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

Monday, December 18, 2017

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!

Monday, December 11, 2017

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!

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Measurement

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

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

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