"ip" Word Family

Let's try some "ip" words!

Please remember that some of the JK's might not know their letter sounds yet (and that's okay, and as it should be -- it is developmental!). We can still do word family work and focus on naming the letter as well as the sound before we put the letter to the word family ending. For example:

"This is a t, it makes the sound t, t, t. Can you make that sound? Now put that t sound at the front of "ip" -- t,ip; tip.

Nonsense words are fine! You can ask your child if they think it is a real word or a nonsense, or silly word.

Morning Message for Tuesday, June 16

Watch Ms. Brown's Message to you HERE

Before you read the message you need go outside and decide what the weather and what the temperature is! Is it Sunny? Cloudy? Rainy? Windy? Cold? Cool? Warm? Hot?  Where the blank space is in the message, you have to say what the weather is or how the temperature feels.

Andrew! You are our helper! You can take the attendance to the office :) Andrew, you can write the names of the people who are home right now and bring your paper to someone else. Even your brother! You can write the names with Rainbow letters. You can write each letter in the name a different colour. You need to be extra helpful today. What will you do?

Math Word Problem of the Day!

For the rest of June, each day we will have a math "problem" to figure out. We have done these in class, so they should be familiar. This week we are focusing on subtraction!

(Students) Please draw the objects and then count them. This week we will focus on subtraction in numbers less than 10. Parents! Feel free to change the numbers! If your child isn't able to count higher than 5, then use numbers that are less than 5. If your child is able to count larger numbers, change the numbers. I would stick with single digit numbers for now.

Vivian and Renee were sitting in the schoolyard by the butterfly garden. They saw 4 butterflies on the milkweed. 2 butterflies flew away. How many butterflies were still on the milkweed plant?

30 Days Wild Bingo!

Try it!

While you are out and about on adventures, try to look for some of the nature in The 30 Days Wild Bingo!

(Hint: these are Saskatoon berries on a tree and we can see them from the Room 9 window)

(I have emailed the bingo sheet - but if you prefer, you can write them out on paper and make a checklist!)

Look for:

Bird's Nest

Ant

Rabbit

Blackbird

Berries on a Tree

Sparrow

Dandelion

Frog or Toad

Feather

Wasp

Ladybug

Animal Shaped Cloud

BlueJay

Caterpillar

Oak Tree

Daisy

Worm

Nettle

Spider's Web

Clover

Buttercup

Woodlouse (you might call them pill bugs)

Snail

Bee

Butterfly

We have seen all of these (except Frog or Toad, and nettle), at some point in our Earl Beatty Nature Playground!

Morning Message for Monday, June 15

Watch Ms. Brown's Message to you HERE!

Before you read the message you need go outside and decide what the weather and what the temperature is! Is it Sunny? Cloudy? Rainy? Windy? Cold? Cool? Warm? Hot?  Where the blank space is in the message, you have to say what the weather is or how the temperature feels.

Serena! You are our helper! You can take the attendance to the office :) Serena, you can write the names of the people who are home right now and bring your paper to someone else. Even Martin! You can write the names with Rainbow letters. You can write each letter in the name a different colour. You need to be extra helpful today. What will you do?

Math Word Problem of the Day!

For the rest of June, each day we will have a math "problem" to figure out. We have done these in class, so they should be familiar. This week we are focusing on subtraction!

(Students) Please draw the objects and then count them. This week we will focus on subtraction in numbers less than 10. Parents! Feel free to change the numbers! If your child isn't able to count higher than 5, then use numbers that are less than 5. If your child is able to count larger numbers, change the numbers. I would stick with single digit numbers for now.

Mackenzie was walking on the beach. She picked up 5 stones. When she came to school, she gave 1 stone to Rachael. How many stones does Mackenzie have left?

When I drew my picture, I drew Mackenzie's 5 stones, and then I circled the one that she gave to Rachael. That stone was "taken away" .

Five stones take away one stone leaves __ stones.

Or you could put a post-it over the stone that went to Rachael, and then count the stones that are left.

Repeating Patterns with Nature

We have done a lot of repeating pattern work in Room 9 this year. Today I would like you to collect some nature and practice make some patterns!

The easiest patterns are repeating patterns that go in a straight line.

Start by making a basic abab pattern with your nature bits. Parents: your child should know what this means. It is a pattern that repeats itself with a core of two different objects. If they don't know what it means, begin the pattern and your child extend it.

I have made the core of the pattern bold in the letter patterns below. We have talked a lot about how the core of the pattern is the smallest part that repeats itself over and over again.

*** the JKs and many SKs might not be ready to identify the core! If they don't seem to understand, that is okay, please just let them play and experiment with patterns!

Pinecone, Leaf, Pinecone, Leaf, Pinecone, Leaf, Pinecone, Leaf.

abababab (the core is pinecone, leaf or ab)

Flower, leaf, pinecone, flower, leaf, pinecone

abcabc (the core is flower, leaf, pinecone or abc)

Flower, Flower, Leaf, Leaf, Flower, Flower, Leaf, Leaf

aabbaabb (the core is flower, flower, leaf, leaf or  aabb)

What other patterns can you make? Can you start one and have your parent extend it?

Morning Message for Friday, June 12

Watch Ms. Brown's Message to you HERE!

Before you read the message you need go outside and decide what the weather and what the temperature is! Is it Sunny? Cloudy? Rainy? Windy? Cold? Cool? Warm? Hot?  Where the blank space is in the message, you have to say what the weather is or how the temperature feels.

Iris! You are our helper! You can take the attendance to the office :) Iris, you can write the names of the people who are home right now and bring your paper to someone else. Even your brother! You can write the names with Rainbow letters. You can write each letter in the name a different colour. You need to be extra helpful today. What will you do?

Math Word Problem of the Day!

For the rest of June, each day we will have a math "problem" to figure out. We have done these in class, so they should be familiar.

(Students) Please draw the objects and then count them. This week we will focus on addition up to 10. In a word problem, you might want to "count on" from the first number to help keep track of the numbers.Parents! Feel free to change the numbers! If your child isn't able to add the numbers, choose numbers that add up to five. If your child is able to add larger numbers, change the numbers. I would stick with single digit numbers for now.

Genny and Iris were on a nature walk. In the first few minutes, Genny heard 7 birds chirping and Iris didn't hear any birds. How many birds did they hear all together? (don't worry, Iris - you heard lots of birds later).

Think about how you could write the number sentence for this. It is a tricky one!

Nature Rubbings

Today we are going to talk about texture.

Texture is how an object feels, or how it looks like it might feel. All surfaces have texture!

Texture is mostly about our sense of touch. Or how our eyes see something and our brain thinks about how it will feel.

Walk around your house, or the room that you are in, and touch some different things. How do they feel? Are they:

smooth

rough

soft

bumpy

fluffy

grainy

hairy

prickly

fuzzy

The picture below is the trunk of a tree (Kentucky Coffee tree). What is the texture of the bark? If you touched it, do you think it would feel smooth? Fluffy? Rough?

When you think of a leaf, what do you think its texture is? You might think that it is smooth, but go outside and touch some and explore how different leaves might have different textures.

We are going to make some leaf rubbings!

First, gather your materials.

You will need:

• a piece of paper
• some leaves
• a crayon with the paper removed (a broken crayon words perfectly!)
• some tape
• a clipboard or a hard surface like a table (you will need to tape the leaves down. If you are using a table and you don't want to put tape on your table, then tape the leaves to a piece of paper

First, tape some leaves to your clipboard (or paper or table. I taped them with the bumpier side up.

Next, cover your leaves with a piece of paper. tape the paper down, or clip it to the clipboard.

Then, use the side of your crayon to rub across the paper, and your leaf will appear! Remember to use the whole side of the crayon, and not just the top, or you will just draw lines. We are rubbing, not drawing!

Finally, label your leaves with the kind of leaf they are.

You could also cut out around the edges of your leaf rubbing and then glue it onto card to make a card to send to someone.

The lines on the leaves are its veins. They are just like the veins inside of our bodies. They bring the water from the roots to the leaves. What is inside of your veins?

More texture!

You can make texture rubbings of many different things. Try wood (maybe on a fence or a deck) or you can try to do a rubbing of a tree trunk. Wood slices like we have at school make very cool rubbings. Try to keep your crayon on the paper and not on what you are doing a texture rubbing on. What about the sidewalk? What texture does it have? It is best to do rubbings on surfaces that are mostly flat. It is hard to do a texture rubbing of a ball!