Happy Monday everyone!
We have a busy little week this week. I will get all the important info out of the way... Year book orders are due April 13th. I believe you can order them online, look at the schools webpage for more information. Jump rope for heart pledges are due Tuesday. Please be sure to send in any forms and donations. Scholastic book orders are also due back on Tuesday April 12. Friday the school we be having another sandwich day. We got third place last time! Bravo to you in helping support a good cause! If you are able to send in sandwich please do so. We are looking good for parent volunteers on Friday April 15th for Scientist in the classroom. We are still in need of newspapers, if you see a metro bin grab a couple lol and send them in!
The students are so interested in learning about life on the farm. We have started our farm animal books where they get to chose 5 animals of their choice. They are to include male, female, babies and where the animals live. Once finished, they will share them with their friends. We have also started our free writing in class. Students are becoming their own authors and illustrators of their own books. They are so into this that you can hear a pin drop. I teach them how to put their ideas together, pay attention to punctuation, penmanship and spelling. It is also a great way for them to work on beginning, middle and end of stories.
This week in Math we will start geometry. The students note different characteristics of shapes and start to classify them based on these. We will continue to skip count by 2, 5 and 10's. Please keep working on simple addition and subtraction at home. You can also start to point out 2D and 3D shapes, to better prepare them for what they are about to learn.
Science this week the students are learning about building materials and why we use certain materials for certain objects or buildings. They will also have the opportunity to build towers using different objects in class.
In social studies, the students will have a quiz to finish up the last unit and we will start to learn about out beautiful country and the provinces that it is made up of. If you have the chance you could chat about the different provinces you have visited, what you saw there and where would you like to go and why. Naming the provinces in French will also be a benefit to them.
In English, we continue to look at vowel combinations, consonant blends and word families. You will notice that some students will come home with Explore the code 1. They should be done of this by now. Can you please help them catch up? We have already started another work book, so I don't want them falling behind in that as well.
We have started an in class reading challenge. I signed up in September for the Calgary Flames reading challenge and it finally arrived. The students will be rewarded with hockey cards during silent reading time. They must read quietly, read the whole time, and find a quiet place to read. Often times we can get distracted by sitting close to our friends. The boys are pumped.....the girls not so much. We will also do an at home reading challenge in May and June that the grade one class puts on every year. The ice cream reading challenge is a hit but it does take some effort on your part. I will send home the information in the next couple of weeks.
That's it for now. Have a great week and chat soon.
LA
Reminders:
Volunteers needed for ....
May 17th- All day butterfield Acres
May 27th 8:45-12:15 ( French Play)
Library day- Friday April 15th
Monday, April 11, 2016
Monday, April 4, 2016
Welcome back!
Hi everyone,
Welcome back from March break. I hope wherever you were, you were able to spend some quality time with your family. I headed back east to see my dad and all my friends. The weather however was not in my favor so visiting was a little tricky! I am glad to be back though!
We are all back, refreshed and ready to keep learning. This is one of my favorite themes this month in French. The students will be learning about life on the farm. They will learn all the proper names for the animals. In French, the babies, mothers and fathers all have different names. For example the horse family, (femelle) the mom is une jument, (male) the dad is un cheval and the baby is un poulain. I will send home a sheet with all the names to help your child practice. We will also start to write our own stories in class, which the students love. We will take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words as well as proper punctuation.
In Math, we continue to look at numbers 1-100 and skip counting by 2,5 and 10. We will finish hopefully by next week and start to look at geometry. The students will be looking at 2d and 3d shapes. I will try and tie this in with our Science unit on building.
In health, we will be wrapping up the 4 food groups and starting to learn about our emotions both positive and negative.
We will be finishing up the 4 seasons in science and be moving onto building. Its a very short unit but the students love it. We will look at the different building materials that can be used. If possible could you send in your old egg cartons for a future project.
Our class will be needing 5 volunteers on April 15th for an in class fieldtrip in the afternoon (12:45 start). We do need newspaper for the activity that day so could you please save your newspapers and send it in. Also just a heads up, we have another fieldtrip on May 17th at Butterfield acres. It will be all day. I am looking for 6 parents to join us all day at the farm.
Wednesday April 6th, is student faith day. There will be activities in the morning and in the afternoon for the students. Wednesday is also special lunch.
Library will be on Thursday April 7th. Please be sure to send in your child's book.
I think that's it for now. Keep reading at home and practicing the sight words. I am so proud of all their efforts and yours! Have a great week.
Laurie Anne
Welcome back from March break. I hope wherever you were, you were able to spend some quality time with your family. I headed back east to see my dad and all my friends. The weather however was not in my favor so visiting was a little tricky! I am glad to be back though!
We are all back, refreshed and ready to keep learning. This is one of my favorite themes this month in French. The students will be learning about life on the farm. They will learn all the proper names for the animals. In French, the babies, mothers and fathers all have different names. For example the horse family, (femelle) the mom is une jument, (male) the dad is un cheval and the baby is un poulain. I will send home a sheet with all the names to help your child practice. We will also start to write our own stories in class, which the students love. We will take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words as well as proper punctuation.
In Math, we continue to look at numbers 1-100 and skip counting by 2,5 and 10. We will finish hopefully by next week and start to look at geometry. The students will be looking at 2d and 3d shapes. I will try and tie this in with our Science unit on building.
In health, we will be wrapping up the 4 food groups and starting to learn about our emotions both positive and negative.
We will be finishing up the 4 seasons in science and be moving onto building. Its a very short unit but the students love it. We will look at the different building materials that can be used. If possible could you send in your old egg cartons for a future project.
Our class will be needing 5 volunteers on April 15th for an in class fieldtrip in the afternoon (12:45 start). We do need newspaper for the activity that day so could you please save your newspapers and send it in. Also just a heads up, we have another fieldtrip on May 17th at Butterfield acres. It will be all day. I am looking for 6 parents to join us all day at the farm.
Wednesday April 6th, is student faith day. There will be activities in the morning and in the afternoon for the students. Wednesday is also special lunch.
Library will be on Thursday April 7th. Please be sure to send in your child's book.
I think that's it for now. Keep reading at home and practicing the sight words. I am so proud of all their efforts and yours! Have a great week.
Laurie Anne
Monday, February 22, 2016
100 days of school!
Can you believe it this week we will have been in school for 100 days! The kids are super excited for the 100th day tomorrow. I cant wait to see them dressed in their 100 day t-shirts! In the morning we have some parent volunteers here to do a surprise activity with the students! I don't even know what they have planned!
This week is a full week with something happening everyday. Tuesday along with the 100th day there is the Christian action assembly at 10:30. Wednesday is Pink shirt day to promote awareness against bullying. Mme Wilma the musician in residence will also be here and teachers pet will be here to teach us all about country and city living. Choir for grade 1 will be Tuesday and Thursday. Library this week is Wednesday also. Friday the students will be observing the Geographie finals put on every year by M.Iticka.
In class, we have been catching up and finishing work. I have sent home the black and red duo-tangs with most of the kids to work on and catch up or finish if possible. Don't fret we are all a little behind, hence why I sent them home. Thanks for helping us out by working on them. Once finished you can send them in to be corrected. Just a friendly reminder that if you child is working on their school work at home, please have them do so in pencil, not pen.
I don't have much this week. Keep reading, practicing sight words and work on counting by 5's in French up to 100. Have a great week everyone.
LA
This week is a full week with something happening everyday. Tuesday along with the 100th day there is the Christian action assembly at 10:30. Wednesday is Pink shirt day to promote awareness against bullying. Mme Wilma the musician in residence will also be here and teachers pet will be here to teach us all about country and city living. Choir for grade 1 will be Tuesday and Thursday. Library this week is Wednesday also. Friday the students will be observing the Geographie finals put on every year by M.Iticka.
In class, we have been catching up and finishing work. I have sent home the black and red duo-tangs with most of the kids to work on and catch up or finish if possible. Don't fret we are all a little behind, hence why I sent them home. Thanks for helping us out by working on them. Once finished you can send them in to be corrected. Just a friendly reminder that if you child is working on their school work at home, please have them do so in pencil, not pen.
I don't have much this week. Keep reading, practicing sight words and work on counting by 5's in French up to 100. Have a great week everyone.
LA
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Rested and full of new ideas!
Hi everyone,
Welcome back from a long break! I hope you all had a great time with the family and got to enjoy the weather. I had a great two days at convention and learned a lot. I went to a couple of workshops on Math as well as literacy. I bought some cool games to add to our centers in class and some new stickers! I will share some of the information I think you may find helpful.
** I attend two sessions on literacy. One on how to help parents at home with reading as well as immersive literacy for kids. I got a lot of great resources for all of you to try at home or explore when you have time. A couple of points Id like to share with you that the presenter said to get you thinking. 1) Reading levels and listening levels are not the same. Often children may not be able to read but if they are read to daily then are just as able to understand, make connections and comprehend the text.
2)If your child struggles to read or hasn't the desire yet, try wordless picture books and have them tell the story based on the pictures.
3) Dad you have to put in some reading time either with the kids or at least have them see you read. This is especially important for the boys to see.
4) There's no app to replace your lap.
I game was mentioned also to try at home which I love!! They said let your child flash lite read maybe once a week, get under the covers with a book and flash light and read. What kid wouldn't love that! You could also do something like this with their sight words on the ceiling. Have them shine the flashlight on each word and read!
Here is also a list of websites they game us that may help you at home with reading. This presentation had a lot of great ideas but didn't have many for French....which is probably what most of you would love to have! If I find anything similar ill send it your way.
http://www.goodreads.com/
http://amongstlovelythings.com/read-aloud-revival-the-podcast/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
http://www.audible.com/
https://www.getepic.com/
https://www.pebblego.com/login/
https://calgarylibrary.ca/news/brainfuse-a-free-new-tool-for-homework-help/ **Free tutor**
https://www.oneminutereader.com/
Before I forget out class will have our long over due pizza party from way back in October when we won the gala basket contest. We will be having it this Thursday the 18th at noon. No need to pack a lunch! YAY! However if you child does not dig pizza please pack them a lunch.
The 100th day of school is next week, Feb 23. Students are asked to sport a 100 day t-shirt if possible. I have done this in the past and the students love it. It takes a little work on your part, seeing that they have to glue, stick or paste 100 items on a t-shirt. Its a great counting activity! Pinterest has some great ideas and examples if you are stuck. I will include the link to help you out.
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=100+day+of+school+shirt&0=100%7Cautocomplete%7C1&1=day%7Cautocomplete%7C1&2=of%7Cautocomplete%7C1&3=school%7Cautocomplete%7C1&4=shirt%7Cautocomplete%7C1
Thursday Feb 24 we will have an in class fieldtrip. Teachers pet will be coming in to teach us all about urban and rural living. We still need 1 parent volunteer for 1 o'clock. If you are available please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.
This Friday we as a school are collecting lotion for the drop in center. We usually do Sandwiches but we learned also last year there are a lot of items on their wish list that are harder to fill sometimes. If you are interested in helping out feel free.
That's it for this short week!
LA
Welcome back from a long break! I hope you all had a great time with the family and got to enjoy the weather. I had a great two days at convention and learned a lot. I went to a couple of workshops on Math as well as literacy. I bought some cool games to add to our centers in class and some new stickers! I will share some of the information I think you may find helpful.
** I attend two sessions on literacy. One on how to help parents at home with reading as well as immersive literacy for kids. I got a lot of great resources for all of you to try at home or explore when you have time. A couple of points Id like to share with you that the presenter said to get you thinking. 1) Reading levels and listening levels are not the same. Often children may not be able to read but if they are read to daily then are just as able to understand, make connections and comprehend the text.
2)If your child struggles to read or hasn't the desire yet, try wordless picture books and have them tell the story based on the pictures.
3) Dad you have to put in some reading time either with the kids or at least have them see you read. This is especially important for the boys to see.
4) There's no app to replace your lap.
I game was mentioned also to try at home which I love!! They said let your child flash lite read maybe once a week, get under the covers with a book and flash light and read. What kid wouldn't love that! You could also do something like this with their sight words on the ceiling. Have them shine the flashlight on each word and read!
Here is also a list of websites they game us that may help you at home with reading. This presentation had a lot of great ideas but didn't have many for French....which is probably what most of you would love to have! If I find anything similar ill send it your way.
http://www.goodreads.com/
http://amongstlovelythings.com/read-aloud-revival-the-podcast/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
http://www.audible.com/
https://www.getepic.com/
https://www.pebblego.com/login/
https://calgarylibrary.ca/news/brainfuse-a-free-new-tool-for-homework-help/ **Free tutor**
https://www.oneminutereader.com/
Before I forget out class will have our long over due pizza party from way back in October when we won the gala basket contest. We will be having it this Thursday the 18th at noon. No need to pack a lunch! YAY! However if you child does not dig pizza please pack them a lunch.
The 100th day of school is next week, Feb 23. Students are asked to sport a 100 day t-shirt if possible. I have done this in the past and the students love it. It takes a little work on your part, seeing that they have to glue, stick or paste 100 items on a t-shirt. Its a great counting activity! Pinterest has some great ideas and examples if you are stuck. I will include the link to help you out.
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=100+day+of+school+shirt&0=100%7Cautocomplete%7C1&1=day%7Cautocomplete%7C1&2=of%7Cautocomplete%7C1&3=school%7Cautocomplete%7C1&4=shirt%7Cautocomplete%7C1
Thursday Feb 24 we will have an in class fieldtrip. Teachers pet will be coming in to teach us all about urban and rural living. We still need 1 parent volunteer for 1 o'clock. If you are available please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks.
This Friday we as a school are collecting lotion for the drop in center. We usually do Sandwiches but we learned also last year there are a lot of items on their wish list that are harder to fill sometimes. If you are interested in helping out feel free.
That's it for this short week!
LA
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
February is upon us!
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the overdue post! This week is full of excitement at school seeing that carnival is starting on Wednesday. Opening ceremonies start at 9am with the crowning of the King and Queen. This is awarded to the students who speaking the most French in class. Your child can be nominated by friends in their class by simply speaking French as much as possible.
It works out great because we have just started our French speaking incentive chart in class today. Students receive a sticker to put on their chart every time they are caught speaking French with a friend or by making an effort to speak French with Madame and other teachers. After they fill their chart they get a prize from the prize box and start all over again. They are super excited and wow already they are making an effort and encouraging each other.
Through out the week students will be participating in activities related to carnival. Thursday they get to sample "le tire d'erable" which is always yummy....and a bit messy lol. On Friday we will have our outdoor activities for the whole day. Please dress your child for the weather.
With a new month comes another new adventure in learning for our students. The month February they are going to be learning about friendships, all about the rooms in the house and the items that can be found. We are also going to take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words. This week we are trying to finish up a few last items on clothing. The students will have a quiz to associate items of clothing to their proper name and be required to write a sentence using an article of clothing. To receive bonus points they can add colors to their sentences.
Tomorrow we will celebrate groundhogs day and hope for an early spring! There French sound this week is hard and soft "Gg" the same as English.
In Math, we continue to learn about addition and have started to learn more about subtraction. The students do need to work on identifying numbers higher than 50 in French. Please practice at home if you have a few minutes. We have also started to count by 5's up to 100. They are starting to get the hang of it but more practice is needed.
Here is a video you can use to help the students practice counting by 10's and 5's in French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaXupyh96w (by 10's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oozeIkCHcI (by 5's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeNgPJc5Ew (Not in love with this video but its what the students need to know how to do by the end of grade 1)
In Social studies, we have started one of my favorite units! The students will be learning the differences between country living (Rurale/campagne) and city living (Urbaine/ville). We have a great time chatting about the differences and similarities. We will talk about what we hear, see, do in each.
We have finished up our science unit on our 5 sens and have one more quiz left before we start our new unit on building things. This unit students will experiment with different building materials and will use their imaginations to come up with new designs.
This is a heads up on next months theme for all of you. We will learn about method sof transportation and traditions. Every year I ask my parents to ask their friends and family from around the world to send a post card to the class. On the post card they can include traditions, food, languages spoken, common methods of travel or anything neat. Once we get the post cards we read them,look the area up on the map, chat about how we could get there from Calgary and so on. So please help us this year by recruiting your friends and family! They can send their post cards to the following address:
La classe de Mme Laurie Anne
Holy Name school
3011 35 street, SW
Calgary, Alberta
T3E 2Y7
Here is a class list of all the students name in my class just in case you need them for you valentines next weeks valentines. We will celebrate Valentine's on Tuesday due to Ash Wednesday. Tuesday next week is also Shrove Tuesday.
Boys Girls
Brio Thomas Evalina Sofia
Mirek Mitchell Claire Jessica
Toby Zenon Hannah Anna
William Alex Gianna Colette
Declan Dallan Mallory Ailee
Percy Matthew Amelia
I am looking for 3 volunteers for Feb 24th at 1pm. Teachers pet is coming in to do an in class field trip with the students. If you are available and interested please let me know.
I think that is it for the week.....
Laurie Anne
If you have time and want to check out some games to play at home with your child check out the links below.
Carnaval-
https://quizlet.com/118271478/carnaval-flash-cards/
Vetements-
https://quizlet.com/116820623/les-vetements-flash-cards/
Let me know if they work.
Sorry for the overdue post! This week is full of excitement at school seeing that carnival is starting on Wednesday. Opening ceremonies start at 9am with the crowning of the King and Queen. This is awarded to the students who speaking the most French in class. Your child can be nominated by friends in their class by simply speaking French as much as possible.
It works out great because we have just started our French speaking incentive chart in class today. Students receive a sticker to put on their chart every time they are caught speaking French with a friend or by making an effort to speak French with Madame and other teachers. After they fill their chart they get a prize from the prize box and start all over again. They are super excited and wow already they are making an effort and encouraging each other.
Through out the week students will be participating in activities related to carnival. Thursday they get to sample "le tire d'erable" which is always yummy....and a bit messy lol. On Friday we will have our outdoor activities for the whole day. Please dress your child for the weather.
With a new month comes another new adventure in learning for our students. The month February they are going to be learning about friendships, all about the rooms in the house and the items that can be found. We are also going to take a closer look at syllables, singular and plural words. This week we are trying to finish up a few last items on clothing. The students will have a quiz to associate items of clothing to their proper name and be required to write a sentence using an article of clothing. To receive bonus points they can add colors to their sentences.
Tomorrow we will celebrate groundhogs day and hope for an early spring! There French sound this week is hard and soft "Gg" the same as English.
In Math, we continue to learn about addition and have started to learn more about subtraction. The students do need to work on identifying numbers higher than 50 in French. Please practice at home if you have a few minutes. We have also started to count by 5's up to 100. They are starting to get the hang of it but more practice is needed.
Here is a video you can use to help the students practice counting by 10's and 5's in French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaXupyh96w (by 10's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oozeIkCHcI (by 5's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeNgPJc5Ew (Not in love with this video but its what the students need to know how to do by the end of grade 1)
In Social studies, we have started one of my favorite units! The students will be learning the differences between country living (Rurale/campagne) and city living (Urbaine/ville). We have a great time chatting about the differences and similarities. We will talk about what we hear, see, do in each.
We have finished up our science unit on our 5 sens and have one more quiz left before we start our new unit on building things. This unit students will experiment with different building materials and will use their imaginations to come up with new designs.
This is a heads up on next months theme for all of you. We will learn about method sof transportation and traditions. Every year I ask my parents to ask their friends and family from around the world to send a post card to the class. On the post card they can include traditions, food, languages spoken, common methods of travel or anything neat. Once we get the post cards we read them,look the area up on the map, chat about how we could get there from Calgary and so on. So please help us this year by recruiting your friends and family! They can send their post cards to the following address:
La classe de Mme Laurie Anne
Holy Name school
3011 35 street, SW
Calgary, Alberta
T3E 2Y7
Here is a class list of all the students name in my class just in case you need them for you valentines next weeks valentines. We will celebrate Valentine's on Tuesday due to Ash Wednesday. Tuesday next week is also Shrove Tuesday.
Boys Girls
Brio Thomas Evalina Sofia
Mirek Mitchell Claire Jessica
Toby Zenon Hannah Anna
William Alex Gianna Colette
Declan Dallan Mallory Ailee
Percy Matthew Amelia
I am looking for 3 volunteers for Feb 24th at 1pm. Teachers pet is coming in to do an in class field trip with the students. If you are available and interested please let me know.
I think that is it for the week.....
Laurie Anne
If you have time and want to check out some games to play at home with your child check out the links below.
Carnaval-
https://quizlet.com/118271478/carnaval-flash-cards/
Vetements-
https://quizlet.com/116820623/les-vetements-flash-cards/
Let me know if they work.
Monday, January 11, 2016
HI Everyone,
Hope you all had a great week end! Another calm week at school....which is soo nice to have for a change. We do have our New Year Liturgy this Friday at 2pm. Our class is doing it along with Mme Janice's class. You are all welcome to join us. We are going to sing a song called "Growing in Fath, Growing in Christ" I will send it home today to practice.
Scholastics are due this week also. I believe I put the 14th on the list. If you could send them in by Friday that would be great.
We also have our Smothie party on Thursday Jan 14. Thanks for sending in all your order forms.
Choir is Tuesday and Thursday of this week at little recess. Library day is Thursday as well.
Friday is Sandwich day for the drop in. If you wish to participate send in pre-made sandwhichs any kinds Friday morning.
In class, I have started my reading evaluations, they are coming along well. I have also started to quiz the students on their sight words. Please keep practicing at home! I will go over the English words probably next week.
The 100th day of school is coming up in the next couple of weeks. Just wondering if anyone is interested in coming in on that day and doing an activity of your choice? Last year I have a parent make 100 day cookie and brought a couple of games to play. If you are up for it let me know.
I don't have much this week.
Enjoy the week everyone.
LA
Hope you all had a great week end! Another calm week at school....which is soo nice to have for a change. We do have our New Year Liturgy this Friday at 2pm. Our class is doing it along with Mme Janice's class. You are all welcome to join us. We are going to sing a song called "Growing in Fath, Growing in Christ" I will send it home today to practice.
Scholastics are due this week also. I believe I put the 14th on the list. If you could send them in by Friday that would be great.
We also have our Smothie party on Thursday Jan 14. Thanks for sending in all your order forms.
Choir is Tuesday and Thursday of this week at little recess. Library day is Thursday as well.
Friday is Sandwich day for the drop in. If you wish to participate send in pre-made sandwhichs any kinds Friday morning.
In class, I have started my reading evaluations, they are coming along well. I have also started to quiz the students on their sight words. Please keep practicing at home! I will go over the English words probably next week.
The 100th day of school is coming up in the next couple of weeks. Just wondering if anyone is interested in coming in on that day and doing an activity of your choice? Last year I have a parent make 100 day cookie and brought a couple of games to play. If you are up for it let me know.
I don't have much this week.
Enjoy the week everyone.
LA
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Happy New Year! Bonne annee!
Welcome back everyone to a new year. I hope that your holidays were filled with the magic of Christmas and your friends and family filled your homes with laughter and love! I had a fabulous time at home in PEI with my dad and all my friends. It was hard to come back to the rush of Calgary but I was glad to get back to the kids! I missed them!
This is a slow and quiet week at school! We will review our class rules, seeing that sometimes having a two week break makes us forget how things run. In French, we will review all sound combinations that we learned before the break and will go over our sight words. Please review these with your child. I will start asking them again to read their sight words for me. If they need motivation remind them that they can get a prize after reading 5 weeks worth of words correctly! We have started our weekly messages in class. This is great practice for the students to learn sentence structures, new words, punction and how to answer questions about the text. Less English will be spoken in class and students will be expected to express themselves as best they can by using the words they know in French. This months theme in Staying warm and active in winter. Students will learn the proper vocabulary for clothing and winter activities and sports. When learning clothing the students will also review parts of the body. We will also be learning more about syllables and how to put a proper sentence together with correct punctuation.
In Math, students have started their addition and subtraction unit. They will be playing with blocks to find all the different number combinations for numbers up to 20. We have also briefly talked about how to identify if a problem is addition or subtraction by looking for key words. Feel free to practice and review these words/concepts in English.
In Science, I hope to finish up the 5 senses unit next week and then move onto building. Students will be required to write a quiz to identify what sense is being used in the pictures.
In Social Studies, the students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We have had a quick chat about what they are at home, school and our community.
In Health, the students will be starting to learn about the 4 food groups and the Canadian food guide. We will talk about why it is important to eat from each group and so on.
In English, students will be review all sight words since the beginning of the year. We will also start to learn about blends and word families.
That's a quick run down on what to expect this month in class. I hope you are starting to see progress with your childs reading at home and word recognition. If you need anything at all just let me know.
Have a great week!
PS I don't know if I mentioned how many turkeys we got this year seeing that Friday was soo busy! The students raised just over $1300.00 and were able to buy 112 turkeys. That is the biggest number yet. Thank you all who helped out, donated and encouraged your children. Last year the Drop In was able to feed their clients 3 separate times with our donation of 74 turkeys I can only hope that 112 gets them a couple of more great meals! Thanks again:)
This is a slow and quiet week at school! We will review our class rules, seeing that sometimes having a two week break makes us forget how things run. In French, we will review all sound combinations that we learned before the break and will go over our sight words. Please review these with your child. I will start asking them again to read their sight words for me. If they need motivation remind them that they can get a prize after reading 5 weeks worth of words correctly! We have started our weekly messages in class. This is great practice for the students to learn sentence structures, new words, punction and how to answer questions about the text. Less English will be spoken in class and students will be expected to express themselves as best they can by using the words they know in French. This months theme in Staying warm and active in winter. Students will learn the proper vocabulary for clothing and winter activities and sports. When learning clothing the students will also review parts of the body. We will also be learning more about syllables and how to put a proper sentence together with correct punctuation.
In Math, students have started their addition and subtraction unit. They will be playing with blocks to find all the different number combinations for numbers up to 20. We have also briefly talked about how to identify if a problem is addition or subtraction by looking for key words. Feel free to practice and review these words/concepts in English.
In Science, I hope to finish up the 5 senses unit next week and then move onto building. Students will be required to write a quiz to identify what sense is being used in the pictures.
In Social Studies, the students are learning about their rights and responsibilities. We have had a quick chat about what they are at home, school and our community.
In Health, the students will be starting to learn about the 4 food groups and the Canadian food guide. We will talk about why it is important to eat from each group and so on.
In English, students will be review all sight words since the beginning of the year. We will also start to learn about blends and word families.
That's a quick run down on what to expect this month in class. I hope you are starting to see progress with your childs reading at home and word recognition. If you need anything at all just let me know.
Have a great week!
PS I don't know if I mentioned how many turkeys we got this year seeing that Friday was soo busy! The students raised just over $1300.00 and were able to buy 112 turkeys. That is the biggest number yet. Thank you all who helped out, donated and encouraged your children. Last year the Drop In was able to feed their clients 3 separate times with our donation of 74 turkeys I can only hope that 112 gets them a couple of more great meals! Thanks again:)
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