Highlights of Our Learning
-Today we explored the "____ap Family". Please see how many words your child can spell and read from this family of words. As a class, we found 14 words including cap, tap, slap, map, clap, nap, map, lap, rap, gap, trap etc.
-We all had time on Raz Kids and were able to read books together with Miss Rinaldi's students.
-We learned a new way to play "Face Off" with playing cards. By using the 1(Ace) to 10 we turn over two cards at a time from our pile and add them together. Then a partner does the same. Whoever has the highest total (sum) wins that round a gets to keep all of the cards. We also tried playing with the low sum as the winner. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game is the overall winner. This an easy game to play at home. See what addition strategies your child is using as they play (adding one, counting on, using doubles etc.)
-We reviewed the characteristics of the animal group "Reptiles" and tried drawing a snake, lizard and turtle in our Visual Journals. Tomorrow we will print some facts about reptiles too. Please ask your child to tell you what they have learned about reptiles (ie. cold blooded, dry scaly skin, hatch from eggs, vertebrates, lungs, can live on land or in the water etc.).
F.Y.I.
-Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on December 5th and 6th. Online bookings will open this Friday.
Have a good evening!
Monday, November 25, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
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 in book from 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 new poems about 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!!
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 in book from 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 new poems about 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!!
Monday, November 18, 2019
Insects are EVERYWHERE!!
Highlights of Our Learning
-We worked on the "___ab family" today. 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 and gym 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" today. 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 and gym 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!
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
We have been learning about animal groups.
Highlights of Our Learning:
-Please ask your child to tell you what they have learned about the animal groups MAMMALS and BIRDS. Information that might be shared could include:
Mammals:
-warm blooded
-have hair or fur
-drink milk from their mother
-skeleton inside their body
-can be big or small
-breathe with lungs
Birds:
-have feathers (four types of feathers)
-have beaks or bills
-bones are hollow
-can usually fly (but not always)
-found all over the world
-make nests
-We did a new math activity today called "Double Dicers".
-We practiced moving in different ways in the gym.
F.Y.I.
-Scholastic Book orders are due this Friday.
-Friday, November 22nd is a PD Day and there is no school for students.
Have a great evening.
-Please ask your child to tell you what they have learned about the animal groups MAMMALS and BIRDS. Information that might be shared could include:
Mammals:
-warm blooded
-have hair or fur
-drink milk from their mother
-skeleton inside their body
-can be big or small
-breathe with lungs
Birds:
-have feathers (four types of feathers)
-have beaks or bills
-bones are hollow
-can usually fly (but not always)
-found all over the world
-make nests
-We did a new math activity today called "Double Dicers".
-We practiced moving in different ways in the gym.
F.Y.I.
-Scholastic Book orders are due this Friday.
-Friday, November 22nd is a PD Day and there is no school for students.
Have a great evening.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day Assembly
Highlights of Our Learning:
-Finding out what to expect during our Remembrance Day Assembly tomorrow (ie. no clapping, respectful behaviour, two minutes of silence, seeing lots of beautiful artwork, learning about the importance of our Veterans etc.)
-Problem Solving: Demonstrating an understanding of how the feet belonging to the characters in the story "The Gigantic Turnip" can be grouped to equal TEN feet. See if your child can tell you all of the characters in the story, how many feet they each have and what combinations could be created to equal ten feet. Here is the link to the story to help you remember. Please cut and paste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTfhCpCnGX4&list=PLrIehpScGi74-VEG9nrlo1AHyQX9qUn1Q
-Adding black paint to orange paint to create different shades.
-"Reading and Writing the Room!! Please have your child tell you about this fun activity that we did today.
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 are due by Friday, November 15th. Thanks!
-Finding out what to expect during our Remembrance Day Assembly tomorrow (ie. no clapping, respectful behaviour, two minutes of silence, seeing lots of beautiful artwork, learning about the importance of our Veterans etc.)
-Problem Solving: Demonstrating an understanding of how the feet belonging to the characters in the story "The Gigantic Turnip" can be grouped to equal TEN feet. See if your child can tell you all of the characters in the story, how many feet they each have and what combinations could be created to equal ten feet. Here is the link to the story to help you remember. Please cut and paste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTfhCpCnGX4&list=PLrIehpScGi74-VEG9nrlo1AHyQX9qUn1Q
-Adding black paint to orange paint to create different shades.
-"Reading and Writing the Room!! Please have your child tell you about this fun activity that we did today.
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 are due by Friday, November 15th. Thanks!
Monday, November 4, 2019
We learned about the "___at" family today.
Highlights of Our Learning:
-We learned about the "___at" family. 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.)
-Today we started new Literacy Centres. 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.
-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 and gym.
-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 today. 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!
-We learned about the "___at" family. 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.)
-Today we started new Literacy Centres. 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.
-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 and gym.
-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 today. 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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