Nov. 29

 Hello everyone,

We started our Monday with some quiet reading time and switching our book box books. We had a morning meeting to share about our weekend and practice some more questioning. We watched a short video without words and then asked some questions about what was happening. 

Our start student today was Jayla! We asked her lots of questions, wrote sentences about her, and then filled in a star student page all about her for our class book. 

After our first recess, we gave Literacy Centres a try. During literacy centres, we each have a job to do that practices the letters and sounds that we have been working on. While we are working on our jobs, Ms. Byrne sits with a small group to teach us new reading skills and practice reading books together. Ms. Byrne got to meet with 2 reading groups today! Next week, we will also be starting our sight word program where we will be practicing 5 sight words a week during our centres. Ms. Byrne will post the 5 words here on the blog so that you can practice at home as well!

After lunch, we practiced our letter sound set and completed another word ladder. We're getting really quick at figuring out the next word in the ladder! We've all started to spell the words on our own. 

We read about the importance of family connections in Indigenous communities. We learned that a common belief in many Indigenous groups is that family connections are very important to a positive community. Everybody in a family and community have important roles and responsibilities. We sat with a partner to talk about some of our own responsibilities in our family. We shared with the class some of the jobs that we do within our family: chores, helping with cooking, helping with a younger sibling, taking care of a pet, etc. 

At the end of the day we had the iPads booked to do a job on Mathletics. We learned a new way to sign in and then Ms. Byrne was showing us how to earn the most points to help us access the secret world. The new way to sign in is much easier for us! We got to use a QR code to do it. We practiced some addition using a number line on Mathletics. 

Reminders: 

Tomorrow - Tuesday, Nov. 30 is Crazy Hair Day!

Have a great day!

- Ms. Byrne