Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog: September 2015

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Short Vowel Sounds

This week, we started looking at the short a sound. We will continue to go through each short vowel sound over the next month. Below is a short vowel video we are using in class to help us remember the sounds each short vowel sound makes.

Monday, September 28, 2015

Scholastic Orders Due Tuesday

Just a reminder for those interested, Scholastic orders are due Tuesday September 29th.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Meet the Teacher Night

It was great meeting so many parents last night! If you were unable to make it, the pamphlet will be sent home in the agenda today.

VOLUNTEERS - if you're interested in helping out with our reading program, keep an eye out for the note coming home in the next week.

If you have any questions about the topics covered in the pamphlet or last night, please let me know.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Sorting Fun!

The grade ones started working in their math groups this week. They worked with their group to explore the different attributes we can use to sort items. Here are a few pictures of their sorting...

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Welcome to Grade 1

We have a fantastic start to Grade 1 getting to know our new classmates and learning our new routines. LOTS of notes went home today. If you have any questions, please let me know.

As mentioned in one of the notes, students need a pair of indoor running shoes. Any donations of Kleenex, large Ziplock bags and/or plastic spoons would be greatly appreciated.

All grade 1 and 2 classes have been given tables this year instead of the traditional desks. Students are welcomed to keep pencil cases in their school bags or left at home to use for homework (coming in October). Students will have all of the pencils, colouring utensils, scissors and glue they need provided for them in class.

I look forward to meeting many of you on Tuesday September 22nd for our Meet the Teacher night.

Language

In reading, we will be focusing on determining important ideas by retelling ideas in a fiction texts. We continue to use our GO Map to recall the important details we need.

In writing, we are transferring our understanding of fiction texts by becoming author's of our own narrative stories. Students are brainstorming with the help of the GO Map and are writing stories with a clear beginning, middle and end.

Students did an outstanding job with their oral presentations. They used the different techniques practised in class to share their book report.

Math

We have started working on Probability. We are learning about the chances of everyday things happening using our math words (certain, likely, unlikely, impossible and always, sometimes, never). We are also making predictions and completing probability experiments to determine the likelihood of different results (ex. spinner games, rolling dice, flipping cups).

How you can help at home:

- practise counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s to 100

- locate different numbers on the 100s chart

- talk about the likelihood of events

- look for and name 3D solids around you

Word Wall Words

Week 28 - zoo, once, which, more, does
Week 27 - race, home, many, should, find
Week 26 - this, be, away, stay, spring
Week 25 - animal, yellow, blue, can't, clap
Week 24 - because, skate, small, quit, out
Week 23 - eat, want, kick, big, talk
Week 22 - us, had, children, again, thing
Week 21 - his, her, him, could, name
Week 20 - from, of, and, favourite, new
Week 19 - my, teacher, your, over, pretty
Week 18 - first, then, into, about, after
Week 17 - that, it, we, some, stop
Week 16 - who, what, where, when, why
Week 15 - house, can, saw, two, has
Week 14 - sister, brother, would, was, how
Week 13 - don't, won't, did, very, good
Week 12 - there, them, they, car, all
Week 11 - you, do, come, boy, girl
Week 10 - no, go, old, are, for
Week 9 - ride, nice, give, night, the
Week 8 - see, here, he, she, me
Week 7 - make, made, play, rain, the
Week 6 - but, fun, up, down, jump
Week 5 - friend, on, off, not, to
Week 4 - little, is, in, with, will
Week 3 - went, get, tell, said, best
Week 2 - as, at, am, black, cat
Week 1 - have, our, I, like, school