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Math
In September we will focus on four things:

1. Explore sorting and patterning. Patterns are an integral part of mathematics. A pattern can be physical, visual or auditory. Children learn to describe, reproduce, extend and create patterns having two to four elements and translate them from one representation to another. For example, the physical pattern, “snap, snap, slap, clap, clap” could also be represented with letters, “A, A, B, C, C” or colours, “red, red, yellow, blue, blue”.


2. Reciting the days of the week and months of the year in order.


3. Counting by 1's to 100.

4. Representation of numbers to 20. The focus is on number relationships, including concepts such as Conservation of Number, “more than” and “fewer than”, estimation and solving simple problems involving number.


Something to think about:


When children estimate, they are using prior knowledge to make a reasonable guess. Teaching children how to use a referent or anchor, such as 5 or 10, helps them develop number relationships through comparison. For example, “if this much is 5, then I think the whole thing must be 12.”

L.A.
In September we will work on reading readiness; letters and sounds, rhyming, patterns, printing etc. Home Reading will begin before the end of the month.


In writing we will focus on drawing and using our knowledge of sounds to print ideas.


We will begin a weekly Word Wall Word and Spelling Word Booklet that will come home beginning the week of September 19th.

Science
Topics for September and October are Creating Colour and Seasonal Changes in Autumn.

Social Studies
We will begin our first topic, Belonging in My World, with getting to know each other through an interview and story writing activity. Look for information on this blog next week.