We had a great first spirt day in our pyjamas. We began today learning about a new coin, the dime. We began counting money with bases of 1s, 5s, and 10s. This is a skill that requires more practice, but we were very happy with how far students have come along using this foreign currency. While the concept of American money is not relevant to most of our students, it is another way to represent numbers and practice counting with a variety of number bases, while learning about 'trading'. During ELL we learned about the diagraphs th, sh, ch, and wh. We watched an alphablocks video and played a game where students put a diagraph on their head (see picture above). Students gave the child wearing the sound different words that had that diagraph in it. The students had to guess what diagraph was on their head. It was a lot of fun. After that, students rotated through 4 different sorting activities working with these diagraphs. If you are unaware what a diagraph is, ask your child, they should be able to tell you. For our UOI today, students continued to research about honey bees. We reviewed the words appearance and habitat, and introduced the word diet to our vocabulary. Students are busy writing down their ideas about these headings, and will be producing sentences for a report later in the week. For our Language Arts/Daily 5 time, we were lucky to have Swastee (Anish's Mom) back with us this week. Students curled up in their pyjamas and worked on their literacy skills. Remember that you should be reading every night with your child on kidsa-z. Try to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction. The end of the next quarter is January 22nd. By then you child should be reading between level F and H in order to receive an 'S' on their report card. Please make sure you are reading books at your child's level every night. If you are not sure what books are level appropriate, please use the app. This is decided for you. If you need additional assistance with supporting your child's reading, please arrange to meet with me.
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