Week of October 16th - 20th

Highlights from last week

3D Shapes 

We learned a great song by Teacher Tipster about 3D shapes. Ask your child to try to sing it to you. The beginning goes like this, "Sphere, Sphere, what's your clue? I'm like a soccer ball you kick with your shoe!" We did a shape hunt in our room, collecting objects that were the following shapes: sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, and cube. We are also learning about the pyramid and triangular prism but those are more difficult to find examples of. We have begun to learn about the properties of the shapes (faces, vertices and edges). On Friday, we learned how to count all the faces of each shape and recorded it in our Shape Booklet.

Our Grade 1 students had a blast shopping at the Scholastic Book Fair. Thank you parents for helping your children choose a book with your child. 

Our students are loving the Read Across Canada program. Ask them to try to sing the song we all sing when a student moves provinces. Remember you can read to or with your child if they are still at the pre-reading stage. Ask them to look for words they recognize (sight words), and use the strategies we are learning in our class (Eagle Eye, Stretchy Snake, Lips the Fish).

THE GLOBAL READ ALOUD 2017

We are participating in the Global Read Aloud this year. Grade 1 students from across the globe are reading a different book by Mem Fox each week. We have read 'Koala Lou' and 'Possum Magic' so far. This coming week we will be reading 'Whoever We Are'. We have been contributing to padlets, exploring different aspects of the books, and connecting with students from all over the world. After reading 'Koala Lou', we shared animals we see in our area and read other class posts about animals living in their areas. Ask your child about the animals living in or near Delray Beach, Florida. We are also participating in a postcard exchange and have been paired up with a class from Wisconsin. We created postcards this week by gluing on pictures of Canadian symbols and geographical features. On the back we wrote about our favourite part of 'Possum Magic' and drew a picture. The students did a FANTASTIC job on this. Here is a glimpse of their work: