Short Week

Good afternoon everyone.  I hope you all had a fantastic weekend.  There are a few odds and ends that need addressed.

First of all, there is no school this Friday as we have a Professional Development day.  Second, a reminder of meet the teacher night at East tomorrow.  It begins at 6:30 in the gymnasium.  It is a free for all where you go and introduce yourselves to the staff.  Third, is a reminder of library tomorrow. Don't forget those library books at home.

Here is a low down of our short week.

Language Arts

Spelling: 

Our spelling words for this week are as follows
let   his   had   ask   old   took   also   sat   fell   get

Our spelling test will be on Thursday this week as there is no school on Friday.  I also sent yellow spelling duo-tangs home with your students.  These duo-tangs will contain the previous weeks spelling test, as well as the current weeks new words and worksheets.  If your child has not finish the work in the work pages, they are to finish it prior to bringing back their duo-tangs on Thursdays.  I would also like them to correct any mistakes they have on their spelling tests, as additional practice will only help them with their spelling.

Phonics:

We finished up unit 1 on beginning and ending vowel sounds. We will begin our second phonics unit this week.  This unit will focus on short vowel sounds.

Writing:

Every Monday the students will be writing in their journals.  These journals are written without assistance to show the progress of their individual writing skills and their improvement throughout the year showing capitalization, punctuation, as well as complete sentences. We are also continuing with the narrative and informative writing styles.

Math

This week in math we will continue with review of single digit addition.  We have played some games of math addition bingo to really get the students engaged in working with strategies that help them to quickly come up with an answer to an equation.  Our goal is to be able to quickly solve equations of single digits as it will be beneficial to solving 2 digit addition equations later in the year.

Science

We will continue with magnetism and exploring magnets for the rest of this month and into October.

Social Studies

I am positive that all the students in the class are able to locate Canada, Alberta, as well as a general location of Leduc on a map.  We have been working hard studying the map of Canada as well, including other provinces., I have introduced the other provinces to the students.  They are beginning to show interest in other areas of the country which will lead into new units we will study this year.


I hope to see you all at our meet the teacher night tomorrow.  'Till next time, have a wonderful week and enjoy the beautiful weather while you can.

Mr. Aasen