I cannot believe that we are already in March! We are anxiously awaiting the spring weather! This week we listened to and completed activities on books written and illustrated by Canadian authors that are nominated for the Blue Spruce Award (Forest of Reading). We will continue this over the next few weeks. When reading aloud as a class and independently we are learning how to persevere when we see big words by chunking the big words and sound out the parts we know. For example - trickling - tr/ick/l/ing. We are also learning how to explain our thinking and write longer (more complex) sentences. _______ is my best friend because.... . We are practising applying our understanding of phonics skills and letter sounds to help us spell. In math we worked on finding the area or irregularly shaped pictures using a single non-standard unit (ie covering a body cut out with bandaids, animal tracks with small hand sanitizers or cubes, foot prints with hexagon pattern blocks). We continued to work on directional coding activities and we are continually practicing addition and subtraction up to 20 (thinking activities, math bingo, adding and subtracting coins, etc.). We also had a great block outside snowshoeing on Wednesday.
Here are some pictures of our activities this week.
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| Practising our math skills |
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| Coding Activities and Finding Area |
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| Spelling Dictations - Using what we know to sound out words and spell dictated sentences. |
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| Directed Drawing Activity |
