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 story is over

-It is the writers personal reaction about the experience

-Some of the endings we wrote about are:

"After the zoo, I got ice cream and jumped up and down!"
"I wish we could of stayed longer to see the ducks."

"Finally I went home and put my tooth under my bed."

"I was so hot that I drank lots of ice cold water."

A Surprise Visitor!

-We came into school this week and noticed that there are some very colourful eggs on the shelf

-We joined Ms.Janisse's class to talk about what we saw

-We learned that we are going to be fostering 12 chick eggs.  Over the next 3 weeks we will keep the eggs in the incubator in hopes that they will hatch!  Stay tuned to see the progress!

The Solar System

- In science we learned about the solar system

- The sun is the center of the solar system - the planets orbit around the sun

- Earth is the third planet from the sun - the perfect distance for life

- As the Earth revolves around the sun on a tilt it is closer and farther away from the sun creating the seasons that happen in a 365 day year

- As the Earth revolves it is also rotating on an axis spinning to face towards and away from the sun - creating a 24 hour day/night cycle

Landforms

-We have learned that a landform is a natural shape or feature on the Earth's surface, like mountains, hills, valleys, and plains. These special shapes were formed over a really long time by things like wind, water, and even volcanoes!

-We then drew 6 major landforms that exist

Story Plans

-We have been working on making story plans related to a personal narrative

-We had lots of fun including all of the components