June 15, 2018

Dear Parents,

This will be our last Blog of the year.  Any communication after this will be by email.  We have enjoyed working with your children for the last year (or two!) and will miss them!

This week in Literacy we did a lot of writing.  First we wrote in our journals about our personal experiences.  We did a "Making Words" lesson with the following letters: c o u n t y f a i r.  The children did a super job of figuring out the mystery word.

We have been working very hard on our animal diaries.  The children are demonstrating a great sense of humour as they write a new page each day to document their animal's adventures.

We finished reading Charlotte's Web.  I think we all had a tear in our eye when we found out what happened to Charlotte in the end :-(

Our words for June 18-22 will be:

• spring
• summer
• favourite
• holiday
• yay

In Math this week, Ms. Cvach's math group has been learning how to play "21".  Trying to decide whether to stay or take another cards is pretty tricky! To modify this game, students in Ms Kenna's math group have been playing "12". This game involves the same rules as 21 by adding multiple numbers and deciding to take another card or "stay". Students enjoyed this and re-named it "Over and Out to 12" This is a great game to play at home and the total can be adjusted to any number.

We went for our final walk to the pond to look for materials for our Father's Day gift.  It was another beautiful day.  The cattails are growing again!

For Art this week we were very creative and made something special for Dad. The students used a variety of materials and mediums to create their masterpieces. We hope you enjoy them!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Cvach

Mrs. Kenna

June 8 2018

Hello everyone

The children were very excited to show off their dance moves this week in Gym. We put on a small performance in the gym on Friday and they were all looking very "cool". Thanks to Sound Kreations for giving us such an amazing experience and thank you to Parent Council for assisting with funds :)

Our new words of the week for June 11-15:

when     July     spider     loud    farm

In Literacy we continue to listen to Charlottes Web. Wilbur is now at the Fair and is worried that he will not win any prizes when compared to the big pig next door. We only have 4 more chapters left! The story is getting a little bit suspenseful and the children are enjoying it.

Also in Literacy this week, we have been reading some Diary books. Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider have been the highlights. The student have started writing their own diaries from a bug or animal of their choice. In order to write the diary entries, students are encouraged to look up facts about the animal of their choice to help with the writing process. Ask your child to share what animal or bug they have chosen to write about.

Here are some journal entries from this week:

We practiced our Word Wall words by finding them in a word search.  The children teamed up to share their ideas.  Some of the words were diagonal and some of those were even backwards!  They did a good job of finding them all.

In Math, we have been learning about skip counting and how that leads to multiple adding (multiplication). Students are excited to skip count and show patterns in the numbers.  Some of them are even representing multiplication equations.  Wow!

The children have been participating in group lessons about "expected behaviour" at school.  This week, they were asked to do some goal setting.  They came up with some pretty good goals for themselves.

Here are a few more pictures of our week:

We can't believe there are only two and a half weeks to go.  Where has the time gone?  Have a super weekend everyone :-)

Ms. Cvach

Mrs. Kenna

June 1, 2018

Dear Parents,

It's hard to believe that it is already June!  Time flies quickly.  Soon it will be time for the lazy days of summer.

In Literacy this week we continued our writing about Charlotte's Web.  The children are getting very good at retelling a story they have heard.

We worked on the "dr" blend and learned words such as drip, drop, dry, and dragonfly.  We did a guided drawing of a dragonfly using art hub, and did a little bit of dragonfly research.  Ask your child what he/she learned about dragonflies.  

Our new words for next week June 4-8 will be:

• people
• there
• rain
• what
• night

In Math this week both Ms. Cvach and Mrs. Kenna's math groups worked on solving multi-step word problems.  Mrs. Kenna's group taught Ms. Cvach's group how to play a card game where the objective was to make a ten using number pairs, in order to get rid of all the cards to win the game.

We hope the sun comes out and that you all have a lovely weekend!

Ms. Cvach and Mrs. Kenna

May 25, 2018

Dear Parents,

In Literacy this week, we have continued our novel study of Charlotte's Web.  For Making Words this week, we used the following letters: z u c k e r m a n s f a r m to make various other words.

We practiced our words of the week by writing sentences to go with each word.  There was a big focus on using capital letters at the beginning and end punctuation.

  

Words of the week May 28 - June1

dry           want         house          black     our

In Math this week, Ms. Cvach's group has been looking for patterns in the hundreds chart.  It's interesting how many different patterns we were able to find!

We also played Salute in groups of 3 or 4 students.  It's a tricky game but it feels great when you figure out which card you are holding on your forehead!

In Math with Mrs. Kenna's group we have been practicing our skills to improve subtraction. Here is a list of the strategies we have been practicing:

"Neighbour numbers"  13-12 where the answer is always 1

"Take away 1 is the number before"  18-1 = 17

"Teen numbers like to count up" 19-13; for these types of equations we start at 13 and count up to the bigger number. (6)

"Count back in your head" 21-3; hold up 3 fingers and count back on the number line in your head

Subtraction can be tricky! Students are not used to counting backwards or the abstract concept of counting things that have left or are no longer there. You can help at home by asking about the above strategies and giving your child practice equations to do. 

We also are working on problem solving. Here are two ways students can show what they know. 

Have a wonderful weekend in the sun!

Ms. Cvach and Mrs. Kenna