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St. Jude's Academy aims to teach students through planning, inquiry, instruction and assessment in order to prepare students to be conscientious world citizens.

Monday, October 29, 2018

Motivational Monday!

We have another busy week!  We are continuing our Pattern unit for Math and will begin learning about our five senses for our new Unit of Inquiry, Sensational Seasons.

Letters of the Week: Uu & Rr

Words of the Week:
up
under
umbrella
run
red
rocket

Show & Share for Friday, November 2nd:
Sahib .K.
Noorah
Matthew
Vivahn

Spelling Words for the end of November:
get
big
him
his
not
got
up
mum

Inquiry into Language
The SK's practiced the sound and formation of the letter Uu.  The students brainstormed words that begin or had the letter u in it. The students practiced their printing lower & upper case letter Uu and short Uu words in their Journals and with an activity sheet.   Here is the link to the Jolly Phonics Letter Uu song:Jolly Phonics Letter Uu Song

Gym
Ms. Yustin had the students engaged in a variety of gross motor and team building activities.

French
Mlle. Hou is teaching the students how to say part of the body  in French.

Unit of Inquiry
The students were introduced to our new unit Sensational Seasons, that focused on the four seasons, our feelings and our five senses.  Today, we brainstormed what we already know about our five senses and listened to a read a loud story My Five Senses. The students also had to work on a matching activity, matching the sense to the body part.

Daily 5
The SK's enjoyed our weekly meeting with the grade 4 class for Reading Buddies.

Math
The students continued to work on patterning, today we focused on ABBA pattern.  The students had to create patterns using manipulatives as a group.  We also showed our understanding in our Math books.

 Celebrating the Birthday boy!
 The Weather Girl & Boy for today
 Calendar helper
 practicing our printing skills of the letter Uu



 Fall writing activity
 making ABBA patterns



 decorating our class pumpkin!

 Reading Buddies!

Reminders:
-Casual Day and Bake Sale are on Tuesday, October 30th.
-Spirit/Halloween Day students can dress up in their costumes, please no masks and weapons.
-PD day is on Friday, November 9th, there is not school.

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