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February 23rd, 2018

Dear parents and guardians,

Wow! We have had a couple of very busy weeks filled with exciting learning! I apologize for the delay in making a new blog post...the weather and long commute has been keeping me busy!

Last week, we had the Leighton Art Centre visit our classroom. The students were great listeners and ambassadors for Kenneth D. Taylor school. I was VERY proud of their respectful behaviour and hard work! During the presentation, the students had the opportunity to practice drawing figures, create a wire sculpture and experiment with an image transfer using wax crayons.











In literacy, we have continued to create our gingerbread people stories. Most of the students have finished their first draft and are now working on their good copies. While completing their final copy, the students are focussing on spelling words properly and forming letters correctly. We are very excited to start displaying the amazing stories in the hall soon! 

 Ask your child what the word "illustrate" means. We have learned the word while creating title pages for our gingerbread stories as well as while illustrating our wall story.

We have continued to practice our 100 sight words each day and recently began to practice words from the 200 sight word list. We are also reading our poems and Wall Story frequently.

At literacy centres, the students have been busy creating sentences that contain "wh, ph or qu" words. Ask your child to tell you the sounds that each of these pairs of letters produces.


We also visited the Maker Space this week. The students were challenged to work with their group to complete different tasks. Ask your child which challenge they were given. We will be visiting the Maker Space again over the next few weeks to provide students with the opportunity to complete each challenge.






In gym, we practiced skipping and singing our skip counting song!


In math, we continued to explore addition. This week we have been focussing on making 10. Ask your child to complete the following:
  • 2+  ____=10   
  • 4 + ____ = 10
  • ___ + 7 = 10
Reminders:
  • Library on Monday
  • Thursday, February 28 is Pink Shirt Day
  • Popcorn days on February 28 and March 1
  • Grade 1 Vaccinations on March 1

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