Family Tradition

Do you have a tradition that is important to you and your family?  If you doo please reply and tell us about it!

Christmas

We are learning a lot about Christmas right now.  We will be learning about baby Jesus and the nativity.  We will be looking at Hanukkah and learning about the symbols and customs.  We may have a special visitor later in the week to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas to our class.   We are writing our own story about the North Pole.  We will be making some ornaments and things to bring home!!  We are going to be trying to trap a Gingerbread man in another STEM challenge.  There is so much to do!! 

We are learning about different ways to add and subtract, the senses and we will get letters from our pen pals in Hopedale Labrador!!  We sent them a letter last week and made Christmas cards for them.  We are waiting for the letter they sent to us!!

Don't forget on the last day of school before Christmas dismissal is at 1:00.

Catch up!!

Hi, things have been crazy lately!!  First I want to catch everyone up on things we have been doing in our classroom!  At the end of each month every class chooses 2 or 3 students to recognize for a achievement.  Last month parker, Ella and Olivia were recognized in an assembly for being awesome!!

 

Way to go!!

 

We have also been sent a class elf from Santa!!  Her name is Candy.  She brought us a present from Santa, it was candy cane seeds.  We planted them last week and grew them. 

 

 

They really did grow!!  I let the children eat their candy canes on the morning of our Christmas concert.  I left to bring something to the office and when I got back the children had a thank you ready for me for letting them eat their candy canes.  I was so touched!!  I have beautiful students! They really made my day!  here is their video.  It is so sweet!!

Class thank you!

 

The concert was awesome!!  A big thank you to Miss Gale who filled in for me because my daughter had her Christmas concert the same night.

We have now worked our way through three vowels a, i, o.  Please view the flipped classroom videos with your child over the weekend.

We have also learned about digraphs which are two letters that make one sound.  Please watch Geraldine Giraffe as she finds, sh, ch, th, wh and ck around her house.  I am hoping to finish teaching the short vowels e and u by Christmas.

We are beginning our second unit in Science now too and we will be exploring materials and our senses.

In Math we are learning about patterns now.  Here are some of the Pattern I can statements Grade One students are responsible for learning.

I can:

describe the core of a repeating pattern of up to four elements.

identify and describe any errors in a repeating pattern

can identify the missing elements in a repeating pattern.

create and describe a repeating pattern using manipulatives, sounds, actions, diagrams.

reproduce and extend a repeating pattern.

describe a repeating pattern in my environment

identify repeating events such as days, birthdays, seasons

can represent a given repeating pattern in another way, such as actions to sound, colour to shape, ABC to animals.

describe a given repeating pattern using a letter code. (ABCABC…)

We are soon moving on to addition and subtraction to 18.  

We are also practicing for our Christmas concert on the 10th of December.  Mrs. Smith our music teacher has the songs and music on her website if you would like to practice the songs at home.  I have put the songs for Grade One below.

Let's Build a Gingerbread House

Little Snowflake

Deck the Halls

Christmas Songs

Pattern Zebras

Hi everyone, It has been a busy couple of weeks.  Term one is at an end and we are beginning term two!! I can't believe that term one is done.  Report cards go home next Tuesday and your children have worked so hard!!  I can't believe how much they have learned!! They are pretty amazing!!

We have been busy here at school. I am going to post some pictures to show some of the things that we have been doing.

 

Here we are making pattern zebras with our Grade Four buddies!!  We had lots of fun!

Conservation Corps Presentation

Yesterday we had a visit from Penny Moran with the Conservation Corps. I invited her to come and speak to our class about conservation and how important it is.  She was wonderful with the children and they enjoyed her talk very much.  She read a story to them and then they all got to take home a copy of the book for themselves.  She also did an activity where she had a student pretend to be the earth and she wrapped him up in a blanket to show how all the things humans do that is causing the earth's temperature to rise.  Then the children suggested ways to help cool the earth back down from the examples in the story and when each idea was suggested a picture was removed from the blanket until finally non remained and the blanket could be removed.  The students really enjoyed it!!  thank you Penny and The Conservation Corps.

Sight Word Game

After we made our tinfoil and pipe cleaner creations the children played a sight word game.  We used sight words from the Pre-Primer list of words which is the first list I teach in Grade One.  I wrote the word on a sticky note and the children had one each on their heads.  they had a clipboard, pencil and a class list and they had to go around and write the word on each head of their classmate on their list next to that child's name.  When they had all their words they had to read them.  We had a lot of fun!!It also helps them know the names of their classmates because believe it or not some still do not know everyone's name.  The best part was when one of my students lined up three other people beside her and said "Look, Mrs. Murphy our words can make a sentence.  I can come here."  Those are the teachable moments I love!!!