Fire Drill Practices: We are reviewing fire drills; tornado drills; bus rules and safety in general.
Coop Students
We have three high school co-op students, Hudson, Emily and Sky.
They have their coop placements at different times, so based on the current high school model, Sky and Hudson come one week while Emily is in our room the followingl week.
They come to the room for the full day.
They work with the students and do a variety of language and math games.
Language:
We are working on:
-sounding out while reading and printing words.
-looking at each letter and making its sound and then blending them together.
-saying each sound while printing the letter.
-using sound boxes, along with play dough – to blend words.
Here is a video that explains sound boxes (you can skip to the 2 minute point).
How to Teach Sight Words
-weekly seesaw review activities to support our learning – these can be done at home if you have time.
SEESAW activities that are done incorrectly, are sent back to your child as a draft, so s/he can edit and do them properly.
-Great videos that encourage and teach reading: Reading Buddies
*Some words have letters that need to be remembered by heart since they don’t follow phonics rules. There is always a part of the word that you can listen and print the sound you hear.
-videos explaining these words & can be found on this website: Heart Words(scroll to the bottom to find videos for words like: come; said; to; do; was; his; want; some; could; should):
-September – vowels in words.
Weekly Words: in, is, it, at, an, am, at, and, up, can, not.
September 27 – jump, run, red, big, blue.
October – vowels in word practice and review consonant digraphs that make one sound: sh, wh, ph, ng, ch (church); ch (school); th (then); th (think).
Weekly word practice focus and phonics practice (please note, there are 2 lists each week):
Oct. 4 – come, find, for, funny, down
Oct. 12:
sight words: go, help, here, little, look, make
Short i practice words: in, it, is, fin, bit, lip, pig, six, hill
challenge: milk
Oct. 18 –
sight words: play, said, see, the, we, where, yellow,
short o practice words: hop, dot, top, got, rock, frog
challenge: stomp
Oct. 25 –
sight words: you, all, are, ate, be, black, brown,
short u: cup, bus, dust, dug, fun, mud
challenge: skunk
November
Weekly word practice focus:
Nov. 1-
sight words:but, came, did, do, eat, get
short e: get, bed, ten, vest, smell ;
challenge: shelf
Nov. 8-
sight words: good, have, swim, has, one,
Vowel review: bid, ramp, dent, sock, bump, spell
challenge: snowman
Nov. 15-
sight words: went, with, ball, this, they
Th words: the, then, tooth, teeth, three,
challenge: Thursday.
Nov. 22 –
sight words: feet, bike, want, was, will
Sh words: she, shut, shell, shin, shop, ship, shag
Challenge: shadow
Math:
September – learning about larger numbers.
October – numbers; sorting and patterns using a variety of characteristics
November – sorting & patterns
December – measurement
Science: nature and changing colours; investigating colours, talking about apples, pumpkins and discussing things why we are thankful.
The Pinery will visit on Nov. 4th and talk about signs of Autumn.
– We will look at “Growing Things – Bacteria” and we will be doing several experiments to show the students how germs are spread and how mold grows on food and other items. We have already talked about using the sleeve sneeze, proper hand-washing, COVID prevention, along with other safe and healthy habits.
– We will look at “Motion and Force” and do several experiments: building ramps, building bridges and boats. The goal is to help show the students how things move.
Fall Walk– Fall has arrived!
This season, you are encouraged to take a walk and discuss the seasonal changes that occur this time of year. As you make observations together, try to think of a question that your child might want to know more about as the explore the seasonal changes.
In our classroom we will look at different types of leaves, acorns, pinecones, milkweed and other natural treasures that we can explore and discuss. Then, we may use them to create craft projects. We will also put some of these items in our science centre or at our art centre, so we can paint or draw them.
Social Studies/Self Regulation – we have been focusing on a growth mindset and self regulation.
We are learning how the brain is a muscle that needs to work and practice.
We have been focusing on the “Power of Yet“.
We use Class Dojo to help us monitor some of our daily success.
Indigenous Studies and looking at some of their beliefs.
Halloween – on Friday, October 29, we will have a Halloween costume party.
-Students must arrive at school in costume or ready to quickly put it on.
-Face paint MUST be applied at home.
-NO weapons
-NO masks
-If you arrive in costume, please be sure to have clothes underneath or a spare set, so you can change out of your costume before going outside. Please also send a separate bag for your child’s costume.
Alternatively or underneath your costume you can have BLACK and ORANGE clothing.
Students will be allowed to bring in pre-packaged, nut-free snacks/treats to share with their classmates – we have 20 students in the class.
Upcoming Dates:
-Oct. 5 – Science Talk- Caring for the Environment Environmental Engineer, Taylor
-Oct. 8 – PD day – NO SCHOOL for Students
-Oct. 29 – Costume parade and/or Black and Orange Day
-November to April: we will get a Salmon tank from Bluewater Hatcheries put in our room with eggs that we will observe over the 6 month period.
-Nov. 3 – Pinery Science Presentation about Seasonal changes that happen in the Fall
-Dec. 7 – SCCA Science presentation – “Go with the Flow” students will learn about the importance of water and keeping it clean
-Monday, April 25th Pinery Presentation – Furs and Scales
-Monday, June 6th – Pinery Presentation – Animals on the Brink