Lunar new year and Canada at the Olympics

February always brings so many special holidays and memorable events.  The first week of February has lived up to the expectation!

In addition to celebrating Lunar new year this week, we brought team spirit to Brantford school to cheer on Team Canada at the Olympics. We spoke about the athletes’ accomplishments and all of the hard work that it took to for them to compete at the Olympics.

Number Blocks

I am usually not a supporter of screen time for young learners, BUT I have discovered Number Blocks (on netflix and youtube). It is an amazing show to introduce math concepts and reinforce learned skills. You may have heard your child talk about this show because I have been showing them some episodes to support our lessons in class.  I could not resist ordering the Number Blocks friends for our class! Here they are!

Grade Ones are focusing on subtraction and addition to 18.

Kindergarten students are learning to break apart a number in 2 parts (example, 7 can break into 3 and 4).

Reading at Home

At this time of the year, the Grade One students’ reading skills are developing immensely. Continue with reading as much as possible at home.  The more they read the better readers they become! If you need more books or your RAZ kids password just email me.

Kindergarten students brought home their “Alphabet Books” today. Please keep this book in a special place to read and read again often. On each page, they can draw 2 pictures of objects that begin with that letter.

 

Valentine’s Day

On Monday Feb. 14, we will celebrate friendship on Valentine’s Day. Students are welcome to bring Valentine cards for their classmates. Valentine cards can be store bought or home made. As a school. we have decided that we do not want to have food/goodies/treats/toys attached to the Valentine cards. Receiving the card is more than enough fun-let’s keep this simple!

So if your child chooses to distribute Valentine cards on Feb. 14, please ensure there is one for every classmate, only send the cards, and encourage your child to write the names of their classmates on the cards themselves.

Please add Selihom’s name to the “Frienship List” that was sent earlier in the year. There are 20 students in our class.

Have a lovely weekend!