Saturday 15 December 2018

December's in full swing!


My apologies for the delay in posting. With an early start to winter my own children have succumbed to a variety of germs and my usual time spent updating the website has been spent in doctors offices and playing nursemaid. Poor little monkeys. 'Our' shared children, too, seem to have fallen to germ season, as we've been missing a few children each day due to illness. We always take the time to 'Wish Them Well'. Ask your son or daughter what we do to build support, community, and compassion in this way.




It truly is the busiest time of year, and the grade one children have been immersing themselves in learning in all areas of the curriculum.


Struggles with tape.😆

Our math and science units are merging together as we learn more about 2D and 3D shapes and solids, various object and materials and their attributes as well as structures-not only as supporting frameworks, but also as man-made or found in nature. The children have been working on building for a variety of purposes and looking for shapes within their 3D structures.

We're also working on keeping up our numeracy skills while we are immersed in a different strand of mathematics. 


In language, we've been exploring word families, writing letters, using our word wall words (and the word wall), stretching out letter sounds, and we've just begun procedural writing using key terms, first, then, next, and last. Please ensure that you are reviewing the word wall words nightly with your child as these are words that do not follow particular phonemic patterns and often cannot be decoded using traditional strategies.
Believe it or not, but these two are not the only birthday twins in our class.

The children enjoyed reading to and with their stuffies. Thanks for sending them in.

Looking ahead to next week:
  • As we've been readying our hearts during this season of Advent, the children have been tasked with completing varying acts of kindness. Please keep the kindness angels coming. The boys and girls enjoy sharing their good deeds.
  • The kids are welcome to wear their Santa hats and/or reindeer antlers this coming week.
  • As we have our school Christmas concert this Friday, the children are invited to wear their Christmas (or otherwise) pajamas on Thursday December 20th.
  • We'd love it if the children could wear red & white on Friday AND a traditional tuque and scarf for their performance.



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