The word of the week was LOVE- perfect for our short, but sweet time together this week as we celebrated Valentine's Day and practiced showing love, kindness and care for our classmates and school community. We had a fantastic time making and sharing valentines this week, learning how to draw hearts and handing out Valentine surprises.
We read lots of stories about love this week- stories about friendship and finding ways to show we care. One story we read was called "Box of Butterflies". It was about a little girl and her robot friend who is curious to find out what love feels like, sounds like and looks like. The little girl tries to find different ways to explain what love is. We used this story to spark our imaginations, and to brainstorm different ways we could explain love. We shared our ideas and thoughts in our journals- sketching them out carefully and then adding labels and letters to go along with our illustrations. We are becoming confident in adding letters based on their sounds to our writing. We also love to share our writing with one another and with the whole class.
We also learned all about the letter L and the sound it makes. We listed and drew pictures of things that start with the letter L in our writing books, carefully attempting to label each of our drawings.
During math times we are focusing on number formation and making our numbers correctly. We also practiced our subitizing skills and counting forwards and backwards.
Our PM class had an opportunity to create hearts for our giant collaborative art piece with our Big Buddies. The Big Buddies are doing the final assembly of the hearts- together with our Buddy class we made 500 hearts! WOW!
One last thing:
We are going to be starting to talk about Families in our classroom. We will be starting to do this in the next 2 weeks. Please send a picture of your child and their family to school for your child to share. You can send a hard copy ( I will return eventually) or you can send an email copy that I will happily print out. Your picture can include who ever your child would like to share- and they can bring/have more than one picture if they would like as well. We want all families represented however your child chooses. My one request- please label or write who is in the picture to help me support your child as they share their photo if needed. We will also be learning how to print some of our family members names! It's very exciting!
My email is kerupert@cbe.ab.ca if you need it:)
Thank you for continuing to support your child's learning.
Here are some pictures from our week.
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