A Fun week of learning and Sports!

Good Morning and Happy Saturday!

This week has been a busy fun week, along side lots of learning, we had our sports day! A big Shout out to our Super PE Department and all of our Grade Ones. We are so proud of you for taking part in all the activities and working as a team- WELL DONE FIRST GRADERS!

A few things before I forget-

• The calendar for FEBRUARY has been posted in the tab CALENDARS AND NEWSLETTER.  
  
• We have SWIMMING on MONDAY 3rd FEBRUARY- Please ensure your child has their swim bag with all the necessary things they need. If your child is not swimming please ensure they have a note with them. 
• We have their homework folders at school with us. 
• This week is our Learner Profile Week- We have been discussing the different attributes we all have to be better human beings. This week, we will focus on all the attributes and will be doing some writing about a few of them. It would be wonderful if you could ask your child about the different attributes and if they were able to be the different attributes. We will be making a video that I can hopefully post on the blog as well! These are the attributes: 

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In Language Arts we continue to work on Word Choice- we have been discussing words that describe using our 5 senses. We have also been working on writing a paragraph and adding as many details as possible. We work on Recount writing and continue to try our best to write in paragraphs. In Math- we loved discovering what multiplication was and had a fun time challenging ourselves with different problems. In both Science and Social Studies, we have been discussing rules, consequences and our responsibilities, as well as reviewing the Human Body and Plants. 

We have a super day at sports day and loved being outdoors, and cheering for our houses. Thank you to all the parents who made it and supported us- it was a fun and exhausting day! 

Pictures for the week are below- have a wonderful weekend and a productive week ahead- 

Standing in attention for the Indian National Anthem 

Wonderful supporting friends

So proud of our medals

All the medals I won!

Throwing the ball into the target

The Three Legged Race

Social Studies-

We continue to discuss families, rule and consequences.. a little bit of homework this week for Social Studies- more to come on that.... we are discussing family trees and we would like each child to make a family tree and present it to our class. A letter will come home on Tuesday expanding on this! 

8 Days of School in 2014 so far!

Hello Everyone!

Unfortunately I was unable to post my usual weekly posts last week, so this week, there are lots and lots of pictures and information that you may already have.

It has been wonderful to have all our students back with us and I have loved hearing about your winter holidays. Everyone is excited about being back in school have the kids have come back refreshed and ready to take on more learning.

FIRST DAY BACK AT SCHOOL PICTURES

We did not waste anytime when we got back and went straight to work. It is amazing how each child is ready for the challenge and is working harder. My favourite part of this term is January and February because this is when we as teachers can see how much each child has learned and assimilated. It is amazing to watch each child move from a concrete concept and apply it to an abstract concept. Students are reading more, writing more and are beginning to become more confident when asking for clarifications.

In Language Arts, we have begun working on Recounts- what recounts are the the special ways we write recounts. We are also focusing on Capital Letters, Full Stops/ Periods at the end of a sentence, adding details and our feelings. We are writing a small paragraph everyday about the book we read, this will become a longer piece as students become more confident. We will also be working of word choice and how to choose the right word to express exactly what we mean.

In Maths, we are reviewing number, and this week and the past week we have been working on number patterns, and skip counting. Students are getting the hang of it and are finally beginning to see patterns in numbers :-)

In Science, we have had wonderful discussions about trees and plants, the differences and similarities and how they help us. We learnt about PHOTOSYNTHESIS and I am sure most students have gone home and sung the PHOTOSYNTHESIS song, we have also learned about what it means, as well as been introduced to the word CHLOROPHYLL! Big words for Grade 1, however, they love the challenge and are excited to learn more and more.

In Social Studies, we have been discussing our families, the jobs Moms and Dads do as well as how we help our families. Please watch out for a letter towards the end of next week about personal stories- a little homework not just for your child :-)

We have begun our BUG CLUB reading program and so far I have heard that the kids love to read online. If you cannot get into your account, try adding a space after your child's name and before the number, that usually does the trick. I can now track what students are reading and how they are comprehending not just at school, but at home.

We have had an assembly and we have a cross country run where we all did very well.

I hope you have a wonderful week ahead and as always if you have concerns and questions please let me know via the homework diary or email.

Happy Saturday to all of you and I look forward to seeing your children on Monday! 

All things before the last week of school!

Good Evening,

It has been a wonderful week with lots of learning, practising, fun things and lots of new things. We welcome a new assistant to our class! Here is a quick run down of what has been happening in 1A this week!

Language Arts- we are working on adding details to our writing and have written wonderful letter to Santa. Please check our our bulletin board for the letters we hope santa will have time to read! ;-)

Math- we are learning what halves and quarter are and have reviewed our left and right! we had fun and found it challenging.

Social Studies- we have been talking about rules and will continue to do so in the new year! We have also been working on our dance... we look forward to lots of shiny happy people for our Christmas Party on the 12th, Thursday!

Science- Plants! Plants! Plants! we love learning about plants and we have had a wonderful time discussing as well as experimenting what the job of the stems are! Our plants are growing wonderfully!

We had our Assembly this week, and we had 2 of our girls get apples for being reflective!

And finally! we met with Santa. He spent all day on Friday visiting with us and we were lucky to get pictures with us. We hope he had time to visit our class bulletin board and check out our letter to him.

We look forward to our class party! Thursday 12th outside Grade 1A and B 11:30-1:00pm! 

We look forward to seeing all of you there. If you are going away, safe travels. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

We look forward to lots of stories, and show and share pictures from your children!

Merry Christmas, Safe Travels and We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year!

Ms. Sam

Social Studies- Treasure Hunt!

We have been learning about maps all through Term 1 and we finally had out treasure map! Everyone found some hidden treasure and loved the idea of discussing how to find their treasure and which direction to go. Lots of pictures- 

Map of the elementary courtyard! Can YOU guess where our
classroom is?