May

Hello Grade 1 Families,

It has been a wonderfully adventurous month.  We can't believe that we only have one more month of Grade 1 left!

Science

This month we focused on the needs of animals and plants.  We learned what plants need to survive and we even planted some.  Ms. Secord's class has watched a bean grow (it is even starting to bloom a little flower) and their sunflowers and wildflowers are looking green!

Ms. McGill's class planted seeds as well.  Unfortunately they did not grow.  Room 2 has been investigating why!  So far, we think it is because Ms. McGill added some soil that wasn't as healthy as she thought.  Oh no!  She is working hard to develop her gardening skills.  This past week Room 2 planted more wildflower and sunflower seeds and we are hoping to see them sprout before the end of the school year.

Next, Grade 1 began exploring the relationship between animals (specifically insects) and plants.   We investigated the questions: "Why are plants important to insects?"  and "Why are plants important to humans?".  These questions addressed our learning intention of: "I can identify ways in which living things are valued".

While we were learning online, our caterpillars also arrived.  We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and talked about how fast our caterpillars will grow!  In the last 10 days we have watched them transform from tiny little creatures to big caterpillars who are getting ready to enter their chrysalis and become butterflies!  



Math

While working online we did lots of work on story problems.  By the end of online learning, students were able to say, "I can write a math sentence after reading a story problem with my teacher" and "I can identify clue words in story problems".

This week we reviewed all of our knowledge about shapes.  The learning intentions this week were: "I can identify 2-D shapes." and "I can make a picture of an animal using 2-D shapes."  We read a book by Todd Parr, an author who uses many shapes within his illustrations, then students created their own images.  See some beautiful creations below!







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