Week of September 18th

Tuesday, September 20th - Picture Day!

Thursday, September 22nd - Arts Council Presentation. pm.

Friday, September 23rd - School Terry Fox Walk

Saturday, September 22nd - Moving in Faith Walk at All Saints, drop in, 1 - 3pm. Teacher Commissioning Mass 5pm, Christ the Redeemer Parish.

Sunday, September 23rd - First day of Autumn.


About your child survey: Thank you for completing my little survey about your child. I will resend it to families who have not filled it in yet. I find that kids at this age have neat interests that leads to a lot of knowledge about things like dinosaurs or cars or farm machinery or math. I am always looking for ways that kids can share that knowledge. Thank you also for those of you who are able to come and read with our students. I will contact you this week and try to set up a good time for you to join us! Once we finalize a time and day, I will put out a call for people who may be able to come on occasion.

Phone List: I will send out a survey if you would like to add your name to a phone list of grade one parents. On Thursday I will compile the list and hopefully send it home next Monday. 

Reading Record: I will send home a reading record for students to write down the books that they read each day. When a student reads 20 books, they receive a small reward, usually a sucker or gummies. If a reading record is a motivation for your child, please use it. If not, that's okay. My own children were not at all motivated by a reading record but they love reading.

Mass and Walk: The Moving in Faith walk at All Saints is an opportunity for staff and families to spend some time outside together. Participants are invited to bring a food bank item to share. I have a Professional Development conference in Saskatoon on Friday and Saturday so I will not be present. 

We had a great week last week! 

Phonics / Phonological Awareness When we were children we likely learned to read with phonics. Phonics is basically learning letter sounds (a,b,c,d,e etc) and groups of letter sounds like th, ch, ou, er etc. Phonics is very important but it isn't everything. 

Phonological awareness is that plus everything else it takes to read, write and understand reading. Examples of phonological awareness are rhyming, counting words in a sentence, counting syllables in a word, breaking words into two parts (snowman - snow, man) and replacing parts of words to make new words (snowman to snowball to baseball.) The more practice kids get at these skills, the better readers and writers they become.

These skills are also easy to practice out loud. This week please say simple sentences to your child and have your child count the words. It's surprising how difficult this is for some kids. They can repeat the sentence while counting with their fingers. Or can count quietly as you say the sentence. If your child finds it easy, keep trying more complex sentences.

Science: In Science we learned what 'texture' is and practiced rubbing crayons on paper over different textures. Texture is neat because it uses our sense of touch but when we do crayon rubbings, it looks like a texture but doesn't feel like it really.

This week we will explore our sense of sight more by being explorers! We will make our own binoculars but I would like to experiment with sight too. If your child has binoculars or a toy telescope or coloured glasses or a funny shaped mirror, please send them on Wednesday! Or any other thing that changes what we see when we look through it or at it. Even a glass jar is interesting to look through!

Math: More patterns! They are everywhere! We practiced turning a clapping/stomping pattern into a colour and shape pattern. This week we will practice picking out the smallest part of a pattern.

This is what our Saskatchewan Curriculum expects grade ones to know about patterns: 

    P1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of repeating patterns (two to four elements) by:

        • describing

  • reproducing

  • extending

  • creating patterns using

    manipulatives, diagrams, sounds, and actions.

    P1.2 Translate repeating patterns from one form of representation to another.

    a) Represent a repeating pattern using another mode (e.g., action to sound, colour to shape, ABC ABC to blue yellow green blue yellow green).

    b) Describe a repeating pattern using a letter code (e.g., ABC ABC...).


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