Monday, November 14, 2011
Remembrance Day
50th Day Of School!
Dear Grade 1 Parents,
We want to make you aware of an upcoming special day for the grade ones. On Tuesday November 15th, we will be celebrating the 50th day of school. We are going ‘back in time’ to the 1950’s to help celebrate that day! We will be
doing some fun activities within our classrooms. These activities will include,
using a 50’s grid to find number patterns, counting out 50 fruit loops to make a necklace, using a bar graph to record our favourite activities, a sock hop, teaching the kids some dance moves from the 50’s and enjoying music from that decade. Afterwards, the students will get to cool-off with a float. It is
going to be a lot of fun!
To make it feel more authentic, we are asking for your help by having the students “dress” 50’s style. Some ideas are: bobby socks, long skirts and pony tails tied with ribbons for the girls. For the boys: white t-shirts, jeans rolled up and slicked hair. Have fun being creative with this, but please don’t feel like you need to buy anything new!
We are really looking forward to this (you’ll see us in our poodle skirts too!) Let us know if you have any questions.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Centres this Week
We have many engaging and fun literacy centres this week. The children have the choice to work on monster sight words, where the words are written very small on a monster and they need to use a magnify glass to find them and highlight a sheet to keep track of which ones they have found. Our second centre is the scarecrow art centre. The third centre is a rhyming centre. The forth centre is a word search containing their high frequency words. The fifth centre is a syllable counting centre. The sixth centre is the listening centre. Phew! The children will be busy this week!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
What is Courage...
The Grade 1 class has been working very hard for tomorrow's assembly. We are celebrating our friends that have been very respectful this month. In addition to recognizing those students this month, it is our classroom's privilege to kick off the next character trait for next month, which is courage. We have done many activities in the past few weeks about what courage looks like and what it means. Check out our very own classroom video on what courage means to us.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Spooky Literacy Centres
This week the children are working on sight words, writing a scary story, making jack o lanterns out of plasticine, deciding what vegetables float or sink when immersed into water, and making spider webs with paint and a marble.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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