Hello everyone!
We started our day by practicing tracking the words to our 5 Little Pumpkins poem. Tracking means pointing to the words with our finger as we are reading them. Tracking is a helpful strategy when we are first learning to read because it helps us start to distinguish where words begin and end! It can be tricky when the words have more than 1 syllable, so we can practice at home when we read books together too!
Next, we talked about visualization again. We discussed how visualization is a tool that helps us understand a story that we have heard or that we are reading. When we create a picture in our brains as we are reading it can help us make connections and understand details. We use picture words from a story or poem to help us. For example, in our 5 Little Pumpkins poem, we used the words one, pumpkin, and smiling to know how to draw the matching picture. Today, we each got a small postcard sized paper. Ms. Byrne read us a few descriptive sentences while we closed our eyes and tried to draw the picture in our brains. Then, she read us the passage again and we started to draw the picture on our paper. She read it to us again while we were drawing, and 1 last time at the end for us to make sure our picture included every detail that we heard. Take a look at the description, and then some of our pictures below:
Don't we have great artists in our class? We were able to find lots of the picture words in that passage to add to our drawings. We are going to continue practicing this strategy with poems and stories that we read. We can try drawing a picture at home to match a favourite story as well!
We completed another star student for our class book today. We practiced writing our sentences on the line, with spaces between the words. We each got a popsicle stick with our names on it to use to create spaces between our words. We enjoyed using them to improve our writing!
In math, we have started talking about 2D shapes. We have been practicing naming different 2D shapes and talking about the similarities and differences between them. We went on a scavenger hunt around our classroom to search for circles in real life. We were able to find so many! We will continue our scavenger hunt with different shapes throughout this week. We also had the iPads booked to try out Mathletics today, but the iPads were being grumpy and most of them wouldn't let us use the app! We took our passwords home to try it out instead, and we used the iPads to read more books on Raz-Kids, or test out our letter recognition playing Letter School. Sometimes technology just does not cooperate! Hopefully, the iPads will be fixed for our next turn.
We have been doing double-duty in Science! We have been practicing drawing Fall trees with lots of branches to create a final Fall art project. We have also been talking about our 5 senses and reviewing everything we have learn about our sense of sight. We started a 5 senses book where we looked at a picture of an eye and talked about the parts: pupil, iris, tear duct, eyelid, and eyelashes. We discussed why each part is important and what they do. On Friday, we will be working on a project to make our names in Braille - a type of writing that people who are blind use to read!
Reminders:
Scholastic Book Orders - A second Scholastic book order flyer was sent home this week. There is no pressure at all to order, but if you choose to order any books or materials from Scholastic you can use our class code: RC174728. Using this code gives our class money to buy new books for our classroom! Thank you to everyone who ordered books in September! Our class received $32 and we were able to purchase 6 new books for our classroom! This month, Ms. Byrne chose to select books by Indigenous authors such as: The Water Walker, This is How I Know, and Awasis and the World Famous Bannock. Once these books are delivered to us, we will read them together to explore some of our current topics through an Indigenous perspective. Again, thank you for helping us build our classroom library!
Picture Day - Our pictures were taken on Tuesday. As soon as the samples arrive at the school, we will be bringing them home for you to see. This usually takes at least a couple of weeks. If you are not happy with this first picture, we will have an opportunity for re-takes later in the year.
Walking For Wenjack - This week is Secret Path Week. During this week we participate in a Walk For Wenjack. Chanie Wenjack was a young boy who attended residential school. He missed his family so much that he decided to leave his school and try to walk home to be with them. His house was very far away, and it was very cold. Unfortunately, Chanie did not make it. Each year, we walk together as a class to remember Chanie Wenjack and help him finish his long walk. On Friday, we will be walking on the path between our field and St. Bede's School, on the sidewalk that runs along our soccer field, then back down towards the school. This walk is covered in our "Walking Field Trip" letter that was sent home at the beginning of the year.
Have a great day!
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