March 28

 Hello everyone!

We hope you all were able to enjoy some family time during our Spring Break. We were very excited to share some of the things we did over the break with our friends this morning, so we had a sharing circle to give everyone a chance to share. 

We reviewed our Wow Words from the week before the break and took some time to practice those words on our own, and then with a friend before we completed our usual review. We did really well! We also got our new Wow Words. They are:

1. home

2. red

3. us

4. blue

5. here

Our words this week helped up talk about 2 of the vowel rules on the paper that Ms. Byrne sent home right before the break! We talked about King E and how it makes the other vowel say its name. In our small reading groups, we practiced the King E rule using letter magnets by spelling words like: cut & cute, kit & kite, tak & take. We also introduced "ue" and talked about how it says the same sound as "ew," which we have practiced before. 

We decided to use the "-ed" family for our bonus words. They are: bed, fed, Ted, shed, shred. We wrote our Wow Words onto cards and added them to our word rings. If our word rings are getting full, you can remove some words that we are confident with to make room!

We filled in our calendar and did some counting songs before having snack and recess. Then, we had literacy centres.

After lunch, we had mindfulness time and then we took out our desk dictionaries to update them. We looked through our dictionary to see if we were missing any word wall words in there. Each of us added any words that we were missing. We use our desk dictionaries during writing time in case we need a reminder of how to spell one of our previous Wow Words. 

Next, we did some work using the number line. We compared how to add and subtract on a number line and talked about how they are different. We each chose a small animal figure to help us hop along our desk number lines. We used our animals and our number lines to complete some subtraction questions. We talked about how it is important to carefully count the jumps when using a number line because it can be easy to make a mistake if you get distracted! We completed some examples under the document camera to make sure everyone was able to follow along. 

After our second recess, we had some science work to catch up on! Before our break, we had watched some clips from an episode of The Magic School Bus that was all about light and colour! Before we watched the clips, Ms. Byrne gave us some questions to think about and investigate to see if we could find the answers in the clips. We had found 3 answers, but we had 2 left to complete today. We saw the students using a prism to separate white light into different colours. They also used a prism to turn all the colours back into white light! We talked about how this shows us that white light actually has lots of colours hiding in it. We wrote about this to answer our last 2 questions. Then, we looked at the rainbow art we had started before the break. We had been practicing ordering the colours of the rainbow and noticing patterns in the rainbow (primary colour, secondary colour, primary colour, secondary colour). Many of us had some work to finish on our rainbow picture, so we had time today to finish up so that we can bring them home! 

Reminders:

Sit Spot - We will be doing our next Sit Spot on Wednesday, March 30. The weather is supposed to be really nice that day, but we know how quickly that can change! Please send an extra sweater, warm coat, etc. if you think your child may need it! We will have our Sit Spot from 1-1:15. 

Student Shoutouts:

Finn & Stefan - for offering to sweep the classroom when it got a bit messy during our rainbow art!

Shaniya - for helping us hand out our Wow Word review pages

Have a great day!

-Ms. Byrne