Happy Friday!

Our week of learning about pumpkins has come to an end. Our weekly poem taught us about different sizes of pumpkins and helped us to start recognizing words that repeat. We reviewed the letters Mm, Ss, Aa, Rr, Ll, Tt, Ff, Nn, Ll and Tt. We will not be doing new letters next week but will take the week to continue to review the letters we have talked about so far. We sign the song for each letter and learn an action that goes along with it that helps us remember the sound it makes.

We also talked about the number 1 and the number 2. We write the number, create a group of objects showing that number (2 blocks, 1 pencil, 2, leaves, 1 stick, etc.) show the number in tally marks, show the number in pictures (drawing 2 cars or 1 bear, etc.), what the number looks like on a dice as well as what the number looks like written in a word. 

Next week we will be retiring to look at our names and the letters in our names. We will practice printing our names, making our names with clay, rainbow writing our names and going on a letter hunt around the school. We will do a new weekly poem with the topic of how our names make each of us special and unique. 

The following week we will be discussing and learning about Remembrance Day and what that day means to us. I just wanted to give you a heads up in case you wanted to start talking with your child about the day and what it means. 

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the nice weather we are supposed to be having!

Seana Blake

smblake@cbe.ab.ca