Week 12 - November 25th, 2017

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This week in math we are back to focusing on numbers to 20.  We played a subitizing bingo game where I showed students the numbers in a variety of ways (10's Frames, Tally Marks, dice, dominoes, fingers) and they had to identify the same number in dots.  I told them this was "Mental Math" and they weren't allowed to count the dots, they just needed to look at the dots and decide what number it was.  They loved this game and we played quite a few rounds.  Students had to have great listening ears and pay close attention to make sure they had the best chance of getting a Bingo!

We also worked on counting groups of objects and identifying whether groups were bigger or smaller than one another.  We talked about the words "most" and "least".  Next week we will be moving on to "greater than", "less than" or "equal to".

In our Language Arts blocks we started a new program that we call "making words".  Students get select letter tiles and need to make words with them.  This helps with both their reading and their writing.  When students make new words they also write them down in the word work book.  

We also continued to work on our sight words this week in some different ways.  The students liked this crazy shape writing to practice their new yellow words.  

We also started a mini study on Owls.  We are going to do some research and studying about Owls over the next couple of weeks.  

We celebrated the 50th Day of School with another visit from Zero the Hero!  He left us a little treat and a fun booklet to work on.  We did a hidden number activity, a writing activity and practised our skip counting by 2, 5 and 10.

The students really loved our Science Experiment this week.  We learned about making predictions, listing materials needed, and asking questions.  We used coloured washable markers and put large dots of colour in the centre of a coffee filter and sprayed them with water.  We predicted what would happen and then we tried it out.

They were so excited to see all of the different colours that came from the black markers, and of course when the primary colours started mixing they were equally amazed.  When done, students wrote down their observations.

Congratulations to Layton for being 1B's Student of the Week.  Layton is so fun in 1B, he is always helping his friends and doing his best work.  He is an awesome reader and is learning to spell new words everyday!  Layton loves Grade 1!!!