Week of March 29th





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 plants is almost touching the roof which means it is probably 7ft tall. Everything else is growing well too, I am starting to think I might have a green thumb! Although the benefit of growing inside is having no weeds.

Timeline Homework: Thank you for returning the completed timeline homework. I noticed that some were not completed quite properly and I will try to send them home to be fixed. The purpose of the homework is to make timeline of your child's life with 5 important events that have happened.

These could be: 1) I was born, 2) I was baptized, 3) I learned to walk, 4) I joined basketball, 5) I started grade one. Or anything that can be put in an order of when it happened. The events can be small or big. Your child might have a memory of a trip that they found important or perhaps they got a new pet or new sibling. If you have not sent the homework back, please include your child's age for each event.

Here is an example I found of a class online: I don't know that the writing and the drawing are from the same student.



Other classroom news: We have a student who started two weeks ago from Ukraine. Her name is Yuliia, she is very sweet and kind but does not speak English yet. She is learning new words everyday. We are talking about patience and kindness as a class so we can help Yuliia learn English and make friends!

We also have Jaida Duclos, a student from the high school, joining our class every afternoon. Jaida is doing a work exchange program with us which gives her credits to graduate. She is in grade eleven, very good at crafts and all around lovely to have in our classroom. She joined us last week and will be with us until mid June!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week of January 16th

Image
Star Student Jett Wednesday, January 18th - Eighties Day, Library Thursday, January 19th - Red show and tell. Monday, January 23th - spelling test. Friday, January 27th - Family literacy day. Muffin morning, 8:15 - 8:45. Parents are welcome to come and read with their children. Spelling skill - short e - examples - bed, fed, led, red, den, ten, men, pen, leg, beg, let, net, jet, met, set, end, send, bend, pest, rest, mesh. January has us working hard in grade one! I love January because we see lots of jumps in growth. I've noticed math skills are sticking now and kids are doing well at sight words. Reading is improving bit by bit too! It's amazing how many little bits need to fit together to make little letters become words and sentences and stories.  Spelling and Phonics We are building a solid foundation! We have been working hard on short a and short e words in our phonics booklets. In class we often build words with letter cards. Students have nine letters (a, e, m, n, r, f...
Read more

Week of May 29th

Image
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...
Read more

Week of January 23rd

 Star student Wynter Blue show and tell Friday, January 27 Family literacy day, muffin morning 8:15 to 8:45. Dress up like a book character or wear clothes with print. Monday, January 30th   No school, teacher prep day. Spelling skill - short I   big, bin, dill, dig, fill, fin, fit, him, his, kit, kiss, pin, rip, sit, tip, tin, win, will, zip,  I was very impressed with our short e spelling test! Thank you for practicing with your child. During our agenda writing we are always talking about spelling rules and we've learned a lot. Have you heard of the FLOSS rule? Short vowel words that end in f, l, s, and z usually have a double letter: buff, stuff, stiff, ball, call, all, hall, bell, tell, shell, bill, hill, full, bull, doll, mess, kiss, boss, etc. It's English so there are always exceptions but it works most of the time. We have talked about the word chunk 'ing' a lot and I will have at least one ing word on our test. We hear that word chunk at the end of...
Read more