It was a short week, but as usual, the students packed in a lot of learning!
On Monday, we celebrated Valentine's Day. The students made Valentine greetings for their families and shared Valentine cards and treats in the decorated bags they created last week. The students in the afternoon had a chance to go to the school-wide Valentine Dance in the gym. We read the book Guess How Much I Love You (for more information on this book and the others we read this week, visit http://planet5books.blogspot.com/) and we had a good discussion about what love is. I asked the children, "Can you hold love in your hand? Can you draw love? Can you buy love at a store?". Of course, they said "no"! So we talked about how love is a feeling and you have to show love with your words and actions.
February 15 is Flag Day in Canada and we sang "Happy Birthday" to the flag in our classroom. It is 46 years old this year. The class talked about the colours of the flag and that the maple leaf was chosen because maple trees grow all across Canada. We also discussed how the flag says "Canada" without using any words.
The children learned the sounds and shapes of QU and S this week. The students now know all the letter sounds and capital letter shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet. In English, there are 44 sounds, so now we focus on letter combination sounds.
On Monday, we celebrated Valentine's Day. The students made Valentine greetings for their families and shared Valentine cards and treats in the decorated bags they created last week. The students in the afternoon had a chance to go to the school-wide Valentine Dance in the gym. We read the book Guess How Much I Love You (for more information on this book and the others we read this week, visit http://planet5books.blogspot.com/) and we had a good discussion about what love is. I asked the children, "Can you hold love in your hand? Can you draw love? Can you buy love at a store?". Of course, they said "no"! So we talked about how love is a feeling and you have to show love with your words and actions.
February 15 is Flag Day in Canada and we sang "Happy Birthday" to the flag in our classroom. It is 46 years old this year. The class talked about the colours of the flag and that the maple leaf was chosen because maple trees grow all across Canada. We also discussed how the flag says "Canada" without using any words.
The children learned the sounds and shapes of QU and S this week. The students now know all the letter sounds and capital letter shapes of all 26 letters of the alphabet. In English, there are 44 sounds, so now we focus on letter combination sounds.
In math, we continued to explore the number 10. It is important for children to deeply understand the concept of 10, as the 10 stragtegy is a common method to solve math problems. The class now counts the days of school by skip-counting by 10 and can use their fingers to count to 100 by 10's. We also counted to 100 using various objects (e.g., buttons).The students drew pictures and wrote words for our February class bulletin boards displays. They also wrote in their individual journals.
The class will now be learning sight words every week. A sight word is a word that seen often when reading. Some of these words are also "irregular". That means these words are not easily decoded by sounding out. This week the sight word was "the". The students read a little book called "Find It!" . This little book was sent home with the children on Thursday.
We read books about a popular character called Corduroy the bear. These books have been around for over 40 years. To learn more about the books that we read this week, check out our sister blog at http://planet5books.blogspot.com/.
The class will now be learning sight words every week. A sight word is a word that seen often when reading. Some of these words are also "irregular". That means these words are not easily decoded by sounding out. This week the sight word was "the". The students read a little book called "Find It!" . This little book was sent home with the children on Thursday.
We read books about a popular character called Corduroy the bear. These books have been around for over 40 years. To learn more about the books that we read this week, check out our sister blog at http://planet5books.blogspot.com/.
Here is a photo of Ms. Mantello with our afternoon class. Ms. Mantello is our school's librarian.
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