April 19-23

 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 grow, and started an experiment where we put 2 bean seeds in a wet paper towel, and 2 seeds in dirt, and made predictions about which seeds will grow. We also looked at some fruits and vegetables, and tried to figure out where the seeds were in the plant.

This week Constable Mark Enzie visited the Grade 1s and told us about the important tools he has to keep himself safe, and what tools the kids have as well!  The students were so excited to meet him!