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

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Monday's Christmas hat day in support of Syrian refugees

This Monday is a board wide dress down day in support of the Syrian refugee campaign. Students encouraged to wear Christmas gear and Santa and elf hats for a small donation (1-2$).

Monday, December 7, 2015

LOTS OF REMINDERS FOR THE 2 WEEKS AHEAD

The two weeks leading up to the Christmas holidays are always SUPER busy. Here are some reminders for the weeks ahead.

Tuesday December 8 - This is the last library before the break. Please return all books so they can be re-shelved before the new year.

Wednesday December 9 - All gift card tree ballots and money are due into school. Volunteer sheets for the craft day are due in as well.

Friday December 11 - Hot lunch orders are due.

Monday December 14 - Craft Day for grades 1 - 3 (Block 3 and 4)

Wednesday December 16 - PR Sing-a-long (Block 3)

Thursday December 17 - Christmas Social (starts at 6 pm)

Canned food drive part 1 and 2

The Social Justice Club's canned food drive for The Shepherds of Good Hope finished up last week. Each class needed to make a structure with their cans and boxes. Here's a picture of our snowman structure.

The yearly canned food drive for the Richmond Food Bank starts this week and continues until next Tuesday. Any non-perishable food items that can be sent in would be greatly appreciated and used within the Richmond community.

Grade One Graphing

The grade ones have been learning all about different types of graphs. They are now ready to collect their own data and organize it in a graph of their choice.

Here are a few pictures of the data collection process...

R Controlled Vowels (Bossy R)

As we continue to learn more word wall words, we have come across words that have Bossy Rs. Take a look at the videos below that we've been using to help us understand how an r can change a vowel sound.

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