Fabulous First Graders

 This week we continued with our new literacy centres.  They are so much fun.  the kids are even taking videos and pictures of their completed work. We also continued with practicing sentence writing and using kid spelling.  The kids are becoming more confident in sounding out words to try and spell them by themselves. We worked a few more days on our subtraction colour by number, and then Ms. Secord's class started learning about story problems and graphing, and Ms. McGill's class started learning about fact families, and how addition and subtraction are related.  Next week we will switch and learn about the topics we didn't do this week. We decided to look keeping into plants this week, and find out more about where they come from.  Most of the students knew that plants come from seeds, but we didn't really know where seeds come from.  We talked about where seeds might come from, why we might plant seeds, and what seeds look like.  We discussed what a seed needs to gr

We got to start our online reading program with Calgary Reads this week!  It was so much fun meeting our reading buddies, sharing a book, and looking closely at the pictures!  It is also amazing that all of the students got to take home a brand new book!  We can't wait for next week. This week we started new literacy centres, and they have been fun!  We are practicing building poems with words we have learned in the classroom, we are trying to find the beginning, middle, and end sounds of CVC words, we are continuing to practice segmenting sounds in words to try and spell what we hear, we are practicing reading in small groups with the teacher, and we have started trying to hear the 2 sounds at the beginning of a word that starts with 2 consonants (for example, st- bl- tr-). We are also working on building our independence and mastery of kid spelling and trying to write simple sentences on our own. The teacher is giving the students a sentence starter on the board, and one example

 Welcome back!  We hope you had a great spring break!  This week has been full of getting ready for our Circle of Courage assembly about Independence. In writing this week we started off with brainstorming ideas about how we are independent at school.  We had a video chat with the other class and we cam up with so many ideas! Then we learn how to use speech bubbles when drawing our pictures, and we looked at how our favourite characters, Piggie and Gerald, use speech bubbles in their books.  We paired up with a buddy and planned a page where Piggie and Gerald showed one of our ideas about independence, and then we got to act it out!  We made Piggie and Gerald headbands, and our teachers recorded us acting out our Independence ideas, and then put it together like a book! We shared our book/video with the school during the assembly! In math we have continued to practice our doubles addition facts, with answers to 20.  Check out the links in our Google classroom to practice at home with y