Friday, December 12th, 2025

Upcoming Dates

December 17                           Fun Lunch - Coco Brooks

December 19                           PJ Day

December 22 - January 2        Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

Recommended areas to focus on at home to help your child:

- Reading every night:

• focusing on fluency (can they read without stopping to sound out each word),  
• expression (changing their tone of voice to match the punctuation and dialogue of characters), and 
• comprehension (ask your child questions about the story while they read or after they finish). 

- Math

• addition and subtraction, both with and without regrouping (this could be practiced using worksheets or card games like addition or subtraction war)
• skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 25s (a great activity to practice this is by counting coins)
• Reading time on an analog clock. 
• Place Value: expanded form, written form, standard form, and block form 
• 3 digit Addition and Subtraction with regrouping 
• 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, 100 less: Write down a set of numbers and have your child calculate what the number would be if you were to have 10 more, 10 less, 100 more, or 100 less. 
• Skip counting by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, and 25s
• Counting money (especially coins) is a great way to practice skip counting. 

- Writing:

• spelling (you could also practice this skill playing games like 'Horse' using a basketball, net, and choosing different words to spell). 
• printing mechanics (are the letters legible, is their a clear size difference with capital and lowercase letters, are their spaces between the words)
• punctuation and capitalization 
• Using nouns, adjectives, and verbs within their writing
• Opinion writing: have your child tell you their opinions on things either in verbal or written form, but have them give at least 3 reasons why they have that opinion, and have them further explain each reason as well. 
• Persuasive writing: 

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Literacy:

- We learned about the reptile rule for dividing words up based on their syllable pattern. 

- We extended our knowledge of opinion writing, and applied the same formatting for our persuasive writing. Each student chose a person in their life to write to, and was tasked with writing about a thing that they wanted, and they had to try and write persuasive points to convince that person to get them the thing that they want. They will get to bring home this writing next week, and present it to the person they wrote the letter to. 

- We spent a lot of time over the past few weeks learning about nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This week, I introduced them to Mad Libs, and they got to complete mad libs with a partner to put their knowledge into practice. They had lots of fun doing this, and we will continue to do this throughout the year!

Math:

- We continued with our place value unit and practiced skip counting by counting coins during a write the room activity. We will continue learning about coins and skip counting next week. 

- We worked on 3 digit subtraction with regrouping by completing a mystery picture. Students completed the equations on the back, and their answer gave them the colour code on the front. 

Social:

- At the start of the week, we began discussing the difference between a landform and a landmark, then looked at examples of landmarks around the world. Later in the week, we took a closer look at landmarks in Calgary and Alberta, and made a visual journal page about various landmarks in our city and province. 

Science:

- We continued to learn about fossils and dinosaurs and worked in small groups to design our own dinosaur using specific criteria that we learned in previous lessons (how does it move, what does it eat, physical features, what region of Alberta would it have lived in, etc). After answering their guiding questions, they continued to work with their small groups to make a fossil of their dinosaur using air dry clay. The following day, they became paleoartists, and created dinosaur posters that represent what their dinosaur could have looked like when it was alive. They also had to match the background of their poster to the region of Alberta that they said their dinosaur would have lived in. 

Art:

- We did a few guided drawings this week, including one with our buddies where the big buddies had their own computer, and they completed the drawing of a baby yoda santa in their visual journals.