We had a wonderful couple of days getting to know each other and settling into some of our routines. Everyone has been so enthusiastic and ready to get started with grade 1.
This week we began to learn about our classroom and school community and have begun building an understanding of how we can demonstrate caring for others, our learning, the school, and ourselves. We started this work by reading the story, "Our Class is a Family" by Shannon Olsen. Afterwards, we as a class decided what kind of family we would like our classroom to be and we came up with these expectations (in no particular order):
- Use kind words
- Keep our hands (and body parts) to ourselves
- Raise your hand to share
- Try your best
- Use walking feet inside the school
- Share classroom materials
- Make mistakes
We also started working on making our classroom feel comfortable by creating self-portraits to hang in our library area. Students enjoyed looking carefully at themselves in the mirror and drawing what they saw.
Literacy:
For phonics this week we have focused on the letter 'a' (short vowel sound). Students worked on recognizing the letter and listening for the /a/ sound in the beginning and middle of words. We also practiced printing both the lower case and capital a with proper spacing and formation.
For the next several weeks, will be continuing to work on building our fluency with letter recognition and our phonemic awareness of the sounds that are represented by the letters of the alphabet. We will be learning our letters in an order that will allow students to build confidence and we may even begin to work on sounding out simple words in the next couple of weeks.
Please ask your child about the 'apple' they brought home on Friday.
Math:
Over the next month we will be working on strengthening our fluency and recall of numbers within 20. We will build a strong foundation for representing these numbers with digits, base ten blocks, ten frames, tallies, and number lines. We will also be working on instant recall of numbers that add up to 5.
Reminders:
Monday, September 4 -
Wednesday, September 6 -
- School Council Taco Potluck
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Ramsay Rink (2040 Ramsay St SE)
The School Council will host a taco potluck. Bring a taco filling or topping to share along with a picnic blanket and/or chairs. Taco shells, tortillas, cookies, and drinks will be provided.
