Oct 14

1) Pumpkins:
We are still looking for families willing to donate a medium-large sized pumpkin to our classroom for the week of October 24th-28th. Students will be using these pumpkins for various learning experiences at school in both numeracy and literacy. If you're able to donate a pumpkin to the classroom please e-mail Ms. MacDonald here Pumpkins can be dropped off at the classroom beginning on Friday, October 21st.

Literacy Groups Update

1) Ms. Plaxin's literacy group: This week in Ms. Plaxin’s literacy class we started with the review of  alphabet sounds and names.  We introduced the  "at" and “an” words and practiced writing them.  Everyone is working at their own level and progressing forward when ready.  We are working on starting letters and sounds of words.   Ask me about which letter and sound begins the words in your everyday life!  

2) Ms. MacDonald's and Percival's literacy group:This week in Ms. MacDonald's and Ms Percival's literacy group we had a special delivery! Stretchy the Snake arrived and we learned how he helps us read new words. Ask me about what Stretchy helps me to do? We reviewed our reading strategy Eagle Eye along with long and short vowel sounds. Please help me work on the letter and word list that was sent home. I need to learn the names and sounds of each letters and how to write and read my words.

                             

3) Ms. Daniel's Literacy Group: In Mrs. Daniels’ literacy group, we have been focusing on the word families “at”, “an”, “ap” & “ad”. Please practice these word families at home with your child. For example “What rhymes with cat?” ….rat, hat etc.  In our reading groups, we have been practicing pointing to the words and tracking as we read as well as looking to the pictures to give us clues to an unknown word and making sure the beginning letter matches the sound. 

These are some common sight words that are frequent in the books we are reading right now:

Me 

I

Can

To

My

We

In

Like

It 

Up

Mom

The

And

He 

Look

Is

See

Come

Get

At

Practice these words at home so that students recognize them from memory to increase their reading fluency. 

4) Ms. Barley's literacy Group: In Ms. Barley's Literacy Group students have been working on using Reading Strategies such as Eagle Eye (looking at the picture for clues), Stretchy Snake (Stretching out each letter sound) and we have introduced Chunky Monkey (chunking sounds together such as 'ch' and 'th'). We spent the week looking at double vowel sounds and talked about the rule: "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Ask your child if they can go on a Word Hunt and find any words with this double vowel rule!

In our Literacy Centres this week we:

1. Built our own Silly Sentences using magnet words

2. Made new words out of the letters found in "Halloween"

3. Went on a word hunt looking for sight words such as: the, and, it, in and kept tally marks of how many times we found the words

4. Listened to Stories 

5. Read with the Teacher