Week of January 8th

Neighbourhood Walks

This week, we went on a few walks due to the very wet weather conditions in our playground. Student's noticed many things in the neighbourhood like houses that were under construction, the garbage and recycling bins were out and there were a lot of puddles we had to walk around! We ventured to Bayview for our next walk and discussed what kind of things we might buy at the different stores. Some even pointed out the stores where I get my coffee and scones from, they are very observant! :) 

Officer Manny

This week we had a visit from Toronto Police Services, Officer Manny. Students had the chance to ask him questions about his job after he discusses some safety rules with the classes. We learned the importance of wearing a helmet while biking or using a scooter, what to do if you get lost and he even showed us the different kinds of police cars we have in Toronto.

Letter of the Week

This week the letter was Mm. We went on an Mm picnic and brainstormed things we could bring such as melon, marshmallows, Mommy's, and mice.

To form the uppercase M:

- Start at the top

- Big line down

- Frog jump to the top

- Big line down on a diagonal

- Big line up on a diagonal

- Big line straight down

To form the lowercase m:

- Start at the top

- Dive down

- Swim up

- Add a hump

- Swim up (on the same line)

- Add another hump

*We do not lift our pencil up for this letter*

Jolly Phonics Song

The Mum and the Dad make many meals,

/mmm/

/mmm/.

The Mum and the Dad make many meals,

for their hungry children.

Trinket

Sue and Trinket came to visit and we were able to share with them some things we did over the break. Sue let us know that Trinket got some new toys and a new coat for Christmas!

Name Recognition

Students were challenged to make their names and their friends names using playdough and alphabet stamps. We noticed that some names needed more playdough then others and some names had the same letter more than once.

Sorting

After the class was read Sam Sorts by Marthe Jocelyn, we had the chance to come up with creative and challenging ways to sort a pile a different items from our classroom. Some ways we sorted were by size (big and small), colour, material (wood and plastic) and uses of the objects (things you write with and things you build with).