January 11th

Hi Parents,

Welcome back!  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

This week was another busy week in Room 80!

We started off our week by sharing and writing about what we did over the winter break. It sounds like everyone had a wonderful time with family and friends!

In math we learned about making 10 and how to write number sentences. We did shake and spill with ten frames and double sided counters to help us explore the different ways to make 10. We also learned a new game called Find 10 Go Fish. If you want to play at home all you need is a deck of cards. The rules are below:

Find 10 Go Fish 
A is worth 1
K is worth 0
Queens and Jacks removed
Deal 5 cards to each player
You are NOT looking to match the same cards. You want cards that add up to 10!
10+K
9+A
8+2
7+3
6+4
5+5
4+6
3+7
2+8
A+9

We also learned about writing number sentences. When adding numbers together we write the two numbers we are putting together first using an addition sign. Then we use the equal sign to show how many there are when we add the numbers together.    _____+______=___________ For example: 4+6=10.
We practiced writing number sentence by rolling two dice, adding them together and then writing the corresponding number sentence to match.

Today we took our learning from this week, making 10 and writing number sentences, and combined them together. We used our ten frames and double sided counters to make 10 and then practiced writing all the different addition number sentences for making 10.

This week we reviewed our letter sounds "Sh" and "Ch". We also learned the soft "th" sound, like in the word Thursday and the hard "th" sound, like in the word these.
We also continued our reading and writing through literacy centers.

Our words of the week this week were: by, from, her, if
Our words of the week next week are: first, get, here, see 

In science we started our learning of colours. We learned about the colour wheel and created our own colour wheel for our visual journals. We learned that the three primary colours are blue, red and yellow and that we can use primary colours to make new colours.  blue+red=purple yellow+red=orange yellow+blue=green.
We also learned that warm colours are red, yellow and orange and that cool colours are blue, purple and green.

We started our gymnastics in unit in Gym this week. Please ensure your child is dressed to safely participate over the next two weeks. We recommend wearing sporty pants/shorts and shirts with no belts or zippers, pull back long hair jewelry should be off and left at home.

From: Room 80

Reminders:

If you have not already signed and sent back your child's report card envelope please do so as soon as possible. 

We just received our swim schedule for this year. We will be swimming at Canyon Meadows pool from Monday March 11th to Thursday March 14th. Our swim time is from 1:00-1:45. We will be leaving the school at 12:15 and arriving back at school at 2:30. We are looking for volunteers to help out in the change rooms. We are especially looking for male volunteers! We have three classes going on one bus so volunteers will have to drive themselves to the pool. If you are able to volunteer and have your CBE police clearance please email me if you are able to come help out. If you would like to help out and do not have your police clearance there is still time to get it before we swim, you just need to bring in two pieces of government ID into the office to get the process started. 

Wednesday January 16th is Fun Lunch. Please remember to pack your child a snack

Friday January 25th we will be performing and leading the assembly along with Mrs. Hardie's and Ms. Deobald's class. Parents are welcome to come and watch.  More information to come about the timing of the assembly. However, it is usually from 9:30-10:00. I will make sure to update everyone on the time as soon as we know for sure.