Welcome Back!!!!
That was certainly an interesting 6 month, since our last day of school in the 2019-2020 school year, on March 13. So much has happened between now and then. I assure you we are doing everything to keep your children safe during the new school year.
This past week was only a 4 day week, but our first "full" week of school. There was lots of review that was happening and some new concepts. Here is a little tidbit about some things we learned about this week.
Language Arts
In language arts, this past week we had our first spelling list. We also worked in our phonics books. The activities in the phonics book generally will align with the concept/idea of the weekly spelling words. This week we worked on beginning and ending consonant sounds. We talked about what letters are vowels, and that consonants are any letters that are not vowels. We will begin our writing program next week, on top a new spelling list and some more phonics activities. I will be introducing concepts related to learning about 2 different genre's of writing, informative writing, and narrative writing (non-fiction and fiction).
Our focus in writing at the start of the year has been in sentence writing. The students should know and be able to write a sentence that has an upper case letter at the beginning, as well as a period at the end, signaling the end of their thought or idea. We have done writing in our journals, sharing our though about the summer and what our weekends look like.
Math
In math, we started with a review of numbers to 20, and basic single digit addition and subtraction equations. We also looked at the concept of adding and subtracting 0. We will continue with a little bit more practice on this before we move into our first unit, repeating patterns.
Science
In science, we are beginning with our magnetism unit. So far, the students have learned to use the word attract, to describe how a magnet interacts with certain metals. We have also learned what the 3 metals are that magnets attract, iron, nickel, and cobalt. Over the rest of September and October, we will continue to learn about concepts surrounding magnets, as well as learning about the scientific method, to participate in some experiments.
Social
In social, we are beginning with a quick review of mapping, leaning where in Canada you can find our community of Leduc, and the province of Alberta. We are learning terms like near and far, do describe the relative position of different places on a map. Once we finish with mapping, we will begin to learn about Leduc in the past, and compare it to today.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and week ahead.
