It's hard to believe that mid-June is upon us! Seems like yesterday when these little children entered Grade One, and now they seem so capable and aware of the world around them.
We have been working on a Current Event project and the students have written letters to our local Grocery Stores asking them to be proactive and altogether ban single use, plastic grocery bags before it becomes legislated. Thank you for supporting our students and sending in reusable containers. We took a quick shot one day of the reusable containers in our room.

In celebration of Pentecost, the Grade One students made Kites with symbols of the Holy Spirit. Then on June 12, we flew them up with our prayers to the Holy Spirit. It was a lot of fun!

Welcome Spring!
In Science we are beginning our last Unit- Needs of Plants and Animals. We are currently discussing what makes a plant a fruit or vegetable. Today we were examing different type of seeds.
Enjoy!

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!