Happy April everyone! Thank you to those of you who attended the Sharing Assembly on Monday, and congratulations to the children who received awards for "Honesty."
April will be a busy month as we celebrate the arrival of Spring, Easter and Earth Week. I have prepared a number of literacy- and numeracy-based activities related to these themes.
This week we worked on improving letter and number formation by tracing and by writing letters and numbers on their own. I have seen a real improvement over the year! Well done!
This week's "refridgerator words" are "on" and "and."
Thank to to our Parent Volunteers this week: Tatum's mom and Tate's mom did Reading Club, the Mystery Readers were Siri's mom and Griffin's mom, and TDSB bags and snuggle books were done by Koby's mom and Charlie's mom.
The afternoon class started making Earth Day memory cards with their Reading Buddies and will finish and play with them next week.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Friday, March 25
This week in Room 166 the children worked on their numeracy skills by playing a dice game and by learning to identify numbers of dots in different formats i.e. 6 dots in a row is the same as 2 dots plus 2 dots plus 2 dots, 5 dots plus one dot, 4 dots plus 2 dots, and 3 dots plus 3 dots. They then completed worksheets to reinforce this concept. We also practiced our "popcorn words" and wrote them out on our "popcorn bag", remembering to use finger spaces between the words. We are also learning Spring Vocabulary and the compound words with "rain."
We are now on Set Three of Jolly Phonics and Set Two has been sent home. Great work!
Our Sharing Assembly will be on Monday and we will be performing a very short skit about St. Patrick's Day and singing a song about the rain. All are invited to attend.
Please remember that Scholastic Orders are due April 1st. Thank you.
The children met with their Reading Buddies and completed Easter colouring pages together after reading books together.
Today was a very special day for the kids thanks to our visit from Firefighter Captain Ron Jones. Ron taught the children about safety in and outside the home and the children listened attentively to his lessons. Great job, and thank you Firefighter Ron!
This week's "refridgerator door words" (on the red strip of paper) are "come, look, here". Please practice these words at home.
Finally, thank you to our Parent Volunteers this week: Reading Club was done by David's mom and Hana's mom, our Mystery Reader was Alexandra's mom, and the morning class white bags and snuggle books were prepared by Jamie's mom. Your help is always appreciated.
Have a nice weekend,
Mrs. Tyndall
We are now on Set Three of Jolly Phonics and Set Two has been sent home. Great work!
Our Sharing Assembly will be on Monday and we will be performing a very short skit about St. Patrick's Day and singing a song about the rain. All are invited to attend.
Please remember that Scholastic Orders are due April 1st. Thank you.
The children met with their Reading Buddies and completed Easter colouring pages together after reading books together.
Today was a very special day for the kids thanks to our visit from Firefighter Captain Ron Jones. Ron taught the children about safety in and outside the home and the children listened attentively to his lessons. Great job, and thank you Firefighter Ron!
This week's "refridgerator door words" (on the red strip of paper) are "come, look, here". Please practice these words at home.
Finally, thank you to our Parent Volunteers this week: Reading Club was done by David's mom and Hana's mom, our Mystery Reader was Alexandra's mom, and the morning class white bags and snuggle books were prepared by Jamie's mom. Your help is always appreciated.
Have a nice weekend,
Mrs. Tyndall
Sunday, March 13, 2011
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
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
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday, March 6
Dear families,
This week we started practicing our "popcorn words" which are words that pop up frequently (high frequency words) and that are important to recognize. We are learning to identify, read, and sing them to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb":
like in to no am a that
can me yes
I of the
said we he is was go see and
it big my-y went
I will send home a copy of this "popcorn song" for the children to practice at home! We will be doing a lot more activities with these important words.
This week we completed a fun "scratch art" activity, in which the children coloured both sides of a piece of card stock completely with various crayon colours, then painted a layer of black paint on top. The next day, they scratched words and designs into the surface, "magically" revealing the colours underneath!
We also completed "counting snowballs" number-writing activities, in which the children practiced writing their numbers 1-20. Some JKs are still reversing some of their numbers (2,3,7 and 6 are common) but they are improving which is terrific!
A scholastic order went home this Friday and one more set of order forms will go home Friday, March 11. Please return your orders by April 1st. With the bonus coupons I received from Scholastic I was able to purchase a very nice cash register through the Teacher's Rewards Catalogue. The cash register will go in the Home Centre in the Spring when we start our unit on Money! I also purchased some good quality Canadian play money. Thank you very much for your orders!
This week the JKs also did pattern matching work and sequencing work (a melting snowman), and the SKs continued working on their Phonics duotangs. I sent them home this weekend -- please ask your child to complete their few remaining pages so that we can have them all complete by the end of the week and can start our new series of sounds.
Thank you very much to our Parent Volunteers of this week: Tate's mom was a Mystery Reader, and Siri's mom and Charlie's mom did our white TDSB bags and snuggle books. Thank you!
As you know, there were three cases of head lice in the class last week, as well as in some other classrooms. The children have since returned to school with no further concerns. However, please be sure to check your children for the next week or two and to not share hats. Thank you.
That's our news for now. This week we will be doing some fun numeracy- and literacy-based St. Patrick's Day activities as well as learning the popcorn words.
If you are planning to be absent from school before or after the March Break please be sure to let the office know. Many families plan to take an early or late March Break and it helps Mrs. Sheppard in the office if she knows the reason for a child's absence.
Thank you!
Mrs. Tyndall
This week we started practicing our "popcorn words" which are words that pop up frequently (high frequency words) and that are important to recognize. We are learning to identify, read, and sing them to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb":
like in to no am a that
can me yes
I of the
said we he is was go see and
it big my-y went
I will send home a copy of this "popcorn song" for the children to practice at home! We will be doing a lot more activities with these important words.
This week we completed a fun "scratch art" activity, in which the children coloured both sides of a piece of card stock completely with various crayon colours, then painted a layer of black paint on top. The next day, they scratched words and designs into the surface, "magically" revealing the colours underneath!
We also completed "counting snowballs" number-writing activities, in which the children practiced writing their numbers 1-20. Some JKs are still reversing some of their numbers (2,3,7 and 6 are common) but they are improving which is terrific!
A scholastic order went home this Friday and one more set of order forms will go home Friday, March 11. Please return your orders by April 1st. With the bonus coupons I received from Scholastic I was able to purchase a very nice cash register through the Teacher's Rewards Catalogue. The cash register will go in the Home Centre in the Spring when we start our unit on Money! I also purchased some good quality Canadian play money. Thank you very much for your orders!
This week the JKs also did pattern matching work and sequencing work (a melting snowman), and the SKs continued working on their Phonics duotangs. I sent them home this weekend -- please ask your child to complete their few remaining pages so that we can have them all complete by the end of the week and can start our new series of sounds.
Thank you very much to our Parent Volunteers of this week: Tate's mom was a Mystery Reader, and Siri's mom and Charlie's mom did our white TDSB bags and snuggle books. Thank you!
As you know, there were three cases of head lice in the class last week, as well as in some other classrooms. The children have since returned to school with no further concerns. However, please be sure to check your children for the next week or two and to not share hats. Thank you.
That's our news for now. This week we will be doing some fun numeracy- and literacy-based St. Patrick's Day activities as well as learning the popcorn words.
If you are planning to be absent from school before or after the March Break please be sure to let the office know. Many families plan to take an early or late March Break and it helps Mrs. Sheppard in the office if she knows the reason for a child's absence.
Thank you!
Mrs. Tyndall
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 25
Hello families
This week the children completed winter-themed activity sheets and prepared for our Sharing Assembly by practising the poem "Five Little Snowmen". They did an excellent job at the assembly! We are also working on the letter sound "O" and on correctly writing our numbers 1-20.
Thank you very much to the parent volunteers who helped us this week: Cole's mom and David's mom helped with Reading Club, our Mystery Readers were Sarah's grandmother and Daniel's dad, and bag help and snuggle books were done by Alexandra's mom and Griffin's mom. Thank you so much.
The afternoon class had a wonderful time skating on Thursday! Thank you to all my parents who helped with laces. The kids had a great time!
I am sending the SK phonics books home this weekend so that the children can complete some pages at home.
Please let the office know if your child will be missing school for any length of time (i.e. extended March Break). I can send your child home with his/her daily journal to write in during their holiday which they can share with the class when they return!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Tyndall
This week the children completed winter-themed activity sheets and prepared for our Sharing Assembly by practising the poem "Five Little Snowmen". They did an excellent job at the assembly! We are also working on the letter sound "O" and on correctly writing our numbers 1-20.
Thank you very much to the parent volunteers who helped us this week: Cole's mom and David's mom helped with Reading Club, our Mystery Readers were Sarah's grandmother and Daniel's dad, and bag help and snuggle books were done by Alexandra's mom and Griffin's mom. Thank you so much.
The afternoon class had a wonderful time skating on Thursday! Thank you to all my parents who helped with laces. The kids had a great time!
I am sending the SK phonics books home this weekend so that the children can complete some pages at home.
Please let the office know if your child will be missing school for any length of time (i.e. extended March Break). I can send your child home with his/her daily journal to write in during their holiday which they can share with the class when they return!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Tyndall
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