Monday

Hello families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

We now have our finalized schedules. Students will have music at the very end of the day on Mondays and on Wednesdays in the morning time. I will be on bus supervision after school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I will be around Mondays and Thursdays after school if you're looking for me!

I decided to do some letter review with our class for a few minutes every morning. We will choose a letter to review, practice writing uppercase and lowercase letters and brainstorm 10 words that start with each letter. Today we started with the letter "A." I am also hoping to introduce a different material each morning. Today we learned the proper way to use our Montessori mats when working on the carpet and we learned how to use the Bead House material with the Coloured Bead Bars. The idea is to create the chosen number in as many different ways as you can! (ie. you can make 3 with 3+0, 2+1, 1+2, 0+3)


We also started back with our Weekly Words. This week we are doing the "-at" family. I've chosen to go with the term "weekly words" as a way to put less focus on spelling. Weekly Words are meant to help students learn different word families and are just meant to be a focus for each week. Students worked with a partner and used a "sound board" to brainstorm as many "-at" words as they could and recorded them in a chart. We then shared all of our words and created a big list. Students then chose 5-8 words to focus on for the week. They wrote them out twice - one copy for school and one to bring home. You do not need to practice the words at home but I like to give you the option to! There are lots of fun ways to practice other than writing them. You can build them with materials, make them with your body, etc. Here is a site to check out for some ideas! 



During work period each day, students will choose different ways to practice their words. Some of these will be introduced tomorrow!

In the afternoon we had gym and played a game called "Battle of the 10 Towers" which is similar to pickle ball. Mondays will be the only day that we have gym in the afternoon. Every other day we have gym around 10am.

Thank you to everyone who has returned the brown envelopes with all the back to school paper work! If you have not returned them yet, please do so as soon as possible!

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