Hello 1JB Families,
Happy April and 1JB Post Office! Thank you all for joining us on Wednesday for the special family Post Office visit. The students had such a blast!
Please check out our 1JB Post Office photos to get an inside look into our post office excitement! Here are some questions you can ask your child: What jobs did you have this week? What has been your favorite job? Who have you sent letters to? Do you know how many letters have been sent so far?
We will continue our 1JB Post Office next week. If you have any extra stationery, please have your child bring it in!
Important dates and reminders:
- Wednesday, May 1: All School Day of Service
- Friday, May 3: Family Visiting
- Friday, May 10: Grandparents/ Special Friends Day
Post Office
This week was such a blast! 1JB celebrated the opening of our post office with the help of friends and faculty in the Friends Community. 1JB What Happens To Mail.docx
FUNdations
1JB is learning vowel teams! Ask your child what vowel teams they have learned so far?
This year we are going to learn the sounds of many vowel teams. A vowel team is two vowels together that make just one sound.
We will learn keywords to help us remember the sounds of the vowel teams. For example: “ai, bait, a” and “ay play a”. Children will see vowel teams in books and stories, so it will be helpful for them to learn the sounds!
Students are also learning about open and closed syllables. A closed syllable has one vowel only and must be closed in by a consonant, like the word cat. A closed syllable gives the vowel the short sound! Closed syllables can also be closed in by a digraph like the word bath or mash.
After mastering closed syllables, students learned what happens when a word ends in a vowel. When a word is not closed anymore, it is open! Open syllables have a long vowel sound, which means the vowel says its name. For example: go, be, hi, etc.
Find the Syllable Type Worksheet
New trick words: say, says, each, between, see
Math
This week students were introduced to their very own stamp math book! This booklet was filled with Post Office related word problems. Check out the example problem above. As you can see, each question requires students to show their work with a picture, equation, and record their answer with a label. As students continued with their math packet, questions became more challenging! Ask your child about the post office word problems. If your child would like a challenge, they can come up with their own Post Office word problems!
Literacy
1JB began a poetry unit! We started this unit by asking the question, “What is poetry?”
Poetry is a type of writing that uses words to ‘paint a picture,’ tell a story, and express feelings and ideas. Poetry arranges words in different ways to express specific meanings and emotions. It comes in many forms too!
Students learned about four different elements of poems. Two that we can see: lines and stanzas and two that we can hear: rhyme and rhythm.
As a class, we read the following poem. We asked questions like, how many stanzas are in this poem? How many lines are in the first stanza? How many rhyming words can you find?
Next week we will be looking at different types of poems like acrostic and personfication. If your child has poems at home that they enjoy, take some time to read and discuss them!