Hello
Parents and Guardians,
We
hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend! Grade 1 parents, please look at LIST 2 (20 new sight
words) in your child’s homework book,
for your child to master. Cut up the
words into flashcards and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. Continue to review LIST 1 (20 sight words
from Sept.)
We
welcomed a new Grade 1 student to our classroom this week; Skyrah.
Dyson was our amazing Star of the Week.
Dyson enjoys spending time with his mom, dad, big brother; Colby, and
his grandparents. He loves to eat mac
and cheese and his favourite colour is green.
He LOVES to play hockey and enjoys going to the Pats games. He enjoys
spending time at the farm too. He likes
dressing up for Halloween. He even went
to an NBA game (Golden State Warriors vs Phoenix Suns) this past year.
Parents,
did you enjoy the TURKEY FORTUNE GAMES
with your children, which they made with their Gr. 4 Learning Buddies on Thursday? The children learned some interesting TURKEY
TRIVIA FACTS and are eager to share them with you.
Mammals and birds focus: Ms. Holtby’s science focus was mammals and
amphibians this week. Please watch the
information mammal video:
Have
your child explain characteristics of mammals. They are warm blooded vertebrates. Their babies are born alive and drink
milk. They have hair or fur. On Wednesday, your child did an inquiry about
a mammal of his/her choice with sentences and an illustration in his/her
journal.
On
Tuesday in your child’s agenda you found:
FRUIT BAT’S BAD RAP. It is a
drama/science/language arts reading activity for you to work on with
your child. We will perform it for University of Regina Biology Professor, Dr. Mark Brigham, when
he comes to teach us about bats, on Halloween day. We will practice every day
in class, as well.
Great bat video to check out
with your child:
Mathematically,
our Grade 1 math focus this week was drawing their
own flashcards on ten frames. The Grade 1s became
familiar with DOT CARDS and each made their own
personal set to practice at school and at home. As well, they used 2-part place
mats to represent numbers from 10 to 20 as a combination of 2
sets. Ex: Count 16 cheerios at home. Ask your child to put 10 to one side; then
count the remaining cheerios: “16 is 10
and 6.”
Mid-week,
the Grade 2s began to learn about Canadian coins; pennies,
nickels, dimes, quarters and skip counting using money.
Here’s
an AMAZING website for money practice:
The kids LOVED playing this game with me at lunchtime on
Thursday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRI1C7oJmhI
Canada money song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZlAOSEmYQ
Canada in my Pocket money song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdmtmr8G7A8 The
Canadian Money Song
Money
includes recognizing the symbols on each coin and counting money. We will be using the Math Makes Sense “story
books” to reinforce each coin and do some “shopping” activities. We charted information about each coin and
did math stations using pennies, nickels and dimes. Pull out some coins at home and have your
child count by 1s, 5s and 10s using money.
Do they recognize the value of each coin? As well, ordinal numbers were discussed (first = 1st, second = 2nd,
ninth = 9th). Your child
should be able to read ordinal numbers numerically and as a word in Grade 2.
As
well, counting forwards and backwards
by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s continues to be reinforced. Print off a 100 chart from my math website
and play counting games with your child.
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.
Our focus this week and next week for French is Halloween vocabulary.
Visit the site: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfmQ5eAQlg and listen to C’est l’Halloween. We have played French Halloween 7-up using
props. We read a few chants/rhymes, sang
songs and made haunted houses (les maisons hantées).
ARE YOU AND YOUR
CHILD TRACKING YOUR READING LOG MINUTES?
Our Gr. 1/2 class is participating in the PIZZA HUT
monthly reading program. When your child hands in his/her
READING LOG at the end of each month, with the 250
required minutes, he/she will receive
a coupon each time for a FREE INDIVIDUAL
PIZZA.
Friendly reminder:
Mark your calendars to attend the George Bothwell Library (Southland
Mall) GRANT ROAD LITERACY EVENING for K to 4 students from 6 to 7 p.m. on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH. We
hope to see you there with your children.
Bring your library cards too.
Ms. Selimos, Ms. Daniels, and Ms. Holtby
"Practice subtraction as the season 'falls' in! Find more fun worksheets at Education.com."
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