Thursday, January-11-18
Happy New Year everyone!
I hope that this first week back to reality finds everyone healthy, rested and full of wonderful memories from an amazing holiday!
I certainly do not take for granted this special time that I have to spend with my family. I feel blessed to be able to have 2 weeks with my children to celebrate, play and grow together! This week has been hectic and truly bittersweet! While I was a little sad that my holiday adventures with my babies have come to an end, I am truly excited to begin 2018 with YOUR children!
As an educator, I love this time of year! It is busy and hectic, but it is incredible how students really do seem to grow over the break. They come back refreshed and ready to learn.....so that is exactly what we are going to do!
This week, we spent some time discussing our Christmas holidays with each other. We practiced active listening and some students even tried asking other students questions about their stories! Everyone had such lovely tales of what they did. We turned the conversation into a discussion about the difference between telling someone something, and asking a question. We will be focusing on "telling sentences" and "asking sentences" throughout this month!
We also used our fun adventures to practice our sequencing and story retelling. The students have been working on writing about their holidays using transition words (first, next, then, finally). They did a wonderful job!
As the New Year has just begun, we will be taking some time to discuss resolutions. We will discuss about how people use the turning of the New Year to set a goal for themselves, to try and improve on something. Some great examples would be: learning to play an instrument, reading more and practicing a sport!
Throughout the week, each student will be setting a goal for him/herself. The idea is to discover how each student will shine!!! They will also be looking at steps they need to take to meet their goals. Ask your child about what they are looking to improve on!
As this week is fairly busy already and we have many learning activities planned throughout the week, we will have no word wall words this week. We have spent some time reviewing many of the word wall words that we have learned throughout the year. We will have new words to focus on next week.
- ABC Pocket Phonics
- Farm Phonics
- Phonics Genius
- Starfall
- ABC Ya Games
- Raz Kids (same login as on the computer)
- Sentence Maker
- Sentence Constructor
- Draw, then WRITE
- Say that thing
- Pixwords
- Word Match
Please ask me if there is something specific you would like help looking for! I am always happy to search for new apps and try them out!
Just a reminder that winter weather is cold and wet! Please make sure that they children are dressed appropriately.
This will be a busy month, so stay tuned for more information!
Again, I wish you all a Happy New Year!
Stay warm and dry!!
Sarah Faloon
