Fabulous First Graders

Our big question for the year:  Who am I and how do I know? has been explored further over the last few weeks.  Following our interview questions that were sent home we created a classroom map and pinpointed where we are now (Calgary) as well as other parts of the world that our families were from before us! Ms. Secord's class map Our next step was to look up photos of the countries that our families are from, as well as the flags that represent them.  This led to conversations about why someone might leave one country and move to where we are now.  As a class, we continued to discuss flags and the symbols that are on them.  We made a class flag and at the end of the week worked on individual flags that represent answers to questions such as "Who am I as a person?" and "What is important to me?". Ms. Secord's class flag In Science we explored using paint on different surfaces!  Using a wooden cutting board, foil sheet, glass cutting board, cardboard and some

 This week we have been learning some new literacy centres to start next week.  We have spent time on figuring out the first and last sounds of words, and now we are adding how to find the middle sound of a word.    The students are also doing more practice writing using kid spelling.  They have been practicing hearing the sounds in the words they are trying to spell, and then writing them down. In math we have been learning about subtraction and how to use manipulatives to find the answer to subtraction questions (20 or less). We have also been practicing skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s, and students will be practicing filling in a missing number using these patterns.  Students are also practicing memorizing their addition doubles (0+0, 1+1, 2+2, ect). In Science we have continued our exploration of colour.  Students mixed 2 primary colours using clay and then recorded their results on a piece of paper.  We also started an experiment by applying paint to 5 different surfaces (glass,