What a crazy snowy week! It wouldn't be Calgary without some unexpected weather!! Thank you to all the parents, for dressing for the weather. We sure did have fun playing in the snow (even if it was wayyyy to early).
Even though the snow came, we discussed how it is still fall and sketched our fall trees in our journals with pictures we had taken of the trees around the school before the snow fell. We love the colours that fall offers us and represented that in our art work.
We continue to work on our letter and sound recognition and focused on the letters 'T' and 'C'. We learned how to correctly print upper and lower case letters and found out that lots of words begin with these sounds!!
In writing we continue to work hard and 'try' to kid spell our words without teacher support. If we need some help we raise our hand and work it through. It's amazing how much growth we've made in 22 days of school!! Everyone should be proud of themselves.
In math we worked on how to represent the number 20 and 10 in four different ways. We could use pictures, tally marks, equations, ten frames and base 10 blocks as a few examples. We have also been working on different ways we can sort objects. When were at home, we can practice showing you how to us these ways to show you any number from 1-20!
Our popcorn words have been a big hit. We've been practicing them during the week and can tell all the hard work the students have been putting in at home! Thank you parents for practicing with them. This is building a fantastic foundation for reading and spelling.
With Thanksgiving coming up this weekend, we read Todd Parr's The Thankful book and discussed how we were all thankful for many things and why we were. We understand how lucky we all are to come to school and have amazing families. We are all looking forward to spending quality time with them and eating lots of good food ;). In our visual journals we made turkey handprints and learned how to use leaves and crayons to create a leaf rub page to showcase our turkey poem.
Question of the week!!!
What are you thankful for?? :)
Reminders
- Home reading will go home next week. Please send your child with a large ziploc bag for Tuesday.
We will be needing parent volunteers every day to read and do book exchange. We are looking for about an hour of your time whenever you are available. You can sign up with this link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080E4FA4A823A3FF2-reading
Please don't block book yourself for the year so that we may make sure everyone has a chance to volunteer.
- Thursday October 11 will be STUFFY DAY! Your child is welcome to bring a stuffy to school for that day. Please don't bring a stuffy that is so special that it would be horrible if it was lost. As well, please make sure the stuffy has your child's name on it. They do get misplaced!
- We need magazines to cut out of! If you have any magazines at home that you can donate, please send them in next week!!
Have a great Thanksgiving Weekend!!!
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