Week of November 7-11

Dear families,

I hope you are having a lovely weekend!

Last week we continued our learning about Empathy, which tied in very well with the Remembrance Day Ceremony on Friday. A special thank you to Alexandra who did a wonderful job carrying our class wreath during the ceremony. The children made poppy art with four red hearts, read and illustrated a booklet called, "A Poppy is to Remember," read the book "A Poppy is to Remember" by Heather Patterson and Ron Lightman, and echo-read and sang "Peace Is...,". "Poppy, Poppy," "Little Poppy," and "November" on the Smartboard or chart paper. I have sent copies of these home to practise. The children were very respectful listeners at our Remembrance Day Assembly. I was so proud of them!

We continued reading and talking about author Todd Parr's wonderful books, such as "It's Okay to be Different" and "Peace Is..." We also read the book and watched the video "What Does Peace Feel Like?" which is a wonderful book inspired by what children think peace feels like.

The seniors are doing a writing exercise on Empathy in which they look at a photograph, write what they think the people are feeling, and then write about when they felt that way too.

The sight words for this week were SAID and WHERE. The letter sounds are C and K as well as CK. We will continue focusing on these sounds next week.

Thank you to Henry's dad who was our Mystery Reader on Friday! And thank you so much to Ethan's dad, and the moms of Kate, Maya and Sarah for volunteering their time to be science teachers in our classroom. The children had an awesome time learning about the five senses!

Next week is anti-bullying awareness week and we will continue to focus (as we do all year!) on being a good friend.

That's the news for this week. The Seniors will receive their Progress Reports on Monday. I look forward to speaking with you this week regarding your child's progress at Parent-Teacher interviews.

Mrs. Tyndall