Good afternoon grade one families!

We have been very busy the last couple days!!!

This morning we met with our grade 5 buddies for the first time. It was such a wonderful experience and we feel so lucky to get to connect with new friends within our school community. We played a fun math game called "Four in a Row."  Ask me to explain it to you!

This week we are focusing on capitalization. Ask me when I need to use an uppercase letter in a sentence. We added 4 new words to our word wall today: it, go, big, and not.

Yesterday we planted pumpkin seeds! We are learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin. Ask me what we used in place of soil to get our pumpkin seeds started.

We have been playing with our rekenreks in math and continue to represent numbers in different ways.

In science, we continue to explore colour. Today we did something VERY exciting... we created our own colours! We are learning all about shading and tinting. Ask me how I can lighten a colour and how I can darken a colour! After creating our very own colours, we named them. The names are amazing!!! Ask me the name of my colour. Our new colour shades are already proudly displayed in our hallway.

Mrs. Woolnough and Mr. Graham are the spotlight students this week! They brought in artifacts to share with us, that are meaningful to them and represent who they are. Mrs. Woolnough brought in a tiny snowglobe with Ogopogo inside of it, a handmade seahorse stuffed animal from Nova Scotia and her daughter's first pair of shoes! Mr. Graham brought in a bird that he carved out of wood, an arrowhead from when he was an archeologist and an ancient coin that he found in Italy. We loved sharing these with the classes and are so excited for our students' to share their artifacts.

Decodable books are a new resource now available in many CBE schools to accompany the provincial curriculum and CBE Literacy Framework. This exciting addition to literacy programming aims to teach decoding skills which will enable students to practice phonics patterns and high frequency words. A video, Utilizing Decodables, has been created as an introduction to those who are unfamiliar with Decodable books and how they are being implemented in classrooms.

Reminders: 

  • Please continue to send snowpants, thick mittens, toques etc. Thank you!
  • We are still accepting food bank items and donations for the poppy fund. There will be an assembly on Thursday morning at 10:30 and families are welcome.
  • No school on Friday November 11th.

Have a great evening and stay warm!

Love Mrs. Woolnough and Mr. Graham












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