Welcome back!

Welcome back to school!!

I hope everyone had a restful and fun holiday! It's good to be refreshed and back at school! Please remind your student to return all of their borrowed books ASAP. Thanks to everyone who remembered their books this morning!

This Wednesday is our trip to the Nature Centre. On Wednesday, we will eat lunch at 11:00 am in our classroom and leave around 11:30. We will be back for regular dismissal.

It looks like we will have a fairly mild day for our adventure, however, we will be outside for most of the afternoon. Please ensure your hikers are dressed appropriately (layers are good - we can always take stuff off). Boots, mittens and something to cover ears will make the day much more enjoyable. 

Students will not carry anything with them on the streetcar, however, they may give a water bottle or juice box to their chaperone to bring. We will talk about safety before our trip. Please take the time to review the following safety tips with your student:

- Always stay with your group and parent.

- When waiting for, or exiting, the streetcar, put your back against the nearest wall or fence.

- Find a seat and be mindful of others on the streetcar.

- If you get lost (don't worry, you won't!), stay where you are. We will find you.

Thanks, it will be a fun day!

Words of the Week

The ‘en’ sound is very similar to our last sound, ‘on’, and there are several ways to make it. This week we will focus on finding words with “en” and “em”. Again, ask your child to help you with this one, but to me, it sounds like what we say when we don’t understand something - “huh?”.

In the last weeks before te break, we learned a lot of vowel combinations that are so common in French and help us so much with our sounding out in reading and writing. We are continuing with this in the new year. When reading a book with your child, it is helpful to go for a treasure hunt before you start reading. Ask your reader to circle all of the “en” and “em”s he/she can find within words in the book. This way, when you get there, you already know what that part of the word will sound like.

You can turn this into a good review of old sounds as well. E.g., “Find me a letter that makes the sound ‘s’. Find me two letters that work together to make ‘o’. Now find me the sound ‘oi’.” This is what we do with our morning message every day.

Anything you can do to make working with sounds fun is a great idea!

en, vent, dent, décembre, content

Bonus words: cent, novembre