I enjoyed speaking with many of you at Parent-Teacher Conferences. Thank you for taking the time to meet with me.

Our focus words this week were: let, get, well, tell, red, ten. We worked with short vowel "i" as well to come up with an extensive list of consonant, vowel, consonant words (CVC) and sorted them into word families such as the "ig" family and the "it" family.

We have started to do a weekly dictation to review and practice both the high-frequency and word family words we have been working with in class. The dictations comprise of both words and simple sentences. I give the words to the students orally. The students are encouraged to carefully sound out the words and/or reference text around the room to help them with this exercise. 

Most of you were able to see the beautiful bison art the students created to represent the Indigenous Grandfather Teaching of Respect. This was a multi-step art project that involved paper tearing, printmaking (cotton ball and paint), texturizing (the wheat was made by making prints with a fork which created texture and the bison's thick fur was made by applying coffee grounds with glue), the use of oil pastels, and cutting skills.

We worked with number lines in Math this week. The students learned how to landmark a blank number line by adding 0, 5, and 10 and then placing a given number on the line. They also had a chance to do an activity where they had to identify a number on a line that had been covered or was missing. We will be using number lines more in the future to aid in solving addition and subtraction equations.

** Important Christmas Sharing Information **

We have started practicing songs and a poem for our upcoming Grade 1 Christmas Sharing. We will be sharing a total of 4 songs and a poem. This sharing will happen at 8:15am and again at 1:15pm on Thursday, December 14th in the West Wing open space of our school. Grade 1 parents, grandparents, and all other family members are encouraged to join us for one of these performances! 

We did not have our regular book exchange at the library this week due to the Book Fair. We will be going again this Tuesday. 

Thank you to everyone who is returning Home Reading books each Friday. I will be sending home a game for you to play with your child this week to review and practice some of the CVC words we have been working with in class.

I hope you all enjoy a relaxing weekend! :)