Collection of Student Work

A collection of student work was sent home in a baggy today.  Once you've had a chance to take a look with you child, can you please send back the EMPTY baggy so we can reuse for next time.

Thanks!

Upcoming Spirit Days

Here are the Spirit Days coming up at St. Philip

Wednesday December 13 - Christmas Spirit Day - Wear your festive tops and accessories

Wednesday December 20th - PJ Day for our Sing-a-long and Craft Day

Wednesday January 10th - School Colour Day to help us get back into the groove of school

Wednesday January 24th - Silly Sock Day

School Photos

Class photos and individual student photos went home today.  Please take a look in your child's bag! 

Measurement

This week, we started Measurement.  Students were finding items that were shorter than, the same as and longer than their foot.

Hour Of Code

On Tuesday, with the help of the grade 5/6 class, we took part in Hour of Code.  The students completed different games that allowed them to practise some basic coding skills.

For those interested in trying at home, students can visit: www.hourofcode.org

Christmas Events

December is always a busy month.  Here are a few dates you may want to mark on your calendar!

Thursday December 14th - St Philip Christmas Social: Enjoy some hot chocolate, hotdogs, treats, wagon rides and fireworks!  It starts at 6:00pm and ends with fireworks at 7:30pm.

Wednesday December 20th - Christmas Sing-a-long and Primary Craft Day

Sing-a-long: Parents are welcomed to join us in a school sing-a-long in the gym.  The school will be breaking into two groups (block 1 and block 2).  OUR CLASS WILL TAKE PART IN THE BLOCK 1 SING-A-LONG (9:30 - 10:35)

Primary Craft Day: We will be running a craft day Wednesday afternoon for block 3 and 4 (1:05 - 3:50).  Students will complete three crafts (1 in each grade one classroom).  Parents are welcomed to join their child and help out in the classes with the crafts!

Long Vowel Videos

We have been working on the long vowel sounds (when vowels say their own name).  Here are a few of our favourites that helps us understand why some vowels are long vowels...

SUPER E...

2 VOWELS GO WALKING...

Graphing, Graphing and More Graphing

The grade ones have been busy learning how to create and read graphs.  Here are a few pictures of the grade ones in action.

Rock, Paper, Scissors Bar Graphs:

Favourite  Weather Surveys and Pictographs:

Next up, students will be creating their own survey questions, surveying the class and creating their own pictograph or bar graph.

Wearing Pink on Wednesday for Bully Prevention and Awareness Week

This week is Bully Prevention and Awareness Week.  Students are encouraged to wear pink on Wednesday as symbol that we are working together to become more aware of and prevent bullying in our school.  The idea of wearing pink came from a group of students in Nova Scotia who decided to take a stand against the bullying of a younger student for wearing a pink shirt to school by organizing their own pink shirt protest.

Making Concrete Graphs

This week, we started our study of Data Management.  We built concrete graphs as a class.  We are learning how to read and compare the data using math words (i.e. more, less).  We will be working on creating and reading concrete graphs, bar graphs and pictographs.

Estimating and Counting

The grades ones finished up representing numbers by estimating and counting.  They were learning to make good guesses and then use the ten frames to help them count.

Jersey Day Thursday

This Thursday will be Jersey Day!  Students are encouraged to show their school spirit by wearing a favourite jersey or team shirt!

RETAKES/SIBLING PHOTOS WED.

I made a mistake in agendas on Friday.  Retakes and sibling photos are Wednesday, NOT Tuesday.

Sorry for any confusion!

Counting Videos

We have been practising counting by 1s, 5s and 10s.  Here are a few of our favourite counting videos to practise.

Short Vowel Videos

Here are two more of the vowel videos we've been using to learn our short vowel sounds! 

Updates from last week

Last week was quite a busy one!  It was so great to meet with so many of you on Thursday night.  If you were unable to make it, I will try to touch base with you over the phone in the next few weeks!

Here are a few updates from grade one last week.

Pumpkin Inquiry - In honour of Halloween, we took some math time to investigate all about Pumpkins.  We counted lines, measured the height, found out pumpkins float and even counted all 312 seeds in our big pumpkin.

Short Vowel Sounds - We wrapped up our last week of short vowels by creating vowel bats.  This week, we will start looking at long vowel sounds!  I will post our short vowel videos we used and will add our long vowel videos soon!

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers - We have been busy creating our own number match game to show what we have learned about representing numbers.

Signs of Fall - We have been investigating the signs of fall that are around us.  If you have any signs of fall at home, feel free to send in a picture or the item!  We would love to share with the class.

Booking Parent-Teacher Interviews

Progress Reports are going home Monday October 30.  Parent-Teacher Interviews will take place Thursday November 2nd.  Please use the link below to book your time for interviews.  I look forward to meeting with you on Thursday!

https://goo.gl/forms/VtckzxQxn4EmRU9J2

Orange and Black Day on Tuesday

This Tuesday, October 31st, we will be having ORANGE AND BLACK DAY for Hallowe'en.

Literacy Stations

The grade ones have been busy practising their reading, writing and word work in our literacy work stations!  Check them out...

Reading some big books!

Window word wall word practise

Writing Around the Room

Animal Writing

Reading and Letter Sounds on the iPad

A few classroom updates...

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  Here are a few updates from our grade 1 class:

LIBRARY - there's enough time for the grade ones to visit the library weekly!  Library books will be due back each Tuesday.

READING PROGRAM - our reading conference books will be heading home by the end of this week.  Our Reading Cup Tracking Program will begin this week too!

READING VOLUNTEERS - if you offered to be a reading volunteer, confirmation notes will be going home Wednesday!

Short Vowel Sounds

We continue to introduce 5 new words wall words each week.  Our first few weeks will have a focus on short vowels sounds.  Check out the short vowel video we've been using to practise...

Our Decoding Strategies

This week, the grade ones were introduced to their first two decoding strategies.  We use these strategies to help us read new words.  We use Eagle Eye to look at the pictures for clues.  We can use Lips the Fish to cross check and make sure the picture matches the word on the page.  Try using our new reading strategies at home!

Library Schedule

This year, students will be visiting the library every 2 weeks.  Our first visit was this past Tuesday so students can enjoy their books until Tuesday October 10!

Headphones

We are starting to use our classroom iPads and listening centre on a regular basis.  If each child could bring in a labelled pair of headphones (nothing fancy) for classroom use in the next few weeks, it would be greatly appreciated!

Grade 1 Homework

Our Grade 1 homework was sent home today (Wednesday).  Attached to the duotang are student passwords and login information for Google Drive, RAZ Kids and Dreambox.  If you're having trouble logging on or locating any of these programs, please let me know and I'd be happy to send home more detailed instructions.

Terry Fox Walk/Run

Our annual Terry Fox Walk/Run is this Friday.  Please make sure students are dressed to participate and have a labelled water bottle.  The event will take place block 4 (2:50 - 3:30).  This will also be our first school spirit day.  Students are encouraged to dress in our school colours!

Alphabet and Number Review

We have been busy these past few weeks reviewing letter names and sounds.  Here are a few favourite videos we've been using:

We have also been counting to 100 by 1s

Patterns Everywhere!

This week, the grade ones started exploring patterns!  We are working on creating a pattern with one changing attribute and describing the pattern rule.  Here are a few we came up with...

A pattern with SIZE changing:

A pattern with COLOUR changing:

A pattern with SHAPE changing:

Can you find the pattern rules?