Dear families,
December already! Christmas is in the air! The children are already asking when Alfie the Elf will come to the classroom. I'm pretty sure he'll be there on Monday!
Last week we read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," first with the children not seeing the pictures and imagining the events. Then, they retold the story to me with the pictures. We also re-read "Corduroy" and the children did a dot-to-dot activity and a counting activity. We also read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" again and the children sequenced the story with pictures, retold the story, and coloured the colour words in the story.
For the nature/non-fiction part of learning about bears, the SKs read several features about Polar, Grizzly, Black and Panda bears, and categorized them under the headings CAN, HAVE, EAT and ARE. The SKs also wrote several words they knew that started with the letter sounds B,E,A,R and S, and the JKs helped me spell them on chart paper. They also completed a mini read-and-write CAN booklet. We'll finish our inquiry on What Animals do in the Winter next week, and the children will bring their folders home to show you! We'll focus on more numeracy activities next week (counting bears, rolling dice and colouring according to the number, and using our ten-frames).
We practised adding and subtracting with a ten-frame. A laminated 10-frame will be sent home for your child to practise. The children also completed their November calendars and wrote and drew "This is me in November."
We now have designated gym time each week! Please provide your child with running shoes (that stay at school) so that s/he can run safely in the gym.
On the Smartboard, we read Bob Books (on YouTube) together, and the children read copies in class. We also got 4 brand new sets of non-fiction levelled readers from Scholastic which I'm very excited about!
On Monday the children will help decorate our classroom for the holidays, and we'll start doing lots of fun literacy and numeracy activities about Santa, elves, and the Polar Bear Express! It's such an exciting time of year for the little ones.
Thank you so much to Elea's grandmother and dad who were our Mystery Readers this week.
The next Sharing Assembly will be on December 15. The children will be singing two holiday songs, and should dress in RED, WHITE and/or GREEN. Thank you! Santa or Elf hats are ok, too!
That's the news for this week. I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Friday, December 1, 2017
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Week of November 20-24
Dear families,
Happy Sunday! I hope you are having a nice weekend.
Last week in room 166 we learned more about bears (real and teddy), hibernation, migration and adaptation. We read "Under and Over the Snow," "The Hibernation Station," "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and "Don't Wake Up the Bear!" We watched a National Geographic video about what animals do in the winter. There is another kid video about this on www.makemeagenius.com. The children are enjoying playing in our Hibernation Station and Bear Cave (a tent and a big box), playing with various stuffies such as rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, bears, turtles, frogs, snakes. We are learning several songs and poems about bears, circling the sight words: "Bear is Sleeping," "Are You Sleeping," and "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear." We are also learning about what bears can do, eat, have and their features. The children practiced sequencing a story with Eric Carle's classic "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." The children also made a bear puzzle and we read and are sequencing the beloved story "Corduroy." The SKs learned how to do a word search on the Smartboard, and once they understood that the words could be backwards and diagonal, they had no problem finding BEAR words in two word searches. We also had a fun Teddy Bear Party! We counted gummy bears and danced to the Gummy Bear song! With our Grade 3 Reading Buddies, the children started making a non-fiction booklet about black bears. Next week we'll do more reading and writing about the book Corduroy and "We're Going on a Bear Hunt." We'll also try to write as many words as we can that start with the beginning sounds B E A and R.
Thank you so much to Ethan's mom who was our Mystery Reader this week. Chloe, a former student of mine who is in Grade 2 now, was also a Mystery Reader. She did such an amazing job! The words of the week were GO and TO. The children did an amazing job singing "Yellow Submarine" at the Sharing Assembly. Congratulations to Rielle, Everleigh and Hudson for receiving certificates for Empathy.
That's the news for this week. See you tomorrow!
Happy Sunday! I hope you are having a nice weekend.
Last week in room 166 we learned more about bears (real and teddy), hibernation, migration and adaptation. We read "Under and Over the Snow," "The Hibernation Station," "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" and "Don't Wake Up the Bear!" We watched a National Geographic video about what animals do in the winter. There is another kid video about this on www.makemeagenius.com. The children are enjoying playing in our Hibernation Station and Bear Cave (a tent and a big box), playing with various stuffies such as rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, bears, turtles, frogs, snakes. We are learning several songs and poems about bears, circling the sight words: "Bear is Sleeping," "Are You Sleeping," and "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear." We are also learning about what bears can do, eat, have and their features. The children practiced sequencing a story with Eric Carle's classic "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." The children also made a bear puzzle and we read and are sequencing the beloved story "Corduroy." The SKs learned how to do a word search on the Smartboard, and once they understood that the words could be backwards and diagonal, they had no problem finding BEAR words in two word searches. We also had a fun Teddy Bear Party! We counted gummy bears and danced to the Gummy Bear song! With our Grade 3 Reading Buddies, the children started making a non-fiction booklet about black bears. Next week we'll do more reading and writing about the book Corduroy and "We're Going on a Bear Hunt." We'll also try to write as many words as we can that start with the beginning sounds B E A and R.
Thank you so much to Ethan's mom who was our Mystery Reader this week. Chloe, a former student of mine who is in Grade 2 now, was also a Mystery Reader. She did such an amazing job! The words of the week were GO and TO. The children did an amazing job singing "Yellow Submarine" at the Sharing Assembly. Congratulations to Rielle, Everleigh and Hudson for receiving certificates for Empathy.
That's the news for this week. See you tomorrow!
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