Library Tomorrow

I'm sorry I didn't take the time to explain that our library day will change periodically.  Stonecrest operates on a 5 Day cycle...so when we have a PD day or holiday the Day (Day 1, Day 2, etc.) will be on a different day of the week.  Our library day is Day 4 which falls on a Thursday until our PD Day and Family Day (February 17th and 20th respectively)  after which Day 4 will be on Mondays!!!!!

All that to say:  LIBRARY IS TOMORROW

Mitten

We have been reading the Mitten this past week.  Again with this book we made predictions about the story  using the title and the cover picture.  We also listed the animals we would most likely encounter in the story.  To do so we used our letter/sound knowledge and sounded out the first  letter of the animal's name. 

This week we will retell the story using stuffed animals.  Students will then get a chance to colour their own animals and retell the story using a "mitten".  This will be a centre activity and will take approximately a week for all  students to complete.  They will be encouraged to use their "props" to retell the story at home to you.  Thanks for listening to them. 

Valentine's Day Party

On Tuesday, February 14, we will be doing a Valentine Card Exchange and Party.

This is a great opportunity for your child to practise writing their own name.  Some children may even wish to write the names of their classmates on their own.  This could be a discouraging task for a child to do all at one time. You can expect that your child will need several different sessions in which to accomplish this.  This should be a fun and authentic writing opportunity for your child.  A class list of names will be sent home in your child's notetote tomorrow.  We will be decorating paper bags in which their classmates will ‘deliver’ valentine cards. On February 14^th, we will have a classroom Valentine’s celebration.   The children are invited to wear red or pink.

Shared reading

Our shared reading poem of the week is "Let's Build a Snowman".  The first day I drew a snowman step by step-EXACTLY as the students instructed me.  Needless to say the snowman originally had a nose on the top of his head (they said on top!!!)  and a smile where his feet should be.  While this activity made for a wildly good time, students were also introduced to the importance of being specific. 

Next we read the poem and had to figure out what words were missing.  We learned about the word PREDICTION and that it was a fancy word for a good guess.  Our discussion also included appropriate predictions vs silly or inappropriate predictions and using context of the story poem and the words. 

After the first two predictions the first letter of the word was revealed and we saw which of our predictions made sense with that additional clue...sometimes we had to make entirely new predictions. 

 Our follow up activity included making snowmen out of marshmallows

Tomorrow is Library Day

Please return your library books. 

Library

Today marked the start of our weekly trips to the library.  Our assigned library day will be Day 4.  Each student signed out one book from the library which will need to be returned by the next Day 4 (next Wednesday).  Books will need to be returned before taking a new book out.  I will try my best to send reminders about library day each week in this blog. Happy reading!

We're back

We have had a fantastic start to our new year!!!  With our new year comes an invitation for those parents who have a expressed an interest to volunteer in our room.    I am anticipating setting a monthly schedule for volunteers. 

Volunteer Duties

During large group times, volunteers will often preparing craft and/or setting up activities.  During activity time volunteers will work with small groups of students (playing games, crafts, language or math activities) or with individual students with our early literacy program (reading to students). 


If you would like to volunteer please indicate which day of the week would be best in an email or note in your child's notetote.