Friday September 28, 2018

Good Friday!

Wow, Monday is October! We have been extremely busy in Grade One, learning new words weekly and working with those words with Stepping, Rainbow, word searches, cut and paste, reading the room, reading the poem, and building sentences. We are now starting Math Centres. They will cover Number Sense - Colour by Sum, Skip Count, Alligator < > =, Colour Odd/Even, Base Ten words/rods/words, domino add memory, add memory, least to greatest/greatest to least, and sorting numbers into buckets of 0-10, 11-20, etc. up to 100. So, yes, we are busy, busy, busy.

 

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving, we will start Spelling pretests and tests. That week will be on Tuesday and Friday. The students will work with the words during the week with rainbow and stepping, cut/paste in order to review the words. 

Today, we had our first Birthday Cake Circle. Note who was celebrated! Yeah....

October 2 - IB assembly
October 3 - Cross Country Race
October 4 - Thanksgiving dessert
October 5 - PD Day - no school
October 8 - Thanksgiving - Holiday
October 24 - Casual Day
October 26 - Hallowe'en

Phew!!!!!

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Good evening!

Today, as a school, we celebrated Terry Fox Day by contributing finances, energy, and excitement. Before we participated, we watched a Youtube video that explained why Terry did his run across Canada only to be stopped in Thunder Bay because the cancer came back and took his life. His legacy is strong, 27 years later. A real life, ordinary hero for everyone to continually remember and honour. 




These photos are courtesy of Ms. Bhogul.


Every day during snack and lunch, we watch Arthur or other book that exemplify the IB Learner Profile. 



Tomorrow is our Birthday Celebration. Can't wait for the cake. 

Have a lovely weekend. 

Good day! Tomorrow is the Terry Fox Walk after last recess. We are so excited! Wear a Terry Fox shirt. 

Next week is our final week for Who we Are - community helpers, rights, and responsibility. 

Today, each student chose a community helper:
Santino - farmer
Kole - fisherman
Lucas - lawyer
Taylor - coaches
Lane - military 
Jonathan - police
Elliot - zoo keeper 
Hailey - Veteranarian 
Hollie - teacher
Elizabeth - Nurse
Madison - Musician
Aiden - karate instructor
Nathan - firefighter
Arya - doctor
Kayla - ballerina

This is strictly an oral presentation. They do not need props. They will have about 5 minutes each, 4 per day - Monday: Hollie, Lucas, Nathan, Jonathan, Tuesday: Arya, Elliot, Kole, Taylor, Wednesday: Aiden, Santino, Madison, Hailey, except Thursday: Lane, Kayla, Elizabeth

Here is the Rubric for grading purposes. 

TASK	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2	LEVEL 3	LEVEL 4
Who	Student cannot name the helper they are presenting	Student can describe the helper but not the recognized name	Student can identify the title of the helper	Student can tell the complete title of the community helper
Where	Student cannot share where this helper works or helps in the community	Student can name 1-2 places this person may work	Student can name 2-3 places this person may work	Student can name 3-4 places they know this person works
Why	Student cannot share why they chose this helper and why they are important in the community	Student hesitates to share why they chose this helper and why they are important in the community	Student shares 1 reason they chose this person and why they are important in the community	Student tells 2-3 reasons they chose this helper and why they are important in the community
What	Student cannot tell what tools or equipment this helper uses daily for work.	Student shares 1-2 tools or equipment used by this helper at work.	Student shares 3-4 tools or equipment used by this helper at work.	Student shares 4-5 tools or equipment used by this helper at work.
How	Student cannot share how this person contributes to the community in their work.	Student shares 1-2 ways this person helps in the community.	Student shares 3-4 ways this person helps in the community.	Students shares 4-5 ways this person helps in the community.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Good Afternoon!

We continue to work in our Literacy Centres. The students are extremely focused and having fun working with words.

This is from yesterday in French. 


We finished our 100's charts skip counting even and odd. We will move on to greatest to least, least to greatest, adding, ordering numbers, greater than/less than.

We read about police officers and how they help us if lost, in danger or needing help.

Pictures will be loaded later today.