Saturday 12 January 2019

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!
I was happy to welcome the children back to school this past week and my heart was warmed with lots of happy greetings, big smiles, hugs, and, "I missed you!!"s.
We spent some time reestablishing connections with one another and setting goals for the New Year while slowly delving back into the curriculum.




 We have begun a new math unit...likely a favourite of the year. Young children LOVE posing questions and surveying one another. We've been making vertical and horizontal bar and pictographs and will be revisiting tallies as we continue to ANALYZE our collected data.

Our WWW's for this past week, as posted on our January homework calendar that was sent home were: their, when, make,will, eat. The children spent a lot of time this week exploring these words and many were still confused with the particular word 'their'. Please ensure that you are revisiting the WWW's on a consistent basis as our Word Wall is growing, the words are becoming more and more complex and these words generally are not words that can easily be decoded by sounding out each letter. Sight words are words that are commonly found in print and to aid your child in learning to read or improve in their reading, they need to know these words at a glance.
Our WWW's for the next coming week are:
this, all, very, to, where.

Looking ahead to the next month for the old school 3R's:
Reading:

  • Blends and Digraphs (ie. ch, sh, th, wh, ph)
  • Reading Strategy: 'Chunky Monkey'...the children look for chunks and small words within words that they already know to help them decode new words.
  • Comprehension Strategies: continue with predictions, retelling, and making connections. We will begin to explore visualizing and asking questions.
  • Spending more time reading 'just right' books at our own individual reading levels.
Writing:
  • Continue to work on Super Sentences. The children should be writing 2-3 complete sentences minimally in their writing tasks by this point in the school year, using a combination of word wall words/known words and phonetic spelling of unknown words.
  • Continue with our Recount Writing & Procedural Writing.
Math:
  • Data Management-collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using concrete graphs, bar and pictographs and tally marks.
  • Number Sense and Numeration-representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to 50.
What can you do at home to help your learners?
Read with your child nightly. Read WWW's and books at their level. Discuss spacing between words and punctuation, letter sounds and hidden word chunks to help them decode tricky words and discuss what the books are about for comprehension. 
Play math games and board games such as Snakes and Ladders. Talk about the numbers and what comes before and after/bigger or smaller than; how many ten frames would you need to make that number; what are the digits in that number when it's written; how can you build that number using friendly numbers.


As always, I thank you for your support in your child's learning and I wish you a wonderful week. Stay warm!
Erin Riley






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