Upcoming Dates to Remember:

November 2nd:READ WITH THE REDS

-        Members of UNB teams will be coming to read with our class!

November 3rd: Picture retakes in the morning for those who requested retakes

November 4th: Field trip to the Delta to see author Ellen Delange

-        If you haven’t already sent in your permission slips, please do so as soon as possible.

This Week:

Food Drive:

• This week we will be beginning to collect food for the Fredericton Community Kitchen. Our target is to collect 50 pounds of food from the list found on the main website. If possible, please donate to this great cause!  

Home Learning

• Duotangs will be sent home Monday and are to be returned Friday (if something comes up and you ever need extra time, just let me know)

• Show what you know books will be coming home on Monday. Please return these by Friday.  

  ** This week you will find independent writing samples. These writing pieces were completed independently, without help. Please take a look at the sample and look fors of what is expected at this time in the school year and compare it to your child’s piece.

  ** You will also find ABC boom assessments in our Show what you know duotangs.

Take Home Books: New take home books will come home on Monday.  Please return them by Friday..  Remember to read them each night!

Literacy

Jolly Phonics: We have learned and will review S, A, T, I., P, N, C, K, E, H, R, M.  We will learn D and G this week.

• Please watch the videos online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU

• Please practice printing these letters at home as well as practicing the sounds and actions

ABC Boom: We say the following sounds as we make the strokes.

• Plop: Most letters "start in the sky and drop down to the ground”. We use tall plops to form upper case letters and lower case letters like Tt, Ll, and Hh. We use short plops to make lower case letters like m, n, and r.

• Vroom: This is the horizontal stroke that goes from left to right. We use it to start lower case e and we also use it in upper case letters such as T, E, F, A, Z, and H.

• Boing: This is a curved stroke that reminds us of a hop. We use it to create the curve in letters such as h, m, and n.

• Blowing Sound: This stroke makes a circle.  We imagine blowing a pinwheel as it goes around in a circle.  We use it to make Oo and Q

• Splash: We picture a fish or a dolphin splashing in the water to make a U shape.  We find this stroke in U, u, q

• Prrrshhh: We think about a rocket taking off.  We start from the bottom and go straight up.  We find it in a, d, g, q, N

• Shlang: We think about the helmet of an astronaut closing.  We find it in P, p, b, B, D, R

• Beep, Beep: We think about a truck backing up.  This is the opposite of vroom.  We find it in G, and we can also use it instead of vroom for the tops of F and E.

• YOOP: We think of a worm going into the ground. We find YOOP in  J, j, g

Sight Words: me, I, it, like, the, is

Writing:

• We will continue using our 1-4 picture rubrics to help us self assess our own stories and decide what we need to do to become even better writers.

Math

Numbers to 5

• We are continuing to review numbers to 5

• We are continuing to practice before and after.  

• How to practice at home:

• Count forward and backward.  Start from random numbers (start at 4 and count backward to 0)

• Online game: put numbers in numerical order (challenge - go beyond 10!) http://www.abcya.com/numerical_order.htm

• Online Activity: before and after on the number line https://www.ixl.com/math/kindergarten/before-after-and-between-up-to-10

• Game to play at home: https://www.uni.edu/coe/regentsctr/epq/content/and-after-game

• Before and After Card Game (use regular playing cards. (Start with only the numbers 1-5.  Add cards up to 10 as your child grows confidence!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFCmY2upkc

• If your child had difficulties with before and after last week, Play “Before and After” battleship from last weeks’ Home Learning.

• Draw a number line from 1-5. Give your child hints (the number before 5, the number after 3, etc…) and have them move a counter (coin, small toy, bingo chip, etc..). To that number. If they found that easy, have them give YOU the hints. For an extra challenge, try making the number line from 1-7 or 1-10.

• Printing numbers has proven to be difficult for many of us! Any extra practice at home will greatly assist with this skill.​