Happy May!! Well, it has been a cold start to this month! We all need to remember to dress for the weather!
We Said goodbye to Miss Gerowwho had a successful student teaching practicum in our classroom. We wish her all the best in her teaching career.
The kids are still enjoying the Raz-kids computer program that is now part of our center activities. Making words has now become an activity we enjoy during our word work time.
Guided reading is going well. The students are working well through the center activities. We are moving quickly through the Letterland lessons and the students are doing very well at building words and taking them apart - becoming aware of beginning, middle, and ending sounds. This skill will help them out when they come across unknown words in their reading and writing.
Our themes for this month are:Mother's Day, The Farm, and life cycles.
Home reading and spelling continue so look for new books to come home nightly with your child. Spelling words will go home each Thursday or Friday.
Notes will come home periodically from the classroom and from the school. Students will be able to take notes to and from school on their clipboards. A large ziploc bag will be clipped on as well for your child's home reading and for any lunch money that needs to be sent to school. I hope that this proves to be an efficient way to communicate between the home and school.
Please check out the What we are up to link, to find out what we will be studying for the month of September.
Our Language Arts program will focus on the four blocks of literacy: guided reading, self selected reading, writing, and working with words. Through the programming of the Letterland series, students will enjoy learning sounds, blends, and manipulating sounds through live spelling activities, making words activities, and through many songs and poems!!
Our Math program will center around the following strands: patterns, number concepts and operations, statistics and probability, and shape and space. Many hands on activities will enhance your child's learning experience. As well, we incorporate problem solving activities through daily activities. We work through our math journals learning to show numbers in many different ways.
Our Science units have us learning about characteristics and needs of living things, the five senses, objects and materials, and daily and seasonal changes.
In Social Studies, we are learning about belonging to many different groups, our environment, and the world around us. Many of these themes are incorporated in to our Language Arts program.
Please click on the links page if you are looking for a fun way to practice spelling, reading and math skills!!
If you have any questions at all through out the year, please phone me at the school or e mail me at jpilling@rrsd.mb.ca
I am looking forward to sharing in your child's learning experiences this year.
Jen Pilling
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