Dec 10, 2012

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Just a reminder that we are still collecting items for the food bank.  In particular, our class is collecting oral hygiene items.  Our class goal is to have 100 items.  Check out our progress so far:

In Jolly Phonics today we learned the th and the th sounds.  The th sound vibrates when you say it (put your hand on your throat to feel it) .  Think of words like this and that: .  The th sound is voiceless, for example, thinking and three.

When we practiced these words we pretended we were rude clowns sticking out our tongues:

In Religion we read the scripture Luke 1: 26-38.

In Math we began learning about subtraction.  We started with basic subtraction stories.  For example, there were 9 snowmen in my front yard.  The sun came out and melted the 6 snowmen not shaded by my house.  How many snowmen are left?  What is the subtraction sentence?  (9-6=3)

In Science we began the Creating Colour Unit.  The learner objectives for this unit are: