My apologies for this late blog post.

This week we continued to focus on letter blends. The words we worked with daily during Shared Reading were: clap, glad, black, and slip.

We read the Ukrainian folktale, The Mitten adapted by Jan Brett, this week. In the story, many animals find a cozy place to find refuge from the winter weather in a boy's lost mitten. The children were asked to pay careful attention to the sequencing of events so they could complete a retelling activity afterwards. We are beginning to focus on story structure and will continue to practice identifying beginning, middle, and end as well as characters and setting in future stories. This is all in preparation to write our own stories! 

In Math, we were learning about fact families. Fact Families can be a bit of a tricky concept for some students to grasp so we will continue to work with them using visuals and moving pieces next week. Here is an example of a fact family:

We have started to learn about communities in Social Studies. We brainstormed different communities we belong to such as, family, school, classroom, sports teams, and neighbourhood. We also started to learn about urban, suburban, and rural communities. We will delve deeper into this topic next week.

In Science, we continue to learn about the properties of matter and are learning many descriptive words to use to identify and explain objects both man-made and found in nature. Next week, we will be doing many hands-on activities to learn about length, area, and weight.

On Wednesday, we celebrated Chinese New Year with stories, art, and learning some facts about this holiday from one of our classmates. 

A note about Valentines Day 

Although, we are still two weeks away from Valentines Day, I know many parents are purchasing cards for their child to give to friends at this time. As Teacher's Convention is on Feb.13 and 14th, we will pass out cards on Wednesday, Feb. 12th.

If your child would like to bring Valentines cards for their classmates, please have them sign the cards with their name only so that they can be handed out in an efficient manner. Please have your child bring a card for all their classmates as we do not want anyone to feel left out. We have 21 students (including your child) in the classroom. Please do not include any sweet treats to the cards. This is a CBE policy. Thank you for your cooperation. :)

Upcoming dates:

February 12                         Red Day - To Celebrate Valentine's Day

February 13 & 14                Teacher Convention - NO SCHOOL

February 17                         Family Day - NO SCHOOL