Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog: April 2016

Friday, April 22, 2016

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

I cannot thank you all enough for the beautiful baby shower yesterday. I feel so spoiled with your generous gifts and amazing creations for the baby! It is definitely a day I won't forget!

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The St. Philip's Book fair runs from Wed. April 27 - Fri. April 29th. Our class visit is scheduled for Block 1 Wed. April 27th. Families are more than welcomed to visit Thursday evening from 4 - 7pm and Friday morning from 9:20 - 12:05. Students will also have a second opportunity to visit Friday morning if they have brought in extra money.

Flyers will be sent home Wednesday. If you have a particular book you want your child to purchase, please make that clear on the wish list and we will do our best to track it down. Please make sure you return the ballot so your child is entered into a draw for 25$ worth of free books!

Please ensure that any money being sent in is in a LABELLED baggy. If money gets dropped on the floor, it is very hard to figure out who it belongs to!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Friday, April 8, 2016

More Book Report Info.

The Grade Ones have all chosen a book and are ready to complete their at-home project. The grade ones have helped me with a book report in class on Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon as a model for home. Below are pictures of the completed book report. Next week, I will be practising my presentation skills and the students will be ready to critique what I need to do to improve.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Book Report Info

On Friday, students went home with an outline for our first big at home project. Students will be responsible for completing an at-home fiction book report. Students will begin by choosing a "just-right" fiction book. This means a book that they can read mostly on their own. Students can choose a book from home or if you need help finding a book, send in a note and we can find one from our classroom or school library. All book choices should be in by Thursday. Once the book has been sent in, I will send home the sheets needed to complete the book report. If you have any questions, please let me know.

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