enjoyed a READ ALOUD every day! During read alouds, we focus on great readers strategies like: 

• • making predictions

  • asking questions

  • paying attention to character traits

  • making connections

  • creating mental images 

  • checking for understanding and backing up and rereading

  • setting a purpose for reading

  • building empathy

  • sharing in a love of reading!

focused on writing proper paragraphs during our Flashback Fridays! Students are really excited to share these with you each weekend! Please take the time to read them with your child, have a little conversation and then leave them a little note to see the following week.

completed all of our literacy screeners. I will be entering all of their scores in PowerSchool for you to see. Students complete:

• • • a writing screener (This year, they had to write about their favourite thing to do.)

    • a reading comprehension screener (They read a sentence and have to say whether it is true or false.)

    • a sight word screener (They have to read as many words as possible in 45 seconds.)

    • a phonics screener (They have to read as many nonsense words as possible in 45 seconds.)

learned how to write our clock climbers (a,c,d, g and q), kite strings (i, t, j, o, p, r, s, u, w) and loops (e, l, f, h, k, b). The students are loving learning how to handwrite! We just have our hills and valleys left and then we will have covered the entire alphabet in lowercase letters!

completed many journal entries! Students have the freedom to write about whatever they choose and I always write back!

working through lessons on Reading Eggs.

completed the numeracy screener. 

reviewed a few basic addition and subtraction fact strategies. 

learned how to use Touch Math with both addition and subtraction.

practiced How Many Ways for several numbers. 

explored the properties of solids, liquid and gases. 

investigated the changes in state with the three states of matter.

enjoyed a few yummy experiments!

learned the difference between natural and processed materials.

researched how natural materials are processed into a variety of products (clay bricks, steel sheets, rubber, paper).

explored the difference between nonrenewable and renewable resources.

learned about the natural materials that were commonly used by Indigenous people and how they showed respect when harvesting things from the land.