Week in Review, April 8-12, 2024

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In Writing, we worked to develop our series. We thought of a main character and their likes and dislikes. We also thought about their character traits, supporting characters, and some problems and solutions they may face throughout our series. Next week we will start writing our first book.

In Reading, we continued reading realistic fiction stories. If you hear your child talking about a series they are enjoying, we encourage you to purchase some of the books for home reading. This week we learned to do the following, while reading realistic fiction:

Reread to see more
Learn about the characters
Pay attention to other characters too
Reread to learn more about the characters

In Word Study, we continued to work on other vowel teams. A vowel team is a combination of letters that represent a vowel sound. We learned the vowel teams "ew", "ue", "ue", "au", "aw", and "augh". The vowel teams "ew", "ue", "ue" all make the "oo" sound. The "ew" and "ue" spelling comes at the end of words, while "ui" comes in the middle of words. The vowel teams "au", "aw" and "augh" all make the short "o" sound. The "au" and "augh" spelling can be found in the middle of words, while "aw" can be found at the beginning, middle or end. Please practice the new heart words "month", "hour" and "minute".

In Math, we measured our friends and learned how to solve compare story problems and take from story problems, with unknowns in all positions.

We also learned how to analyze story problems with unknowns in all positions and match addition and subtraction equations to story problems.

In Science, we conducted a couple sound investigations. Student made the following claim: Vibrating materials make sound.

Ask your child what makes sound and how sound travels. Ask them about some of the items in the basket and what they discovered.

We also had a field trip to the Zoo, enjoyed a Grade 1 Assembly to watch the Mountain Film Festival, had a class sleepover party and learned about and celebrated Ramadan. Matty's Aunty, from Indonesia, shared some festive snacks with us. We also read a story and made a Ramadan craft.