Reading Like a Newsreporter, Word Work, and Repeating Patterns!

Reminder:

Tomorrow is our Field trip to ATP to view "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe". Please ensure your child is at school on time so we can board the busses in a timely manner. 

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have been practicing Reading Like a Newsreporter! We watched a video about how to present like a newscaster!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIEwXWUQs4

We made sure that we had printed of one of the articles that we were interested in from the www.teachingkidsnews.ca website. 

This week we are practicing Reading with Expression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dnJ74xtJTQ

Parent Pipeline:

I can use the punctuation to Help me Read with Expression. 

Your child will continue practicing this all week and the Literacy Homework will have a pre-printed article for them to practice with you at home. They can also practice with their home reading books making note of punctuation using sticky notes if you have them. 

Word Work

This week we have been practicing making words using the SHORT Vowel sounds and rules:

We focused specifically on shot a and the sounds it makes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KUiov8_uEo

We then had to use our Literacy books to find words that used the short a sound OR words that BROKE the rules and belonged in Jail!!

We used letter tiles and made as many words as we could think of that followed the short a word family:

Math

Patterns

This week we are working on recognizing, building, and extending a repeating pattern:

Today we worked in partners to create patterns. We were challenged to use 3 or more attributes!

Tomorrow we will turn this pattern into a body/movement pattern.