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Friday Blog

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  Reminders Please dress for the weather (hats, mitts, snow pants etc...)  We go outside  everyday  for recess, lunch recess, and gym. Please return Home Reading Books at the end of each week! Library book exchange every Wednesday Sign up for parent-teacher conferences Dec. 3 & 4th: Parent Teacher Conferences ~ No School on the 4th Please  subscribe to my blog  so that you can receive notifications when it is updated. You can find the subscribe button at the top of the page, under the title. Please use Raz-Kids/A-Z Kids for reading support on the weekends. Here are some highlights of the week. In language arts we are learning 2-3 letter graphemes. Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom and help your child review them. Here are the graphemes that we learned this week. "oi" 'oi'  that we do not use at the end of English words as in noise.   "oo". 'oo, oo, ō' as in moon, book, and

The week of Nov. 23-27th, 2020

  Reminders: Nov.25th:  Picture Retakes Dec. 3 & 4th:  Parent Teacher Conferences Wednesday is Library day!  Please return books Remember to return your home reading if you did not get a new home reading book today. Practice your grapheme sound 'oi' today! You can watch the video to review all the graphemes you have learned so far and learn our new sound! After watching the video up to and including the sound 'oi' you can print two lines of the letters oi and then practice your word work. Make sure when you are printing your 'oi' that you are saying the sound as you print it! Don't remember your words? Red group: play, with, you, cloudy, sleep Blue group: each, name, game, came, same Purple group: other, into, look, write, people *Challenge: Can you think of a word that has the letter 'oi' in it? Add it to your weekly words this week! Can't think of any? Choose from the ones below: -coin -boil -soil -join -choice

Friday Blog Nov. 20th, 2020

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  Reminders Please dress for the weather (hats, mitts, snow pants etc...)  We go outside  everyday  for recess, lunch recess, and gym. Please return Home Reading Books at the end of each week! Library book exchange every Wednesday Nov. 25th: Picture Retake Day Dec. 3 & 4th: Parent Teacher Conferences Please  subscribe to my blog  so that you can receive notifications when it is updated. You can find the subscribe button at the top of the page, under the title. Please use Raz-Kids/A-Z Kids for reading support on the weekends. Here are some highlights of the week. In language arts we are learning 2-3 letter graphemes. Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom and help your child review them. Here are the graphemes that we learned this week. "au" 'o'  "ew" 'oo' and 'ū' "ui"'oo' "oy" 'oy' that we do use at the end of English words Please chec

The Week of Nov. 16-19, 2020

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  Reminders Nov. 18:  Wear your favourite colour to school Nov. 18th:  Library.  Please return your books tomorrow! Nov. 20th:  PD Day ~ NO SCHOOL! This week we are learning 4 new graphemes.  Check Google Classroom to see read more info about our graphemes and how to practice our word work. "au" 'o'  "ew" 'oo' and 'ū' "ui"'oo' "oy" 'oy' that we do use at the end of English words Here are the words for the week that you can help your child practice to read. Red Group: sit, tree, big, sun, under Blue Group:  glue, give, have, these, here Purple Group: asked, one, does, about, said Yesterday we started learning about building things.  Today students participated in a building challenge.  They had to build a bridge that spanned between two desks, and hold at least 1 book.  Every group did a great job and built strong bridges using only popsicle sticks and masking tape.  Check out some of the pictures of their w

Friday Blog

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  Reminders Please dress for the weather (hats, mitts, snow pants etc...)  We go outside  everyday  for recess, lunch recess, and gym. Library book exchange every Wednesday Nov. 11th:  Remembrance Day ~ NO School Nov. 18th:  Spirit Day ~ Wear your favourite colour day.  Nov. 20th: Pd Day ~ NO School Please subscribe to my blog so that you can receive notifications when it is updated. You can find the subscribe button at the top of the page, under the title. Home reading books will come home on Mondays and need to be returned on the last school day of each week.  Please use Raz-Kids/A-Z Kids for reading support on the weekends. Here are some highlights of the week. In language arts we are learning 2-3 letter graphemes. Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom. Here are the graphemes that we learned this week. ai:  'ā' 2 letter 'a' that we do not use at the end of English words. ow:  'ow', 'ō&

The Week of Nov. 9th - 13th, 2020

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  Reminders: Library books came home today (We will exchange books again on Wednesday the 18th) Home reading books came home today.  If your child did not bring home new books, they did not return their ones from last week.  Please help your child find them and send them back so that they can exchange them.  Nov. 11th:  Remembrance Day ~ NO School Nov. 18th: Spirit Day ~ Wear your favourite colour day Nov. 20th: Pd Day ~ NO School Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom. Here are the graphemes for this week. ai: 'ā' 2 letter 'a' that we do not use at the end of English words. ow: 'ow', 'ō' ou:  'ow', 'ō', 'oo' 'u' aw: 'aw', 'aw' that we do use at the end of English words. Here are the words for the week that you can do with your child for home study.  See my Google Classroom under the tab "Parent Resources" for different ways to p

Nov. 6th Friday Blog

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  Reminders Please dress for the weather (hats, mitts, snow pants etc...)  We go outside  everyday  for recess, lunch recess, and gym. Library book exchange every Wednesday~ we will do Library on Tuesday next week. Nov. 11th:  Remembrance Day ~ NO School Nov. 18th:  Spirit Day ~ Wear your favourite colour day.  Nov. 20th: Pd Day ~ NO School Please subscribe to my blog so that you can receive notifications when it is updated. You can find the subscribe button at the top of the page, under the title. Home reading books will come home on Mondays and need to be returned on the last school day of each week.  Please use Raz-Kids/A-Z Kids for reading support on the weekends. Here are some highlights of the week. In language arts we are learning 2-3 letter graphemes. Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom. Here are the graphemes for this week. ear:  ear the "er" of early. sh:  used at the beginning of a word or at t

The Week of Nov. 2-6, 2020

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  Reminders Home Reading comes home today.  Please have your child practice their books everyday.  Please return on Friday Library book exchange every Wednesday Nov. 11th:  Remembrance Day ~ NO School Nov. 20th: Pd Day ~ NO School Here are the graphemes for this week. You can find the grapheme with gestures videos on my Google Classroom. Here are the graphemes for this week. ear:  ear the "er" of early. sh: used at the beginning of a word or at the end of a syllable, but not at the beginning of any syllable after the first one; except for the ending ship. ee:  'e' double 'ee' always says 'e'. th:  ay: 2 letter 'a' that we do use at the end of English words. Here are the words for the week that you can do with your child for home study.  See my Google Classroom under the tab "Parent Resources" for different ways to practice our sight words. Red Group:  pet, it, rabbit, by, on Blue Group: do, stay, call, back, other Purple Group: how, w