Hello Parents and Guardians,
Saria was our incredible Star of the Week. Her favourite colour is hot pink and she
likes to eat macaroni and cheese. She is
going to be a big sister soon. She has a
dog, a ferret, and a snake named Snow. She enjoys taking baton dancing
lessons. She has even driven a motor
boat.
On
Monday we read a silly, spooky story called The Ghost of
the One Black Eye to support our reading and
writing. After reading this story, we
acted out parts of it, using some of our class finger puppets. The focus with the puppets was to introduce DIALOGUE and QUOTATION MARKS. I refer to the quotation marks as “sixes and
nines”. Have your child show you what
this means at home. Write some fun
sentences with your child using dialogue and see if he/she can place the
quotation marks in the right spots. When
you are reading with your child, look for dialogue in the stories and
discuss. We also read a story called Wait ‘til Martin Comes and explored
dialogue.
On
Monday morning we studied the parts of a bat; bat anatomy. Ask your child to tell you how many fingers a
bat has. What is the wing membrane made
of? Do bats have thumbs? We worked on a
visual arts/writing project this week to support our clay bat
study. On Tuesday, we created clay bats.
On Wednesday, each child created a paragraph
about his/her bat (hoary bat, silver haired bat, little brown bat, big brown
bat, silver haired bat, eastern long eared bat, eastern red bat, etc.).
On Monday and Wednesday, the
students learned about amphibians.
We introduced amphibians with a non-fiction book called “Reptiles and
Amphibians,” as well as an Amphibian song
to engage student interest (see link below). As a class, we created a word
web of characteristics from the resources we used. They are cold blooded. Most females lay eggs. They can breathe through
their smooth skin. They live part of
life in water and part on land. Most go
through metamorphosis (i.e. tadpole to frog). On Wednesday, students created
jot notes from our non-fiction book and interactive song. We used our jot notes
to write 3-5 facts about amphibians.
Explore the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI8GPsf6TAc educational video
On
Tuesday, you received your child’s school photos
in his/her agenda. Orders are due on by Wed. Oct. 24th.
On
Wednesday, Aysha’s mom (Cheynna) read some Inuit
stories to us in the library. Thank you
very much! We enjoyed listening to you
read to us.
It
was wonderful to see so many of you at George Bothwell Library on Wednesday
evening for Grant Road Literacy Evening. It is a
fantastic place to borrow books for free and other material for free!
For
math, Ordinal numbers were reviewed again (first = 1st,
second = 2nd, ninth = 9th). Your child should be able to read ordinal
numbers numerically and as a word in Grade 2.
Please continue to reinforce pennies, nickels and dimes with your
children. Are you able to show 6 cents a
few ways? 1 nickel and 1 penny OR 6
pennies. Is your child able to show 35
cents at least 3 different ways? 1
quarter and 1 dime OR 7 nickels OR 3 dimes and 1 nickel, etc. Grade 1 focus was
numerals 11 to 20 and created sets and being able to recognize one more or one
less of the original number.
Mid-week we moved on to estimating objects
(making good guesses) with both grades, and then solved for the exact
amount. See photos with orange ten
frames and buttons activities. At home,
try using macaroni or cheerios. Have
your child take a handful from a container and place on the kitchen table. Make your own estimate as a parent. About HOW MANY do you think you see? Have your child estimate how many there are and
then count the exact number. Who was closest? You or your child? How many tens and ones in
your answer? Example: If the number is 68, then there are 6 groups
of tens and 8 ones.
For
Writing Traits our focus was TOPICS and choosing good topics to write about that would
interest an audience. Ms. Holtby did a
Power Point presentation to show good topics.
FUTURE
PROJECTS:
Please save ONE 2
litre container (ex: milk or juice carton) for a fun project in
December. DO NOT SEND TO SCHOOL
until December, as we have no room to store them.
If you have magazines to recycle, kindly send them to school ANY
TIME, as we are getting ready for a writing activity for November (farm
study/Agribition).
Have a wonderful
autumn weekend! Enjoy this unbelievable
weather and GO PATS GO!
Ms. Selimos, Ms.
Holtby, and Ms. Daniels
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