Saturday, March 12

Hello families,

Another busy week in Room 166 has flown by. We have started practicing our Popcorn (high frequency) words and I have sent home some ideas of how to practice them at home as well. The red strip of paper with this week's 3 words could be "refridgerator" words i.e. they go on the fridge for a week and when your child opens the door they could read the words (sort of like "open sesame" to open the door!).

We have been preparing for our next sharing assembly which is March 28. The TDSB Character Trait for this month is Honesty. At this assembly we will be singing a song about the rain and reading a poem about St. Patrick's Day. The children had fun colouring our big rainbow and making the coins for our pot of gold. Cole and Spencer have volunteered to be our leprechauns. Thank you!

We completed booklets about St.Patrick's Day Symbols with our Reading Buddies and the children had fun drawing and colouring the booklets as well as reading the books they took from our Library. The children also made shamrocks.

We reviewed and practiced writing our numbers 1-20 this week as well. If your SK child's Phonics duotang was sent home, please return it when set two is completed. We are now on Set Three.

Thank you very much to this week's Parent Volunteers: Maya's mom and Tatum's mom did Reading Club, our Mystery Readers were Jamie's mom and Myles' mom, and Charlie's mom did the white bags. I didn't send home Snuggle Books over the break.

Please note that there was an error in the Parent Rep letter: on March 25 both morning and afternoon classes will have a visit from Firefighter Ron Jones, not just the a.m. class as posted. After the March Break we will be doing a unit on Safety to prepare for his visit.

The children are starting to learn how to read and write their last names which is a new step! I am impressed with how well the children are reading now and how well they are sounding out and blending words. We completed the letter-sound "U" which corresponds to the motion of opening an umbrella.

I wish everyone a fun and safe March Break!

Mrs. Tyndall