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 practice our sight words.

Red Group:  sit, smell, grass, flower, that

Blue Group: fall, about, sleep, went, name

Purple Group: was, did, will, that, some

Today we read a book called, "A Poppy is to Remember,"  and learned why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day.  We then created some Remembrance Day art by using pastels to draw a field we of poppies.  Students learned about perspective and that things that are close to us appear bigger and things that are far away appear smaller.  Check out their work. They did a great job!






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