We have finished all of the single letter sounds, including the accents on e and a (é, è, ê, à, â), and we have looked at the multiple sounds that single letters make (like an s making both the s and z sound, c making s and k, etc). We have also worked on double consonants and have starting working on silent letters at the end of words. In the next few weeks, we are going to work on some complex sounds, digrammes and trigrammes, and we will be practicing au, eau, ou, and eu in the next two weeks.
The theme we started last week was about social interactions, so our writing this past week, and the next two weeks, will focus on what are the characteristics that we like in friends and what we need to do to be a good friend.
In Math this past week, we revisited adding and subtracting 10 from a given number. This coming week we will be revisiting addition and subtraction strategies. One of the strategies we will review will be fact families. If you know that 3 + 4 = 7, you can use it to help you figure out what is 7 – 4. These next couple of weeks will be revisiting some of the concepts that proved to be a bit of a struggle on the benchmark assessment.
On Thursday, we received our final part to set up our classroom garden! With only two weeks before the break, we will probably just set up the system, and then we will be able to start planting in January. We’ll hopefully be able to have a ‘salad-bration’ in a few months to celebrate what we grow in the garden and try out some of the different vegetables that we’ll grow.