There was much excitement in the classroom this week both pre and post-Halloween! The energy was definitely high. :)

In Language Arts, we continued to learn word families with the short vowel "a" - at, an, ag, ad and applied this learning when doing shared reading activities as a class as well as in independent word work activities and games.

The students have started to write sentences in their writing notebooks. Using sentence starters, they are asked to complete sentences independently by referencing words both on our classroom Word Wall, using their knowledge of high-frequency words taught in class, and by listening for the main sounds in words and recording these consonant and vowel sounds. We are learning that sentences must begin with an uppercase letter, that a space needs to be left between words, and that a sentence must end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark.

In Math, we continued to represent and identify numbers 10-20 using ten frames and began working with number lines. Zero the Hero brought us a fun graphing activity to celebrate our 40th day of school on Wednesday. Each student was given a package of Rockets and had to graph how many of each colour their package contained. They also had to identify which colour they saw the most and which one they saw the least.

For Halloween, the students listened to a story called Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. They then had to complete a sequencing activity to show how well they remembered the order in which 3 different animals got onto the broom and the order in which items fell off the broom. In the afternoon, all of the Grade 1 students had the chance to rotate through the five Grade 1 classrooms to participate in a variety of fun Halloween-themed learning activities including dance and music.

In Science, each student has started to make a pumpkin book where they record stages in a pumpkin's life cycle. They will be bringing these books home to share next week.

** Next week, as part of our Social Studies curriculum, we will be starting to talk about families. If possible, please send a print of a family photo you have of your immediate family or you can email this to me at jllarmer@cbe.ab.ca. Each child will have the opportunity to introduce their family to the class.**

We will be having a Remembrance Day assembly for the whole school on Wednesday at 10:30 am. Parents are welcome to attend. 

A friendly reminder that there will be no school Thursday, November 9 due to a Professional Development Day and no school Friday, November 10 - Tuesday November 14 due to our Fall Break. School resumes Wednesday, November 15th.

Please return Home Reading bags and Library books on Monday if you have not yet done so. You can keep the Halloween poem at home.