October 26th-29th

Last week was a bit short, but it was packed full of learning! 

Grade 1 is working very hard to use our knowledge of the s a t i m letters and their sounds to sound out and write words!  This coming week, we will be introducing some fun games that focus on these sounds to our literacy centres.

Ms. McGill's class worked hard on our printing.  We talked a lot about I can statements such as, 

  • I can write using the sky, clouds, grass and dirt to remember where my letters go. (The lines on the page.)
  • I can use a period at the end of a sentence. and
  • I  can write my first name using only 1 uppercase.

In Science, we did an experiment where we asked the question: What's that smell?

Students were given 6 mystery cups.  In their animal groups, students made observations using only their noses!  When they smelled what was in the covered cup, students drew or wrote words to describe what they were smelling.  When smelling the lemons, students drew things that were sour or wrote the word with teacher assistance.  When smelling popcorn, the students drew popcorn.  Who doesn't love popcorn?  Of course they knew that one!  At the end of Science, the teacher revealed what was in the cups.

On Thursday, we used some pumpkins to count seeds!  Students made groups of 10 with the seeds and we counted to see who had the most!  This was a great introduction activity as we began to learn to count by 10s.  


We hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween weekend.  Here's to another week of learning and growing! 

 




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