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Hello families! Here's some of what we did this week!  Math We continued talking a little about patterns and worked on different ways to represent numbers. Grade 1 students are working on their teen numbers and enjoyed learning how to use the Montessori Teen Bead Hanger and the Teen Board with the Coloured Bead Bars. (I forgot to take photos so here's a visual from Google instead!) Grade 2 students were working on some numeracy government assessments this week!  Literacy This week we continued with UFLI and reviewed the letters A, M and S. We're learning all about how to form our mouth properly and how to form the letters properly when writing. Students were asked to draw 4 things that start with these letters and sound the words out as best as they can. We talk about pretending to have a piece of bubblegum in your hand and stretching out each sound we hear. Grade 2s worked on writing sentences as a challenge! If you'd like to continue reinforcing these concepts at home...

Hello Families,  I'm going to try to be a little more concise this week - there's just so much to share!!  Math We're continuing to learn about patterns! We've been learning about different types of patterns (i.e. AB, ABC, etc.) and some important pattern math vocabulary including attributes and pattern cores. We also created some mandala patterns with the pattern blocks and worked on some Dot Day pattern art. We also started looking at representing numbers (grade 1s to 20 and grade 2s to 100) so I can see what students already know!  Dot Art will be on display in the classroom during Thursday's Open House!  Literacy We have been continuing with our UFLI literacy lessons each morning. We're learning all about mouth formation and airflow of different sounds as well as practicing letter formation. Next week we should be moving on from our "getting ready" lessons and will move on to letter review and practice!  For Daily LA, we also practiced "read t...

Hello families,   We made it through our first (almost) full week of school! We are focusing a lot on learning expectations and building classroom community. We’ve been enjoying starting each day in circle getting to know our classmates.  The pictures will be a little limited for the first few weeks until we have photo release information!  This week we talked a lot about carpet expectations. We read a story called “Whole-Body Listening at School” and learned about Listening Larry. Ask your child how many parts of our body we can listen with… it’s not just our ears. You can also follow up with “Whole Body Listening at Home” if this is something you are working on at home as well! I also like to use my cat, Eli, to show carpet expectations!   Whole Body Listening at Home This week we started some introduction lessons to the UFLI literacy program. We’ve been learning how our mouth moves in different ways to make different sounds. We also started learning about “sky, g...

Hello families!  We had a great first week of school! I have a goal this year to be a little more concise with my blog posts. We'll see how it goes!  This week we spent some time getting to know each other. We learned about sharing circles and have started both mornings in circle getting to know more about one another. We are learning the importance of listening to each other and giving everyone a chance to speak.  We also read the story "You're Finally Here" by Melanie Watt. We enjoyed re-creating the main character of the story. It was great to see students' cutting skills and their ability to follow each step of the activity. We talked about how the eyebrows can convey different feelings and can really change the bunny's expression.  On Friday we learned a math game called "What's My Number?" we played teacher versus students and they beat me! Next week, students will play the game with their classmates.  Fun Lunch School Council organizes Hea...