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.

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.

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.

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.