ELA: Students start new reading programs this month. One is Home Reading. Students will bring books home to read each night. This is the single most important thing you can do to help your child be successful in Gr. 1. Set a time for reading each night. Be consistent. You will be amazed how fast your little one learns to read!
Students will also bring home Rainbow Words each week. As you will soon see, students will be introduced to a 'rainbow' of high frequency words; 5 each week. Students will collect their words on a ring and will keep them in their bookbags so we can add the words each week. Students will practice reading these words each night until they know them fluently.
In class, the Daily 5 is being introduced. The Daily 5 includes Read to Self, Work on Writing, Word Work, Listening to Reading, and Read to Someone. Each component will be introduced individually before we start Daily 5 rotations (literacy centres).
During Read to Self time students will work on building their Reading Stamina; the ability to read uninterrupted for increasing amounts of time. Guided Reading, done with the teacher, will begin once students can read individually and silently for 10mins. We use Beanie Babies to learn a variety of strategies to help students read new words. The strategies are on a bookmark in their book bags to remind them when they are reading at home.
Word Work time is when students are introduced to and practice reading and writing the Rainbow Words (sight words/word wall words). Students use a variety of materials to help them learn the words including playdough, wiki sticks, magnetic letters, letter stamps, crayons, white boards, and technology.
For Work on Writing time, the focus is writing a sentence. Students are encouraged to write the beginning sound then stretch out the sounds they hear in the word and write them down. Invented spellings are encouraged.
Reading and Writing themes this month include Thanksgiving and Halloween themed writing,as well as an integrated ELA/Social project based on the book Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems.
Students continue with phonics lessons and printing practice.
Math: October is Patterning month. Students will:
- Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems.
- Demonstrate an understanding of repeating patterns (two to four elements) by describing, reproducing, extending, creating patterns using manipulatives, diagrams, sounds and actions.
- Translate repeating patterns from one representation to another.
- Sort objects, using one attribute, and explain the sorting rule.
Science: The Senses is our science focus this month. Students develop an awareness of their own senses and how they are used. Students learn about the function of their senses, how they are cared for, how they could be damaged and how one’s own ability to sense things may differ from those of other people and other living things. Through this topic, students learn to sharpen the use of their senses and describe the information that their senses provide.
Social Studies: Our focus in Social Studies this month is 'Belonging'... to our class, school, and community groups.
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