Feb. 1

 Hello everyone,

We have made it to February! 

We started our morning by switching our Home Reading books. We took some time to review and practice our Wow Words on our whiteboards before we completed our word review. We think we will practice the "-ay" sound a little more because it was tricky for us to remember to use it in our bonus words. We got our new Wow Words and added them to our word rings. They are:

1. am

2. me

3. he

4. with

5. going

We talked about how we can find the word "go" in word number 5. Then, we discussed the -ing ending and when we might use it. We learned that we use that word ending when we're doing something, an action. For example: walking, dancing, sitting, playing. It can also be a word family. We decided to use     -ing for our bonus words as well to practice spelling that word part. Our bonus words are:

1. sing

2. king

3. ring

4. sting

5. thing

Next, we had a morning meeting and had our very first Sharing Circle. We learned the rules of a sharing circle and today we each got to share something that makes us happy at school, and something that makes us upset or frustrated. We wrote down any ideas that were shared, so that we can talk about them throughout the week and hopefully solve some of the problems that were making people feel frustrated. 

We started our calendar and were excited to see a brand new calendar for February! We talked about some important days in February: today being Lunar New Year, which some of our friends are celebrating with their families (we read a book about Lunar New Year during our snack as well!), Valentine's Day, Family Day, and our 100th Day of School! February is also Black History Month, so we will be talking about this throughout the month as well. We filled in our calendar and did some counting practice before we had our snack and indoor recess time. 

We completed 2 rounds of centres and used our Wikki Stix and letter tiles to practice spelling our new Wow Words. 

After lunch, we did some letter sound practice and then did some "word part" practice, where we practiced recognizing different word endings and word parts (ex: -ing, -ay, -ack, -ick). 

During math, we practiced some strategies for checking our work, finding mistakes, and fixing them. We looked at some examples Ms. Byrne created of addition questions. We had to find the ones that had incorrect answers and fix them! We worked with a partner to help us find all the mistakes. 

After our second recess, we had a quick lesson about the Lunar New Year and some of our friends shared what they do to celebrate this special day with their families. Then, we got back to work on our Winter pictures and filled in the 'Plants in Winter' part of our checklist. 

In P.E. this week we are learning about Curling! We've never gotten to play this sport in the gym before, but we have special equipment now to practice. Today, we learned about some of the rules of this sport and we got to try out "throwing" the rocks to get a feel for how to throw them properly:

Student Shoutouts:

Jayla, Kayla, and Kali - for helping friends with their science posters when they finished their work

Izzy shared a shoutout for lots of people in our class for remembering to raise a quiet hand instead of leaving their desk when they had an idea to share, or a question for Ms. Byrne

Reminders:

- Your child's report card is now available to view through your MyCBE account! 

- Some of you have been asking about bringing in Valentine's cards. We are clarifying any rules around this with Mr. Hebert and will be sharing the information on the blog as soon as we know

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne