Hello
Parents/Guardians!
W.O.W (Words of the Week)
Words: October 21-25th
- little
- big
- down
- here
- away
Bonus words:
- pumpkin
- count
- orange
Weekly Highlights:
- In literacy, we continued to
practice our secret stories and focused on using the classroom visuals to
help us read and write new words. This week we learned a new secret
story for letters au and aw. These
letters are in love and are so cute together that when anyone sees them
they say “awwwww.”
- In Math, we continued our study of
patterns. We learned how to show our patterns with letters and
practiced drawing our own patterns using simple shapes. When drawing
patterns, students were reminded to use at least 3 terms in the core,
circle the core, and draw at least 3 repetitions of the pattern core.
We also practiced making patterns with our bodies, finding and correcting
mistakes in patterns, matching patterns, and identifying patterns in our
environment (e.g. licence plates, postal codes, days of the week, seasons
in the year, patterns on clothing). We ended the week with our math
patterns quiz.
- To continue our study of Fall we
read the story Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak. We
brainstormed all the things that we said goodbye to when Summer ended and
things we said hello to once Autumn arrived. Students then wrote
their own poem using a similar pattern to the story. They practiced using finger spaces,
using the secret story letter sound chunks to help them write words, and
practiced stretching out their words to record as many letters as
possible. Some of the ideas students came up with were:
- Goodbye
sandals
- Hello
boots
- Goodbye
hot sun
- Hello
falling leaves
- Goodbye
roasting marshmallows
- Hello
raking leaves
- This week we read a story called
Leaf Man by Lois Ellert. All of the pictures in this book are made
with leaves and other objects from nature. The students used the
nature objects that they had brought from home to create their own Leaf
Man inspired picture. They then wrote a sentence to go with it. Some of the things students created
were: a leaf man, a bug, a rabbit, a tree.
- We started our Fall inchie art
project. We learned how to use pastels correctly and created a
patten. Then we painted over it in black and let it dry. The students then looked at lots of
different types/shapes of leaves. They drew their own leaf design
and then scratched this design into the dried black paint.
- We enjoyed time with our Grade 5
buddies this week demonstrating many of the skills we have learned about
patterns. We played some pattern games on the website abcya as well
as the pattern games that were linked in our blog last week!
Reminders:
Pumpkinella:
Get your family together
and join in the fun for SVS’s Pumpkinella! Design, carve, or dress up a
pumpkin to bring for display. ONLY
ONE DISPLAY PER FAMILY PLEASE! Bring your pumpkin to the DLC after
school on Wednesday October 30th or the morning of Thursday October 31st from
8:20-8:40am. The pumpkin may have a safer journey if it is not
brought to school on the bus. If you could add a tea-light to the center
of your pumpkin, it will add to a special effect when placed in the gym.
Classes will tour the gym throughout the day to enjoy your efforts. Pumpkins MUST be picked up to go home by
Thursday October 31st between 4:00-5:00pm. Any pumpkins left at
school will be composted.
Pumpkin Activities:
We will be doing activities
related to pumpkins over the next few weeks. Some of the activities we
may be doing are: gutting a pumpkin, sorting out the seeds, tasting pumpkin
seeds, and baking with the pumpkins. If your child has an allergy or you
would not like them to participate please email your child’s teacher.
Remembrance Day:
Please see the message
below from the grade 6 teachers regarding Remembrance Day.
Dear Parents,
The grade 6 students will
be presenting the Remembrance Day Assembly this year on November 8 starting at
10:30 am. We are asking that students wear a white top and black bottoms that
day. Also, if you have any family members that were part of a war, were peacekeepers
or are currently part of the Canadian Forces, please send a picture either by
email or a copy so that we can honour them on this day. Please include their
name, rank and war/peacekeeping mission that they participated in. Also, if you
could please add your child/children¹s name. Pictures can be sent to lareeve@cbe.ab.ca
Thank you for your support,
The Grade 6 Team
Hot Lunch:
We had our first hot lunch
this week and it was great! If you would like to order hot lunches for
your child here is the link to the Hot Lunches System:
For all orders the latest
you can pay will be the week before the lunch/snack date.
Home Reading:
Thank you to those of you
who have been consistently participating in the home reading program. We
really appreciate the work that you are doing at home to support your child in
becoming a strong reader! We understand that students are at many
different places in their reading and writing journey. Please work with your child at whatever level
they are at. If they are not yet ready to write a complete sentence you
can have them write single words. If
they are still learning letters and letter sounds you can have them practice
printing letters or hunting for words that start with a specific letter. Don’t
forget to tell your child what they are doing well (e.g. great job
stretching out your sounds, wow look at that you wrote the correct letter sound
for the beginning of the word ________, Excellent look at those finger spaces
they make it so much easier to read your work!).
Headphones:
Most students have now
brought in a pair of headphones to leave at school headphones. If you
have not yet sent in headphones we are kindly requesting that you send in a
pair. Please send them in a plastic bag labeled with your child’s name.
Thank you to those of you who have already sent in headphones.
Communication Books:
Please make sure to check
your child’s folder and communication book each day and return it to school. After
checking your child’s communication book please leave it open to the current
page and clean out any papers.
Important Dates:
Please make sure to check the school website calendar regularly
for important dates. We do our best to
try to update the list on the side of our blog, but sometimes dates do get
missed.
Ask Me About:
- Draw a pattern that has 3-5
elements in the core, circle the core, and show the pattern using letters and
numbers.
- Count forwards by 1s from any
number up to 20. (e.g. start at 3 and count forwards to 20, “3, 4, 5, 6,
…”)
- Read, read, read! When
reading with your child have them look for our sight words, identify
letters, hunt for punctuation, look for secret story letter sound chunks,
and discuss the story events.
