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October 5th - 9th

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     Literacy This week, we are beginning our work with the First 300 High-Frequency Words. We will be practising these words at school by reading them, writing them, and using them in sentences. We encourage families to practise these words at home as well. Regular practice will help students become more confident and automatic when reading and writing. Our words this week are: 11- eleven   12 – twelve   13 – thirteen 14 – fourteen   15 – fifteen   16 – sixteen   17 – seventeen   18 – eighteen   19 – nineteen   20 – twenty Phonics Focus we focused our lesson this week on vowels A,O,U make a different sound when followed by LL we played sight word bingo practiced spelling use our "Best Guess Spelling" on white boards  Math - recognize numbers from 0 to 100  - read and name numbers. - match numbers to their written forms - identify numbers that come before and after a given number -we have also started our number sense uni...

Honouring Truth & Reconciliation September 28-October 2

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 Literacy This week, we are beginning our work with the First 300 High-Frequency Words. We will be practising these words at school by reading them, writing them, and using them in sentences. We encourage families to practise these words at home as well. Regular practice will help students become more confident and automatic when reading and writing. Our words this week are: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten Phonics Focus We reviewed the short u and short e vowel sounds. Our next focus will be consonant digraphs. Students will learn that a consonant digraph is when two consonants work together to make one sound.    Math We have now completed our Patterns unit! Our next learning has been focused on developing number sense through engaging Esti-Mystery activities. Through these activities, students are learning to: Make thoughtful estimates Look closely at numbers and quantities Use clues to solve problems Explain how they arrived at their answers Share and d...