Its great to see the sun lately, I feel it has been hiding away for way to long. Its funny how it can make you feel all the more motivated to get out and do things. Do you think the same way?
This week the students are starting a booklet that they can take home to read once they are finished. It is about the clothes we find in our closet. They are using their dictionaries to help them fill in the sentences.
They are learning how to pick out rhyming words this week. We are going to play some fun games with rhymes as well and the students will learn about to make rhyming patterns, sentences themselves.
Math the students are learning how to pick out important information or key words in story problems. Some of the words they are learning are: enleve (take away), ajoute (to add), en tout (in total), reste (left) plus, moins (less). We are also counting to 100 and starting to count by 2 up to 100. Feel free to practice this with your child at home. You can print off a 100 frame and have them color in the numbers counting by 2,5 and 10. We are also learning double additions and doubles plus one. They should be able to add doubles up to 10.
In health, this week we are going to do a project on what is healthy for our teeth and what is not. Students will take flyers and cut out that they think is good and bad for their teeth.
In social studies this week students are learning to identify the different flags for each Canadian province. We are also taking a look at what makes Canada unique compared to the rest of the world as well as the province of Alberta.
in science this week we are going to learn about braille and sign language. I will be showing the students a video clip about Helen Keller. They have a lot of questions about those who may be deaf and blind and how do they learn about the world around them. What better person to show them than Helen Keller.
English we are reviewing the weekly sight words and starting to write repetitive sentences. They also continue to work on their Explode the code book. I may send a few home seeing that some students are a little farther behind. So look for those.
I plan on starting guided reading in French this week as well. I am so happy to start with them and I think they are eager too.
We also have started a fun activity in class, not sure if they mentioned it to you but you can ask them about it now that you know. Every morning after announcements we start our day off with a quote from Mother Teresa. We discuss what they think it means and how they can apply it to their everyday life. Its great to hear some of their answers and to even see them put forth an effort to do what the quote suggests. So far here are a couple of quotes we talked about in class.
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love"
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples"( they had the absolute best answers for this one!!)
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person"This was todays quote. I encourage you to ask them about it. Some of them really understood what this meant to them!
Important things to remember this week:
Yound Rembrants has started, every Monday after school for those who signed up.
Tuesday- School council meeting at 6h30, Bricks for kids, choir at recess
Wednesday- Bricks for kids, library
Thursday-Choir at recess
Friday- Sandwich Day
That's all everyone. Have a great week!
Laurie -Anne :)
Monday, January 12, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Welcome back and Happy New Year!
Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas break with your families. The island air treated me well. There was no snow at all for Christmas time which I have never seen. I even went for a walk on the beach! I am glad to be back and start this new year! I also wanted to thank you all for the nice gifts that you and your family gave me. I loved everyone of them.
This week in class we are getting back into the routine of things. The class rules tend to be forgotten so we are reviewing those as we go. This months theme is Fun in winter. The students will be learning all about winter activities and sports. We are learning about the different names for articles of clothing. We have started weekly messages. This is a great tool to help teach the students new words or proper sentence structures. They love when I mix up the sentences and they have to put them back in the right order. This is something you can do at home. Take a sentence from one of their books copy it out, then cut out each individual word and mix it up. Have your child put the sentence together and say each word as they go along. This helps them train their ears for proper French sentence structure.
In Math, we are looking at subtraction and addition of numbers up to 12 as well as learning how to skip count by 2,5 and 10.
In Science, we are still working on our five senses and have been learning about the challenges blind and deaf people face. We have watched a couple of videos that I will post if you are interested in watching and sparking up a conversation with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw -Boy who sees without eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk- Learning how to speak for the first time
In Social Studies, we continue to learn about the difference between a province and a country. The students are learning about the different provinces and territories that make up Canada. We will also learn how to read a map by using North, South, East and West.
A reminder that reading packages are to be returned every Monday. Our class along with Mme Janice's class will be doing this months liturgy, which will be January 26th I believe.
That's all for this week nothing much.
I forgot to let you all know that we got 74 Turkeys for the drop in center!!!! Thank you all for your support and helping us make this happen.
Here are some pictures from before Christmas.
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas break with your families. The island air treated me well. There was no snow at all for Christmas time which I have never seen. I even went for a walk on the beach! I am glad to be back and start this new year! I also wanted to thank you all for the nice gifts that you and your family gave me. I loved everyone of them.
This week in class we are getting back into the routine of things. The class rules tend to be forgotten so we are reviewing those as we go. This months theme is Fun in winter. The students will be learning all about winter activities and sports. We are learning about the different names for articles of clothing. We have started weekly messages. This is a great tool to help teach the students new words or proper sentence structures. They love when I mix up the sentences and they have to put them back in the right order. This is something you can do at home. Take a sentence from one of their books copy it out, then cut out each individual word and mix it up. Have your child put the sentence together and say each word as they go along. This helps them train their ears for proper French sentence structure.
In Math, we are looking at subtraction and addition of numbers up to 12 as well as learning how to skip count by 2,5 and 10.
In Science, we are still working on our five senses and have been learning about the challenges blind and deaf people face. We have watched a couple of videos that I will post if you are interested in watching and sparking up a conversation with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw -Boy who sees without eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk- Learning how to speak for the first time
In Social Studies, we continue to learn about the difference between a province and a country. The students are learning about the different provinces and territories that make up Canada. We will also learn how to read a map by using North, South, East and West.
A reminder that reading packages are to be returned every Monday. Our class along with Mme Janice's class will be doing this months liturgy, which will be January 26th I believe.
That's all for this week nothing much.
I forgot to let you all know that we got 74 Turkeys for the drop in center!!!! Thank you all for your support and helping us make this happen.
Here are some pictures from before Christmas.
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