Hello families and friends,
Today we continued building our Quiet Reading stamina. We made it to 8 minutes! We are going to continue building this stamina and independence so that I can start doing some small group work with the students. In math today we started talking about sorting, and we learned an important new word. Ask your child what it is!
Today we continued doing our word work, focusing on the /t/ sound. In word work, a few days a week, we are focusing on specific sounds and not necessarily the letters. We spend some time talking about how the sounds are made, what parts of our body we use to create the sounds, and if our voice is "on" or "off". Ask your child what this means. After that we make a list of words beginning with that sound and then the students practice writing the letter(s) that make the sound, words that begin with the sound, and pictures of things that begin with that sound. We will continue doing this over the next little while, and if possible I would encourage you to spend some time to practice these things at home with them as well to increase their phonetic awareness.
This afternoon we also had our first time with the laptops. The grade twos helped our grade one friends learn how to log in and out of the computers, and we posted our first artifact onto IRIS. We will be doing a lot of work with IRIS throughout the year.
Terry Fox Hot Dog Lunch fundraising forms went home with your child today. All proceeds from this will go towards the money we raise for the Terry Fox Run. Please return this and all other forms that have gone home as soon as possible.
Thanks and have a wonderful evening,
Mr. Soulliere
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