Good afternoon grade one families,

Today we read a book called "A Family is a Family is a Family" by Sara O'Leary. We talked about how all families are special and unique. Some friends shared what makes their family different. Afterwards we wrote about what makes our family special. It is so nice to have our family photo galleries up in the classroom so that we can always be reminded of where we came from and how loved we are.

We went over all of the sight words we have learned so far in grade one. Our students are doing an amazing job recognizing and reading our sight words. We also circled our sight words in our poems and re-read our poems! Every time we read one of our poems we colour in a star.

After lunch, we learned how to represent a number between 10 and 20 by using numerals, tally marks, two 10 frames, and pictures.

We finished off our day doing some really fun science! We are continuing to explore colour. We watched a clip from The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy went from living in a black and white world to a world full of beautiful colours! We also listened to the story "The Colour Monster". We talked about which colours make us feel certain ways. Ask me a colour that makes me feel happy! Finally, we split up into two big groups for a big challenge. We were asked to sort LOTS of different coloured paint samples. There were many shades of each colour. We did a GREAT job and worked as team to make sure that all of our colours were sorted properly. After that we made a paint sample rainbow!

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Have a wonderful evening!

Love Mrs. Woolnough and Mr. Graham







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