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.

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.