Highlights from our learning
This week we are continuing to learn about animal groups. We have learned about reptiles and started to learn about amphibians. Ask your child what the difference is in these 2 animal groups. They have illustrated and written 3 sentences for what makes a reptile and tomorrow they will write about amphibians and that they have.
Today students buddied up with a student from Mrs. Swanson's class this morning and went on Raz Kids together, participated in Literacy centers and math games.
This afternoon the students had music and despite the weather, we had an indoor recess.
We also exchanged learning commons books this afternoon.
Have a great evening and stay warm out there!
F.Y.I.
-Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on December 5th and 6th. Online bookings will open this Friday.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Highlights from our learning
This week we continued to learn about animal groups. Ask your child what makes a fish a fish and what makes an insect an insect. "They have ____." Children were given the opportunity to learn about each animal group and print 3 facts about each group in their visual journal. They also added an illustration of that animal group.
In literacy centers, students continued to practice their reading skills with a teacher in a small group, on Raz kids, poetry with a group of peers, reading to animals in the forest or reading books at their level.
During word work we have been practicing our sight words, making words and today we did a word detective around the classroom to add to our word lists in our word work book.
In math we continued to finish up our math centers. Children practiced the skills of adding 1, adding 2, adding 2 numbers on a domino, adding 2 numbers on a dice and making 10 with the power of ten cards with a partner.
We learned a few poems this week. We learned a poem about insects and birds.
F.Y.I.
There is no school tomorrow as it is a PD day for teachers.
Parent teacher conference bookings on MyCBE/PowerSchool opens on Friday November 29th at 6pm. Please ensure you sign up for a time to come and meet with your child's teacher to discuss their learning so far in grade 1.
Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
Have a great weekend!!
This week we continued to learn about animal groups. Ask your child what makes a fish a fish and what makes an insect an insect. "They have ____." Children were given the opportunity to learn about each animal group and print 3 facts about each group in their visual journal. They also added an illustration of that animal group.
In literacy centers, students continued to practice their reading skills with a teacher in a small group, on Raz kids, poetry with a group of peers, reading to animals in the forest or reading books at their level.
During word work we have been practicing our sight words, making words and today we did a word detective around the classroom to add to our word lists in our word work book.
In math we continued to finish up our math centers. Children practiced the skills of adding 1, adding 2, adding 2 numbers on a domino, adding 2 numbers on a dice and making 10 with the power of ten cards with a partner.
We learned a few poems this week. We learned a poem about insects and birds.
F.Y.I.
There is no school tomorrow as it is a PD day for teachers.
Parent teacher conference bookings on MyCBE/PowerSchool opens on Friday November 29th at 6pm. Please ensure you sign up for a time to come and meet with your child's teacher to discuss their learning so far in grade 1.
Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
Have a great weekend!!
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Highlights of Our Learning
-We worked on the "___ab family" See if your child can share some of the words that we brainstormed together. The following words were printed in our Word Work books: tab, dab, jab, nab, cab, fab, lab, crab, stab, scab.
-Please ask your child to tell you what Literacy Centre they worked at today. Students have been trying to build their sight word vocabulary and reading skills during this time.
-Students were given another picture prompt for writing. It was a scene with many signs of fall. After sharing our thoughts and ideas, students were given three sentence starters to try to complete. They were, "I can see...", "I like..." and "I wonder...". Please have your child tell you about their responses.
-We had music in the afternoon.
-We have now learned about three ways to classify animals...mammals, birds and insects. Today the students completed a page in their visual journals to capture the important features of insects. What is the same about all insects? What insects did your child draw?
F.Y.I.
- Friday, November 22nd is a PD Day and there is no school for students.
Have a good evening!
-We worked on the "___ab family" See if your child can share some of the words that we brainstormed together. The following words were printed in our Word Work books: tab, dab, jab, nab, cab, fab, lab, crab, stab, scab.
-Please ask your child to tell you what Literacy Centre they worked at today. Students have been trying to build their sight word vocabulary and reading skills during this time.
-Students were given another picture prompt for writing. It was a scene with many signs of fall. After sharing our thoughts and ideas, students were given three sentence starters to try to complete. They were, "I can see...", "I like..." and "I wonder...". Please have your child tell you about their responses.
-We had music in the afternoon.
-We have now learned about three ways to classify animals...mammals, birds and insects. Today the students completed a page in their visual journals to capture the important features of insects. What is the same about all insects? What insects did your child draw?
F.Y.I.
- Friday, November 22nd is a PD Day and there is no school for students.
Have a good evening!
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Highlights from our Learning
Today we started with Literacy Centers. The students rotated to a new station where they had a chance to practice reading through a variety of Media. Students continued to work in their independent reading levels. Students worked on their reading skills at Guided Reading, Poetry Performance, Reading Classroom Books, Reading from Leveled Book or Reading on RazKids. Please ask your child what activity they participated in today.
We also worked on the _an word family. Ask your child what words we came up with today that are in the "_an" family.
In Math we worked on representing numbers. We took the number 8 and illustrated how many ways you could make the number 8. Ask your child some of the ways they represented the number 8 in their math books.
This week we are learning about the 6 different animal group classifications. Today we learned all about mammals. Ask your child what all mammals have and how we know an animal is a mammal.
We also went to music and the learning commons this afternoon.
F.Y.I.
Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
Scholastic Book orders are due by Friday, November 15th. Thanks!
There is no school next Friday, November 22. This is a PD day for teachers.
Today we started with Literacy Centers. The students rotated to a new station where they had a chance to practice reading through a variety of Media. Students continued to work in their independent reading levels. Students worked on their reading skills at Guided Reading, Poetry Performance, Reading Classroom Books, Reading from Leveled Book or Reading on RazKids. Please ask your child what activity they participated in today.
We also worked on the _an word family. Ask your child what words we came up with today that are in the "_an" family.
In Math we worked on representing numbers. We took the number 8 and illustrated how many ways you could make the number 8. Ask your child some of the ways they represented the number 8 in their math books.
This week we are learning about the 6 different animal group classifications. Today we learned all about mammals. Ask your child what all mammals have and how we know an animal is a mammal.
We also went to music and the learning commons this afternoon.
F.Y.I.
Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
Scholastic Book orders are due by Friday, November 15th. Thanks!
There is no school next Friday, November 22. This is a PD day for teachers.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Highlights of Our Learning:
This week we started a new round of Literacy Centers!
Students are grouped to match their independent reading levels. Each day, students will work on a different activity such as Guided Reading, Poetry Performance, Reading Classroom Books, Reading from Leveled Book and Reading on RazKids. Please ask your child what activity they participated in today.
We did some writing today. We had a fall scene and printed sentences with the sentence starter "I can see _______." Children were encouraged to use color words and sound out new words.
-We learned about the "___at" family yesterday. Please ask your child to spell and print some of these ___at words for you to determine their understanding of this word family. (ie. cat, hat, mat, rat, bat, pat, flat, that, chat etc.)
-In math we learned how to print an addition equation using the symbols "+" to mean "plus" or "and". We used the symbol "=" to mean "in all", "all together" or "equals". Our focus today was adding one to a number. Students rolled a 10 sided dice and then printed an equation to match the rolled number plus one. For example, is 6 was rolled, the students printed 6+1=7 in their math notebooks.
-We had music today.
-We finished the day working on tissue paper poppies that we are creating for Remembrance Day.
F.Y.I.
-Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
-We had music today.
-We finished the day working on tissue paper poppies that we are creating for Remembrance Day.
F.Y.I.
-Please send in a pair of earbuds or headphones that your child can use when they are listening to books on RazKids. Since students are working on their individual levels and book choices, it is quite distracting if headphones are not used. Please label the headphones with your child's name. If you do not have an extra pair at home, they are readily available at dollar stores, Walmart etc.
-Students will be attending a whole school Remembrance Day assembly on Friday morning, beginning at 10:45am. If parents would like to join us for this assembly, you are invited to do so.
-There is no school on Monday, November 11th as it is Remembrance Day.
-Scholastic Book orders were sent home yesterday. If you would like to purchase any items as gifts for Christmas or another occasion, please let me know and I will deliver the order to you directly and not send items home with your child. Orders are due by Friday, November 15th. Thanks!
Have a good evening!
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