May 19

 Hello everyone!

We've been working on the "When 2 vowels go walking the first 1 does the talking" vowel pairs this week. We focused on /ay/, /ai/, /oa/, /ee/, and /ea/. We know that /ea/ doesn't always follow this rule - it can't make up it's mind about which rule it wants to follow! But this rule is one of the sounds we should try when sounding out an /ea/ word (like "peach" or "nearby"). We learned these vowel pairs a while ago, but we spent this whole week practicing sounding out words that use them. Each day, our morning message was missing all of it's vowel pairs and we had to help fill them in!

We did some more work with the comprehension strategy of "making connections" today. We read a book called "17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore," about a little girl who has lots of ideas (like gluing her brother's slippers to the floor!) and seems to be always getting in trouble. We talked about how everybody makes mistakes sometimes. Ms. Byrne shared a story about when she was younger and she used a roll-y chair to roll over the new floor her dad had just installed. The roll-y chair got caught in a part of the floor and broke it! So, she wasn't allowed to use the roll-y chair anymore. We each thought about something that we aren't allowed to do anymore and wrote about it in our journals! We had fun sharing some of the silly things we decided to do. 

We filled in our calendar and went for recess. It was very windy outside! We had literacy centres, during which we switched our library books. 

After lunch, we started our perfect pet building! It was more tricky than we thought it would be! It took some trial and error to figure out the best ways to put our pets together. We got so carried away with our building that we spent nearly the whole afternoon working on it! Thank you to everyone who brought in materials that we were able to use for our building project. We have some last details to add on Tuesday, and then we will bring our pets home to enjoy. We'll share some pictures on Tuesday as well!

Reminders:

Thursday, May 19th - Spring Dance - in the school gym from 6-8PM. Children must be accompanied by an adult!

Friday, May 20th - No school - P.D. day

Monday, May 23rd - No School - holiday

Wednesday, May 25th - Div 1 Spring Concert - Beginning at 6

Monday, May 30th - Class picture day

Have a fantastic long weekend!

-Ms. Byrne