October 2 - 6th 

It is hard to believe that we have already finished our first week of October! We have had a wonderful start to the season of Fall through making connections with one another, to the land, to the season and through our learning. 

This week we spent time thinking about Autumn and reflecting on how this is a time to be thankful and explored the word gratitude. as an emotion, attitude and trait.  We read several books such as Gratitude is my Superpower by Alicia Ortega, Giving Thanks by Chief Jake Swamp and We are Grateful by Traci Sorell. Our next step was to brainstorm a list of things, people places, food, feelings and  important times that we were grateful for. Students were then given an opportunity to create word art - images built out of words to represent their ideas. Here are a few of the student's pieces - 






Phonics - Over the past couple weeks we have continued to review grapheme-phonemes (letter/sound) that were taught in grade one to make sure everyone has a solid grasp of them. I sent home a package of activities that we have done at school for students to continue practicing at home. 
Here is a list of of the grapheme/phonemes we have covered in the last couple of weeks - 
- /wh/, /w/ - white and walk
- /ph/, /f/ - phone and fish
- /ng/ - song, ring
-/nk/ - sink
- vce: vowel, consonant, /e/where the e tells the vowel to say its' name or strong sound. Examples - man - mane, ton - tone, rip - ripe, us - use.
- vce: exceptions to the rule -  /ce/ - face, ice   /g/ - huge, cage
- live, love, come, done. 

High frequency words - sight words that are commonly used. Some are easily decoded and some are red words meaning they do not follow the rule and they should just be memorized. 
This past week we worked on these words - 
 

say

great

where

help

through

much

before

line

right

too


Math - I can identify how patterns grow and I can describe increasing patterns.
Over the past number two weeks we have been solidifying our understanding of increasing patterns. 


A pattern with a repeated increase of some sort is called an increasing (or growing) pattern. Here are some examples:

1, 2, 3, 4, … (The term values increase by 1 each time.)

3, 8, 13, 18, 23, … (The term values increase by 5 each time.)


Increasing patterns can also be shapes or actions instead of numbers, for example:


Clap 1 time, clap 3 times, clap 5 times, clap 7 times, 


Students have been involved in tasks to create increasing patterns and to identify or explain the pattern 

by discussing the rule. 

They have been challenged to represent growing patterns in different ways such as with blocks, a number line and actions.







Reminders/Upcoming Events

Monday, October 9th - Thanksgiving Monday: schools closed
Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate. May you all enjoy the long weekend surrounded by family and friends. 

Tuesday, October 10th - Field trip to Fish Creek 

Wednesday, October 11th - Library Book Exchange: please return your child's library books



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