Happy long weekend! Even though it was short, we had another busy week.
We have been working hard in literacy, practicing our word wall words. Using them in sentences, recognizing them as we do work in other subject areas, and sounding them out when writing, as well as recognizing some of their family words while reading books and doing large group work. We also have been concentrating on printing neatly and putting spaces between our words. Our word wall has already grown so much and it sure has been helpful when completing learning tasks.
Today in math we did centers. There were four centers in total, all focused on a different math strand. The station were:
1) practicing place value to 1000
2) building patterns with pattern blocks and writing and labeling them in our math journal
3) treasure hunt - a dice game that had adding, number recognition, and following instructions
4) penny shuffle - a game that involved adding 3 different numbers together to get one final score
It was a lot of fun to work through the different stations as we continue to build our math skills.
Yesterday, in science, we discovered which material that will work for Mr. Wonka's new candy bar; it is iron! Now that we know what material is attracted to magnets and what objects are and are not attracted to magnets we can, soon, start the next steps of our project to help Mr. Wonka's factory.
Reminders:
- 'Meet the Teacher' conferences are tonight and tomorrow morning. Please try to be as on time as you can for there many are scheduled close together and we do not want to keep others waiting for too long.
- Swimming starts next week. A form went home today regarding fees, eligibility to swim, and swimming level. This form needs to be returned by Monday, September 28. You may bring it to the 'Meet the Teacher'.
- Terry Fox run is Wednesday, September 30. The school is doing a 'Toonie for Terry' fundraiser, so if you wish to donate, you can bring a toonie before Wednesday.
- Library on Tuesday, please return library books so that your child can sign out a new one
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