Thursday, March 19, 2020

St. Patrick's Day Traps

Below are some pictures of our creative and wonderful Leprechaun traps that we built on Friday! I was so impressed with the creativity and teamwork that went on. I was shocked when I came in on Tuesday to find that the sneaky Leprechauns must have taken all of our traps! .... Those tricky Leprechauns...They did leave a special treat and some gold behind. I packaged them up in bags and put them in students' school supply bags. I hope we catch them next year!

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Update on our learning..







Thank you so much for sending in supplies for our amazing 100 day posters! They all turned out great! We are now 100 days smarter! Here are a few pictures from our 100th day at school:





In math we have moved into learning subtraction. We have learned a few strategies to help us and are now practicing our skills in some station activities:






In LA we are still doing our daily 5. We should all be able to write at least 1 simple sentence using the word wall words as a support. For example: "I went to play." (Those are all word wall words). We work on writing every day. We are still remembering to put an uppercase at the beginning of our sentence and a period at the end. We have also been learning about rhyming words. Rhyming words have the same ending but different beginnings. They can help us in our spelling.




We read the story The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt. We practiced re-telling the story using our own mitten and characters to help us. We presented them to the class and to our grade 3 buddies. If you haven't already asked your child to tell you the story please do. They are very good story tellers!



In science we have been learning about the season of winter. We will be moving on to our next unit of Building Things very soon! A group from Ms. Pedulla's grade 6/5 class came in to do a challenge with our class. Each group had to make a bridge out of paper and tape to hold up 4 hot wheel cars! Here are some pictures:





In social studies we have been learning a lot about our rights and responsibilities. We made a treasure booklet of our rights and drew pictures to match each one.



In gym we have been focusing on racket handling with balls. It takes a lot of focus and practice. We
are now working on curling. So far it has been a ton of fun.






In art we have done a few little art projects! I'm sure you saw our great 100's day art that we completed. We have also done a lovely water colour art piece of the northern lights. 


In religion we have just finished learning all about baptism. We are now moving on to learning about Lent. We talked about how we usually give something up for Lent and how we do extra kind deeds. Every day I will choose one person to be our "friend of the day." We all go around the circle saying something nice about that person. It makes them feel happy and cared for. Every student in class will get a turn.


In library we learned about maps! There was a giant map of Canada that we explored.









Friday, January 10, 2020

Update on our learning...

December was quite a busy month for us here in grade 1. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Here is some updates of what we did in December and so far in January this year. 


In art we created reindeer with our grade 3 buddies before the Christmas break. We also created a hand painted picture of the 3 wise men following the star to baby Jesus with Mrs. Brochu's class. We hung up our art pieces in the gym for our liturgy. We did a step by step snowman drawing and are now currently working on another art piece! We love to paint!





We were lucky this week to get a chance to go in the Star Lab that is set up in our learning commons! It looks like a giant dome and when we crawled inside we could see different stars. We loved learning about constellations. 


















In gym class we did drum fit in December and are now starting floor hockey. We will have to take a break from floor hockey next week as we have Sound Kreations coming in to teach us dance!




In science we have been learning all about our 5 senses! We talked about what we love to touch, see, hear, taste, and smell at Christmas time. 





In math we have been working on the different ways we can represent a number. We know we can use the number, number word, tally marks, dice, dominoes, pictures, a ten frame, and with fingers. We have also been working on learning our double addition facts (ex. 2 + 2= 4, 3+3=6, ect.). We have begun adding single digit numbers up to 9. Ask me about our addition dancing dice game we play!


In LA we have been working on a few writing skills. Our writing rules to check for are:
1)  Period at the end of a sentence.
2) Uppercase at the beginning of a sentence.
3) Names are uppercase. ex. John.
4) When I is alone it must be an uppercase. 

Some of us are also still working on putting a finger space between words, making sure our printing is neatly in between the lines and the appropriate size. 

We are starting to spell our own words phonetically. That means, we spell the word the way it sounds. We try to sound it out and put down the appropriate letter. For example some of us might spell love as luv because it is phonetically correct. That is great! We are trying to encourage each other to write and sound out our own words. 

We have been working on sequence writing as well. We wrote 3 steps for how we build a snowman. It is important for our steps to be clear and for the picture to match. 

We do our daily 5 every day. Students practice reading independently, with a partner, listening to reading on Epic, writing and doing word work (based on our word wall words). For our writing station, students should be drawing a picture and writing at least 3 words to label it or a full sentence. Here was our list of Christmas/winter words we have been using. 





















In social we have been reviewing how we identify different groups and communities. Here are 5 ways we talked about:






In religion we have been learning about the story of Jesus' birthday. We have also talked about the Epiphany this week.




In health class, we talked about germs and how they are spread. We learned that we should always wash our hands before we eat, after we use the bathroom, after we blow our noses and if we cough or sneeze.