Feb. 15

Hello everyone!

Yesterday, we completed our Wow Word review. "Was" definitely tricked some us and we think we need to practice it a bit more. Since this is such a short week, we decided to pick our trickiest Wow Words so far to practice them again. We chose:

1. the

2. went

3. was

4. have

5. with

For our bonus words, we picked words with the /th/ sound, since that sound has been the hardest for us to remember! We picked:

1. that

2. thing

3. three

We used our morning meeting this morning to talk more about Black History Month. We started by reading a book called "All Because You Matter." We talked about our Xavier Riddle stories we've been watching during snack and remembered some examples of people who were not treated fairly just because of the colour of their skin. We were wondering why people have different coloured skin, so we talked about why darker skin can be important for your body if you live in a place that gets hot and has lots of sun. We talked about how not everyone who has darker skin lives in a hot place, but it means someone in their family, or their ancestors, probably came from a place that is hot. It's actually something bodies do to protect us from the sun! We talked about treating people fairly and never making fun of someone because they are different. 

Next, we filled in our calendar. Only 5 more school days until our 100th day of school! 

We asked the questions for our next star student. We are going to do our writing for that page tomorrow. We had snack and recess, and then worked on our literacy centres. 

After lunch, we had mindfulness time and then we practiced some 2-letter sounds. We took out our whiteboards and Ms. Byrne asked us to write the first or last sound in different words (ex: can you write the last sound in "wish?"). We write the sound and then hold up our whiteboard. We practiced with 10 different words before putting away our whiteboards.

During science we read a book called Mixed: A Colorful Story. It's about the primary colours mixing and making new colours. Ms. Byrne asked us to think of some ideas of how we could show what we learned about colour at the end of this unit. We decided on a painting! We came up with a list of colourful things that we could paint in our final pictures. Now, to learn everything we need to know about mixing colours to help us paint our best pictures!

After our second recess, we had our Mathletics time. Our points winners this week are Nathan, Mila, and Ajay!

We played a team game of curling in the gym before home time. 

Reminders:

-  Thursday and Friday (Feb. 17 and 18) are Teacher's Convention Days so there is no school

- Monday, Feb. 21 - No School - Family Day

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne