We are learning about respect!

 Friday, November 24, 2023

Apologies for the late posting of the blog! 

It was wonderful to see everyone at our parent conferences today and last night. We really appreciate you taking the time to come in and see how your child is progressing. We are very excited to see the learning that is happening in all of your children. 


We welcomed Ms. Gunson and Ms. Jardie into our classrooms on Monday. They have already developed great relationships with the students and the kids are thrilled to have them!


This week we focused on the word families _ip,  _ig, _in, _it. The words we practiced were: look, live, with, why, my, by. A small list of these words came home with your child on Monday so they can be practiced at home. Please also continue to send your child’s ziplock bag in to school everyday so that they may choose a new book to read at home and have their bag for important notices being sent home. Thank you!


We started our preparations for our holiday learning assembly which will take place on December 14. We learned a poem and started learning one of our songs. We hope everyone can make it on that day!


We continued our discussion about the Grandfather Teaching of Respect. We watched a short video and drew pictures and wrote words in our visual journal of different ways we can show respect. We talked about how we can show respect to adults, our pets, the earth and even ourselves! Since the animal that represents respect in Indigenous culture is the buffalo we decided to do an art project representing the buffalo. We painted the background and used a fork to paint the wheat fields. It was messy but fun! We then talked about how indigenous people often use natural resources for many different things. We decided to use coffee to paint our buffalos. The end product was amazing and we were happy you got to see them at parent conferences. 


In math we continued our talk about number lines and practiced using them on paper and during math talks. We also started an anchor chart which will show all the different ways we can represent numbers. We will be using this to work on a project that we will start next week. 


Looking ahead 


Please return library books for Tuesday book exchange.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The eggs are here!

Image
This week in UFLI we learned about the r-controlled vowel sounds /ar/ and /or/. We learned that when the /r/ sound is after a vowel, it can change the way the vowel sounds. We learned that the r-controlled vowel sounds /ar/ and /or/ can show up in different places in the word (beginning, middle, end). We practiced reading and writing words such as part, park, start, corn, sort, storm.  We learned a fun rhyming poem called “Eggs” this week. We have BIG news to tell you about the incubator that is now in our classrooms! Ask your child to tell you what kind of eggs are in the incubator (duck), how many there are (8), and how many days they will be in the incubator before they begin hatching (about 28). This week, we “candled” the eggs on Day 2 and Day 4 of their incubation. Below are two pictures to show you what they look like so far. We were very excited to see a change in the eggs in just 2 days!                We have combined our math learning with Health and Wellness outcomes this w
Read more

Celebrating kindness and belonging on pink shirt day!

Image
Looking Back This week in our UFLI (phonics) lessons, we reviewed and practiced all of the consonant digraphs. We also learned about the spelling pattern a_e (we call it the “bossy e”) and that it spells the long /a/ sound. We practiced the high frequency word (heart word) “ who ” and reviewed many of the heart words we have learned over the past few weeks. Today your child has come home with two decodable stories to read to you as well as a Roll and Read game and a small Home Practice page.   We did some fun writing challenges this week. We wrote about a memory we have of a time we felt really excited and we also wrote about how to make a sandwich. We are learning about how to add details to our writing and how to start our sentences in different ways.  On pink shirt day, we read a story called “The Invisible Boy.” We talked about how all of us can feel a little invisible sometimes and about the importance of making our classrooms a welcoming place where everyone feels like they belon
Read more

Time to do Research!

  Looking Back This week in UFLI we continued to talk about vowel teams. We learned that the long i sound can be spelled using 2 different vowel teams, ‘igh,’ ‘ie.’ We learned that igh is usually in the middle or at the end of a word and that ‘ie’ comes at the end of words. We did lots of practice in order to become more familiar with spelling words with this rule. There is only 1 reading passage in our UFLI folder this week in order to practice this skill. In science we started our animal research! We used the computer to go onto pebblego and look up our animal as well as using our non-fiction books to fill in our research page. We also went onto arthub to do a nice guided drawing of our animal. We will be finishing these up next week.  We also finished up our plant work by painting our root vegetables art. We turned our bean plants into a special something that we are bringing home today. In math, we worked on a mystery! An animal has escaped from the zoo and we need to figure out wh
Read more