Weekly Photos Here!!!
Houses, houses, and more houses!!! This week the students built, created, and collaborated with their table groups and came up with some beautiful examples of an adobe, log cabin, Rondavel, and stilt house. Please look at the pictures of the students working hard on their homes. Some groups built tables, chairs, beds, and even food with the supplies our families and teachers brought. It is always hard work to collaborate with others, but I believe the students did a great job.
In English students were introduced to verbs. A verb is a word that demonstrates action. A verb is what the noun is doing. The verb can be represented in the past, present or future. There are two types of verbs; regular and irregular. Students continue to work on their language review every morning. They look at how to fix sentences, spot the correctly spelled word, find words with a specific sound, group rhyming words, and whatever the daily task might bring them. In spelling this week, there was a focus on silent e words. Parents please remind your child that when there is a silent e in a word that means the vowel makes the long sound. The long vowel sound is literally the name of the letter.
In math students focused on odd and even numbers. Odd numbers end with 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. Even numbers end with 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8. An even number can be split in half and an odd number cannot. We reviewed number bonds again, as it seems to confuse the students when they are questioned about the concept. If they are reminded they remember, but it is important that they know their number bonds one through twenty.
Next week we will wrap up the Unit of Inquiry, Where We are in Place and Time. Students will reflect on their homes they built. They will be asked how people met their needs in the biome the home is established in. So with the students’ homes they are focusing on the temperate forest, desert, grasslands, and rainforest biomes. What materials was their home built from? What was the process they went through to build their home? What do they believe they did a good job on? What could they have improved? What would they do differently? If you discuss these questions with your child you are preparing them for next week’s reflection.
In English next week we will be looking at recount writing. Students will become familiar with the process of writing a recount. They will use the words first, next, then, and finally. We will continue our daily language and spelling activities to support their continuous English language development. I will also be focusing on our phonics development. We will dive deeper into the world of vowel teams.
I am disappointed to announce that many students are not turning in their Weekly Reading Journals. I cannot say enough how important it is that our young readers read twenty minutes in English each night. This will make their learning journey so much easier and that is what we all want for the students. Please return the Weekly Reading Journal on Thursdays. If they happen to forget I will accept it on Sunday and return it the same day. Every week the students go home with two library books, two classroom books, and they have access to Reading Raz-Kids. They have the resources, please support them in using these resources.
IMPORTANT EVENTS!!!!
Sports Day = Tuesday, Dec 16th GR2-GR6
Semester Break = Dec 19th – Jan 10th