A post for two days in one!
Our sound of the week this week is/g/.
Yesterday we read Goodnight Goon
It is a great parody on the classic "Goodnight Moon"
What would you say goodnight to?
"Goodnight tiger."
Today we read "Little Goblins Ten"
It is another fun parody on the song "Over in the Meadow"
So many fun /g/ activities!
Unfortunately, we did not get to the library today as it was closed. The school needed the space for other purposes. I will hold the books here and have them ready for next week.
As we are getting closer to winter weather (although it doesn't feel like it today!) I am asking families to start to work on winter dressing independence. Just imagine for one second trying to get 29 beautiful children ready for winter recess... We could really use your help!
Could you start practicing getting ready at home? This graphic is the sequence we will be teaching.
I totally understand that zippers are tough - but if you could practice the other parts of the dressing process at home we would really appreciate it!
More learning about /k/
Continuing with our learning about what "home" means, we read Welcome Home Bear.
Bear looks in many places for a new home but there is always something not quite right.
Continuing our /k/ learning
K is for kite
Our math focus for the next little while is data management. Here we are sorting and graphing buttons.
Happy Monday!
A few parents have asked about our library day. We go to the library on day four. At school we have a five day cycle system. This system does not match up with the Monday to Friday week (well only on occasion). Last week day four was on Tuesday, but because of the PA day - the cycle has shifted, so day four is on Wednesday this week and will be until there is another PA day or holiday. I hope this makes sense - if not please feel free to reach out and ask.
Please remember - tomorrow is picture day!
Our sound of the week this week is /k/
We read the story "Home"
Animals have many different types of homes- depending on what they need.
In our morning message shared reading, we are not only looking for our sound of the week but we are also starting to introduce sight words. Sight words are words very commonly used in writing that we can recognize instantly without decoding or sounding out.
Lots of fun painting this week!
Fun Friday!
To wrap up /t/ week we played a turkey tail game.
Once we have covered them all we get to call out
"turkey tail!"
(We are leading into 'bingo' style games)
Fun Friday means Elephant and Piggy!
A big guy took Piggy's ball! What does Gerald do to help?
Wonder Wednesday - outdoor learning! We are still working on getting used to our norms and routines for learning outside. We went for a nice walk in the sunshine.
We collected different colours of leaves.
We sorted the leaves by colour and then guessed which one we had more of and which we had less of.
The wind made it too hard to check our guess - we did that inside.
We found out we had more red leaves than any other colour.
We had less green leaves than any other colour.
Tricky moment! It looks like we have less yellow leaves than purple - but when we counted we discovered they are actually the same number. We learned the word equal.
After some discussion we realized that the yellow leaves are smaller and that is why it looks like less.
I forgot! Yesterday we read "Home is Where the Birds Sing."
We talked about how home is beautiful and different for everyone.
Thankful Thursday!
Today we started our Gratitude Journals. This will be a weekly gratitude practice for our class through out the year. Many parents love to see the progression over the year come June.
First we brainstormed some ideas.
"I am thankful for my family."
We also read "Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch"
So many /p/ words!
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