Hi everyone! Thanks for checking in. I just want to let you know about a few things coming up for the next week.
We’ve been moving forward with our Daily 5 Language Arts program and this week students got to ‘shop’ for a Good Fit Book. What that means is, each student had to find books that they picked which are at their interest level, and books that they could understand the words/ read. We keep these books in our book boxes at school, and we will be using them for Daily 5. We’ll go shopping for different books next week, to keep it interesting.
I kid you not, this is what one student said to me today: “Miss Tsentouros, can we PLEASE build some stamina today??” My heart melted! It’s so wonderful to see them excited about reading and we celebrate every time we build ‘stamina’.
Here's some snapshots of our class 'Shopping' for Good-Fit books!
Thank you for putting in the time to practice reading the Sight Words from the Agenda! We will be assessing the students on their sight words this week as well. In class we learned a game called BANG! Ask your student to see if they can explain it to you, and try playing it at home!
In Math, we’re deep in our Patterning unit, and we take little brain breaks by playing games. I ask certain students to stand in front of the class, and others try and guess the pattern- for instance (Tshirt, Sweater, Tshirt, Sweater). We’ve been talking about the difference between an AB and an ABC pattern. Try playing the game at home! Or see if your student can make patterns out of random things around the house.
For Science, we are getting close to wrapping up our unit in Colours. Students brought home their ‘Squish’ art project, which was done with Corn Syrup and food colouring. Unfortunately, some of the papers stuck to others when they weren’t completely dried, so a few got ripped and torn. I explained to the students that I still thought they should take them home, as despite the rips and tears, they could still see where the primary colours squished together to make secondary colours. Your student will be bringing home their Colours unit soon, which includes all of the activities we’ve done so far, and will show you what they need to know! Later on, we’ll be having a Colours Unit test. Not to worry- this is done in an informal way where we read out questions, and give students the opportunity to really show what they know.
Once again it seems the weather is flip flopping from cold to warm, and this week was a good week to start being diligent about indoor and outdoor shoes. We are keeping our indoor shoes in our classroom, underneath our desks. Students are expected to keep this pair at school, and travel to and from school in their outdoor shoes, which we keep on the Grade 1A boot rack. Please make sure your child has the proper footwear, as we prepare for the cold weather. It’s helpful if their indoor shoes are gym appropriate (i.e. not sandals or boots). Also, making sure that your student has a proper outdoor jacket, as many students were cold this past week as they only had a sweater. Labelling all of your child’s clothing will help tremendously as we start to find mittens, toques and scarves hanging around! Thank you for your help with this!
Your student will be bringing a Hot Lunch form home on Monday! These are on bright pink paper, and if you have older children at MMH you’ll notice that this year’s hot lunch is done a bit differently. Rather than ordering an entire lunch (meal, drink, snacks, etc), this year Parent Council is only organizing the hot lunch portion- not the extras. This month’s Hot lunch date is on Wednesday October 24th, but order forms are due back by October 16th! Usually the forms come out a bit sooner, but if you could please send your order form and money right back to school on Tuesday that would be very helpful.
Last but not least- please don’t forget to help your student with their Fire Escape plan! We’d like students to be presenting these to their classmates this week. If you’ve lost the handout (hey, it happens!) you can just make one on a blank piece of paper. Remember the theme for this year is “Have two ways out!”
Don’t forget that on Thursday October 18th, it is “Dress like your Favourite Book Character day, and that students are dismissed at 11:45. Also there is no school on Friday October 19th.
Thanks and have a wonderful weekend!
Anna Tsentouros
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