Forming the Letters of the Alphabet
Learning to form the letters of the alphabet takes time and repetition. It used to be common practice to teach a letter each week and practice printing the letter in a booklet of tracing...
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Best Winter Clothing for Kids
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but these winter clothes for kids are delightful!
Mark Making: How to Help Your Child Develop Early Writing Behaviours
Mark making is a key part of the learn to write process for preschoolers. It’s important to give them lots of opportunities to learn different tools and explore writing in their own way,...
Make a Free DIY 2021 Digital Time Capsule – Remember what it was like to live through the Covid-19 pandemic
This is a quick and easy guide to help you create a digital time capsule to remember a – dare I say it – unprecedented time in the world. While there are many parts...
Managing Stress During Coronavirus
PBS and the makers of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood have a modern show called Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and it is an excellent resource for social and emotional learning. See below for their resources on managing...
What’s Happening in Our Class?
In Math, we are finishing our first unit in Sorting and Patterning. The Grade 2s will be completing a few more patterns using two changing attributes (size, colour, shape, position). Our next unit will...
Preparing to “Show What You Know”
Students will be completing a task to show their knowledge of patterning. Grade 1 students should be able to say, “I can…” Choose a strategy to make a pattern Create a pattern Find repeating...
Achievement Levels
Here is a link to the Ontario Achievement Levels from the Ministry of Education. On page 14, if you look at Math, the expectations are separated into Knowledge and Understanding, Thinking, Communication, and Application. On...
6 Tips for Preparing for a Test
Grade 2/3s have a unit test in Math on Tuesday. Monday will be a Review Day. Here are some tips for studying. 1. Look through the work we have done in this unit. What...
Reading and Writing in Our Class
WAHOO! We reached our goal! We built up our reading stamina to 20 minutes! (That’s me doing my happy dance.) In our class, we use the Daily 5 language program. It is the structure...
