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

Friday, November 20, 2015

Learning coin names and values

We have started to work on learning the names and values of our Canadian coins. When you have some spare change, work with your child to identify the coins.

Once we've mastered the names and values, we will begin to count money amounts up to 20 cents.

Here is one of our videos we've been using to learn about the penny, nickel, dime and quarter.

Long Vowel Sounds

We have been working on understanding some of the rules that help to create the long vowel sounds in the words we read.

Take a look at a few of the videos we've been using:

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Wear red on Monday

We will be having our Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday November 9th at 10:50 in the gym. Students are encouraged to wear red. Poppies will be handed out this day as well.

Monday, November 2, 2015

PARENT-TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Progress reports are going home Tuesday November 3rd. Parent-Teacher interviews will be held Thursday November 12th.

I do have availability for all parents to be able to book an interview and hope that you are able to make it! Please use the link below to book. If you have any questions, let me know.

https://kelly-burguete.youcanbook.me/

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