Who Am I?

For the past two weeks Grade 1 has been exploring a BIG question.  Who Am I?  In our last blog we had just started this exploration by tracing our bodies and cutting and gluing a heart!  We put pictures on our arms to represent the things we like to do, pictures on our legs for the places we like to go, and pictures on our stomachs for the things we like to eat!  Answers to these questions included statements such as candy, No Frills, and colouring, among many more.  


Another very important day last week was Orange Shirt Day.  In Grade 1 we learned that many indigenous children were taken away from their families for over 300 sleeps and were forced to go to school far away from their homes.  We read a few different books, including Shi-Shi Etko, and When We Were Alone.  We talked about what it would be like to have to stay away from our families, have our colorful clothes taken away, our hair cut, and told we couldn't speak our language.  Then we celebrated that all children matter, and that it is important that these things never happen again!





We worked on representing numbers in different ways.  We know that we can write a number, or use pictures to show how many.  We are now talking about how we can use tally marks and tens frames to show a number.

We have been practicing the letters S A T I and M, and making words with them.  Using these letters we were able to make rhyming words with the ending 'at.'  This week we are going to be practicing reading books that have these letters, and we are going to start learning some sight words, such as 'the' and 'and' to help us read even more stories!

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