Hello
Parents and Students,
The
weather certainly took a turn for winter this week. Please remember to send your child to school
with a jacket and some mittens, as the temperatures are dropping.
PWIM
= Picture Word Inductive Model. The PWIM poster this
month is of a classroom. This
week’s PWIM lesson focused on plurals
and sorting PWIM words based on this concept.
This
we introduced the Writing Traits ELA
component this week. The focus was “topics.” What is a
topic? Can you write a sentence based
on a certain topic? They each had a
choice of writing about a fish, a monster or a robot. Writing traits will be shared at the November Goal
Setting 3-way conference.
Pizza song based on 2nd writing
traits lesson with the topic of PIZZA.
We also began our PRINTING BOOKS. Have your child sing to you the song: Smells like Thanksgiving. See photo.
The
phonics letter of the week was Cc. We brainstormed
food words beginning with Cc, explored rhymes and solved mystery sentences. Charlie
and Cindy really liked the ‘C’ lesson.
The children were able to successfully figure out the 8 sentences with
“c” words.
We
had a lot of fun on Thursday singing Happy Birthday to our
lovely Ms. Daniels and surprised her with some
singing, birthday cards and a gift certificate to pamper herself.
We
hope the turkeys made it home safely before the Thanksgiving
long weekend.
For
Math this week, the Grade One’s have
been working on number sense with numbers
0 to 10. We have been practicing our number words every day, and have been
working on writing our numbers correctly without reversals. This could still
use much practice at home. Does your child recognize the word ‘five’ or
‘seven’? The students have been exploring with counters and ten frames what one more and one less looks
like, or two more and two less. For example, if my number is 6 (six) what
is one more than 6 and what is one less than 6. See what your child knows and
practice at home with any group of objects. The children also played some POWER
OF TEN GAMES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58kC6zoarG0
Halloween night number song
The
first few lessons were challenging for some of the Gr. 2 students. In this unit the children will be expected to
be able to SKIP COUNT by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s FORWARD and
BACKWARD. Examples as
follows: Count backward by 10s from 90
to 30. ANSWER: 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30. Count backward by 5s from 60 to 35. Count forward by 2s from 82 to 94. Print off
a 100 chart from a math website and play counting games with your child. See math photos for ideas. Is your child able to count forward by
5s starting at 35 and ending at 85? Is
your child able to count backwards by 10s starting at 90 and ending at
30? Is your child able to start at 1 and count by 2s? Work on even and odd
numbers with your child as well. Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. Odd
numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Next
week, coins will be introduced (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters) and skip counting using money.
Ms.
Holtby has enjoyed teaching her first health unit on the Zones of
Regulation. She started the unit off by introducing the 4 zones;
Green Zone – Focused and Ready to Learn, Blue Zone feeling tired, sad or sick,
Yellow Zone; feeling worried, scared or silly, Red Zone; feeling angry and out
of control. She used clips from the movie ‘Inside Out’ to illustrate how
different emotions look. She then had students engage in drama, acting out
emotions without using words to show students that they can tell how someone is
feeling based on how they are acting. As a class, they discussed what kind of
strategies you could use to ‘self-regulate’. Throughout the unit, they
practiced different strategies such as breathing exercises, brain breaks and
animal walks. At the end of the unit each student created a “Zones Tool Kit” that has their zones booklet that
illustrates each zone and a strategy. In it, you will find a stress ball,
clapper, zones bracelets, fuzzy fidgets, feathers, sparkly shaker and a
dinosaur fidget. Students can use these tool kits to ‘self-regulate’ throughout
the school year! The students completed a zones sorting activity to illustrate
what they learned throughout this unit and they did great!
We
began our Life Science Unit this month, with the Gr. 1
and 2 focus of animal growth and
change as follows:
LT1.1
Differentiate between living things according to observable characteristics, including appearance and behaviour. [CP, SI]
i) Differentiate among animals according to their observable characteristics.
Differentiate between living things according to observable characteristics, including appearance and behaviour. [CP, SI]
i) Differentiate among animals according to their observable characteristics.
Analyze the growth and development of familiar animals, including birds,
fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, during their life cycles.
[CP, SI]
Compare the growth and development of humans with that of familiar
animals. [CP, SI]
Assess the interdependence of humans and animals in natural and
constructed environments. [CP, DM]
We
will discuss life cycles, importance of balance (sun, plants, water),
vertebrate classification, warm blooded (endotherm) vs. cold blooded and more.
ATTENTION
GRADE 1 PARENTS: Next Tuesday, your child will be given
LIST 2 of the SIGHT WORDS; see his/her HOMEWORK NOTEBOOK. Cut them out and use them daily as
flashcards. We tested our Gr. 1s this
week and many still need to master the 20 words in LIST 1. We have been
testing each child. Please review Lists
1 and 2 EVERY DAY as part of your child’s home reading.
HAPPY
THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! Enjoy the long
weekend!
Ms.
Selimos, Ms. Holtby and Ms. Daniels
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