Friday, October 20th

Hello Families!

Important Information:

Thursday, Nov. 2 - Class photos and Retake Day

Thursday, Nov. 9 - System Indigenous Education Professional Learning - No School

Friday, Nov. 10 - Tuesday, Nov. 14 Fall Break - No School

Wednesday - Nov. 15 Classes Resume

* We are going on a Coulee walk next Friday the 27th.  Please dress for the weather (looks like snow) and ensure your child has a pocket snack to bring with them on the walk. 

*If your child is registered for choir, please click the following link to be added to the choir Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI5MTE0OTUwNTA0?cjc=2dt3ivw

*The Growing Smiles fundraiser information form was sent home with your child yesterday

Our Learning:

We continued with our E-Motion residency this week which provides a fun and safe opportunity for children to build emotional literacy, empathy and regulation skills through dance - movement activities. Ask your child what they have learned so far. 

Literacy:

• This week we have begun our targeted literacy groups where the students are working with Ms. Tait, Mrs. Coulson, Ms. Cristea, Ms. Lloyd or Mrs. Day within a small group
• These targeted literacy groups are working on specific phonic skills (ex. letter sounds, digraphs, vowel teams, etc.)
• Ask your child what their group learned this week
• Along with those groups, we are continued working on our printing as well as read to self and work on writing stamina
• In writing, we talked about the two goals for writing (interesting and clear) 
• This week we focused on how to make our writing more interesting by adding 'triple scoop words'
• Ask your child what a 'triple scoop word' is and an example

Math:

• We are continuing to build our number sense and representing numbers in a variety of ways
• This week we used our knowledge of base ten blocks and place value to create 'place value monsters' 
• We also used manipulatives to demonstrate our understanding of place values
• We will continue we ensure our understanding of representing different numbers in the coming weeks

Inquiry:

• We introduced the Medicine Wheel and will be beginning in the East with Spirit: To Be
• As we work within our Matter unit in science, we used our five senses to describe, compare and sort objects
• Next week we are going to learn how to compare objects using length, weight and flat space

Thanks for reading!