashcards to match the right number with the right ten frame card.
Science
We took a break after our spelling test to focus on the changes in the Fall season. We went for a nature walk where we were on a mission. We did a checklist of clothing items we would/wouldn't need to go outside in the Fall. Then the next step on our mission was to find 2 different leaves and two pine cones. We started using the leaves to get an imprint of the leaves to put on our science bulletin board. You will also see the pine cones that we found on our walk now attached to their Thanksgiving wreaths we made this afternoon
Social
We took a break from looking at the various groups to talk more about kindness in the classroom/ to our classmates. We talked about what being 'frustrated' feels and looks like and how sometimes when our friends feel frustrated what is best for us to do. We also did a working together activity and practiced the rules for working with a partner.I hope that you all have a wonderful long weekend, Happy Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to have each of your kiddos in my class :)
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