Friday, November 20th, 2015

Dear parents,

I have a few important announcements for next week:

Homework for Monday: Bring in 1, 2 or more old magazines we can cut up for a class art project.

Thursday, Nov. 26th:

Students will come in proper uniform Thursday morning for Mass in the morning.

After Mass: Students will change and quickly rehearse their song. Please have students bring in an extra outfit to make their performance more colorful, we will change after mass. I ask they bring in bright colors; pink would go best with our “Sugar Sweet Candy land” theme.

 Language Festival: will start at 10 am, we hope you can all make it.

Thanksgiving Lunch: As soon as Language Festival is over, we will head to our Family Thanksgiving Lunch where we will get to share food and give thanks for so many blessings! If you are attending and have not sent in your confirmation form, please let me know to inform the office.

It is a Half Day if you will not be here with us for the lunch please make sure to pick up your children at 11:30.

Have a wonderful weekend!

-Ms. L

Wednesday and Thursday Nov. 18/19th Recaps

This week in Grade 1 we have seen and reviewed the following things:

Language arts: Finished our Unit Assessment on nouns, pronouns and special nouns (proper nouns). We have also wrapped up the sentences and the main rules. Kids will now start working on understanding, identifying and writing their own personal narrative. 

Reading: Wrapped up Short vowels with a Unit 3 assessment. So much progress in reading these months, I am so proud of all the students improvements. We began reading a story called "The Tree". We are also discussing how to find the following elements in a story: title, author, illustrator, characters, setting and plot.

Math: We have wrapped up basic addition and subtraction strategies for numbers under 10. We will now begin a geometry chapter, shapes, sides, angles, understanding symmetry and more! Coming up tomorrow to last a few weeks. 

Social Studies: Introduction to land formations and where we live. Began learning what is an address, and how specific and broad a place we can use to describe where we live.  We will be learning the 7 continents and 5 oceans and how to locate them on a map the following week.

Science: Plants, their parts, their functions and how they differ!

Homework: Science Worksheet BrainCheck
Spelling: Study for spelling quiz tomorrow!

Have a great day!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

Hi everyone! 

Today in Grade 1 we completed our Social Studies Unit assessment. We also practiced solving word problems with key words in math. We filled in some Science Fusion worksheets that included information on Lesson 3: Plants and its different parts. Kids also made pictures of plants with the part they have and their job. 

Homework: Language Arts: WBP: pages 39-40
Math:  MPB 6.7

Monday, November 16th, 2015

Hello everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

First, CONGRATS to our Spelling Bee representatives, they did an amazing job! They have a second and third place medal, amazing effort we are so proud of you Jonathan and Julia! :D

Math: Subtraction strategies Lesson 6.6

Spelling words: yard, barn, bark, chart, card, art, jar, arm, better, turn, line, window, awful, told, story

Social Studies: We completed another review today, so we will be having our assessment until tomorrow, as students had some time to better prepare today. I am confident they will do well :)

Homework: MPB 6.6 and Write spelling words in alphabetical order.
 
This week's assessments:

Tuesday: Social Studies (Unit 2)
Wednesday: Phonics (Short vowel sounds)/ Language Arts
Thursday: Math Chapter 6, Subtraction (1-10)
Friday: Spelling Quiz

The only quiz they should be studying for in their homes daily is Spelling quiz.

Please remember to send in the attendance form for Thanksgiving Lunch if you will be joining us. 

Have a wonderful day, here is a cute pic of the girls in movie club last week:

Thursday, Nov. 12th, 2015

Dear parents,
Happy Thursday! Here is what we did today:

Math: Fact Families! Understanding and practicing the relativity of subtraction and addition sentence by using a triangle strategy.

Reading: Reviewed compound words, nouns, future tense and reading out aloud.   We read some more library books and practiced guided reading in order to answer comprehension questions along the way.

Science: Parts of plants. Understanding the different stages of a plant (seed, sprout, seedling and plant) and the different job the roots and stems have.

Homework: Practice Spelling words and MPB page: 6.4  
Have a great day!

Wednesday, November 11th, 2015

Hello everyone, hope you have had a great Midweek Wednesday! Here is what we worked on today:

Language Arts: Introduction to pronouns: She, he, it and they. We practiced replacing regular and proper nouns with pronouns in sentences.

Math: Watched BrainPop videos relating to basic adding and subtraction strategies, such as number lines and doubles. Discussed the process for solving word problems: 1. understand the problem 2. choose a strategy 3. do the math 4. check your work!

Social Studies: Completed a review for Mondays assessment in our book.

Reading: Reviewed phonics short vowel sounds. Played with new phonics cards we have to practice reading. We will be having an assessment on short vowel sounds (Unit 2) on Tuesday.

Homework: Language Arts: Work Book Plus Page 35-36

Here are some pictures, hope you enjoy them :)
Gardening yesterday and today playing with our Phonics cards!

Tues. Nov. 10th 2015

Hello parents!

Today we started "Hands on" portion of our community service, painting the wall behind the basketball court. We divided the students by DISK Houses to pain their part of the mural in their house color. Today we will also be making our first class trip to the communal garden with Mr. Chow, who is going to be teaching the kids about how to take care of the garden and what our duties will be.

Math: Understanding Fact Families in math. Parts and wholes. 
Example: 2 + 5 = 7 so 7- 5 =2

Social Studies: Rights vs. Responsibilities part 2 How communities honor important citizens. We will be doing a review on this chapter tomorrow, and will have an assessment on Monday.

Science: How are plants different? What does a plant neeed to survive?

Homework: Science worksheets!