Week of November 7-11

Today we talked about Remembrance Day and the poppy.  We are learning a song about peace.  Ask your child to sing it for you.  It's a catchy tune!  The students were busy writing, drawing and creating things to do with Remembrance Day and poppies.  We also learned that many family members are in the military.  We want to thank you for your service and all that you do to help us live in such a safe and amazing country.

Our letter of the week is "t" and our word is "it".  The sk students produced excellent writing samples using "it".  Please have your child point out our word of the week while reading.  They all seem keen in finding our popcorn words while looking at books in the classroom.

In Math we are continuing to look at patterns, number recognition and number composition and decomposition.

Reminders:

Photos- please remember to send back your orders for school photos.  Photo retakes will be on November 16th.  The photo packages are due this Friday, November 11th.

Parent/Teacher interviews will be held this Thursday.   You can sign up for a time online using the link that the school had sent home via email.  We look forward to seeing you!

The blankets were sent home on Friday for a washing.  Please send them back as soon as they are washed.

Scholastic Book Orders-  if you are interested in ordering books, please send the order form and cheque back by November 14th.

Here are some pictures from today:

This week in Rm 138

Today was a very exciting day! Everyone could NOT wait to celebrate Halloween!  The kids stayed focused all day and explored many new tabletops activities.  Now that Halloween is over, it's time to get ready for Christmas!!!! Yikes!!!

Our letter of the week is "m".  We practiced what sound the "m" makes as well as listed "m" words.  Our word of the week is "am".  The kids enjoyed putting "am" into their writing.  Please continue to point this word and letter out during your nightly reading.

Here are some pictures from today:

Reminders for the upcoming week

Reminders for the week:

Monday is orange and black day.  We ask that you do not send your child in wearing his/her costume.  Instead, they are welcome to wear orange and black.

Friday was an early reminder of what's to come with boots and wet feet! Many students had wet socks during the morning and had to change into their spare pair.  Some children did not have a spare pair of socks so we had to send them home with bags on their feet.  Please pack a few extra pairs of socks in your child's backpack.

Here are some pictures from the week:

This week in Rm 138

Today we started the day learning a new letter and word of the week.  Our letter and word of the week is "I".  We buttered "I" in our poem and then talked about how it is always an uppercase letter when it is on it's own in a story.   We also learned that a lot of our classmates have an "i" in their name.   The word "vowel" came up and we sang a special song! Ask your child to sing our vowel song to you!

The sk students then had an opportunity to write in their journals.   They did an amazing job sounding out "i" words and even sentences with "I" in it.

Please continue to point out our popcorn words during your nightly reading time.  They are all very excited and proud to find them in the books at school!

Reminders:

1. Wednesday is picture day!!!!

2. We Scare Hunger:  We are collecting non-perishable food for the Kanata Food Cupboard.  October 25th (tomorrow) is the last day.  Please donate if you can.  Thank you for your support!

3. With the cold weather officially here, please ensure that your child comes to school dressed appropriately for the weather.  They are outdoors in the morning, as well as 2 times in the afternoon.

We Scare Hunger. Please help out if you can!

We Scare Hunger!

Please place the food items into the labeled boxes in the foyer

Give others a meal, by providing a Non-Perishable canned food.

We scare hunger will be for the month  of October, each class is responsible for certain items. All items must be collected by october 25th.

Click the dinner for the list of food in priority per Grade level

WE SCARE HUNGER! Because we can.

Playdoh Recipe

Hello Playdoh Club members!

Here's a quick and easy recipe for making playdoh:

• 2 cups of white flour
• 1/2 cup of salt
• 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp of cream of tartar
• up to 1 1/2 cups of boiling water

Add water slowly and check the consistency.  Let it cool and knead it until it's smooth.

If you would like to make it coloured, add food colouring to the water.

The Week of October 17

We had a great start to the week!  Today we looked at our first letter and word of the week.  Our letter and word this week is the same- the word/letter a.  We started off by looking at the letter and learning the sounds it makes (long a and short a).  Then we looked at our names and stood up if our name had an "a" in it.  Lots of our friends have at least one "a" in their name!  We also came up with a large list of "a" words.  Next we moved on to our poem where we "buttered" our word of the week.  We say that we are buttering the word (as we colour it in yellow) because each weekly word is called a "popcorn" word.  Popcorn words are high frequency words that appear in easy readers and other forms of writing that we will be looking at this year.  They are simple words that are age appropriate for this grade.  The sk students also had an opportunity to write in their journals.  Our goal was to try and sound out a word with an "a" in it or to try and write a sentence with the word "a" in it.  They did an amazing job!!!  We will have a new word and letter of the week every Monday.  Please encourage you children to point these words out while you read to them at night.  It is great exposure and will be beneficial to them in their reading and writing process.

We also looked at numbers today.  We had a challenge to match the numbers on the hundreds chart with the numbers on wooden disks.  The students were really engaged in this task and it was great to hear them using strategies and ideas as to where to place the numbers.

We started to explore symmetry using leaves.  The students were given half of a leaf glued to a piece of paper and were asked to draw the other half to look the same.  Then they were asked to describe their leaf using colours.  Their work turned out amazing and we can't wait to put it up on display.

Thank you to all who signed up for Playdoh Club.  The photocopier has been out of commission but as soon as it's working, we will send an easy recipe to use if you wish.

Reminders:

- Please ensure that your child has a full set of spare clothing at school (shirt, pants, underwear, socks).  Accidents happen so it's always good to have a spare set of clothes.

- Picture Day is on October 26.