Hello everyone,
I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Last week, the students continued to learn and review graphing in math. The students are starting to survey their friends and analyze the data from their results. The students are beginning to understand that some people may get different results. Ask your child why this may be the case (asked different people). We are also using the number line to help with counting forwards and backwards. We are learning the strategy where we start at a particular number and count from there rather than always starting at the number one. This strategy will assist in adding numbers. We have been adding and subtracting by one and two, so they understand that numbers are in relation to one another rather than isolated digits.
The students also created artwork last week. We have been learning about different lines and the primary colours. They used different lines for the background of their art pieces and used the primary colours as the foreground. Ask your child which lines they chose to use in their artwork.
One component in our language program is letter and sound recognition (phonemic awareness). The students have been given letter tiles to review letters and sounds. The students are learning that all words must have both vowels and consonants. We have also been brainstorming different words for word families, such as "ing", "at", "ell" etc. We will continue to learn and use this strategy to help the students stretch out their words. Every week starting today, the students will be given 5 letters to make words. The bonus word is using all of the letters. Let's see how many words they can come up with.
