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May 19th- 22nd

Phonics: Signal Vowels -When followed by E, I, and Y, C spells /s/ and G spells /j/ - The 'signal vowels' signal, or tell us, that something will be different in a word -c /s/: When c is followed by an A,O or U it makes the /k/ sound When c is followed by E, I or Y it makes the /s/ sound -g/j/: when G is followed by an A, O, or U it makes the /g/ sound  -When G is followed by E,I or Y it makes the /j/ sound High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  watch, far, real, almost, let, above, girl, sometimes, mountain, cut Measurement- Lengths of Yarn -We first measure estimate the length of pieces of yarn and then determine the measurement using counters - We discussed the differences between yarn lengths, as well as the differences between our estimates and the actual measurements   Animal Res...
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May 11th-15th

Consequences -This week we have been talking about consequences -Consequences are the good and bad things that happen because of something that you do -Pretend that you need to tell someone else how to handle it when they get in trouble -What would you tell them to do or not to do? "Don't do it again because you might get in more trouble." "Learn from your mistakes." "You should not do that again or you may get in more trouble." "Show respect to elders and don't talk back again." "Accept the consequences." "Listen to the adult and what they said." "If you accidentally hurt someone and they are crying you should apologize." Phonics: -The Graphemes EW, EU, and UE spell /yu/ ; OU spells /u/  -OU is another way to spell /u/.  We know OU spells /ow/ as in shout.  Sometimes, OU can also spell /u/ as in soup and group -EW spells /yu/ at the end of a word like spew and nephew -UE spells /yu/ at the end of a word like...
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May 4th-8th

  High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  sea, began, grow, took, river, four, carry, state, once, book Phonics:  The grapheme EAR can spell /ear/ -One way to spell /air/ is EAR like in bear -EAR can also spell a different sound.  Sometimes EAR spells /ear/ like in hear -EAR usually comes at the end of a word like in near and dear. We also learned 4 lesson common ways of spelling the long a sound:  - AIGH - EI - EA - EIGH Life Cycle of a Plant -In science this week we are learning about the life cycle of a plant -We learned about all of the different stages involved (seed, germination, seedling, flower, fruit, seed, tree, cone, fruit) -We have planted our own seeds and we are excited to observe them go through the different stages! Subtraction with Regrouping Using Base Ten - ...
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April 27th - May 1st

  High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  important, until, children, side, feet, car, mile, night, walk, white Phonics: -ar, -or /er/ & -air, -ear -are /air/ -The graphemes AR and OR can spell /er/ at the end of two-syllable words (i.e. doctor, author, dollar and nectar) - The graphemes -air, -ear and -are can all spell /air/ Our Chicks Have Arrived! -We came into the classroom on Monday morning to discover that 4 chicks have hatched and one more is making its way out of the egg! -We noticed that:  -they get really sleepy quickly and then they get up -they get up and play and crawl all over each other -they fall over easily -stepping in the egg shell -they cuddle together -they are trying to help the one to hatch -trying to stand up Oopsies -We have been playing a fun game called O...
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April 20th-24th

High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  Phonics: Drop -e Rule, Y-I Rule -We learned another spelling rule for when we add suffixes -ER, -EST, -ED, and -ING to words -If the word ends with a silent E, we drop or take away the E before we add a suffix.  For example, if I want to add -ING to the word hope I take away the E and add -ING: hoping - If the word ends with a y, you change it to i before adding the suffix - except for when adding -ing! Writing- My Secret Message -We wrote a secret message to another student in the class -Then we practiced writing out all of the steps in a story plan -Finally we wrote a personal narrative about it Geometric Art -We learned about different shape art and tessellations and symmetry  -We then created our own geometric art (an ice cream cone, pineapple...
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Apr. 13-17

High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  UNESCO Heritage Sites in Alberta - A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a special place deemed to have universal value to humanity - Alberta is home to several UNESCO sites including:     - Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks     - Dinosaur Provincial Park     - Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump - We used google slides for the first time this year to make presentations about all of the different site - We learned how to add pictures, change the font and delete slides Geometry - We have started our unit on shapes - We reviewed the names and attributes of 2D shapes and 3D shapes - We learned how 2D shapes form 3D shapes - We learned about transformations: flips, slides and turns Phonics - Spelling Rules - We are looking a spelling change rules i...
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April 6th-10th

High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  light, thought, head, under, story, saw, left, don't, few, while Phonics: dis- -We have been learning that a morpheme is a word part that change's a words meaning.  A prefix is a morpheme that comes at the beginning of a word. -We now know the prefixes UN-, PRE- and RE-.   -This week we learned about the prefix DIS- -It means not or apart.  If you disagree with someone, you do not agree or you have a different opinion - Please read over this week's decodables with your child and help them practice their decoding and comprehension.  Personal Narratives -This week we learned about how we can end our personal narrative that we are writing about with a feeling, hope, final action or lesson learned -This lets the reader know that they st...
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