Happy Monday everyone!

Even though last week was a short week, it was very busy.  We had Blue Jay Day for a spirit day and we had the opportunity to dress up for Scrabble Day because we reached our Terry Fox goal of $10,000.  That is truly amazing!

The students continued with some of their routines, such as printing and the morning meeting.  We also learned a new poem about vowel pairs.  Ask your child the rule for when there are two vowels together.  The students are learning the concept of vowels and consonants.  This is a great writing strategy for the beginning of grade one.  They are learning to stretch out words they are unfamiliar with and to ensure a vowel is included in each word.

In math, the students have been surveying their classmates on different questions.  The class had a few "I wonder" questions about the data in our graphs.  For example, one "I wonder" question was "What would the data look like if we asked another grade one class?" The students were so excited that we also asked our learning buddies' class.  Ask your child for the results.  They were enthusiastic to analyze and compare the data.  We will continue to learn about graphs for the month of October.

We also had art class last week in which the students had the opportunity to experiment with the primary colours.  They figured out that putting more of one colour can change the shade of the secondary colour.  Ask your child what the primary colours are and why we describe them as the primary colours.