Request for Headphones

Please send in a pair of headphones for your child (not earbuds). The students need to have their own headphones when we use technology in the classroom.  They can be purchased at the dollar store, or you may already have an extra pair at home! The earphones will be returned at the end of the school year.  Thank you, in advance, for your support!

Congratulations Grade 1!

Our class has filled the 'Earning Jar' with pom-poms!  On Monday, November 6th, each student will get to invite a friend from another class to eat lunch with them in our classroom! Whoo hoo! This week our goal is to use our 'W.I.T.S.'  Once the jar is full our reward will be a gum chewing block in courtesy of Mrs. Stratford and Ms. Damiano!

Halloween Fun!

On Monday, October 30th, we had fun with pumpkins in Grade 1. Each table had their own pumpkin. The students illustrated their pumpkins, wrote about how they feltn to the touch , examined and then drew the inside of their pumpkin, etc. We estimated and then measured the height of our pumpkins using snap cubes.  We also estimated the number of seeds in our pumpkins. With the help of 100's charts and a lot of hard work, they worked together with their group to count the seeds in the pumpkins.  Table #1 counted 321 seeds, Table #2 counted 500, Table #3 counted 621 and Table #4 counted 312. That is a whomping 1,754 pumpkin seeds counted in grade 1!

After counting the seeds, we decided as a group on jack-o-lantern faces for our pumpkins and Mrs. Stratford carved them! On October 31st, we enjoyed our illuminated jack-o-lanterns during snack time while dressed in our Halloween costumes!

Week of October 30th

We have a busy and exciting week planned for the Grade 1 students. We will be diving into our class pumpkins, counting seeds, measuring how tall they are with unifix cubes, and of course making jack-o-lantern faces. We have a special pumpkin too that has garnered a lot of attention. We discovered on Friday that it is called a "Warty" pumpkin. So much fun!!

REMINDER: Children are invited to wear their costumes to school on Tuesday, October 31st. Please remember no masks or dangerous accessories.

COLLECTIONS:

All that Glam Fundraiser is collecting handbags and gently used jewelry where the proceeds will support breakfast programs in Nunavut Schools.

We Scare Hunger canned food drive is from October 30th-November 6th.

Here is a peek at what the Grade 1 students were up to this past week. The Discovery Centre was open for exploring how pumpkins looked, felt and smelled. On Friday, students worked very hard to write about the pumpkin that was on their table. Ask your child to describe their pumpkin using their senses of sight and touch.

We have reading buddies on Wednesdays with Mrs. Costello's class. We will continue to have our own Library time on Thursdays (Bring your Stuffie day). 

We are wrapping up our unit on 3D shapes and moving onto 2D shapes.

We are learning about Seasons and cycles, day and night.

Addition Strategies

We have been exploring strategies to help us solve addition equations with sums up to 18! We practiced the 'counting up' strategy using fingers, number lines and 100's charts. Using objects as counters is another great tool we can use to calculate our sums!

Mixing Secondary Colours

Inspired by the book 'Mouse Paint' by Ellen Stoll Walsh, we mixed primary colours to make secondary colours and created these wonderful birds!

Picture Retake Day is this Wednesday!

Wednesday, October 25th is 'Picture Retake Day.' If your child missed the original photo day and you want them to have their photo taken, or you want them to have a picture retake, you MUST write a note in his/her agenda!