This week, our focus words for Shared Reading were: our, new, blue, two.

The students completed two writing activities this week where they were asked to write multiple sentences. We have been practicing how to develop interesting sentences that use some descriptive words, such as colour and size. The students are getting very good at identifying the short vowel sounds and are beginning to incorporate the digraphs ch, sh, th, and ck into their spelling.

In Math, we focused on Making Ten - learning about the different combinations of numbers that add up to this sum. This skill comes in handy when solving more difficult addition equations.

We have also been doing a lot of Shared Reading together of decodeable texts. Your child should have brought home a sheet with a passage about Ed the Dog this week, as well as a Roll and Write game that they can practice reading to you.

In Science, the students enjoyed drawing the toy they'd brought from home and writing two sentences to describe it. We used the following poster as a reference for our descriptive words. 

We worked on our Art Card this week. They look great! This is a fundraiser organized by our school's Parent Council. These cards will be available for purchase in a few weeks. I will keep you posted. Here's a sneak peek at the idea we used for the cards.

Yesterday, we met with our Grade 4 Buddies. Mrs. Miller taught the students how to work with modelling clay to make a penguin. We are waiting for these to dry, then we will paint/colour them.

A friendly reminder that there is NO SCHOOL next Friday. It is a Professionsl Development Day for teachers.

I hope you all enjoy a snowy weekend!