SPIRIT DAY WEDNESDAY!!!!!!

PLENTY of PATTERNS Day On Wednesday!

Stripes, dots, plaid, zig-zags....find as many items of clothes in your closet that have a pattern and make a crazy spirit day outfit!  Can you make an outfit with more that one pattern? TWO?  MORE????

Have fun!  Mrs. Wacker is going to try to find 6 different patterns to wear. Wish me luck!   See you Wednesday!

Homework for the long weekend!

 

In health, we focus on a variety of aspects of healthy living; one of them being, mental health. Today your child is bringing home a pre-assessment to complete. On one side (the one with faces) please read the statements to your child and have them assess their personal growth mindset.
On the other side, we would like you to have a meaningful conversation with your child about how they deal with challenges they may face. Please talk to your child about these statements and write down their answers.
Please return all forms by Tuesday, October 15th.

Look For 3 Black Cards In Folders!

(The three labelled black cards you will find in your child's communication backpack.  Please remove them tonight, complete the activity then return them completed before Oct. 18th.)

Celebrating Us!  

Our classroom is made up of a unique mix of children with a variety of histories, passions, hobbies, families and celebrations. 

To help build community, it is important for the members of the class to learn about each other.  To find out what we have in common and how we are unique. This term we will be exploring the Social Studies unit:

1.2 Moving Forward with the Past: My Family, My History and My Community

General Outcome: Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how changes over time have affected their families and influenced how their families and communities are today.                                                       –Alberta Program of Studies

This unit focuses on the children learning about their families’ history, culture, celebrations and changes, which they can compare and contrast with their peers. 

Your child will need their parents’ help to learn the unique and special things about their families.  We will be sending home a series of projects and requests to help your child with this unit.

My, Family, My hobbies, My celebrations:(Return by Oct. 18^th)

Your child will come home with three labelled black cards. 

1.  On the 1^st card, glue a picture of your immediate family (the people you live with or spend a lot of time with.)  If you child lives at two homes, send an additional picture, which I will mount and label at school.

2.  On the 2^nd card, glue a picture of a celebration that is important in your family. (Many of us celebrate many things, so think of one that is most important to your family, or that is unique).

3.  On the 3^rd card, glue a picture of a hobby/activity that is important in your family. 

(Choose photographs that show details that help show the event/activity. If you don’t have a photo, you can print and cut out pictures from the computer/magazine to glue on your card or you can make a detailed drawing.) Please glue the picture on the opposite side of the label so we can still see your child’s name.

We will be sorting and comparing these cards in the classroom during group activities and your child will have an opportunity to talk and write about their cards.  Before you send them in, it would be very beneficial to talk to your child about their choices so they have vocabulary and descriptive details to share. 

Reminder:

Birthdays:  Montessori Around the Sun Celebration

On your child’s birthday (in May/June if a summer birthday or the week before if on the weekend), please send to school one picture of an important event/experience for each year of your child’s life.  (You may want to also include a birth picture). In the ceremony, your child will describe what happened that year. Please work with your child to select the photos and to practice what they will say. (Please write, or have your child write), reference notes on the back of each picture (so a teacher can help them if they forget).   This activity helps show the changes that have happened in your child’s life.

Today we continued to talk about how changes affect people.  Have your child talk about the book we read today.  Ask them about what big change happened in Alexander's Life.  Encourage them to contrast Alexander's life from BEFORE the change to AFTER the change. 

Make Ten Facts

Today we learned a math game to practice our "Make Ten Facts". 

It is our goal to be able to solve our basic facts using MENTAL MATH STRATEGIES. 

Basic Facts are our adding and subtracting facts adding two numbers (addends) to a sum of 18. 

The children will learn strategies to help them solve these facts.  Some strategies work better for different facts. 

When seeing the fact 1+9=_____, if would be super inefficient to count one then add on 9.  It would also take a long time and be prone to counting errors. 

When a student sees this question they need to decide which strategy would work best.

They might flip the addends to make 9+1=___, then say 9 and add on one more (as it can be efficient to add on one or two). 

Today we learned about Make Ten Facts.  These are addends that go together to make 10.  Today kids would see 9 and know that it needs 1 more to make 10.

The kids have used the TEN FRAME cards to play many number recognition games.  They should be able to SUBITIZE numbers 1-10.  Ex. 9 is 1 less than 10,  7 is 5 and 2.

These cards help the children see how the numbers "fit together" to make ten. 

Make Ten Facts: 
10+0,   9+1,   8+2,   7+3,   6+4,   5+5

Our solitaire game looked like this:

Have your child explain how they played the game.   You could play it with regular playing cards as well.

Today in Social Studies, we read a story called Franklin's Baby Sister.  It helped us talk about changes in our lives.

Franklin's Baby Sister: Before/After chart:

Writing Expectations

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Today we talked about the expectations for writing. We looked at exemplars and a rubric. This rubric was created by teachers. We are working on creating the next one together as a class. These expectations are for September and October.

Big and Small Problems

 

I can solve small problems.

Today we talked about big and small problems. Small problems can be solved by students. Some examples include, a student budging in line, a friend using your pencil, someone sitting to close to you. Students brainstormed these small problems and drew pictures and wrote sentences about small problems.

  

Communication Folder

In order to keep you informed of the work we're doing in class, we'll be sending home some of your child's work. Today we're sending home some science work they we've done in class. Please have a look at the work and talk about the new(or familiar) vocabulary we're using to describe our sense of touch.


There are also picture order forms and some other notes for you to have a look at in the communication folder.