April 2022
Happy April! It's (slowly) starting to feel like spring and with Easter just around the corner, we have lots of fun things planned!
April 4-8, 2022
Our "Letter of the Week" lessons finished last week so we will now be moving on to word families. I like to do several word families over the next few weeks. I made these digital interactive slides last spring when we were remote but I'll be projecting them in our whole group lessons. I also like using these word cards. I choose a student to add a magnetic letter to the beginning of the word and spell it!
We had a lot of fun with story writing last month. Our new focus is on writing our own books!
We will be brainstorming what our favourite things are...sports, food, colours, pets, etc. and creating a book all about that! It's a great starting point to book making as students can simply label the picture they drew on each page (some may chose to write a simple sentence) but it makes everyone feel like they can make their own book!
We follow my "I Can Write #2" pack if you are looking for this activity and more!
Capacity and Weight
Our next unit in math is all about measurement - capacity and weight!
This week we will be leaving out coloured rice and a variety of measuring spoons/cups and containers (cups, buckets, bottles, etc.) We used to do this at our Water Centre also but we haven't introduced that centre yet (taking things slowly with restrictions mainly lifted).
We will be thinking about capacity questions and exploring many hands on! I put these posters on the board to discuss with the class.
Here are a few of the activities I have planned for exploring weight using a balance.
With Easter just around the corner, we will be focusing on a few different activities.
Palm Sunday is next weekend so we will be reading a short passage from the Children's Bible and creating our own palms.
There is a beautiful story called The Tale of the Three Trees that is perfect for Lent!
After we read the story, we will complete an response sheet.
I have a whole bunch of activities if you are looking for ways to prepare your students for Easter in my Lent and Holy Week Religion Pack in my TpT store. I will share more pictures next week (closer to Easter) with other activities we have planned!)
And, of course, the week wouldn't be complete without fun games to play at the end of the day (my students LOVE this time!).
I created a few new ones for Easter! You can use them this week or next!
Click the pictures to check them out.
Here are a few of our provocations we set out this week!
Can you create an Easter game?
Our Easter card this year is simple but beautiful! Students used their fingers dipped in paint to colour in the cross. I'll share more about our family Easter gift later this week!
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