May 25-May 29 Recap

I hope you are enjoying your weekend! Here is a recap of what the students learned last week.

In Language, the students continued to write their narratives. They focused on adding detail to the middle portion of their stories and included speech to their stories. The students also worked on writing up their final copy of their first narrative. In Reading the students worked on improving their inferring skills as they read and responded to poetry. The students also learned more about non-fiction work and the features of non-fiction texts.

In our math classes the students learned more about probability and wrote their probability test on Friday. All the students did extremely well. Our next unit will be on symmetry. As a quick homework piece look around at different objects within your home and see if the kids can tell you if the object is symmetrical or asymmetrical.

In Science we are continuing our Structures unit. Over the next week the students will be building a garage that can store a toy car.

This week the students also had several special events including our Bounce Dance (this past Friday), being part of a Flash Mob and our monthly character assembly. Congratulations to Ryan and Morgan who won the Courage award!

Next week... We are headed to Safety Village for a field trip. The trip will happen rain or shine so please ensure that your child is dressed appropriately.

Probability Terminology

Some words we will use in our new unit. 

Recap May 19-22

In Language, this week we started our narrative writing unit.  The students had a chance to work with partners to create a story outline and afterwards they worked on creating their own stories based on the ideas that they brainstormed with their partners.  At this point the students are learning how to add dialogue and description to their writing.  In reading the students learned about different elements of non-fiction texts.  They were excited to be able to take out a non-fiction book from the library to read in class.

In Math, we continued our probability unit. The students created posters, and worked on different scenarios using key terminology for our unit (i.e. Impossible, unlikely, likely, certain).  Next week the students will be learning the words more likely, less likely, and equally likely and will be using them to explain the different chances for winning a game that they create.

In Science, we continued our structures unit. The students learned about fasteners (items which hold two different parts together). The students also had a chance to use their 5 senses to describe an apple during their apple experiment.

In Gym, the students continued to work on their introduction to soccer unit where they played 4-on-4 indoor soccer.

The following link is one that we used in class and explains the elements necessary when story writing.

Volunteer Breakfast

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your long weekend.  I wanted to invite all volunteers in our class to our upcoming Volunteer Breakfast next Friday.  I hope you can join us.

Recap May 4-May 8

This week in our class we finished a few of our current units and began a few new ones.

In Language, we continued working on persuasive writing.  We wrote a persuasion on the best day of the week and one on the importance of brushing our teeth.  We were able to share our final product that was about the importance of brushing to one of the kindergarten classes.  We also worked on several mother's day activities.  I hope you enjoy them.

In Reading, we continued learning how to write strong retells and the importance of adding details to the middle portion of our retells.  We also learned the difference between fiction and non-fiction work.

In Media literacy, we continued learning about perspective and wrote our first comic book.  We will be using them in the future with our reading buddies.

In Math we began our unit on time.  In grade 1 the expectation is that students are able to tell time to the hour and half hour on both a digital and analog clock.  On Monday students were able to take home play clocks to practise.  I will be sending them home again next week.  This week the most challenging portion of Math was telling the difference between A.M. and P.M. please review this with your child at home by using this terminology.  For example, we have dinner at 6 o'clock P.M.

In Science we are learning how to use our senses.  We also learned that there are various descriptive words that can be used when describing different objects.

In Gym, we continued learning about appropriate kicking techniques.

Reminders:
Please send your child with a water bottle.

April folders were sent home this past week.  Please review them and return them in a timely manner.

I have sent home the monthly calendar for May and our current newsletter.  Please let me know if you have not received it.

Recap April 27-May 1

This week we wrote a persuasive letter explaining to Mrs. D'Souza what we should have for snacks if we were to have a classroom party. The choices were chips, chocolate, or a fruit and vegetable platter.

In math we finished our money unit and wrote our tests on Friday.

In Social Studies we finished our Mapping unit.

In Gym we continued our unit on kicking appropriately. We will be using these skills in a future soccer game.

Upcoming:

The school presentation of High School Musicial will be on Monday and Tuesday next week tickets are still available.