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Our community- I know here





We have started a unit on our community. The children have all made a model of their house. They had to draw details such as the number of windows, doors and window coverings. Then they placed their house on a table in the class closest to the area where they live such as Mill Bay, Shawnigan Lake and
Cobble Hill. 
We have talked about what is in the yards of our homes. The children used loose parts such as rocks, gravel, green paper and buttons to make what is in their yards. The next step in our journey is to draw our streets. We are going to draw them as if we are looking down at our houses. If you wish, please write in the agenda if we can look at your home on Google maps. 


Addition

We are practicing our math fact to 12. We have practicing writing math equations and using drawing to solve addition equations. This next week we are going to continue with the games in the class with the goal of making the math facts more automatic. After the break we will begin subtraction and then work on addition facts to 20 and subtraction from 20. 


Things you can do at home:

Reading

Starting this week the children should be choosing a French book from the library that they can read. Please have your child read to you in both English and French. Ask them what strategies they use to figure out new words. Please try and resist the urge to just say the word for your child.
  • use the picture to figure out the word
  • look at the letter sounds
  • check if the guess makes sense
  • go back and reread to see what makes sense
  • divide the words into syllable chunks (after each vowel in French)

Addition

  1. Have your child show you what they know about the numbers 5,6,7,8,9.
  2. Play go fish but instead of matching the cards have the pairs have to add up to any number between 5-12. 
  3. Play games that have 2 dice or dominos. You can ask your child to teach you "Face-off". It is a favourite with some of the students.

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