Week of October 8-12

Dear families,

I hope you are having a nice weekend! The beautiful fall weather is finally here.

Literacy: Our new sight words are FOR and WENT. The letter sound of the week was Nn. It's amazing how many words you can make with the letters Ss Aa Tt Ii Pp and Nn! The JKs have a "name puzzle" with the letters of their name that they can practise putting in the correct order. We have started learning about apples and we read "Who Took the Apples from the Apple Tree?" together and made a class book. The children also learned a song about apples. We'll continue this next week.

Numeracy: The children practised forming and tracing the numbers 0-10 (JKs) and 0-20 (SKs). They also made patterns with cube-a-links and the SKs completed a pattern work sheet. Next week we'll extend our learning with beads. We also tallied how many children have a pumpkin already and graphed all the food the children ate for Thanksgiving dinner.

Science: We finished learning about chromatography - a fancy word for our learning how black is made up of different colours and that it is a shade, not a colour. It was an easy experiment that you can repeat at home with a water-soluable black marker, coffee filter paper and a bit of water. This experiment lead to some interesting discussions! Next week we will do a science experiment with apples and vinegar, salt, air and water. We'll predict, observe, and conclude based on what happens to the apple slices. We'll also come up with the step-by-step instructions on how to make apple sauce together. Please send in an apple with your child to make the apple sauce. We'll make it on Thursday. Thank you!

On Wednesday we are going on our field trip to Andrew's Scenic Acres. Please remember to pack a litterless lunch and snacks for your child and dress them for the weather -- it's supposed to be windy and only about 8C. Thank you so much to the moms of Anilee, Casey, Reina and Shay who will be our parent volunteers for the trip. If you would like to volunteer for class events please remember that you need to have a police check completed.

That's the news for this week! I hope you have a great week.