Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog: October 2017

Sunday, October 29, 2017

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.

Thursday, October 12, 2017

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

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

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...

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