Monday, June 3, 2019

Welcome to June!

Today, we continued to work with fractions. We also studied verbs, writing poems of actions we use for sports, crafts, with animals, and life. 

We spent the afternoon listening to the other grade's presentations for the concert and did ours as well.

Have fun researching Savannah creatures and plants.

Mrs. Autio
Grade One

Friday, May 31, 2019

Track and Field Day

We had the most perfect weather for the Maples/St. Jude's T&F Day. Kudos go out to Miss Cranfield for organizing both days. Those who participated shone. We cheered and thoroughly enjoyed the time out of class. We also had Birthday Circle.

We did get to look at fractions again. The students are learning they are part of the whole.

We look forward to finishing our video about Biomes next week and researching about the Savannah.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs. Autio
Grade One

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Parent Appreciation Day

Thank you, parents, for calling The Maples home. Thank you for entrusting your children to our care to educate in a safe environment.

Today, we started fractions. This is not an easy concept. We looked at parts of the whole and how to write the numbers. 

Later, we looked at a Dr. Seuss Book, courtesy of a student in class, about whales. It was chock full of facts.

Have a lovely evening.

Mrs. Autio
Grade One

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Pizza and Casual Day!

Today, we finished our subtraction word problems. We also finished the second page of our spelling word exercises.

We wrote our opinion of a season and drew pictures for them. This is our last assessment of the year.

Later, we listened to our Biome video and learned about the Desert. Tonight, the students choose a creature and plant and three facts for each for their flip book.

We used the stage to practice for the concert which is next week.

Have a lovely evening.

Mrs. Autio
Grade One

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Good evening:

Today, we continued to work with subtraction word problems, using pictures, numbers and words. This can be a challenge as there are three ways to show answers.

Later, we met our new words of the week after a two-week break because of the Spelling Bee.

Cream – long song gong along belong strong thongs tongs – wrong, among, tongue, sponge

Blue - Sort fort sport torn corn born horn cork pork fork – form, short

Still later, we worked with our Biome Flip books. The students need to have pictures of creatures and plants from Ocean, Freshwater, Polar, and Rainforest Regions along with 3 facts for each. We are learning lots of facts.

Have a super evening.

Mrs. Autio

Grade One