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The Week Ahead

Monday 03/12

  • Mrs. Foulston full time

Please contact her at   foulstong@lrsd.ab.ca if you have any questions, inform of absences, etc.

Mrs. Foulston will send out a paper newsletter with updates for the remainder of the year. Please check your child's agenda for these updates.

Tuesday 03/13

  • Learning Commons: please return borrowed books, students will choose new books to borrow

  • Music Festival PerformanceStudents will perform "Bedtime" in the gymnasium at 1:00pm. (Note the time change!) Families are welcome to attend.

Wednesday 03/14

  • Waste-free Wednesday

Thursday 03/15

Friday 03/16

  • No School: PD DAY

Weekly Words

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*For more information about weekly words and

for the year long word list click here .

Weekly Read at Home Sheet

Your child will bring this home on Fridays and should read this at home the following week every night. They should be able to read every word that is on the page. Each word has been practiced in class and the sheet will be reviewed as well. Create a binder at home where all the sheets can be stored and have your child revisit previous pages throughout the year. 

 

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See previous Read At Home sheets here.

 

 

 

Students should easily be able to read all read at home sheets at this point in the year. If your child is not able to read them independently, please review the sheets provided over the remaining weeks of school.

What We Are Learning:

See our BLOGs to see what we are learning through our words, drawings, photos, and videos.

 

Follow our daily tweets below or on twitter to see what we have learned and explored each day!

Term Expectations

Reading:

 

 

 

  • Simple informational texts, simple animal fantasy, realistic fiction

  • Some texts with sequential information

  • Familiar content that expands beyond home, neighborhood, and school

  • Read both simple and split dialogue, speaker usually assigned

  • Some longer sentences – more than ten words – with prepositional phrases, adjectives, and variation in placement of subject, verb, adjectives, and adverbs

  • More details in the illustrations

  • Most texts three to eight lines of text per page

  • Periods, commas, quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks, and ellipses

  •  Recognize a large number of high‐frequency words quickly and automatically

  • Use letter‐sound information to take apart simple, regular words as well as some multisyllable words

  • Process and understand text patterns that are particular to written language

  • Beginning to read fiction with more well‐developed characters

  • Left‐to‐right directionality and voice‐print match are completely automatic

  • Read without pointing and with appropriate rate, phrasing, intonation, and stress

Writing:

  • Spell word wall words correctly

  • Use finger spaces between words

  • Write 4-6 sentences

  • Expanding beyond simple "I like, I can" sentence starters - adding basic details

  • Experimenting with punctuation

  • Printing letters with correct orientation to the lines

Numeracy:

  • Count by 1s to 50

  • Count by 2s to 20

  • Count by 5s to 50

  • Count by 10s to 50

  • Addition and Subtraction Facts to 10

  • ABC patterns

  • Manipulate and apply numbers to 10 through recognizing groups of objects, representing numbers, more/less

  • Sort shapes and objects given a rule and stating a rule for a predetermined sort

Reading Level                      Grade

A-E                                          NY

F                                              B

G                                                P

H +                                             E

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