Friday, January 27th, 2023

 Hello Families,

Thanks you so much for joining us for Family Literacy day if you were able to. Here are a few Literacy games you can play at home. We will also be trying these at school too!

Literacy Games

We have been very busy in our classroom over the last few weeks! 

We learned about the digraphs th, sh, ch, and wh. We sorted pictures that had each digraph
at the beginning of the word or at the end of the word. Students were encouraged to attempt to spell each word as well. 





We learned about compound words and played the game, I have ___, who has ___ to match up our cards and make compound words together.



Amazing writing has been taking place. We read The Colour Monster again. Each student picked an emotion or feeling as well as a colour to go along with it. Each day we added a sentence in our writing to tell about our colour and feeling. We learned about similies and were able to transfer our learning into our writing! Some examples were:

  • Green is a beautiful as an emerald.
  • Green is like yummy, crunchy cucumbers.
  • Yellow is as bright as the sun. 
  • Green is as green as a stem of a flower.
See if your child can remember what they wrote. We will be editing for our sky, grass, dirt letters, size of letters and spelling next week so that we can write our final draft for you to see.

In Math we have focused on addition and different strategies to help us add two numbers together. Our Montessori materials are a great way to support our learning and the students are excited to use them and solve the addition problems on their own!

Our mornings have started a bit differently in 2023. We have been having great discussions after viewing different video clips about topics such as: 
  • how to be strong
  • how to be calm and manage our anger
  • perseverance
  • teamwork
  • not quitting
We also have a poll of the day each morning and we are learning how to share 'why' we made our choice and explain it to the class.

Report Cards are available on Monday, January 30th. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the snow!
Ms. Romanko

Upcoming Dates

  • Monday, January 30th - Report Cards Available Online
  • Friday, February 3rd - PD Day - No School
  • Thursday, February 9th - Opa Fun Lunch
  • Wednesday, February 15th - Family Dance
  • February 16th-17th - Teacher's Convention (no school)
  • Monday, February 20th - Family Day - no school
  • Wednesday, February 22nd - Pink Shirt Day
  • Thursday, February 23rd - A&W Fun Lunch

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