Welcome back! I hope you and your family had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. It has been wonderful welcoming the students back to school, and they have settled in nicely. We have jumped right back into learning and re-established our classroom routines. The students are showing enthusiasm as we begin this next stretch of learning together. I’m looking forward to a great term ahead!
Reminders:
- Library is on Tuesday. All books need to be returned on Monday's to ensure new books can be taken home.
- The weather is getting cold and each student need to bring the proper winter clothing to keep them warm and safe at recess and lunch.
-Students will bring home a read and roll every Monday. This sheet will contain the skill we will be working on for the week and the words they need to practice for their Friday check in phonics test.
Looking back on learning..........
Phonics:
- R-Controlled Vowels
- What does "r" do to vowels?
- Ar, or, ore, ir, er, ur, w+or
- We learned some helpful hints to help us use these sounds in our spelling.
- "Or" comes in the middle, and "ore" comes at the end of a word.
- We use "er" at the end of a two syllable word.
Writing:
- This week we started an investigation into Orca whales. This will be a part of our informational writing unit.
-Students worked hard to collect jot notes and record them using a graphic organizer.
-We begun to look at what a paragraph is?
-Students wrote their first paragraph all about van Orca whales' appearance.
New Years Resolutions:
- We had a sharing circle to share where each student talked about a part of their break.
- Then we talked about goals that are realistic and in our control to achieve.
- Each student came up with one, small goal/new years resolution they would like to work toward achieving this year.
Math:
- We started two new units this week, statistics and addition/subtraction strategies.
-Student learned that date is information we collect and read.
- Students created their own survey question and then travelled around the room gathering answer from each of their peers.
- We then looked at the date to see which option was liked the most/least.
- Students engaged in math talks to widen their awareness of addition strategies.
- We worked hard on the "making ten" or "friendly numbers' strategy to help us with large numbers.
- Students practice fact families and learned how to use an inverse equation to check their answers.
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