September 14th - 18th - Week at a Glance

Hello Room 17! Thanks to all of you for a wonderful week here at Le Roi Daniels. We have started to settle into the routine of being back at school and trying our best each and every day! The students have been spending time reviewing our single letter graphemes and working on our printing and understanding of the various sounds that are associated with the letters. Students have also discussed and practiced their roles as writers who are there to create a clear picture for the reader with the words they choose to use. We have also talked about the various Brain Pockets we all have - our Memory, Fact and Imagination Pockets that we use depending on what type of writing we are trying to express to our readers. Along our writing journey, we will also be looking at when we need to use upper case letters, periods or other forms of punctuation within our sentences. In Math, the students have been exploring patterns and what makes up a complete pattern. We have discussed the various attributes that can change within a pattern - colour, size, shapes, direction and thickness or thinness of a shape within the pattern. Students also are looking at how numbers form patterns and understanding how to count by 2's, 5's and 10's while examining a hundreds chart. In Science, we have talked about the various jobs associated with being a scientist and what the students will have to do while participating in our science classes to be an effective scientist. Our first unit we will be exploring has to do with Small Crawling and Flying Animals, notably various insects, spiders and slugs or snails that we find in our community environments.  Also this week, the students participated in the Terry Fox Run on Friday and thank you to all the students who participated and also for many of those who were able to bring in a donation to put towards cancer research. All the students came to have a greater appreciation of the courage and perseverance that Terry Fox showed us in doing his Marathon of Hope and trying to support research in finding a cure for cancer.

A few reminders that the homework will be posted on this Blog page on Sunday night and that Monday is a formal uniform day. Almost all the students received their homework books and communication folders on Friday and they were given a colour (red, blue or yellow) as their assigned colour in which they need to complete this level of homework. The homework will be due on Thursday, September 24th as Friday is a school wide PD day.  If you have any questions about the homework, please do not hesitate to email me to discuss it.

Thanks and have a safe and relaxing weekend,

Mr. Hakes