October 22, 2020

 Hello Families!

What a snowy week we have had in Calgary! The snow is bringing lots of excitement during outside play times. Because of all the snow and colder temperatures, we have started having our physical education time inside the gymnasium. 

We are wrapping up our animated literacy program with only a few letters left in the alphabet to review. Next week, we will begin moving onto familiar letter blends like /sh/ and /th/ etc. The students have been very successful with the animated literacy routines. I have also started completing letter and sound assessments on many of our classroom friends!

We have also been learning about the vocabulary for 3D shapes and labeling pictures. We know the following words: apex, vertices, edges, faces, and can describe 2D and 3D shapes. This week we also started sorting 3D shapes based on different attributes such as rolls and doesn't roll, and has an apex or no apex. We also learned some fun new Halloween math games that are located on the Google Classroom if you'd like to play at home. 

We have started talking about the groups we belong to including ourselves, family, school, and community. Today, we talked about detailed drawings using the tutorial below and drew our family. We will continue to build this understanding and work towards an understanding of our rights and responsibilities in these different settings.

We also continue to develop our vocabulary and understanding of how we use the 5 senses. This week we focused on sight and responded to a painting by Kandinsky by describing various shapes and colors we could see. Students then completed their collage of items they could see, adding sight words to the back.

Hope everyone is staying healthy and warm!

Best wishes, 

Ms. Brown