Dear families,
Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Your child has made a special gift for you about what they are thankful for. The vintage Kindergarten record is yours to keep.
The"popcorn" words of the week were LIKE and ME. The Jolly Phonics letter sound was Pp. So far, we have made the following words with our letter sounds:
I, it, is, sat, sit, tap, tip, spit, spat, pat, pit, spa, a, sap, a, at and is. I have made a page of these words for your child to practise at home. S/he will receive an updated one every two weeks, with two new letter sounds. A way to practise at home is with magnetic letters. We do this in class, too.
We have started our first science experiment, and the children are learning about predicting (guessing, making a HYPOTHESIS), then OBSERVING, and then CONCLUDING. Our experiment is about what the shade BLACK really is. We will continue the experiment next week.
Thank you so much to Christopher's mom who was our Mystery Reader! Thank you to Ella who brought in a big photo of our class on the Terry Fox Walk!
In Numeracy, the children played with different math manipulatives. They sorted, built structures, played "make-believe," measured, counted, traded, and had fun playing with these math toys.
This week our Grade Four Reading Buddies interviewed the little ones and wrote down their answers.
Please be sure to send in the permission form for our trip to Andrew's Scenic Acres by Tuesday at the latest, and include the payment confirmation number on your form. Thank you. Next week we will start learning all about apples in preparation for our class trip and learning about Fall.
That's the news for this week! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
