Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Good evening!

In Math, we continued to study Data Management. The students had each other sign their names in a chart - names less than 5 letters, 5 letters, names more than 5 letters. The students really enjoyed this activity. 

In Language Arts, we are working on our speeches. This is proving to be a challenge. The speeches have to be 3-5 minutes, coherent, sensible, and incorporating the sequence words. Helping students brainstorm the 5 w's of their chosen activity requires questions to help them focus their thinking. 

In our Unit, we continue to plan menus. Again, this is challenging, ensuring each meal has 3 of the food groups as well as drinks. 

We look forward to skating this Friday. 

Mrs. Autio
Grade One

Tuesday, January 8 2019

Hi Parents/Guardians:

In Math, we surveyed classmates in regards to either red, green, or blue and charting these choices. 

Today, our students started organizing their four meals they need to plan before starting the posters. They are to plan a breakfast, lunch, dinner, and then either another breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They are to incorporate 3-4 of the food groups into each meal. This will make the students think deeper than just organizing food into groups. Planning meals takes time, can be fun, and very creative. Please, print out pictures from Google, flyers, or to colour. The ones I have seen today are awesome, colourful, and full of variety. Thank you. 

Monday, January 7, 2019

Greetings!

Well, we are back into routine with assembly, morning message, poem, calendar wall template and read quietly for 10-15 minutes.

Today, we started our Data Management week, blindly taking one of 10 black or white cubes out of a bag and recording this on a graph. The students enjoyed this activity.

Later, we talked about our speeches, deciding what we can comfortably talk about for 3-5 minutes. The topics sound fun. We did mind maps to record the 5 w's, and key words relating to the topic. This is a challenge since the students will then have to write their stories and then memorize them.

We also discussed menu ideas, sharing menu plans for pancakes, pasta, tacos, and grilled cheese sandwich meals, the food groups represented at each meal. We need to do this before the students start planning their four meals to understand how to choose, and that they should have 4 of the 5 groups represented.

Spelling words.

rag, ran, rat, red, rub, rug, rod, ram, rip, rob

stink, blink, bunk, sunk, trunk, skunk, junk, drunk, plank, blank

Have a nice evening. 

Mrs. Autio

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

December 19, 2018

Dear Parents:

We started our Outrageously Organized Unit of Study. Thus far, we have worked on Birthday Invitations and the information needed for guests to attend. This unit finishes January 23. Seeing that school starts up again January 7, we will have 7 40-minute time periods to work on a project showcasing the students’ understanding of being organized. In light of this, we will do a project focused on the food groups - Grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat and alternatives. They need 5 pictures each for all of these groups. These pictures will be used to plan four menus for four meals. They will glue the pictures on plate templates on posters so the pictures should be big, colourful, printed from Google Images and/or grocery flyers. The students will need to be able to explain how they know why each item is in that group. They should also know how much of each should be in each meal. They learned this ‘fist and open hand’ portions from Brittany at Zehrs.

During the holidays, please allow your child to print pictures from Google images. They can be coloured pictures or pictures that can be coloured. Thank you for helping to collect the pictures but NOT doing the work for your child. All the organizing, labelling, and gluing will be done in class. I have 65cm x 48cm poster boards here for them to print the title, food group names, label each food, and portion size. You are welcome to google food portion plate templates to know how much of the plate is taken with each food group. 

Happy Holidays!

Mrs. Autio

Grade One

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my Grade One Family:

I am humbled by the gifts received from my students and their families. I am rich beyond compare. 

We had a fun morning making cards for moms and dads. Then, Gym, Art, and French in succession. We then handed out gifts and read about 5 poems ending with Reindeer Pokey. After the last recess, we did our agendas and math packets.

As a class, we have had a wonderful 4 months. Have a blessed two weeks celebrating Christmas and a safe New Year bringing in 2019. 

Mrs. Autio
Grade One