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Nightly Learning
Nightly Learning
Please set up a nightly 'homework' routine with your child. It should be no longer that 15-20 minutes and could include reading the small books that your child is bringing home in the mail bag, reviewing high frequency words (listed below) and completing some of the review activities listed below. There are many options for variety and to help keep it fun! Your child will have a R.E.D. (Read Every Day) folder to record their reading activities. There will also be important weekly phonological activities included in this folder. Folders will be collected every Monday morning.
📚 Literacy
📚 Literacy
High-Frequency Words
High-Frequency Words
High-frequency words are words that students will encounter often when reading and writing. These words often, but not always, have irregular or uncommon spelling patterns making some of the sounds. Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing some of the most common words that students probably worked on in Kindergarten.
Flash Words - Words that have regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out, but are so common that it is valuable for students to know them on sight.
Heart Words = Words that have irregular or uncommon parts that students need to remember. Often, some parts of these words are regular and students just have to remember the "tricky part."
Temporary Heart Words - Words where the tricky parts are only tricky because students have not yet learned or mastered those phonics patterns.
Learn more about heart words here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic
You may find it helpful to record these words on dollar store recipe cards or square note pad paper to review often as part of your nightly reading routine.
You may find it helpful to record these words on dollar store recipe cards or square note pad paper to review often as part of your nightly reading routine.
Review past words. Click on the word to complete activities.
Review past words. Click on the word to complete activities.
Enjoy these videos to review our high frequency words. Click on the underlined blue words for related Boom! cards.
Click on the blue underlined words below to go to activities for these high frequency words.
Click on the blue underlined words below to go to activities for these high frequency words.
my - Temporary Heart Word
Temporary tricky part = y is saying the name of the letter long vowel sound i
and - Flash Word
All letters in this word are making their expected sounds, though they can be hard for students to hear.
We have been reading these high frequency word poems in class. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.
We have been reading these high frequency word poems in class. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.
Phonics and Word Work
Phonics and Word Work
This week we will begin to work on short vowels and their sounds. We will recognize the letter grapheme, the phoneme sound and listen for that sound in the middle of words. Continue to use the consonant letter activities from last week to review those graphemes and phonemes. The activities below can help students learn the short vowels and sounds.
Monday/Tuesday
Short Vowel a
Short Vowel a
Wednesday/Thursday
Short Vowel o
Short Vowel o
Friday
Short Vowel i
Short Vowel i
🔢 Math
🔢 Math
We will look at specific ways that we can represent numbers. We have been solving simple problems with many possible solutions to find combinations of 5. For example: There are 5 people in the house. How many might be upstairs and how many might be downstairs? We will now use this knowledge to represent numbers.
Number bonds - We will be working on creating numbers to 10 using a variety of tools.
We use a variety of tools to help us represent numbers and solve simple problems.
This is a rekenrek, we can use the beads to build our numbers. Move some on the top to the left and some on the bottom to the left to create different ways to make the same number. Click on the image to try it out.
This is a number bond, it can be used to show the 2 parts that make up a whole.
We use 10 frames to help build numbers. By using different coloured items we can create number pairs in a 10 frame.
Number lines
We use tally marks to represent numbers.
Complete some number line activities.
Complete some number line activities.
Review Tally Marks with these activities.
Review Tally Marks with these activities.
🌎 Social Studies
🌎 Social Studies
We will focus on personal problem solving using our WITS this week. When dealing with an issue with a peer, we try to use the first 3 parts of our WITS before seeking help, but remembering that some problems are too big and we must seek help first.
Click on the photo above to listen to these stories to learn how Howard is able to listen better, learn more and get into less trouble. You do not need to purchase these books there is a YouTube video for each book.
This week and particularly next Tuesday, we will be taking some time to learn about Indigenous people and residential schools in preparation for Tuesday as we recognize National Truth and Reconciliation Day. Fortunately, there are a lot of good videos and books to help children learn about Canada's history in age-appropriate ways.
These photos show how children at residential schools were forced to dress in clothing that did not represent their Indigenous culture or individuality. Source: National Post
This is a photo of a monument at a former residential school site.
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