Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a fabulous week-end and got out to enjoy the sun and warmth! It was great chatting to you all last week. Thanks for making time to speak to me and tell me a little bit more about your child.
This is our first full week of school! We will all be tired come Thursday I would say lol.
We have library on Thursday this week (september 24) please be sure to remind your child to pack and bring back their library book. The canteen is now open if you wish to order simple simon pies or if your child wants to get a snack from there they can.
In French, we have been going over the French alphabet. I teach the alphabet out of sequence which helps them become more aware of the actual letters and their sounds. To help with letter recognition and sound recognition I use Jolly Phonics hand jesters. These can be found on google classroom under jolly phonics for parents. There you can find the sheets that correspond to each letter for the week, learn the action yourselves and listen to the songs that go with it. This will help back up what your child is learning at school. You can print off the practice sheets. If you do not have a printer the Calgary library allows you to print for free with your library card. I believe you get 50 sheets a month? Library cards are also FREE!
The students have also been learning French vocabulary for school items and will be working on making a little book this week about the items they can find in their desks. Once finished they will take it home to practice reading learned words. They can stay at home.
We continue to work on printing and following a line of print. I use sky, grass, dirt to represent the lines and monkey, giraffe and lady bug letters for sizing. I will attach a picture below to give you an idea what we are talking about. All upper case letters are considered giraffe letters, they touch the sky go through the grass and touch the dirt. Lower case giraffe letters are b, d, f, h, k, l, and t) Lady bug letters are between the grass and the dirt, they are a,c,e, i, m,n o, r, s, u,v,w and z) monkey letters hang low into the dirt they are g, j, p, q, and y) When correcting the kids printing I usually refer to flyers and sinkers. Flyers go above the sky line, like they are jumping off the page and sinkers drop down below the dirt like a hook going into the ocean. We use this when writing in both french and English.
In math, we are looking at patterns. They students are learning how to represent, copy, prolong and change existing patterns. We have been working on identifying the heart or sections of patterns. They are doing great. I encourage them to try to challenge themselves by making different styles of patterns. They tend to stick with AB, AB, AB (red, blue,red,blue...) using only 2 objects. You can practice this at home. We continue to work on printing our numbers correctly and in the right direction. I have noticed several students are reversing their numbers. Extra practice will help with this.
Science, we are learning all about colors. This weeks focus is on primary colors and what happens when we mix them together. Students will be required to identify what happens when you mix the primary colors together. (red+blue=purple, red+yellow=orange, blue+yellow=green) they will have to be able to read the french words for these colors on an upcoming quiz (in a couple of weeks)
Rouge-red
blue-bleu
jaune-yellow
vert- green
purple-violet
Religion we have been talking about our names and the creation story. We will continue to share why we were named our names. Students will also learn about the different types of family we have in our lives.
English, students are learning letter sounds with the help of sign language. I sent home a paper for them to practice the letter sounds. This week we are focusing on the vowel sound i. Vowels have long and short sounds. Below are two links to help with vowel i sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gJVJvOA3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRXi7Hwfziw
We are also learning about beginning sounds of words and how to listen for them when attempting to spell new words or read a word.
That is all for now. Thanks for sending in the seat sacks once you get them! Once I have everyone's I will start to pass out literacy and math centers along with reading packs for in class reading. The students have come home with their new words on their pant chip rings today. If your child did not have their ring today, you can find their new words in their courier bag.
September scholastic orders are due friday september 24. Please submit your online orders.
Enjoy the week everyone! Sending you all positive warm vibes for the week!
LA
Ps sorry this is the wrong way!
