Dear families,
I hope you enjoyed the sun this lovely November Saturday!
Thank you to our Computer Lab volunteers - Ellie's mom and Ruby's mom. Thank you also to Riley's mom who was our Mystery Reader this week, and to Dylan's and Claire's moms who helped out with pizza lunch. Thank you also to Matthew's mom who made play dough for the class!
This upcoming week is the Scholastic Book Fair in the Library. The children in Group 1 will be going on Thursday, and the children in Group 2 will be going on Tuesday. If you wish your child to buy books, please send their money in a plastic baggy marked with their name. Thank you!
In this weekend's TDSB bag your child's work on the book study of "Where the Wild Things Are" was sent home, along with their weekly snuggle book. Please return the snuggle book each Monday so that other children can read it.
This week we read several versions of The Three Little Pigs, starting with a very old version written in 1960. I think the children enjoyed reading all the other versions from the library that are in our classroom. We talked a lot about how they are the same and different and which they like better and why. We also did a Venn comparing the Troll and the Wolf. We also made cute piggy art from construction paper. On the tummy is a letter to the big bad wolf. I've typed up the children's ideas of what to write to the big bad wolf - they are so cute!
We also did a graphing activity; the children had to take turns with a spinner, which would land on a picture of either straw, sticks or bricks. Each time it landed on one of those three, they had to colour in one rectangle of the graph. Which ever they landed on the most and reached 10, they had to decorate a little house with that material. The follow up activity is to write if that was the best material for the house, or not. The Seniors helped the Juniors with this activity.
The children enjoyed building structures in class this week and were proud to show them to their classmates. They built houses in groups and then explained how they did it in front of the class. Great job! They also decorated three paper houses with real straw, sticks, and "bricks" (sponge painted), and retold the story using puppets. I recorded the children's descriptions of the structures they built and will send copies home when the Folktale unit is done.
On the Smartboard, we did guided reading of "How to Make Piggie Pie" and a simple version of "The Three Little Pigs," both of which will go in the children's Folktale Folder when we have finished this unit of inquiry. The homework for the SKs is to draw pictures and write how to make piggy pie. We did this together on the Smartboard first. The JK homework is to just read and colour this booklet.
Continuing with our science inquiry on the weather, we talked about the wind, like the wolf, blowing things down! Also, that snow is flakes of ice. The children brought some ice inside to our science table.
With our Grade 2 Reading Buddies, the children read and coloured a version of The Three Little Pigs that has a happier ending (the wolf runs away) than the traditional tale.
We had a visit from Hector from the Brentwood Library this week. The children listened to stories, sang songs, and learned about all the fun things to do at a public library.
On December 15, it will be "Wear a Festive Sweater Day' at LKS to raise money for the Seeds of Hope. It is also the day of an Author Visit in the Library, and is our Sharing Assembly in the morning. We will be singing holiday songs for you. It would be great if the children could wear a festive hat on this day for the assembly.
That's our news for this week! Next week will be all about castles and several versions of the classic tale Cinderella. Our Dramatic Play area is now decorated by the children as a castle and looks amazing!
Please send in shoeboxes and toilet paper rolls for our castles (as many as you can please). We also need 28 small baby food jars with lids. Thank you!
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
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