Here's a brief mid-week update :)
Cold Weather/Winter Clothing Reminder
Please remember to send your child to school with/dressed in the following: warm jacket, snow pants, boots, mittens/gloves, hat, and a scarf. Please label everything. It just makes life so much easier. We are teaching them to be organized by placing their accessories in their backpack so they don't get lost, but sometimes it happens. The HWDSB will put out a cold weather alert if the temperature reaches -15 degrees or below. We will stay inside if this happens.
We've learned a song to help us get dressed for outside play if you would like to sing this song at home too :) It goes to the tune of "The Hokey Pokey".
I've looked into the issues with Raz-Kids and the quizzes. I really don't know what has been causing this. It works for me when I log on as Brad Pitt, so maybe it's been fixed now. I'm sorry I can't really help you with this- it's kind of out of my hands :)
Introducing Consonant Blends
Right now during our literacy lessons, we are learning about consonant blends. We will call them "consonant buddies". Consonant buddies are two consonants that when put together make one sound (ex: br). We will be learning the 4 most common consonant blends first. These four blends all have the letter h in them. They are sh, ch, wh, and th. On Monday we learned about sh!
*Note: technically these are digraphs because you can't hear each sound of the consonant, but it doesn't really matter :)
(Taken from "Helping Your Child Learn to Read" by Miss Pliura - Available under the tab "Literacy Support")
Mr. H and his 4 Friends
This is a fun way we teach 4 of the most popular consonant buddies: sh, ch, wh, and th. Mr. H has 4 friends that he hangs out with and when he hangs out with each of these letters, they like to do something different. All of his friends are ladies, and we know ladies come first, so he always comes second in each of these. Each one has a story that helps us to remember them.
This word has 3 sounds in it. Can your child tell you the 3 sounds in order? Can they draw sound boxes around the letters to help them?
Decoding is another word for sounding out. Here are some more advanced decoding strategies some of our students are ready to use. We will learn about these eventually, but for now, take a look at some of the ways in which we decode words based on phonetic rules of the English language. You can begin to use these during your reading time at home to help your child :)
Good night!
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