Thank you to all families for joining me at Parent Teacher Conferences. I hope that you found it a helpful look into the classroom and your child's learning.
I Can Think About How I Am Connected to My World / I Can Explore the Cultural Characteristics of My Community
This week we were lucky enough to take advantage of the beautiful weather and go on a community walk. Since we are eagerly awaiting the installation of our community art, we set off looking art already installed in the community. Our first stop was at the community garden where we saw the revamped Robot. This was a special connection for us since the artist who restored the robot was none other than Artist Monica who led us through the fence art project. It will be interesting to see how the bright colours from the robot are reflected in our own pieces.
We continued on our way to the Rainbow Fish and learned about perspective in art and how one looks at a piece is never the same with each viewing. The capstone of our walk was to talk about how public spaces influence the feelings of belonging within a community and how enhancements like public art connect all community members together.
Literacy
All students are continuing to build skills around decoding words as they become more comfortable with reading. As part of this process, we also spend some time using our skills to encode words (write/spell them). Decoding and encoding are skills that go hand in hand and should be practiced simultaneously. Most grade one students will develop these skills at the same pace. Students in grade two who are already reading will find that their decoding skills will advance much faster than their abilities to encode and thus inventive spelling is quite common and nothing to worry about. As students develop their understanding of the different patterns that make up words and spend much time practicing both reading and writing them, their spelling skills will improve.
This week's Red Words: so, to, we, all
Reminders
Monday, November 28th - Learning Commons and book exchange
