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!!!

 

 

 

A busy couple of weeks!!

Hi, the past couple of weeks have been quite busy and I have not had much time to sit and share some of the wonderful things that are happening in my classroom.  I am happy to say that my students have now settled into the routine of Daily 5 and it is amazing to watch!!  I love it because it gives me time to spend with each child.  During that time I either do assessment or I am teaching directly one on one or in small groups. I think it is my favorite time of day!!

A couple of my students have been asking me for more STEM challenges in the classroom and I am so excited that they enjoy doing these.  So I searched and came up with a tinfoil and pipe cleaner challenge for them.  It is amazing to watch them work.  I gave them a set number of pipe cleaners and sheets of tinfoil.  They had to find two other partners who they thought they would work well with.  I had five groups of three.  We completed a problem solving Math lesson to decide what equal groups wold be.  That lesson was awesome on its own!!  Then they began and I gave them no limits to what they could make.  There ideas were pretty creative.  The students are learning to work together as a team, use nice language, problem solve and they learn how to deal with failure. (Like when their tinfoil keeps ripping.)  Here are some videos of them explaining their creations:
Parker and Rylan

Madison

Emily

Ella

Logan

Kayla

Gracie

Keira

Alexis

Aiden, Olivia and Gavin

Happy Halloween!!

 

 



I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!!  Our day at school on Thursday was awesome!!  We talked about safety rules, and we participated in a STEM challenge where the students had 100 toothpicks and some candy.  They had to build the tallest structure they could with the tooth picks and candy.  It was a lot more difficult than they thought it would be!!

They had a lot of fun and the language they used was awesome.  They are learning how to problem-solve and to work together as a team to solve a problem!!

Our Halloween party was fun too!!  Here is my spooky class!!!

                                                    Happy Halloween from us to you!!