February 22nd - 26th

Language Arts:

We continued to practice our procedural writing and adding descriptive words to our daily writing. We read Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. We answered many comprehension questions about the book and discussed “What is a friend and an enemy?” We focused on the story elements of characters, setting, problem and solution, and retelling the many events of the story. We decided that we would like to have just friends, so we created a friendship pie and wrote some ideas of how to be a good friend. Our word family this week was “et”. It was great to wear our pink shirts in honour of being a friend and anti-bullying!

Math:

We used our knowledge of doubles facts to help solve subtraction equations. We worked on solving open-ended subtraction word problems. We continued to do Math Centers with Mrs. Hull that focus on subtraction, doubles facts, cube conversations, sorting and patterning. We also continued with some 100th Day activities of making a 100, name patterned quilt, identifying patterns on the 100 chart, writing about what we would do if we had $100 and what we would look like if we were 100 years old.

Science:

We mixed some primary colours this week to get new secondary colours. As all scientists log their observations and findings, we used our knowledge of procedural writing to do the write up of our Science Experiment of mixing blue and yellow together.

Upcoming Events:

Monday: Wear your formal uniforms. We are filming for our assembly, so please have all pieces of our formal uniform, especially cardigans, a dress shirt and no coloured socks.

Wednesday: Please bring your library books

Friday: Please return your homework folders and be ready for your spelling test.

 

February 16th-19th

Students were excited to celebrate the 100^th day of school. We read several books and counted to 100 in many ways, wrote a 100 poem, created special artwork with the number 100, made glasses, a bookmark, and a cheerio number line, as necklaces are not allowed any more due to safety issues. We will be exploring with our 100 chart to find patterns, odd and even numbers, two-digit numbers, etc. in the upcoming week, as we ran out of time.

Students continue to practice the song, I am Yoga, and our self-control poem for the March assembly. Thank you for helping them practice these at home.

We used the tens partner strategy to solve subtraction equations this week and worked on more open-ended subtraction word problems. We also started some new Math centers with Mrs. Hull. As a challenge, students were able to write their own word problem for classmates to solve.

Students read a story, Postcards from Barnaby, and learned about some special landmarks in Alberta.

Upcoming Events:

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Wednesday: Return your library book

             Pink Shirt Day/Uniform if no pink

Friday: Return your homework

 

Bring a blue shirt in a bag labelled with your name.

February 8th-10th

It has been a short, but busy week. We got to celebrate several holidays this week: Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year. We read many stories throughout the week. We decorated bags to help organize our valentine cards. We made a dragon puppet and bookmarks. Our word work was based on making as many words as we could from the word, “valentines”. We also did a review of some of the word families that we have done this year.

^{We focused on the “count up” strategy for subtraction. You can count up to find the difference when the numbers are close together. For example, 11-9=2 count up two from 9 to 11.}

Next week, we will be practicing for our upcoming assembly in March. We will be focusing on self-control and being a good friend. Also, Thursday will be our 100th day of school and we will be focusing on many Math activities for that day. ^{WE WILL NOT DRESS UP THAT DAY, AS IT IS A SPECIAL KINDERGARTEN ACTIVITY. We are limited with some of the activities that we normally do, but I’m sure that it will be a great day!}

Please practice reading the following poem with your child. (Click on link or see blog below.) We will be reading this at our virtual assembly in February. Also, we all need a blue t-shirt to wear for a special activity during the assembly. I will post a due date once all the grade one teachers are ready. It may need to stay at the school for a few days. If you wish, you can start bringing them in now and I can put them aside for the day they are needed. Please have the t-shirts in a bag with your child’s name. We will be putting them over our uniform shirts. Thank you for your support with the assembly activities.

^{Have an awesome long weekend!}

Our Winter Trees

Self-Control Poem

 Please practice reading the words to this POEM  on Self-Control for the March assembly.

Thank you!

February 1-5

It was a busy week in room 11. We welcomed two new students this week. Everyone was excited to have them back in the building.

Language Arts/Art: We created Valentine’s Day cards for Meals on Wheels. Students created a patterned heart for the cover of the card, and wrote a poem and message inside to help cheer the person receiving the meals on Valentine’s Day. This is one of the outreach activities that our school does in the community each year. 

Math: We worked on the “counting back” strategy for subtraction this week. We can use this strategy when subtracting small numbers, such as 1, 2, or 3. For example, 11-2=9 We start at 11 and count back two.

Social Studies: Students created a Map of “Outside My Window”

Science: We got to predict along with the groundhog whether it will be an early Spring or six more weeks of Winter.  We did a drawing of the groundhog and wrote our predictions. Your child should have bought home a small book explaining Groundhog Day and the prediction.

Upcoming Events:

On Wednesday, we will hand out our Valentine’s Day cards to everyone. They will be in a bag and you can decide when your child can go through them. There will not be any treats sent in to share with classmates this year. You can send a special treat for your child to personally enjoy that day if you wish. We will be doing some Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year activities in the afternoon as well.

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

         We need everyone in a green cardigan

(Please do not wear coloured socks with your uniform on any day.)

Wednesday: Return your library books

            Fun Lunch if you ordered

            We will hand out our Valentine Cards

             Lunar New Year or Valentine Dress

Thursday and Friday: No School due to Teacher’s Convention

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.