This week in Language Arts, students have learned a new reading strategy called the "Closed Syllable" strategy. Closed syllable words have a short vowel sound sandwiched between two or more consonants. For example: cat, napkin, Atlantic, are all closed syllable words. By identifying the syllables, students can better read long multi-syllable words. Students have also been busy illustrating their winter stories that they typed last week.
In Social Studies, our focus for the week has been paleontology. We are continuing to learn about Alberta's unique resources, and fossils are definitely one of them! Tomorrow we have a Skype presentation from a paleontologist at Royal Tyrell Museum. We are so excited! Today was the kids' first music class with Mrs. Rowein. Over the next few weeks students students will be responding to music. This weeks question is, "How does different music make us move differently?" Students have a wonderful time dancing and moving differently to match different rhythms, lyrics, beats, and tempos of songs. In Math, students are continuing their work on addition and subtraction with regrouping. Today, they did a new activity that connected to our reading strategy, and graphed the amount of names with different numbers of syllables in our classroom. This week in Science, students have been hard at work on the Science Important Book. The Important Book is a pattern book. Students created their own pattern book based on different parts of the ear. Speaking of Science...next week is our hearing and sound field trip to Bell Music Centre! Please return any unsigned forms by tomorrow. Important Reminder: Parent-teacher interviews are tomorrow evening, and Friday from 8:00am-1:00pm. Please sign up for a time if you have not done so already. :) Mrs. Rowein and Mr. Abma
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