We have been busy builders! We had Teacher's Pet into the classroom on March 6 as part of a STEM project (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and used Teva Planks to meet different building challenges.
In preparation for this activity, we tried buiding tall structures using different kinds of cups that could withstand a strong wind test.
Enjoy the pictures!

We're almost midway through February. Just a reminder that students' names were sent home last week for Valentine's Day Cards. Also this is our last week of Circle of Warmth initiative.
In Science we have been studying our Senses. We have used the sense of smell to determine what objects are hidden in enclosed canisters, how light helps us to see objects using peek boxes, we have observed differences between salt and sugar, flour and icing sugar through a magnifying glass, and touch, and we have tasted how salt, sugar and sour (lemons) change the flavour of foods.
We also examined how ticklish we are and how our sensors relay the message to our brain.
Following are picture of trying apples dipped in sugar, salt and lemon, and how ticklish we are.
Enjoy!

                                

We are now in the part of the year I like to call the meat and potatoes part of learning. Routines and expectations are established. Base lines of learning are taken, and now we are using foundational learning to expand literacy and numeracy skills.

In Language Arts, the students are focusing in on the Beginning, Middle and End of stories. Using Winter Themed books and a favourite author, Jan Brett, the students are finding key sentences to summarize the beginning, middle and end of stories. You can reinforce this skill by discussions at home about stories, movies, shows that your child has viewed.

In Math, the students are using manipulatives to represent number sentences. They are creating "frogs" on "lilypads" and are adding or subtracting them, and writing corresponding number sentences. 

Enjoy!

What a wonderful afternoon we had! The students made figurines for a Nativity Scene with the help of our wonderful parent volunteers. Thank you to the many moms who made our Salt Dough (no easy task!) and to our Mom's who were able to make in to assist us.
Enjoy the pictures from today.

Grade One students have been busy learning about rhyming words, and looking for smaller words inside bigger ones. To help draw attention to rhyming words, we studied Nursery Rhymes for the month of November.
If you have not had a chance to log-in to Raz-Kids, now is a good time to take the opportunity to support reading in your home.
The children are learning about how animals prepare for Winter (migrate, hibernate or adapt), and how plants and people also prepare for the different seasons.
In Math, we are continuing to explore numbers using a Number line, adding one or two to a number, comparing numbers that are more than or less than a set number. Rolling a dice and counting on, or counting back. We have begun to incorporate problem solving in our Math work.
Our pictures below are adapting our game from our Family Math Night (Plus 1) and we are now playing Plus 2!