Learner Profile Week and all the other learning that took place this week in 1A!

Happy Weekend!

This week was a long week and we had a lot happening in Grade 1. We did a lot of work and it was fantastic to listen to all students talk about the learner profile attributes and how they were “trying their best” to live it! It is sometimes hard to be balanced and reflective as well as principled, but I am proud to say that all students in 1A have been working on and living these principles not just in school but at home as well.

This is our Learner Profile Bulleting Board- I am very proud of all of our kiddies.

 

In Language Arts, we have been working on our writing skills- with particular focus on word Choice- Describing words, and words that describe our feelings. We discovered that there are more different words we can use to describe exactly what we are feeling rather than just “good” or “bad”. Expanding our vocabulary has been lots of fun and we hope to continue working on this over the rest of the year. We loved reading in groups, thanks you Ms. Pavitra for coming in and working with us while we read and write our reflective paragraphs. We have also been working on recounts. As I write this it is amazing how much our first graders can achieve in a week and retain all the information we discover together J

Math has been a lot of fun this week- apart from learning about division and multiplication while working with cubes and making big groups as well as dividing those groups into equal share, we began talking about time using the calendar. Students were amazed that we have 365 days in a year and that every 4 years we have 366 days. We also discussed how many days are there in a week, if there are patterns we can see in the number of days in each month and how many weeks there are in a month. As we continue working on these concepts, it would be fantastic to talk about them at home. We will soon be introducing the concept of time- telling time by the hour! Talking about AM and PM. Minutes in an hour, how many hours in a day! If you would like to come in and join in the fun please let me know J

In Social Studies, we have begun presenting our family tress, and sharing our family story. Where we come from, where we were born, and how many siblings we have. We look forward to more presentations this week.

In Science- we began our new unit on Materials and Properties; our KWL session was wonderful- here are the results of what we know about Materials and what we would like to know about Materials.

We have also been reviewing our senses as we are using describing words when we write.