Week 23: Finding Family

Books We Read
Ribbit
Violet

Weekly Activities
Family Squares
We talked about different "generations" in a family and then drew "portraits" of our family, with one level being saved for the kids, one for the parents and adults their age, and another for grandparents and older adults.  It was fun listening to everybody talk about how their families looked.

Letter S
Our first Jolly Jingle became our printing letter of the week.  It really helped us to think of the S as a snake as we were drawing it.

Sight Word Search
After Mr. McCullough jumbled up our message, it was up to us to find it using Word Search Strategies!  We then used these strategies to help us do a Sight Word Search, where we had to find all 12 of our sight words!  Everybody found some, some people were able to get 9 on the first try, and some tried it on the second day and got all twelve!

Other Things We Did
Ms. Scott, the Pape Librarian, came in to tell us about all the neat things at the Pape library.  She read us a book, told us about library cards and how to take books out, and listened to some of our stories about the library!

The KinderOlympics were set up in the kindergarten playground, with events like curling, alpine skiing, hockey, skeleton and figure skating!

Using "Violet" as a base, we started talking about differences in people and how it's not okay to discriminate based on how people look.  This will be very important next week, as we start talking about Black History Month and the Underground Railroad!

We had to "Hush" to learn this week's Jolly Jingle, where we put the letters s and h together to create the sh sound.

Our Friday Centre Mashup resulted in some neat creations, like marble Beyblades, Plasticine treasure boxes, heart faces, rainbows and road maps!