Welcome 2019!  I hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas break and that you were able to make lots of memories.

We were sad that we didn’t get to say a final goodbye to Twinkle before Christmas.  During the last week of school she brought little gift bags that I labelled with the students’ names.  When they had a free moment the students were able to write a kind note and put it in someone’s bag to give the gift of kindness.

I introduced the class to Kerplunk and a new strategy game called OK Play today.  Both were a hit!  I know we just had Christmas, but there is a sale on games at Toys R Us this week ;)  Children learn so much while playing board/card games (plus it’s a great family activity).

Literacy:   I have decided not to continue with the reading log calendars.  Please continue to listen to your child read/read to them each night.  The goal is not only to build their skills as a reader, but also to build on their love of reading.

The class voted for our next class novel to be The Mouse and the Motorcycle.  It’s always one of my favourite novels to read.

We will wait till next week to start new No Excuses words.  In writing this week we will be writing about our Christmas break and finishing up our Christmas tradition writing.

Math:  This week our numbers will be 72-75.  You can ask your child to show you the number as tens and ones, get them to skip count to that number, make and addition or subtraction equation with that number as the answer, etc. 

We are continuing to work on doubles and doubles plus one facts and on representing numbers to 100 in several different ways.  We are also learning about equality and inequality and how to represent equal and not equal groups.  Please practice skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s at home as I’ll be introducing coins soon.

Dates to Remember

Monday, January 7: PL day

Tuesday, January 8: Tots n Taters

Wednesday, January 9: Library Books due

Thursday, January 10: Great Canadian Bagel

Friday, January 11: Pancake breakfast  We have rescheduled our pancakes breakfast that  we missed due to the last storm day.

                                   Tots n Taters, Book Orders due

Have a great first full week of 2019!​