Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! January 30, 2017

REMINDERS - WEAR WORDS on Wednesday, February 1 for "I Love to Read" Month
                         - NO SCHOOL on Friday, February 3

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE
We have finished up our social studies unit about "Communities" and are beginning our next science unit about "Penguins" (Characteristics and Needs of Living Things).

MUNSCH-BUSTERS
Our school enjoyed a performance called MUNSCH-BUSTERS today.  The acting group came from PTE and included four Robert Munsch stories.

COMPLETED BOXTOWN PHOTOS

 

EVEN MUFFIN CAME TO VISIT BOXTOWN

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! January 24, 2017

REMINDERS - NO SCHOOL on Friday, February 3
                        - Munsch Busters - performance at school on Monday, January 30
                        - Order your tickets for the Applebee's Breakfast fundraiser on Sat. February, 25

DATE CHANGE - The next "Movie Night" is on March 2 NOT February 2

I LOVE TO READ
February is "I Love to Read" month at school.  We have lots of fun reading activities planned and four (4) different "DRESS-UP" days coming up.

1) Wednesday, February 1 - WEAR WORDS - Children wear shirts/clothes with words
2) Wednesday, February 8 - STORYBOOK CHARACTER - dress as a storybook character
3) Tuesday, February 14 - VALENTINE'S DAY - wear red, pink and/or white (also our party day)
4) Wednesday, February 22 - FESTIVAL du VOYAGER - dress as a voyager (plaid shirt, scarf sash)

BOXTOWN
We started construction on our BOXTOWN community today.
Day One pictures -

Stay tuned for more photos as Boxtown takes shape.  Thank you for sending in the recyclables.

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! January 17, 2017

Reminders - Scholastic Book orders are due by Friday, January 20, 2017
                  
SOCIAL STUDIES
We are continuing our social studies unit about "Our Community".  Soon we will be building our own mini-community called "BOXTOWN".  Please send your clean recyclables to school this week to use in our building project.  (cereal boxes, paper towel tubes, plastic bottles, etc...)  Thanks.

READING
This week we have been learning about The Magic "e" who makes the short vowels l-o-n-g and say their names.  The children are encouraged to use this reading TOOL as a strategy when sounding out challenging words.  (hop becomes hope, fin becomes fine, etc...)  Please talk about this TOOL when it occurs in the books that your child reads at home.

ART
Last week we started to talk about the next element of art, which is SHAPE (after line and colour).  We learned that there are two kinds of shapes - geometric (circles, squares,..) and organic (natural). We made a collaborative mural, where everyone worked together to create one big piece of art.  We started out drawing different kinds of shapes for 3 minutes and then changed places and drew for another 3 minutes.  Next we drew connecting lines and then filled some shapes and spaces with patterns and continued to switch spots every 3 minutes.  Finally we painted our mural.  It is hanging up on our hallway bulletin board.  Please stop by and take a look. 

PHOTOS FROM THE WEEK  - ART

 

 WORD WORK CENTERS