Week of Dec. 5th

Dec 9th

In literacy, we completed our first fictional piece of writing this week. We continued to develop our editing skills with a focus on sentence structure. We discussed that every sentence needs to be a complete thought. We learned to avoid creating a fragment sentence by ensuring that our sentences contain a subject (person, place, or thing) and a verb (what the subject is doing) for it to make sense. We also reviewed that a simple sentence must begin with a capital letter and end with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark. To support our phonological awareness, we have also reviewed long and short vowel “a” and “e” combinations related to the vowel teams ai,ay,ey,ei and ea,ee,ie and ey. This week we will focus our writing on personal narratives. 


Jen Aranyi, a graphic designer who makes beautiful water colour pen and ink paintings was the artist who inspired our art lesson this week. We explored the concept of "wet on wet" painting which means that wet paint is applied to wet paper or added to a wash or fresh wet paint. Using this method gives us more freedom to create unique visual textures and enhance our water colour painting. The wet on wet technique produces soft edges and random effects.



 


We hope to reschedule our community walk on Wednesday afternoon this week. Thank you to the parents who are joining us. We will leave the school at approximately 1:15 and return at 2:45. Please support your child by ensuring they have dressed appropriately for the weather and wearing their winter boots. In addition, they will need a properly fitting backpack to carry a water bottle and an afternoon snack. I will send a more detailed map of our route and itinerary on Tuesday through School Messenger. Please feel free to contact me in advance if you have any questions. 

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