January 25-28

LA: We continued with Procedural Writing this week and practiced the “ug” word family. We also read, “Hey Little Ant” and learned about empathy and other points of view. We had to decide whether we would squish or save the ant.

Math: We started subtraction this week and practiced the “minus zero” and “a number minus itself” strategies. We also practiced adding 10 and had another round of Math centers.

Social Studies: We made a map of our new classroom setup. Students had to choose their own key or legends for the items in our class.

We will be receiving two new students in our class on Monday and we are super excited to meet them. We have also been discussing how we can be a good friend and include others this week.

In the blog below, you will find the class list if you choose to do valentines for everyone. All valentines need to be in the class by Friday, February 5^th and everyone on our list needs to be included. Unfortunately, food or toy treats cannot accompany the valentines. Please check Mrs. Taylor’s email for more details.

Upcoming Events

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Tuesday: Groundhog Day

Wednesday: Bring your library books

Friday: Bring your homework and valentines

         Spelling Test

Class List for Valentines

 

Abdul	Darion	Kuvira	Sara
Agasthya	Donovan	Olamide	Suryansh
Ali	Eldana	Reece	Sydney
Azim	Ema	Reynelle	Tomisin
Christopher	Jaffer	Robbie	Yana
Daniel	Kalab	Roman

January 18th-22nd

Math: We started the addition strategy of adding ten to a number. (When 10 is added to a number, the tens-place digit increases by 1.) We have been using our “100 chart” to aid in solving these equations. We are also reviewing place value concepts each day during calendar activities. We have started subtraction in some closed word problems.

Language Arts: We started procedural writing where we use transition words of first, next, then, and last. We will add more transitional words as we practice over the next few weeks. We watched a video of how to make an ice cream sundae and then wrote the steps. Students need to think about who their audience is and make sure that they can follow the instructions given.

Raz-Kids should be working fine again. Please let me know if you have any issues. As student skills improve, I may change the level that they are reading at on Raz-Kids. Please let me know if your child gets frustrated with the new level, and we can make further changes.

Social Studies: We started learning about mapping skills.

Science: We are reading stories and poems about colour and winter for the new units.

Upcoming Events:

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Thursday: Early Dismissal/Casual Day

                 Spelling Test

                 Bring your homework folder

Friday: No school, PD day for teachers

 

Please read the email from Mrs. Taylor regarding Valentine’s Day!

(I will post names for the students in our class soon.)

Raz-Kids is now working

As of 12:30 today, January 19th,  Raz-Kids should be working for your child.

Thanks for your patience!

Raz-Kids

There seems to be a problem with the Raz-Kids program. The office is working with Raz-Kids to get it back running soon. Please continue to try and log in. I will post when it is working again.

January 11th-15th

It was so good to see the students in person this week. They did an awesome job of wearing their mask for longer periods of time than usual and adjusting to school routines.

 

Math: We worked on tens partner strategy this week, as well as, open ended addition word problems. We also started Math centers that focus on concepts such as doubles partners, subitizing, tens partners, counting, making tower patterns and subtraction word problem.

 

Language Arts: We continue to practice writing sentences on specific topics. We are now also focusing on adding descriptive words to increase our sentences. Another focus is on editing practice of how to use capital letters and punctuation marks.

 

Science: We started our unit on colour and reading books about Winter seasonal changes. We created “snowman looking up” after reading Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner.

 

Social Studies: Students shared their family traditions and celebrations with the class.

 

Upcoming Events

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Wednesday: Fun Lunch if ordered.

We will receive new library books this week. Due to extra safety precautions, we did not get them last week.

Friday: Return your homework folder

            Spelling test

January 5th - 8th

Thank you so much for your support last week during on-line learning. I am so happy to be back in the class on Monday, January 11^th. Please be sure to wear your formal uniform and have at least two masks with you.

Homework will start next week, so I will post it on Sunday, January 17th. During this week, you can do extra reading and practice the “Grade One No Excuse” words with your child. These are words that students should be able to spell independently. I will do a spelling test on Friday with these words as well.

 

 

Upcoming Events:

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Wednesday: New Library books will come home

Friday: Early Dismissal at 12:00

 Work for Thursday, January 7th is posted.

Update

Online Learning for Tuesday, January 5th has been posted on the homework tab. You can download it the same as you would for weekly homework.

See below for any extra details needed for tomorrow.

Online Learning January 5th-8th

Happy New Year!!!  I hope that everyone had a relaxing holiday.  There is no school on Monday, January 4th, as this is a PD day.  Our online learning begins Tuesday, January 5th and the last day will be Friday, January 8th.  Students return to in class learning on Monday January 11th.

Please check your emails from Mrs. Taylor regarding instructions and times for logging into Google Meet Sessions. 

Students will need to log on to Google Meet three times a day to meet with me for attendance and to receive specific lessons.  Students need to join at 8:00, 10:00 and 12:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  On Friday, students need to join at 8:00 and 10:00.

(I will post work for Tuesday on Monday in the afternoon and then each day prior. You will complete the work and return it to school with you on Monday, January 11th, unless otherwise mentioned during the lessons online. I will meet with you to go over the lesson and instructions and then you can work at your own pace to complete the assigned tasks.)

To access Google Meet, you will need your child's edu email address and password.  This was sent home twice.

 

Our Google Meet nickname is: tudjangradeone

Please have the following materials available for your child:

A quiet work space free from as many distractions as possible and something to write with such as a mini white board, dry erase markers and a cloth or a notebook/looseleaf paper along with pencil, eraser, crayons and/pencil crayons.

I’m looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday!