Math Centers

We have started working on our Math centers this week where we are working with numbers! Some of the stations are creating numbers, some are matching numbers, and others are counting numbers. Here are some photos of the students hard at work.

 

Practicing letters at home

In Language, the whole class is focusing on starting to use lower case letters in our writing, and only using capital letters when needed (at the beginning of a sentence, first letter of a name or city, etc.).

I have uploaded 2 pages (one for upper and one for lower case letters), that you can print at home, put in a sheet protector, and have your child practice their letters on. The page shows the direction in which the pencil should be moving, including where they should start writing.

Additionally, I have uploaded a page titled, "25 ways to use magnetic letters at home" - the title speaks for itself.

Enjoy, and happy practicing!

Making French sentences

The following is a chart that we have created as a class, of all the actions we are very familiar with so far. Along with it are sentences we have made with words we know. I encourage the students to practice the actions on the daily (you can play Simon Says for example), and I also encourage the students to try and create sentences with words they already know in order to practice speaking in French.

Sorting our class

In Math we have been talking about sorting - sorting shapes, colours, and even ourselves!

We started brainstorming about how we could sort everyone in the class. We came up with many ideas, from colour of pants and shirt, to colours of our eyes! Below are some examples:

We started out by sorting the class into 2 groups: boys and girls

 Then we sorted the class into 3 groups: blue eyes, brown eyes, and green eyes (even though it doesn't show in the picture, the group to the left has brown eyes, the group in the middle has green eyes, and the group to the left has blue eyes).

Another way we sorted the class was by hair colour!

Mixing the primary colours

This week in art we continued talking about the primary colours and what happens when you mix them together.

When the students walked in in the morning, I had taped ziplock bags with paint in them to their desks. In groups, they took turns mixing the primary colours to discover what colours they would turn into. We soon discovered that red and yellow mix into orange, blue and yellow mix into green, and blue and red mix into purple.

Once the paint was mixed, they discovered they could draw pictures on them using all sorts of tools: markers, pencils, even race cars! :)

 

 


After we finished having fun mixing paint, we mixed paint into little trays and used Q-tips to paint a beautiful picture!!

Spiders for Halloween!

Today was Halloween and the students put the finishing touches on their spider projects!

We started learning about creepy, crawly spiders about a week ago. We started out by talking about what we already knew about spiders and wrote our thoughts on sticky notes, which we then put onto a chart. We then read a whole bunch of fiction and non-fiction books about spiders, and added the new information we'd learned to our chart. The students also made detailed diagrams about spiders and brainstormed sentences about them.

Over the last couple of days, we spent some time editing each others' work (specifically looking at capitals, finger spaces, and periods), and when all the editing was done, we wrote our good copies onto a fresh new piece of paper. The finishing product was a little story about spiders!

Today the students made their very own spiders out of paper plates, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and construction paper! Here are the final projects hanging up! :)

GRA - Marty Ch. 7

Friday, October 18th

We just finished reading Chapter 7. We found out that Marty was picked for the play because she was brave and confident. When the class started practicing the play, they realized that it became a lot more fun when they pretended to use magic and their imagination.

We have three questions for you:

1) Half of our class said they WOULD sit in a garbage can that smells like peas just to be in a play and use their imagination. Would you?

2) We noticed that Marty may have started enjoying being the princess when she found she could use her imagination. Were you surprised when Marty started changing?

3) We noticed that Mrs. Aloi shakes the maracas to catch the class’ attention. What does your teacher do to catch your attention? Our teacher sometimes claps, sings, or counts down, and then we have to stop, look, and listen.

We hope to hear back from you really soon!

Grade 1, room 15.