Room 9 was introduced to their new morning routine today. Every day, students are required to begin morning work when they enter the room. In their calendar books, students are challenged to write out today's date and use their knowledge of number to represent the total days we've been in school so far. Students have to write the number (today was 54), write one number less, and one number more. As an extra challenge, grade twos are asked to write the number word as well. Morning work also includes seasons, weather, and sight word practice and will vary each day.
Afterwards, students moved on to their letter Rr books. Students know that the Rr makes a short sound, and does not say "ruh"! We brainstormed words that begin with Rr, end with Rr, and even have Rr in the middle. Practice your Rr books today as they also include great sight words such as "did", "he" and "like". Your student should have a minimum of 3 signatures on the back of their book already, which would mean they've already read to three people in school. If they do not, be sure they are reading the book more than once at home. In math, grade 1s continued their exploration of patterns. We reviewed the pattern core, which is the part of the pattern that repeats and we learned about pattern terms. Pattern terms are the individual parts of a pattern. So, if a student were to make a pattern of: clap, slap, tap, clap slap, tap, clap, slap, tap....the core is clap, slap, tap and the last term in core is tap. Make some patterns tonight and test your student on their pattern knowledge so far! Grade twos were introduced to ordinal numbers today from 1st to 10th. Grade students now have a solid understanding that numbers have an order or sequence. We can no use ordinals to place objects in order. See some extra practice for grade two students below. We worked further on developing sentences today, too. After we reviewed the parts of a sentence (subject and an action), students were asked to complete the below sentence by filling in a subject (aka noun): My favourite part about the zoo was ____________. Students wrote these in their journals and Grade twos were challenged to writing a second sentence to explain why that was their favourite part: I liked ________ because ________. These responses are being used as an exit slip on our study of sentences so far, they will tell me where students need further support when it comes to writing complete sentences. After I edit them, students will make revisions and compare the differences from their first sentences to their second. Finally, students worked on the digraph "ck". A diagraph is a combination of letters that make just one sound, you cannot hear each individual letter. "Ck" makes the /c/ sound and is used at the end of a short word. We practiced this sound by exploring words that ended in "ack" such as: back, sack, tack, rack, and pack. See below part of the worksheet we completed today which allows students to identify each individual sound in a word (represented by the dots below) in order to sound out the whole word.
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