^{Good Morning Boys and Girls!}

^{I hope everyone had a nice weekend. It is great to have the barbecuing weather. I love it!}

Check out Nixon's fishing pictures on the home page!

^{Enjoy your suggestions for home learning this week:}

^Reading

 ^{Read at least 15 minutes. Why not check out some Robert Munsch Books in Audio Format at:} http://robertmunsch.com/books Use your imagination to visualize the stories. Drawing a picture(s) to illustrate your favorite part would be fun too.

Word Work

Look at all your sight words. Can you find all the words that begin with ‘wh?’ Do you know other ‘wh’ words?

Check out the words that begin with ‘th.’

Cut letters out of magazines to spell your words, Can you mix the letters up and respell your word?

-ed, -ing

Rule: A word to which an ending can be added is called a base word. The base word of fished is fish. The base word of fishing is fish.

Add the ed and ing endings to these base words:

fish-

toss-

fill-

box-

dress-

float-

sail-

help-

Can we add ed to sing?

Writing-

Try to spend at least fifteen minutes a day to enhance your writing skills.

You may enjoy writing a friendly letter to someone. I’m sure there’s a friend or family member that would love to hear from you!

Tip: Reread to see that everything makes sense.

Heading-(write the date on the top right hand corner of your page.)

Greeting- (Write who the letter is for. Down and to the left of your page. Don’t forget a comma.)

Body- This is the main part of the letter and is the longest part of your letter. You would usually start out talking about the person to whom you're sending the letter (it's polite). Then you might want to give some information about you and why you're writing. This can all go in one paragraph, or, if it's too long and doesn't "go" in one paragraph, make the decision to separate it.Change paragraphs and indent each time you change the topic you're talking about. Remember to wrap it up. (We will learn more about paragraphing in grade two.)

Closing- Choose an appropriate closing. Make sure this lines up with the heading. Only the first word is capitalized. (bottom of the page and to the right)

Signature- Write your name.

I will send you a friendly letter in our email so you can see one completed in the above format.

Math

 Let’s do a number of the day. (We did these at school) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQ2HTqTl2w

The video doesn’t show a lot of ways, but it does give a few ideas. I have listed other ways:

Pick any number 1-20 (Use higher numbers later in the week.)

-          Write the number that comes before and after your number

-          Show your number in tally marks

-          Show your number using base 10 blocks

-          Is your number odd or even?

-          Show your number with ten frames

-          Draw a number line. Add unit marks equal distance apart. It will depend on your number what number you give to each unit. (If my number is low or in teens I might mark it by counting it by 1s. Higher numbers I may choose to count by 2s, 5s or 10s.

-write the number 1 less, 1 more, 2 less and 2 more than your number

-For numbers to 18 write 1 addition fact and 1 subtraction fact

-count up to your number

-count backward to 0 starting from your number

-write your number as a word

We are going to try some work with ‘representing a number by a variety of equal groups.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAkZvfKpv60

1.       You need 12 items to use for counters

2.       Arrange the counters into groups of 2

3.       What is your total (count by 2s)

4.       Now group by 3s, 4s and 6s

5.       What was your total each time?

6.       Did you count by 3s, 4s and 6s?

Try this with other numbers throughout the week.  

Next, we will ‘represent a number in a variety of equal groups with singles.’ (That means you will have some left over or extra ones.)

1.      You need 17 items to use for counters

2.      Arrange the counters into groups of 2s.

3.      What is your total number of counters. (count by 2s)

Did you notice that you had 1 single or 1 left over? Your total does not change though.

4.      Now group by 3s and 5s.

Try this with other numbers throughout the week.

Can you draw pictures to represent your numbers? I will email you the examples I did for the numbers 14 and 18.

Thought you might enjoy these review games from work we did this year.

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/even-or-odd

https://www.abcya.com/games/comparing_number_values

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