Happy Halloween

It is hard to believe that we have been in school now for two months! Where has the time gone?  We have been up to quite alot in the past few weeks.  Here is a snap shot of what we have been doing...

Language:

• We are working on writing simple sentences.  Students are being encouraged to sound out unknown words, look around the room as well as use our posted word wall.  Students should be writing our weekly word wall words accurately in their writing.  We have also been discussing how sentences begin with a capital and end with either a '.!?'  
• In reading, we have been discussing what strategies we can use when we encounter a word we do not know.  Each of these strategies is associated with an animal.  In the weeks to come ask your child about them!

Math:

• Students have been learning all about ways to represent numbers.  We have been learning how to use ten frames, tally marks and picture representations to show a number.  Students have also been learning about how to write the numbers 1-10 using words.
• We continue to work on how to talk about our math think using weekly number talks.  Ask your child about our number talks and what happens when we talk about number

Science:

• We continue to explore seasons and changes in the weather and how we adapt to these changes.

Happy Thanksgiving

First off, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope everyone is enjoying quality time with their loved ones.  I look forward to hearing from everyone on Tuesday all about their time away from school.

In math, we wrapped up our exploration of sorting and patterning.  This coming week, we will begin our new unit on number sense and learning all the ways to show numbers.  If you do not already do so, follow our twitter feed to see how we learn to represent numbers to 20.

In language, we continue to add words to our word wall.  Through cheering and incorporating them into our writing, our goal is to make these words familiar to students.  Please continue to practice the words written in their agendas as often as possible. 

This week we also began our participation in the Global Read Aloud project.  The author of focus this year is Mem Fox.  We are very excited to partner up with Miss Kumar's Grade 1 class in Singapore.  This week we will be using their class blog to share our responses to the book Possum Magic.  Once we have begun successfully sharing our ideas, I will post the link to their blog.