Great first week back!

Happy Friday !
What a great week back! I must the week went by fast! The students were great and ready to learn. I hope next week is the same for all of us!

This coming week we will continue to work on learning about clothing, winter activities and sports. We have started to have weekly morning messages where the students are required to read it every morning. Through out the week I might change a few words, mix up an entire sentence or take out the punctuation. Students love doing this and they find when I mix up the sentence to be so silly. Little do they know they are starting to learn and recognize proper sentence structures.
I will also be start next week Je parle en francais reward chart. I find that a lot of our students are able to speak French but chose to speak in English instead. By implementing the chart I hope to motivate them to speak in French and make it a habit to do so. Once students have the chart filled they will be able to pick from the prize box.

In French class we are really starting to work on double sounds and playing with words. We are learning how to decode and cut words apart by sounding them out.
Math class is pretty fun lately seeing that we are playing with blocks and working with different shapes. This coming week we will work on classifying objects by similar traits and look around our surroundings at the shapes we can find in everyday life.
In health today we reviewed how to properly wash our hands and had a chat about H1N1. In health in the coming weeks we will talk about how we are all unique and how to be a good friend.

I will be sending home in their reading package on Monday some memory games with winter activities as well as clothing. These can stay at home. I am also going to send home double French sounds like oi, ou and on. If you have time please feel free to practice these with your child, it will help them with their reading skills.

The virtue of the month is Gentleness and boy oh boy we have some gentle souls in our room. Yoga will start next week as well as Bricks for kidz. Sandwhich day is on Friday. We got second the last time and the kids were so pumped about it. We also won the good deed cup for the Turkey donation to the Food Bank. Every now and then I see a couple of them giving it a rub or a touch.It keeps them motivated.

Thats about it for this week. Enjoy the week end. If any of you are looking to get out of the city I know that they are having a kick off for the olympics in Banff tomorrow from 2-4. Sounds like a great time with lots of activities for you and the kids. Chat soon and see you next week.
Laurie Anne :)