Hi all! Happy first day of June! This week has been a busy one and next is going to get even crazier! Please take a look at the month breakdown as it is going to go by so quick! Need to knows for next week:
Monday: swimming lessons
Wednesday: Talent show and early closing
Thursday: Fort Edmonton Park field trip
Friday: Kinder and Grade One swap day.
Language:
We continue to work on sequencing and story writing this week. The students practiced writing detail about a character, how stories have a beginning middle and end, as well as a setting. When we have been working on writing the students have been goal setting, each day they choose which writing goal they would like to focus on to become better writer.
Math: We finished up some of our 2D and 3D shape prtactice at the beginning of the week. We started our grade one math review. We have been practicing basic facts for addition and subtraction to 5 as well as identifying number sequences to 100. What number come before, between and after is still sometimes tricky for the kiddos so we did some math games to become more fluent at identifying.
Science: We finished up looking at the needs of plants this week. We planted our beans yesterday, the kids were so excited to plant them. There is a few still hanging in our window in hopes that they will be a bit more successful in growing before sending home. We did a scavenger outside looking at different plants in the schoolyard. We also did an experiment with celery and food coloring to further understand the needs of plants. Next week we will start looking at animals
Social: We had the most hilarious conversation at the beginning of the week when I was showing them black and white photos. It was very confusing to them that black and white photos didn't mean that the world itself didn't have color. We looked at clothing in the past versus today, transportation as well as toys. It was quite funny to watch their reactions as I went down the list of all their toys that didn't exist in the past. Fort Edmonton Park next week will be so much fun.
Thanks for taking the time to read, Only 19 more days of grade one.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
23 Days Left of Grade One
How is there only 23 days left of school!? Where did this year go. It was another busy and exciting week here in 1PB. The kids were very excited when I told them that I get to stay and be part of the East Elementary crew next year teaching Pre-K! These next few weeks are going to fly by. The kids have a very active Friday morning we are doing yoga with our buddies this morning then will also be heading out to do our Jump Rope for Heart activities later in the morning. I sent home both information pages about our field trips. If you are able to volunteer for one or two of those field trips please email me ASAP! Only three more days of swimming please remember to send their swimwear on Monday morning!
Language: We continue working with identifying various blends in words. We are also continuing our story writing this week. The students all got different illustrations of animals and pieces of a story to complete. This was tough for some to be creative in what they wanted to write about. They wrote a rough copy of their story, had it proofread, then rewrote the story in their BEST printing. I cannot lie, we had some tears as we continue to work hard to break some of our silly habits.We have also been working on their story sequencing and reading comprehension which is coming along.
Math: We are finishing up our last math unit of 2D and 3D shapes this week, they will be writing their quiz later today for it. We had a few come back from the long weekend and all of a suddenly had cylinder and sphere mixed up so we backtracked a bit to ensure that we we confident in identifying our shapes. Next week we are going to go back to the beginning of the school year and review all that we learned to really solidify their knowledge. They will be doing various activities to improve on their math fact fluency and confidence in strategies and also work out any missing blocks that some may have forgotten.
Science: This has been my favorite science unit so far. We are looking strictly at the needs of plants this week. The students 'planted' a navy bean on Monday. We used just a soaked cotton ball in a plastic bag so that the students could see first hand the seed sprout and the roots grow. I also took a picture of your kiddos, cut their foreheads off and taped them to a cup. The students then planted grass seeds in hopes that the grass will now look like their own hair. I have set out various books about animals and plants for the children to look through when it is time to read/they are finished their work. We now have a mini garden growing in the back of our room and we love it!
Social: We continue to look and the past and present this week. We were detectives this week looking at various images and trying to figure out if that is something we see in the present, or is that something we would have seen in the past.
Language: We continue working with identifying various blends in words. We are also continuing our story writing this week. The students all got different illustrations of animals and pieces of a story to complete. This was tough for some to be creative in what they wanted to write about. They wrote a rough copy of their story, had it proofread, then rewrote the story in their BEST printing. I cannot lie, we had some tears as we continue to work hard to break some of our silly habits.We have also been working on their story sequencing and reading comprehension which is coming along.
Math: We are finishing up our last math unit of 2D and 3D shapes this week, they will be writing their quiz later today for it. We had a few come back from the long weekend and all of a suddenly had cylinder and sphere mixed up so we backtracked a bit to ensure that we we confident in identifying our shapes. Next week we are going to go back to the beginning of the school year and review all that we learned to really solidify their knowledge. They will be doing various activities to improve on their math fact fluency and confidence in strategies and also work out any missing blocks that some may have forgotten.
Science: This has been my favorite science unit so far. We are looking strictly at the needs of plants this week. The students 'planted' a navy bean on Monday. We used just a soaked cotton ball in a plastic bag so that the students could see first hand the seed sprout and the roots grow. I also took a picture of your kiddos, cut their foreheads off and taped them to a cup. The students then planted grass seeds in hopes that the grass will now look like their own hair. I have set out various books about animals and plants for the children to look through when it is time to read/they are finished their work. We now have a mini garden growing in the back of our room and we love it!
Monday, May 7, 2018
Greetings!
Hi everyone! Please see this month's dates to remember. If you are not familiar with what Tutti Frutti Tuesday is the SWAT team has asked students to count how many fruit and veggies snacks they have in the lunches at snack time. They will be keeping track for the month of May and then the winning class for the most will win a healthy snack prize!
Last week we were very lucky with many special guests teaching us fun things! We had Miss. Brenda and Miss. Trystin back to work on our printing, they have noticed their formation of letters is doing much better when asked to print the single letter, however when asked to form a word/sentence that is where many lose their letter form. That will be the focus this week. We also had Miss. Angel from division office come in and work with the students on their digital skills within a math lesson that I created. The kids learned how to use Google Draw. For Education week we had a special guest come in on Wednesday and teach us Zumba. Thursday a lady came and taught us about Celtic Traditions within Canada. Then Friday afternoon we had a BLAST at the science fair looking at all the displays that the division two students completed.
Language: We continue working on our reading comprehension and building stronger sentences. The students also continued to work with R and H blends within words. We have been practices lots using the past tense verbs and I am starting to see the children use it independently in their writing!
Social: We continued to talk about family traditions. Specifically looking at the student's birthday and this also worked into our Mother's Day planning.
Science: We started our Needs of Plants and Animals unit. Last week we worked on what the difference between a living and non living things was.
Math: We completed looking at 2D shapes, this week we will introduce and move on to 3-dimensional shapes with a fun Star Wars theme.
Last week we were very lucky with many special guests teaching us fun things! We had Miss. Brenda and Miss. Trystin back to work on our printing, they have noticed their formation of letters is doing much better when asked to print the single letter, however when asked to form a word/sentence that is where many lose their letter form. That will be the focus this week. We also had Miss. Angel from division office come in and work with the students on their digital skills within a math lesson that I created. The kids learned how to use Google Draw. For Education week we had a special guest come in on Wednesday and teach us Zumba. Thursday a lady came and taught us about Celtic Traditions within Canada. Then Friday afternoon we had a BLAST at the science fair looking at all the displays that the division two students completed.
Language: We continue working on our reading comprehension and building stronger sentences. The students also continued to work with R and H blends within words. We have been practices lots using the past tense verbs and I am starting to see the children use it independently in their writing!
Social: We continued to talk about family traditions. Specifically looking at the student's birthday and this also worked into our Mother's Day planning.
Science: We started our Needs of Plants and Animals unit. Last week we worked on what the difference between a living and non living things was.
Math: We completed looking at 2D shapes, this week we will introduce and move on to 3-dimensional shapes with a fun Star Wars theme.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Week 30
Looking at the ceiling art during our Art Walk
Hi everyone! It has been a busy week with lots of new exciting things going on here in 1PB. On Monday we had our very first swimming lesson. It was a chilly walk but the kids had so much fun. if your child has been in swimming lessons before could you please send their report cards to me ASAP to give to the instructor. Tuesday we also had the districts occupational therapist and OTA in the classroom here to work with the children on their printing skills. We worked on our 'flagpole letters.' Christine and I have been on the children this week to continue to better our printing skills, specifically starting our letters at the top. Class pictures were this week and all of the children were looking sharp! We also had the Jump Rope for Heart kick off assembly this morning and the students had a blast. You will find the fundraiser envelope in their kanga pouches tonight.
Language- This week we focused on working with R blend words. We also learned about what past tense is. Identifying the past tense verb in writing was very difficult for the children to do but we continue to practice throughout the day. Perhaps something you could do during home reading as one of your reading questions. We continue to work on our reading comprehension skills every single day. We are slowly becoming more confident in pulling out the keywords in the question to help us fine the answer in the reading.
Math: We continue to work through our various Fairy Tale math centers this week practicing our measurement skills. The students had a checklist of items in the classroom that they had to use a paperclip to determine how many units each item was in length.
Social: This week we continue to look at how family dynamics can be similar and different from our own. We have talked about and celebrated that families come in all different shapes and sizes just like us as individuals but we discussed what are some of the most important things about a family. The children came up with some beautiful answers. Next week I will need all of your help again helping your child come up with traditions your family may have.
Science: We continue to learn about the various aspects of spring. We introduced the names for certain baby animals that tend to be born in the spring and have written about why spring is so moody sometimes as it has been this year.
Friday, April 6, 2018
Week 28... I think.
Hello all! We had a wonderful first week back to school. The class has been working so hard Mrs. Cameron and I have been so impressed! Things to note for next week:
-Monday: Swimming lesson registration is due!
-Tuesday: I will be sending an information sheet home from AHS about the printing/motor movement module we will be starting in a few weeks with the Occupational Therapist assistant.
-Wednesday: Library day and Popcorn day
-Friday: Spelling test
Language: We have been working on our daily reading comprehension pages this week. We have been using the 5W question words lots this week to try and get more comfortable to pull the information out. We have been practicing pulling the keywords from the question to help us find the answer in the text. We also started working with S and L blend words. We will be continuing with this next week.
Math: The beginning of the week the students did a brief addition and subtraction review with the substitute teacher. When I returned I introduced our measuring unit to the kids. We looked at using pencils as a measuring tool this week. What inconsistencies did we come across if we used two different sized pencils, how do we accurately measure using this tool etc. We introduced the terms longer, shorter and the same when comparing two different items.
Science: We started working through our spring season workbook. We focused on the different weather changes that are going to happen as the season comes around. We also did cross-curricular looking at using and reading compound words that have rain in it.
Social: In social we have began to look more closely at our own families. We looked at our full names this week and how each of ours in unique. I told them the story of why I have the hyphenated name yet I am still a Miss, I also told them the story of why my parents chose my first and middle name. I have sent home a questionnaire today that requires your help to teach your kiddo why you chose their first and last name. On the back ignore the part about the family tree in the instructions, however please take the time to teach your child about their name as well as about when and why they moved to this community. I was quite shocked how many kiddos did not know their middle name or how to spell their last name. We had to log into good old PowerSchool to look many of them up.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Happy Easter!
Hi all! I hope that you all had a wonderful Spring break. Just a few things, unfortunately I will not be here tomorrow as I have been juror summoned. If you read this before Tuesday morning perhaps just warn your kiddos as we do not have the best track record for unexpected subs. A few more reminders for this week, please also note the important dates for the month on the side.
-Library day on Wednesday
-We will not be doing spelling this week as we get back into the swing of things
-Please sign up for swimming lessons
-Twin dress up day is on Friday
I am sending you all a big thank you! First thank you to all of you that were able to attend our student led conferences prior to the break. It was wonderful to see the excitement and pride the kiddos had to show you all their hard work. Another big thank you for all you do! In the hustle and mayhem that is 1PB I am one lucky teacher to have so many amazing parents and children to come to work to every single day!
This week we will be starting our differentiated reading comprehension in Language. I have created daily reading comprehension pages that are differentiated to your child's current reading ability. I have been so happy with how many kiddos have been bringing back their home reading consistently, I have seen a huge improvement in the last few months in a lot of their reading confidence. We will be continuing to work on basic grammar concepts when writing as well as starting to look into various blends.
In math we will be doing a quick review of addition and subtraction concepts before introducing our next unit-measurement
In science we will be taking a look at the seasonal changes that are starting to happen as we enter into spring. I have some fun activities that I cannot wait to share with the kids.
Social we will be starting our family changes, I will be needing your involvement and assistance in this unit as the children will be coming home with various questions/ activities that they will definitely need you help in answering. We will be looking more deeply into family traditions and changes.
See you all on Wednesday :)
-Library day on Wednesday
-We will not be doing spelling this week as we get back into the swing of things
-Please sign up for swimming lessons
-Twin dress up day is on Friday
I am sending you all a big thank you! First thank you to all of you that were able to attend our student led conferences prior to the break. It was wonderful to see the excitement and pride the kiddos had to show you all their hard work. Another big thank you for all you do! In the hustle and mayhem that is 1PB I am one lucky teacher to have so many amazing parents and children to come to work to every single day!
This week we will be starting our differentiated reading comprehension in Language. I have created daily reading comprehension pages that are differentiated to your child's current reading ability. I have been so happy with how many kiddos have been bringing back their home reading consistently, I have seen a huge improvement in the last few months in a lot of their reading confidence. We will be continuing to work on basic grammar concepts when writing as well as starting to look into various blends.
In math we will be doing a quick review of addition and subtraction concepts before introducing our next unit-measurement
In science we will be taking a look at the seasonal changes that are starting to happen as we enter into spring. I have some fun activities that I cannot wait to share with the kids.
Social we will be starting our family changes, I will be needing your involvement and assistance in this unit as the children will be coming home with various questions/ activities that they will definitely need you help in answering. We will be looking more deeply into family traditions and changes.
See you all on Wednesday :)
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Week 25
Hi all! Hope you had a great and restful weekend. Here are a few of the things you need to know for this week. I am still collecting some recyclable materials if you guys still have any boxes around the house!
Wednesday: Popcorn day and Library day
Friday: Spelling test, St. Patrick's day dress up and Scholastic book orders due.
Language: We continue to learn about various letter combinations this week including 'or,' and 'qu.' We then use these words in our writing journals. We also read the story 'The Bad Mood" this week and wrote about a time when we were in a bad mood and what we did to fix it. The kids have also been looking through simple spring themed reading comprehensions that they are to do independently. This has been a struggle for some but they are getting much better at answering questions based on what they read.
Math: We looked at addition within 20. We practiced everyday how making ten or near doubles can quickly help us to answer the questions more quickly. We will continue this week and start looking at subtraction within 18.
Science: We finished up our Pinocchio puppets at the beginning of the week. Then we moved on to building a Captain Hook's ship. We used our Chromebooks and Google Draw to plan out how we wanted to build our ships. We continue to talk about the importance of fasteners and having a plan when building.
Gym: My week in gym we practiced pass and catching a ball with a buddy. We talked about when is it good to use an underhand throw versus an overhand throw. We then played some cooperative games for the second half of class.
Wednesday: Popcorn day and Library day
Friday: Spelling test, St. Patrick's day dress up and Scholastic book orders due.
Language: We continue to learn about various letter combinations this week including 'or,' and 'qu.' We then use these words in our writing journals. We also read the story 'The Bad Mood" this week and wrote about a time when we were in a bad mood and what we did to fix it. The kids have also been looking through simple spring themed reading comprehensions that they are to do independently. This has been a struggle for some but they are getting much better at answering questions based on what they read.
Math: We looked at addition within 20. We practiced everyday how making ten or near doubles can quickly help us to answer the questions more quickly. We will continue this week and start looking at subtraction within 18.
Science: We finished up our Pinocchio puppets at the beginning of the week. Then we moved on to building a Captain Hook's ship. We used our Chromebooks and Google Draw to plan out how we wanted to build our ships. We continue to talk about the importance of fasteners and having a plan when building.
Gym: My week in gym we practiced pass and catching a ball with a buddy. We talked about when is it good to use an underhand throw versus an overhand throw. We then played some cooperative games for the second half of class.
Friday, March 2, 2018
Week 24
Hi all! February flew by! I have updated our dates to remember for March. Student conferences are coming up, it's your child's chance to show you all about what we have been learning here in grade one. I will be sending out the sign up for that earlier next week on Sign Up Genius. We have been using raffle tickets this past week here in grade one.
Need to know:
Wednesday: Library day and early dismissal.
Friday: Spelling test
Language: We have finished looking at the long U sound this week. We also worked with the TH and CH sound. We read a lot of stories about standing up to bullies this week and ways we can be more kind to each other every day.
Math: We completed the numbers to 100 unit, we finished writing the quiz on Wednesday and had a quick review on Thursday about addition before we dive back into addition and subtraction to 20.
Science: We finished building out Goldilocks chairs this week. We read the story Pinocchio and started looking at a reading script of it. The students started to make Pinocchio puppets. We will use the story in language and continue building our puppets next week.
Need to know:
Wednesday: Library day and early dismissal.
Friday: Spelling test
Language: We have finished looking at the long U sound this week. We also worked with the TH and CH sound. We read a lot of stories about standing up to bullies this week and ways we can be more kind to each other every day.
Math: We completed the numbers to 100 unit, we finished writing the quiz on Wednesday and had a quick review on Thursday about addition before we dive back into addition and subtraction to 20.
Science: We finished building out Goldilocks chairs this week. We read the story Pinocchio and started looking at a reading script of it. The students started to make Pinocchio puppets. We will use the story in language and continue building our puppets next week.
Monday, February 26, 2018
Week 23
Hi all! I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend, I had a busy one moving! Here is the what you need to know for this week as well as what we got up to on week 24(time is flying by!)
Wednesday: Pink Shirt day. Kids are to wear a pink shirt for anti-bullying awareness. Also library day!!!
Friday: Spelling test and Mental Health activity day. The children will be rotating through various classrooms and going through various activities with other teachers to support taking care of our mental health. I think most of them will want to hangout with me all afternoon at my Lego room.
Language: We continue writing in our writing journals every single day, the kids confidence in independently writing sentences is coming along. A great thing to do at home is practice putting their spelling words into sentences. We finished looking at the long O and started looking at the long U. The students also started working with _sh and _ch sounds.
Gym: It was my week with them in gym, we went back to the dance unit we had started prior to Mission Impossible. The students are in LOVE with doing the cha-cha slide!
Math: We continue practicing skip counting by 10, 5 and 2s through our centers. We also working on the Chromebooks again to build a 100 chart using different shapes/pictures. We will hopefully be wrapping this unit up this week!
Social: DINOVILLE IS OFFICIALLY COMPLETE! It took us forever, it was a tad chaotic but it is finally done. We started to map it out last week, this will continue on this week and then we have a few more activities to do with it!
Science: We read the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and we had the students build a chair our of paper that would be stronger than baby bear's that Goldilocks broke. Having grade ones fold things takes a lot of time and patience but we are almost complete the chairs! We also took a break from this and participated in the science challenge. I had to be as hands off as possible in this challenge and the students reviewed their knowledge from the 5 Senses unit to identify different items.
Wednesday: Pink Shirt day. Kids are to wear a pink shirt for anti-bullying awareness. Also library day!!!
Friday: Spelling test and Mental Health activity day. The children will be rotating through various classrooms and going through various activities with other teachers to support taking care of our mental health. I think most of them will want to hangout with me all afternoon at my Lego room.
Language: We continue writing in our writing journals every single day, the kids confidence in independently writing sentences is coming along. A great thing to do at home is practice putting their spelling words into sentences. We finished looking at the long O and started looking at the long U. The students also started working with _sh and _ch sounds.
Gym: It was my week with them in gym, we went back to the dance unit we had started prior to Mission Impossible. The students are in LOVE with doing the cha-cha slide!
Math: We continue practicing skip counting by 10, 5 and 2s through our centers. We also working on the Chromebooks again to build a 100 chart using different shapes/pictures. We will hopefully be wrapping this unit up this week!
Social: DINOVILLE IS OFFICIALLY COMPLETE! It took us forever, it was a tad chaotic but it is finally done. We started to map it out last week, this will continue on this week and then we have a few more activities to do with it!
Science: We read the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and we had the students build a chair our of paper that would be stronger than baby bear's that Goldilocks broke. Having grade ones fold things takes a lot of time and patience but we are almost complete the chairs! We also took a break from this and participated in the science challenge. I had to be as hands off as possible in this challenge and the students reviewed their knowledge from the 5 Senses unit to identify different items.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Week 21
Hi all! I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. I had a great few days at convention, I spent a lot of my Thursday in sessions looking at mindfulness and self regulation in the classroom. A few things for this coming week I want to ensure everyone is aware of.
Wednesday: Crazy Valentine's outfit day. The kids are to wear their Valentine's best this day. We will be having our special snack day this morning also but they are still to come with a lunch. I sent home a class list last week with all of the names of the students, I will put it below if that somehow did not make it home.
Wednesday: Crazy Valentine's outfit day. The kids are to wear their Valentine's best this day. We will be having our special snack day this morning also but they are still to come with a lunch. I sent home a class list last week with all of the names of the students, I will put it below if that somehow did not make it home.
Atticus
Ben
Skylar
Isabella
Colten
Reese
Cadence
Brady
Hunter
Dominic
Mersayde
Ivan
Declan
Kudrat
Daniel
Julianna
Owen
Derrick
Miss. PB and Mrs. Cameron
Friday: Pancake breakfast will be starting at 8:00am. There will be a pancake station
right outside of our class for the kiddos to drop off their stuff, grab some breakfast and relax.
It is also 100 Day AND pajama day(busy I know). I sent home a note today but for Friday
I have asked you to send on Friday a Ziploc bag of 100 items that your kiddo has counted out.
I stressed to them by no means do they need to go out and buy items, we had a discussion of
ideas for things they could find at home.
right outside of our class for the kiddos to drop off their stuff, grab some breakfast and relax.
It is also 100 Day AND pajama day(busy I know). I sent home a note today but for Friday
I have asked you to send on Friday a Ziploc bag of 100 items that your kiddo has counted out.
I stressed to them by no means do they need to go out and buy items, we had a discussion of
ideas for things they could find at home.
Language:
We finished up working with the long I sounds. The students practiced everyday putting these words into sentences, slowly but surely we are getting better at creating sentences. We also practiced some reading comprehension as we learned about Groundhog day.
Math: We continue to work with counting to 100, specifically skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. The students worked through some counting activities on the Chromebooks as well as we worked through various math centers.
Science: in our Building Things unit we worked through some explore time building towers using various materials we see everyday. Then we sorted various items based on what kind of material it was made of. We also learned about what a joiner/ fastener does and the various ones in which we use regularly here in grade one.
Social: Dinoville is still under construction. We have completed building houses, we each made a business that our community would need. We are still working on adding all of the other items that will be needed.
Gym: The students were over the moon about the Mission Impossible course myself and Mrs. Giles created in the gym.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Week 20
Odds and Ends:
Hi all! It has been a busy few weeks getting back into routine and finishing up the report cards. Those got sent home today in your kiddo's kanga pouch. Please sign the envelope and send it back to the school, you can enclose any comments within the envelope for me. If you would like to sit down and discuss anything after taking a look at the report card let me know and we can plan time! I am asking if you have any sort of recyclables at home smaller than a cereal box, paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, those odd craft items you aren't using to please send them to school for our Building Things unit. I sent home an order form for Pink Shirt day. For those of you that do not know Feb 28th we ask students and staff to wear a pink shirt to symbolize that we are against bullying.
Language Arts:
We have finished looking at the long A, and long E vowels. This has been tricky for the class, they have done a wonderful job at reading these words, but writing them independently has been tricky. We took down our social bulletin board and have now put up word families posters to try to get the children independently trying to identify some of those sounds. We have been also working hard at creating sentences independently. This has been a challenge but with the fun topics we have been writing about they are showing improvement in the independence of this.
Math:
We finished up our patterns unit and have moved on to numbers to 100. We have played a roll and color and a bump it game with a buddy. We just started our math centers yesterday and the students were very excited to get to work on these!
Science and Social:
We completed the winter unit and have just started looking into the Building Things unit. We talked about the different tools that builders would use and what kind of tools we can use here in Grade One. We also talked about how to be safe when building. We combined this building introduction with social studies as we are building our own community. We had a vote and decided to name it Dinoville. Yesterday we each built our own home, today we came up with the ten rules of Dinoville as a class, I apologize now if they try to tell you that sleeping does not happen on the weekends 😄. We have put two big tables in the back of our classroom where we will be building this.
Gym:
Last week in gym I started a dancing unit with the kids, they will be continuing on with this with Mrs. Derechey this week.
Hi all! It has been a busy few weeks getting back into routine and finishing up the report cards. Those got sent home today in your kiddo's kanga pouch. Please sign the envelope and send it back to the school, you can enclose any comments within the envelope for me. If you would like to sit down and discuss anything after taking a look at the report card let me know and we can plan time! I am asking if you have any sort of recyclables at home smaller than a cereal box, paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, those odd craft items you aren't using to please send them to school for our Building Things unit. I sent home an order form for Pink Shirt day. For those of you that do not know Feb 28th we ask students and staff to wear a pink shirt to symbolize that we are against bullying.
Language Arts:
We have finished looking at the long A, and long E vowels. This has been tricky for the class, they have done a wonderful job at reading these words, but writing them independently has been tricky. We took down our social bulletin board and have now put up word families posters to try to get the children independently trying to identify some of those sounds. We have been also working hard at creating sentences independently. This has been a challenge but with the fun topics we have been writing about they are showing improvement in the independence of this.
Math:
We finished up our patterns unit and have moved on to numbers to 100. We have played a roll and color and a bump it game with a buddy. We just started our math centers yesterday and the students were very excited to get to work on these!
Science and Social:
We completed the winter unit and have just started looking into the Building Things unit. We talked about the different tools that builders would use and what kind of tools we can use here in Grade One. We also talked about how to be safe when building. We combined this building introduction with social studies as we are building our own community. We had a vote and decided to name it Dinoville. Yesterday we each built our own home, today we came up with the ten rules of Dinoville as a class, I apologize now if they try to tell you that sleeping does not happen on the weekends 😄. We have put two big tables in the back of our classroom where we will be building this.
Gym:
Last week in gym I started a dancing unit with the kids, they will be continuing on with this with Mrs. Derechey this week.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Happy New Year!
It was a long, cold first week back here in 1PB. It has taken us some time to settle back into our routine but by Friday we were doing much better! We have been practicing slowing down when we are working so that our work is nice and neat. Using the lines to print on and coloring with detail has been a focus in grade one.
Language Arts: We have started to look at the different ways in which a long A vowel can be presented. We learned about the bossy e and the rule 'when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." We will continue practicing this next week. We have also been working hard at building simple sentences with all the words we have learned so far this year. This requires a lot of independence and lots of students struggle. I suggest when practicing spelling words have your kiddo come up with a sentence using that word! We also read a new story called "Favourites" which sparked our journal writing activities for the week.
Math: We started the week with a review of all of the concepts we have worked with so far. We then continued on with centers, we had lots of fun making our own pattern on the computers, with stickers, stamps, and so many other ways!
Science: We are looking at the winter season, how is it different from Fall. What do animals do in the winter was a big interest for the class. We will continue on with this next week. We finished our week drawing a winter scene using oil pastels. The kids were not fans of the way the oil pastels made their fingers feel but they turned out quite beautiful!
Social: We spent our first few days back doing a big review. We talked about what a group is, groups we are part of, rights and responsibilities, what a community is, as well as the difference between rural and urban communities. We spent time looking at a map and identifying their city, province and country names. This was very tricky for the children but we will keep practicing! We also did some community map work looking at how to read a comprehend instructions on a map.
Language Arts: We have started to look at the different ways in which a long A vowel can be presented. We learned about the bossy e and the rule 'when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." We will continue practicing this next week. We have also been working hard at building simple sentences with all the words we have learned so far this year. This requires a lot of independence and lots of students struggle. I suggest when practicing spelling words have your kiddo come up with a sentence using that word! We also read a new story called "Favourites" which sparked our journal writing activities for the week.
Math: We started the week with a review of all of the concepts we have worked with so far. We then continued on with centers, we had lots of fun making our own pattern on the computers, with stickers, stamps, and so many other ways!
Science: We are looking at the winter season, how is it different from Fall. What do animals do in the winter was a big interest for the class. We will continue on with this next week. We finished our week drawing a winter scene using oil pastels. The kids were not fans of the way the oil pastels made their fingers feel but they turned out quite beautiful!
Social: We spent our first few days back doing a big review. We talked about what a group is, groups we are part of, rights and responsibilities, what a community is, as well as the difference between rural and urban communities. We spent time looking at a map and identifying their city, province and country names. This was very tricky for the children but we will keep practicing! We also did some community map work looking at how to read a comprehend instructions on a map.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Merry Christmas!
Language: We have completed looking at all of the short vowel sounds. In the New Year we will do a review of that the first week back before going into the long vowel sounds. We also did some Christmas themed reading comprehension activities. We read a passage then looked at taking the information from what we had just read to answer questions. We did lots of Christmas writing between our daily Elf journals.
Math:We completed subtraction from twelve last week. We also started looking at Christmas themed patterns. We will continue on looking at patterns briefly in January before continuing on with addition and subtraction all the way to twenty.
Science: We had so much fun finishing our Christmas themed senses unit. We finished looking at each of our senses separately. Talked about how some work together. Ways that we protect our senses and how each sense helps to keep us safe. We learned about how animals use their senses. They wrote their quiz yesterday and they did awesome!
Social: We looked at Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and continued looking at ways we can be good citizens. This is also where we took a break and looked a bit at our own Christmas tradtions and how they were different from ones in other countries.
On behalf of Mrs. Cameron and myself, have a very Merry Christmas, enjoy your break and I will see you all in the New Year.
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