April 16th-23rd

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We continue to work on our Fairy Tales and Building Things Units. This past week, we read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and built a bed, table and chairs.

I was so impressed with one of the students who took all of our spelling words and turned it into a story. (This is one of the new options for practicing our spelling words for homework each week.) I’m hoping to see more of this type of story in the future, even if you can only use a few of the words. It will also help with our writing skills. Awesome work!

"Once upon a time there was a cat with big paws and sharp claws. She saw a man hauling his boat to launch into the ocean. She also saw a lady thawing a fish. She could smell the yummy fish. Would the cat go to steal the fish? No, she would not because her paws were sore from walking all night on the frozen ground."

Upcoming Events:

Monday: No school

Tuesday: Classes Resume/Informal Uniform

Wednesday: Library Book Exchange

            Fun Lunch (if you ordered)

Thursday: Arbour Day

Friday: Spelling Test/Homework Folders

April 15th-19th

Students have been enjoying our Building Things Unit in Science. We are also tying this into a Fairy Tale Unit in Language Arts. We are looking at story elements, as well as comprehension of the stories and the moral/virtue or character lessons in these fairy tales. So far, we have read the nursey rhyme, Humpty Dumpty and built a wall, Rapunzel and built a tower, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and built a bridge, and The Three Little Pigs and built a house. We are working in small groups, where students have to discuss their ideas and then carry it out by taking turns and working fairly with others. Students have been very creative and are enjoying the different building materials that we are using.

We will also be including some measurement activities with this unit as well.

 

Upcoming Events

Monday: Wear your formal uniform/Yearbook picture for returning hub students

Wednesday: Return your library books

Thursday: Earth Day

Friday: Return your homework folders/Spelling Test/Music Appreciation Day

 

 Please let me know if your child is fasting during Ramadan. 

Thank You!

April 6th-9th

It was great to be back to school this week! We were excited to see our friends again! I hope that everyone had a great, relaxing break and had lots of fun together as a family!

We had another busy week. We completed our Science Unit of Colour and will be moving onto the Building Things unit in the upcoming week. Students enjoyed a science experiment where they got to separate the colour black. Ask them to describe it to you.

We should complete the Math unit on 2D and 3D shapes next week as well. We experimented with what 3D shapes could stack and roll. We also sorted shapes and discussed the sorting rule using mathematical language. We also made a 3D drawing of some city buildings.

Upcoming Events

Monday: Wear your formal Ramadan clothes or your formal uniform

Tuesday: Wear your formal Vaisakhi clothes

Wednesday: Library Book Exchange

Friday: Homework is due/Spelling test

Please enjoy our daffodil bulletin board to help celebrate the beginning of Spring!

April 6th-9th Events

I hope that you all had a great break with your family. I enjoyed spending time with "my boys" and getting some extra rest. 

Just a reminder to keep your child at home if they are sick and to be sure that you have an extra mask in their backpack. 

Upcoming Events:

Monday, 5^th: No School

Tuesday, 6^th: Classes Resume

Wednesday, 7^th: Easter Formal Wear

                Library Book Exchange

Friday, 9^th: Homework is due

           Spelling Test

           Early Dismissal

Upcoming Events

There was much excitement in the air on Thursday morning! There were many wonderful creative traps! To our disappointment, we did not manage to catch a Leprechaun or his Pot of Gold.

We have one more week before Spring Break.

Upcoming events

We are having a contest for the cover of this year’s yearbook. Students created a possible cover in class this week.

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

Wednesday: Return your library book

Friday: Casual Day to celebrate Holi and Spring

            Return your homework folder

Spring Break: March 27^th-April 5^th. Classes Resume Tuesday, April 6th

Thanks

Thanks to all the parents who sent materials for your child's Leprechaun trap. It was much appreciated!

We will let you know if we catch a Leprechaun tomorrow. Fingers crossed!!!

 

Parent-Teacher Interviews

We have interviews on Thursday, March 11th and Friday, March 12th.  If you have not signed up for an interview, please do so. It would be great for you to hear all about their growth.

March 1st -5th

In Language Arts, we continued to create procedural writing for the topics of How to Make a Pizza and How to Build a Snowman. We finished off the week with a Writing Assessment on “My Bad Day”. We read the story, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. We discussed what kinds of things would make us have a bad day and then wrote a “story” about our bad days. Students were expected to have at least four events and use some form of transition words in their writing. I will share these with you during our interview time on Thursday and Friday.

 

In Math, we finished up with the subtraction strategies of “think addition” and “minus 10”. Students are doing a good job of demonstrating their understanding of subtraction by solving open-ended word problems in several ways.

Upcoming Events:

Monday: Wear your formal uniform

We are filming for our assembly again, so please be sure to have all the correct pieces.

Wednesday: Bring your library books

Thursday: Fun Lunch if you ordered

Full day/Parent-Teacher Interviews from 4-8

Please bring your homework folder and leprechaun trap materials.

We will have a spelling test.

Friday: No School: Parent-Teacher Interviews 8-1

Be sure to check out the blog below regarding Leprechaun Traps

Leprechaun Traps!

Beginning Monday, March 15, the Grade One students will be building Leprechaun Traps. Please help your child plan and collect materials to make a leprechaun trap. The materials and any fasteners that are required, are to be brought to school on THURSDAY, MARCH 11. The students will be making their trap at school in hopes of catching a leprechaun. Each trap should fit on a school desk.  Please DO NOT make the traps at home, as this is part of our new Science unit, entitled, Building Things. You can draw a plan and send it into school along with the materials. Painting of any materials can be done at home, as we will not have time to wait for the paint to dry before putting our trap together. I do have some tape and glue at school that can be used but if you have others you can send them in. Other fasteners may include pipe cleaners, clothespins, paperclips, etc.  
Thank you for your support. 

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!}

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