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.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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.
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