We have been busy continuing our interviews and writing about our special students each day. Next week we have three more to do and our book will be complete. We will practice reading it in class and then I will send them home for you to see. Their drawings are getting considerably better as the month goes on and so is their printing.
We continue to do daily printing practice in class as well. Students are realizing that Mrs. Dupont needs to see them writing on the line, and remembering those important finger spaces in between words. It's a process but I am pleased with how each student tries their very best.
We finished our Fall Season unit this week. We did a journal entry in our Science book, we made a big class chart, and each student had a chance to talk to me, one on one, about what they learned about Fall over the last two weeks! They know a lot!
One of our favorite projects this week was our Leaf Men and Leaf Animals. I took pictures of all the Leaf Men and will put them in a class book for us to read in our library.
Aren't they cute? After they made a Leaf Man, they made any animal they wanted to, those turned out great as well. The book will be similar to Brown Bear, Brown Bear; Leaf Man, Leaf Man, What Do You See?
In Math, we finished off our numbers to 10 journal entries and continued to work on numbering, sorting, counting on, tally marks and tens frames.
Next week we will start off on some sorting activities and we might even get to patterning. These guys love Math and are quite competent with their numbers!
Our Fall Walk was a blast!
Mrs. Fleming said I had excellent listeners all day on Friday. She said most of the students really enjoyed the Terry Fox Walk. We did a couple of discussions this week about Terry Fox and the difference between a real hero and a super hero. The kids couldn't believe Terry Fox made that run with only one leg!
We have completed 1/2 of our Animated Literacy characters and next week I will assess each student to see if they are remembering the new sounds. These letter sounds are critical for reading so we need to make sure each student knows what sound each letter makes. Some students already know all the sounds so they are putting words together during this letter time. I will send home a colouring book next week with each letter and action so you can practice at home. But remember we have just made it half way so they likely won't know the sounds for the last half of the book yet.
Right after Thanksgiving we will be starting our sight word and Home Reading Program. Watch for information letters about these things next week in your child's mail bag. We made reading sticks this week out of popsicle sticks and googly eyes, then we worked all week on pointing to each word we "read", starting at the beginning of each page and looking at each word before flipping the pages and looking at pictures. These Grade 1's are getting excited about reading!
Our new reading strategy and reading buddy this week is called Lips the Fish- Lips the Fish helps us get our moths ready to say the correct beginning sound of each word. Students love these little characters.
Enjoy the weekend!
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