Oct. 27

 Hello everyone,

We have been practicing using onset and rime to break words into chunks. We have practiced with some of our classmates names (ex: M-icah) and played a game where we take away the onset of someone's name and replace it with a new letter to see what their "new name" is (ex: T-icah, or V-icah). We take turns trying to read the new names. It is so cool to see how much our reading has grown already!

Today we also focused on the -at word family. Words in that family all have -at as their rime. We read through our -at family poem together and then we each got a highlighter to see if we could find all of the   -at family words in the poem and highlight them. We made a house poster on our SmartBoard and added all of the -at family words we could think of to the house. We split them into their onset and rime and practiced reading them. 

Later in the day we introduced a new family -og. We read an -og family poem and practiced splitting the -og words into their onset and rime.

We learned about 3 types of writing today. When we are first writing we start at level 1 - scribble writing. That's where we use scribbles, random letters, or pictures to help share our ideas and stories. When we scribble write it usually means only the person who wrote the idea can read it. Once we start learning letter sounds like we are, we can begin to move onto level 2, bubblegum writing. This is where we stretch out a word to help us write all of the sounds that we hear (ex: today we chose the word "airplane" to stretch out. When we stretched it long we were able to hear the sounds "arplan"). Using bubblegum writing, we can write some  or most of the letters in the word. We can also use any sight words that we know to help write a sentence (ex: "I see an arplan."). This means that now I can read my story, my teacher can probably read my story, moms and dads could read my story, and maybe some other people. When we know all the letter sounds, sight words, vowel rules, etc. then we can write using the final level - book writing. Lots of times we might mix book writing and bubblegum writing (ex: using sight words and bubblegum writing to make a sentence). Bubblegum writing is about using the sounds that we know to help us share our ideas and get used to writing. It can be hard not to feel stuck because we want to spell things perfectly, but taking risks is an important part of learning! We practiced bubblegum writing by writing 1 sentence on our whiteboards with a bubblegum word. 

In math, we practiced using the words sides and vertices to describe shapes. We counted the sides and vertices of lots of different shapes and filled in a chart to show how many sides and vertices each shape had. We are going to continue practicing with these words tomorrow!

We reviewed everything we have learned about our sense of smell so far. We watched a quick video that showed a diagram of our nose. We followed air as it went through the nostrils, to special receptors that help us to smell things. Those receptors send messages to our brain, and then our brain works to figure out what the smell is, if it is safe, etc. Today we talked about how to keep our nose safe (don't put anything inside it!). We also talked about a second important job that our nose does - helping our sense of taste! We learned that our senses of smell and taste work together to help us taste our favourite foods. That's why foods taste differently when we have a stuffy nose. 

Reminders:

Costume Day Friday

·       Students are permitted to wear their costume

·       All costume props must be left AT HOME including masks, wands, swords etc.  All students will still be required to wear their Covid-19 mask.

·       The school is closed on the weekend so if any costume items are forgotten at school they will not be accessible until Halloween is over.

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne