Hello
Parents/Guardians!
W.O.W (Words of the Week)
Words:
- play
- like
- is
- go
- we
Bonus words:
- four
- five
- six
These are 5 words that we
will be working with all week. The W.O.W words are words students will
encounter while reading and when writing independently. Here are some
ideas of what you can do at home with the W.O.W words:
- Make flash cards and have your
child practice reading them.
- Look for these words when reading
each night. Home reading hasn’t yet started but students can use
their library books or books they have at home.
- Have your child practice writing
the W.O.W words
- Make the W.O.W words out of
playdoh
- Look for the Secret Story spelling
patterns in the W.O.W words. (letter sounds chunks, eg. th)
- Tell you a sentence using the
W.O.W words.
- Write a sentence using the W.O.W
words.
Weekly Highlights:
- In literacy, we continued to
practice our secret stories and learned the secret story “or.” Letter
o and r love to play together and they can never decide what to do so they
say “or.” Should we go to the park or
should we ride bikes. We also practiced the “sh” secret
story.
- In math we practiced counting
forward by 1s to 20. We also practiced sequencing numbers. Students identified whether a set of
numbers were in the correct counting order (order we would say when
counting forwards) and if they were not correct they were asked to write
them correctly. For example: 5, 3, 4 (Not in the correct order. They would write 3, 4, 5). We also worked on printing the numerals
0-9 remembering to start at the top.
- We continued to work on printing
skills. When printing, students were reminded to always start at the
top. We also practiced saying the
letter sounds and brainstormed words that started with the letters we
printed.
- In Science we made a chart about
all the things we knew about Fall such as the days get shorter and the
nights get longer, we harvest fruits and vegetables and animals hibernate,
migrate or adapt to the changing weather. We also wondered about why we
have Fall and why the leaves change colour.
- We had a busy week with
buddies! The grade 1 students met their grade 6 buddy who they will
be reading with each week. They also met with their grade 4 buddy
and did some drawings of different kinds of leaves.
- This week we learned about Terry
Fox and how important his journey across Canada was. We also learned
what it means to be brave like Terry.
- When writing in their journal
students were reminded to: add the date, draw a sketch on the white part
of the page, add labels, and write a sentence using kid writing on the
lines, then to add colour if they have time.
- We ended the week with our
school-wide Terry Fox run! The students enjoyed themselves and took
pride in the fact that they were running for Terry Fox and for an
important cause. We will find out next week how much money the
school raised. Thank you for all of
the donations!
Reminders:
Orange Shirt Day (September 30th) is a day when we honour the
Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and
learn more about the history of those schools. We encourage all students to
wear an orange shirt on Monday September 30th in support of this special day.
Headphones:
We are kindly requesting
that parents send in a pair of headphones in a plastic bag labeled with your
child’s name. We would like to use these headphones during our Daily
5 stations when doing listen to reading (Raz-Kids). The headphones will
be stored in your child’s individual book box and be kept at school to be used
until the end of the year. Please do not feel obligated to get fancy
expensive headphones, dollar store headphones will work fine. Please ensure that your child is able to
independently put on and take off these headphones.
Communication Books:
Please make sure to check
your child’s folder and communication book each day and return it to school. After
checking your child’s communication book please leave it open to the current
page. If you have a note for you child’s teacher it can be
written in here.
Library:
Students are able to sign
out a new library book Monday to Thursday. It is expected that your
child’s library book will be returned in the plastic bag that was
provided. If your child has lost the plastic bag it is parents
responsibility to provide a new one. It
is your child’s responsibility to put their library book into the basket each
morning if they would like to exchange it.
Ask Me About:
- Ask me about a time when I was
brave like Terry Fox.
- Put these numbers in the correct
order:
- 5, 8, 7, 6
- 11, 9, 10, 12
- 1, 3, 0, 2
- 22, 19, 20, 21
