Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog: May 2018

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Grade 1 Homework is done!

This week was supposed to be our last week of WWW homework. The students lucked in because our photocopier decided to take a break this week. Our WWW is officially finished for grade 1!

Hat Day for Autism Awareness

Just a reminder that Friday is Hat Day. All donations will be going towards Autism Awareness.

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

With the consistent hot and humid days coming up, I wanted to send out a few reminders...

Water Bottles - Our classroom gets very hot. Students are encouraged to bring in a water bottle to use in the classroom.

Sunblock - Students should come to school with sunblock already applied. Students can re-apply throughout the day if needed.

Hats - There is not a lot of shade on the yard. Students are encouraged to bring in hats for recesses and outdoor learning.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

May Reading Cup - Chance for Redblacks tickets

The Ottawa Redblacks are offering a reading challenge to receive free tickets this month.

Your child needs to read 4 books by May 17 to be eligible.

Use the link below for more information and to sign up:

RedBlacks Reading Challenge Link

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Education Week Events May 7 - 11

Education Week is coming up May 7 - 11. If you haven't seen the updates from Ms. White, here is a list of the events:

Monday May 7 - Wear Canadian Colours, Guest speaker Todd Nicholson (Paralympic Sledge Hockey Player)
Tuesday May 8 - Open House 9:20 come and visit the classrooms around our school!
Wednesday May 9 - Mass in the gym 11:05
Thursday May 10 - A visit from an author, Science Fair evening
Friday May 11 - Superhero Day, Science Fair class visits, French BINGO

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