Nov 17th - Nov 21st

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: 

some, her, would, make, like, him, into, time, has look

Phonics

-When using a past tense verb (an action that has already happened) we add the ending -ED.

-There are 3 ways to pronounce the -ED ending: 

/d/ : If a voiced sound comes before -ED we say /d/ like in called or tamed

/t/: If an unvoiced sound comes before -ED we say /t/ like in sniffed and helped

/ed/: if the sound /d/ or /t/ comes before -Ed, -ED makes two sounds: /e/ and /d/ and the E is pronounced with a schwas, just like the E in -ES.   

- Please check your child's red folder this weekend and read the decodables we practiced this week

- If your child did not draw, or finish, their picture you could encourage them to do so

Winter Count

-After the first snow falls, Indigenous people may celebrate it through a winter count

-It is a visual calendar used by Indigenous peoples, to record the most significant events of the past year through a symbol on a hide or robe. 

-It is a way of keeping track of history, where each winter, a picture is drawn for something important that happened—like a major hunt, a storm, or a community event.

-We acknowledged it through the most important things that happened to us since last winter

Some of the things that we drew included:

"Building a snowman with my friends."

"Last Christmas when my Nana came."

"Last Halloween it was my baby sister's first time and she dressed up as Baby Shark."

"I went hunting with my Dad."
"My family getting a new house."
"My mom getting Dot and Pot (my cats)"

"Ice sledding with my friends and drinking hot coco."

Expanding Sentences

-We continue to practice ways to enhance our sentences 

-We are answering questions (who, what, where, when and why) in response to a simple sentence

-We are looking forward to sharing our work with you at conferences!

Relative Location

-Working with a partner and looking at clues and incorporating relative location vocabulary to figure out where certain objects are

Base 10 Blocks Question

You have (10 or 17) place value blocks (hundreds, tens and ones).  What numbers can you make?  Show your work!

Metis Dot Art

We learned that bead art use different patterns and techniques that are passed down for generations.

We included a spirit bead (dot) which represents that everyone makes mistakes in life.