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Language Arts
In Language Arts we are working on our reading and story writing. The students have learned the story map that we will be using for the year. The mneumonic to remember our story map is: Good Stories Create Positively Lovely EnvironmentS. The G stands for GOTCHA. This grabs the readers attention and makes him/her in the story. The S stands for SETTING. The students write a description of the setting, which we call TTKP (Time of Day, Time of Year, Kind of Day, and the Year). The C stands for CHARACTERS. The students will write a description of the main character, which we call NAPP (Name, Age, Personality, Physical Traits). The P stands for PROBLEM. L stands for LEAD. The lead is the students connection between their gotcha and the beginning of their story. For example is the gotcha is "Ring! Ring! Ring!" the lead could be, "Sammy bolted inside the house to answer the phone." The E stands for EVENTS. The students remember that they need to write three events, because there are the lines on the E. The first two events are unsuccessful attempts at solving the problem and the third event is a successful attempt at solving the problem. The last part of our story is the S, which is the SOLUTION. Here the student wraps up the story and provides an appropriate finish.
Reading and writing will be taught using a variety of themes and stories throughout the year. Below is a table of the things we will be doing throughout the year.
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Computers
Please continue to practice finding the keys your child needs to log-in to the computer. Some students are still having difficulty finding these keys.
Below I have listed some of the websites that we visit at school. These are very good educational websites. Feel free to use these websites at home to help deepen your child's knowledge of Math & Language Arts.
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html