Spelling - Week of October 29

Short u this week
Challenge group-uncle, ugly, study, unable, unless, lunches, jungle, hung, hundred, bunches, difficult
Regular Gr. 2 words- hug, lump, rush, plum, hung, just, luck, much, must, such, where, there
Adjusted- hug, fun, jug, bun, bug, dust, luck, must, buck, when

Computer Class on Tuesday

These are the links we will use for our computer class on Tuesday:

number balance

Odd or Even

100 Chart

Scarecrow Gallery

Here it is....our first video. I apologize to the students who are not in the video. They missed the painting class and the photoshoot so were not able to be in the video.

Spelling Week of October 22

Challenge list- frosty, block, softly, doctor, bottle, across, problem, body, October, clock
Regular list- sock soft, shop, chop, drop, lost, got, frost, forgot,October, from, very
Adjusted list- hot, hot, lost, not, got, off, drop, shop, chop, stop, my

Awesome Art Project

We have been working on "Close-Ups of Scarecrows" for the past two weeks. This project had so many curricular connections as well as looking great! We learned that an artist can show only part of a figure-hence the "close-up". We also learned about horizons. So in the first lesson we drew our scarecrows in crayon. The next week we painted them using watercolour tablets. This is where we learned about mixing colours to make new colours. We did not have green, brown, purple etc. so had to mix basic colours to make new colours. It was an adventure.

Next week we will be giving our scarecrows a personality when we write about them. Using our writing focus of  "ideas and details" we will write about our scarecrows using many details. I hope to make a short video of all of the art work so all the students' scarecrows can be seen on our blog.

These pictures are from the painting class.

 

Busy Week

This week our blog features an art project we did as part of our unit on community. We drew the skyline of a downtown community. See the "Cityscapes" we did below.

In Math we have been working all week on counting patterns by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's up to 100. One of the ways we practice is to put number cards in order. 

 

Library Trip

On Oct. 26 our class will be walking over to the Sherwood Village Library for a story time and tour. The students will have a chance to take out library books with their own library card. I will send a library card application home with your child. If you fill it out and have it back by Oct. 19 then I can take them to the library. They will have your child's card ready for them when we go to the library.

Spelling List October 15 - 19

This week we are focussing on the short i sound and the word families it can form.

Regular list- pig, tip, hill, chin, lid, bit, sick, drip, swim       Sight words- where, very
Challenge list-trick, comic, music, quick, until, finish, witch, which, little, swim  Sight words- cousin, grandma
Adjusted List-pig, dig, big, tip, lip,ship, hill, fill, kill, fin, win, chin,   Sight words - was, of

Our Week

Well by now you have all heard the big news. Our class was up to 29 kids and most of the classes around us were at 28 kids so the School Board gave us another teacher. Good news and bad. We now have smaller classrooms and fewer split classes but it is still difficult to have move children one month into the school year. It was a very difficult decision deciding who would go into the new classroom. We spent a lot of time thinking of both friendships and working groups. Please trust that these decisions were not made lightly or hastily. We also made sure that the teachers from last year were consulted so we knew about past friendships as well as potential problems. Yes it is upsetting for some of the children- for us too! We are trying to be positive and make these moves go as smoothly as possible. If your child is upset, please help them by trying to stay positive about the moves. I have been through this about five times over the last 15 years and within a week or so, all will settle down. Having said that, please understand that at school we know how upsetting this can be for your child. Lots of hugs over the next week or so! I will make sure that our class and the new grade two class get together for an activity next week.

Congratulations to Coen Wall whose art was selected from our classroom to be shown at the October Art Show at the Regina Public School Board!

This week we did not have a spelling list to study. We spent the week working on various sight words that are difficult to spell. We made up some goofy ways to remember some of the words. We also made word searches using these words and exchanged them with a partner to do.

Doing our word searches.