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Week of May 29th

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Wednesday, May 31 - School assembly Friday, June 2 - Jump Rope for Heart Thursday, June 15 - Grade one Field Trip to Docs Town and SS Park. Spelling - numbers - one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Field Trip - June 15th. We are so excited to have a wonderful field trip. We are looking for parents to join us. Two parent helpers would be great but more would be welcome. We will leave the school at 9:15 and arrive at Doc's Town around 9:30. We will have a guided tour of Doc's Town. At 11:00 we will walk to the Southside (Riverside) Park. The kids will play and then we will eat lunch. In the afternoon we will break into groups and do some fun activities.  Jump Rope for Heart - You can donate online. Go to the Jump Rope for Heart website and search for our school. At school we will spend the afternoon doing fun games with a skipping rope! Math - We completed a test to see how our students are doing against the rest of the students in our school division. Stude...
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Week of May 7

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Please send me your recipe and pictures! If you don't have photos of you and your child baking/cooking, please still send the recipe! Thursday is the absolute latest please. Wednesday, May 10 - Library Spelling - ce, ci, cy and co, ca, cu. Cell, cite, circle, cycle, icy, can, car, come, cost, cut, cup. Spelling : We are learning the rule for the letter c this week. C likes to sound like a K, it sounds like K when a consonant comes after it: Cl, Cr, Ck, Ct, and it likes to sound like K when a, o, u come after it: Cat, Car, Can, Cob, Cost, Core, Cut, Cup. The other vowels (i, e, y) like to tease C and make C say Ssss. Centre, cell, cite, circle, cycle, icy. These rules work for most words in English, you'll be surprised that you follow this rule when you read but you may not have known it was rule. And very few words use K if they can already use C. K came into English after most words had a proper spelling so it isn't used that often. Try practicing the concept with your chi...
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Week of May 1st

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 Star Student Jaxtin Show and tell Blue Spelling words: Lay, laid, pay, paid, say, said, bay, day, play, maid, main, rain, pain. Recipe:  Please make a recipe with your child! It doesn't matter what you make but I would encourage a favourite recipe of your child's. I have a project that I want to do. Please complete this week or early next! I would also like some pictures of you making the recipe with your child. Finally: Please send a copy of the recipe either a paper copy or email or via remind. Spelling:  I saw good things on our spelling test. Great work! This week we will work on our two long A chunks: ay, and ai. The basic rule is - If A is at the end of the word, use AY. If A is in the middle of the word, try AI. The best practice would be for your child to listen to all the sounds in the word, does A come at the end? Does A come in the middle? Do not focus on these particular words as much as the skill.  Also, I know that many words have the a_e pattern. Don...
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Week of April 24

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Star Student Hanz Monday, April 24th - Library Wednesday, April 26th - Wear Denim Spirit Day Thursday, April 27th - Discover the Farm Spelling: by, why, try, my, fly, dry, cry, spy, night, sight, light, right, fight. A lot has happened since I last updated you! Sorry! Happy Easter - it's a few weeks late but our family did a trip to Mexico over the Easter break and my mind was on trip planning rather than Easter. Check out our garden. It looks like a forest. If you come into the school please come and look at it. You are also welcome to take some dill, our dill plants are huge! Science  We are done are unit on hibernation, adaptation, and migration. The last thing we learned was how Monarch butterflies migrate. It's quite amazing! Spelling In one syllable words, the y at the end of the word sounds like I. The sight word in this bunch is Why. I don't know why it is spelled this way. Some programs have students learn who, what, where, when and why together to show that they a...
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Week of March 29th

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Star Student Juancho Monday, March 27th - Assembly, Timeline homework due. Tuesday, March 28th - Library Thursday, March 30th - Show and tell Blue Friday, March 31st - Lenten Assembly Monday, April 3 - Spelling test Spelling:  Long vowel magic e: _a_e, _i_e, _o_e, _u_e. came, made, tape, kite, ride, side, pine, hope, bone, tube, cute, rude, etc. Most likely I will use words from this list for the test however. I may use other words but my intention is that your child listens to the consonants and the long vowel and they understand the pattern. Please feel free to practice other magic e words. If you google - magic e words - you will get lists of words that follow the rule. I didn't include long e in this list because the more likely word chunk is ee or ea. I missed doing spelling for a couple weeks, sorry! Garden:  Our garden is looking great! The grade 3s and the grade 2s and our grade class have all been planting. We have a variety of bean that grows very tall and one of the...
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Week of March 6

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  Star Student Samira! Thursday, March 9 - Orange show and tell, Library Friday, March 10 - Tie Dye Day New Spelling Skill: ow/ou - now, cow, how, bow, pow, out, our, ouch, loud, about.  Last week: Star Student Khurt Monday, February 27th - Assembly Wednesday, March 1 - Library Thursday, March 2 - Blue Show and Tell We are 'opening' a classroom grocery store! We will use play money and learn how to buy and make change. For our grocery store we need donated empty boxes, bags and cans. We can also use donated play food too. Please send as soon as possible! This picture is from last year but gives you an idea of what we had. We talked today about what kinds of food we would like in our store. We are leaning towards healthy food but snack food boxes are welcome too. Parent Teacher interviews are coming soon. They are set for March 14th, 15th in the late afternoon and evening. We will talk about how your child is doing in reading, writing and math primarily. Overall I'm seeing g...
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Week of February 13th

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  Happy Valentines Day! Star Student Bentyn Tuesday, February 14th - Valentines Day, Wear pink, red and white! Thursday, February 16th - Mass, 10:30 in the gym. Green shares Friday, February 17th - Pink Shirt Day for bullying awareness. Pancake breakfast for students. Next Week - No school! Our hundredth day of school was a blast! We counted to 100 many times! We counted Froot Loops, blocks, pasta, popsicle sticks and anything we could find. We are 100 days smarter too! We talked about the things we know now that we didn't know at the beginning of grade one. We can read, write, spell, add, count. The list goes on. We also talked about what school looked like 100 years ago. I didn't feel old until I realized that my Grandma would have been in grade 1 about 95 years ago! But I think the biggest changes have happened in the past 10 years. We talked about chalk boards, one room schools, riding a horse to school and clothing differences. Lent   and Pancakes.  Lent begins next ...
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