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.