Marvelous Mondays

A big thank you, to everyone for all of your help and support with our Home Reading program.  The learners are really enjoying developing their reading, fluency and comprehension skills.  We changed our home reading books at school today, so everyone is bringing home a new book to read with you tonight. 

At school today, the students were excited to explore our new literacy centers.  Each group had a turn with me to work on guided reading, while the other groups worked on a variety of letter and reading activities.  

In Social Studies, we continue to take turns sharing our All About Me Bags.  We love learning about our classmates and hearing what clubs or groups we belong to outside of school.  The students are doing a great job respectfully listening and asking thoughtful questions to each other.  

This afternoon, we learned some songs about Canada and Canadian symbols.  We read the book Canada 123, and the students have been creating their own Canadian counting stories.  In Math, we are focusing right now on Representing Numbers to 20. The Learning Goals for this unit are to: 

• Read and print numbers to 20.
• Read number words to twenty.
• Count forward from 0 to 20. 
• Count backward from 20 to 0.
• Count by matching the number word to the objects being counted. 
• "Build"numbers by arranging and rearranging objects.
• Recognize familiar groups of objects or dots.
• Compare and order numbers and groups of objects using words such as more, fewer, and same.
• Estimate the number of objects and check by counting.
• Use real-life materials to help solve simple number problems. 

At home with your child, collect sets of 11 to 20 objects (for example, 12 stuffed animals, 16 envelopes). Have your child count the objects. Ask: "How many are there in each set?" 

Thank you for your help and support :) 

Warm Regards,

Mrs. Lai