Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog

Monday, February 8, 2016

Valentine's Day

I've had a couple of questions about when and if we will be handing out valentines in class. We will be celebrating Valentine's Day as well as the 100th day of school this Friday. If students wish to hand out valentines, we will do so on Friday. We have 21 students in our class. Thanks!

Friday, February 5, 2016

Sparty Pizza Party Winners!

All of our Grade One reading has paid off! We found out today we were the 2nd prize winners for the month of February and won a Sparty Pizza Party, The only date they have available is this Tuesday February 9th. This is a Danby's day so if your child gets Danby's they can bring a ziplock bag to either take pizza or Danby's home.

On Tuesday, students are invited to wear their Sens gear. Sparty will usually only sign official Sens gear. He will also be bringing some Sens treats along for us too!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Linear Measurement

We have been working on linear measurement. We started by using our footprints to find objects that were shorter than, the same as and longer than our footprints.

After discovering that footprints aren't the most reliable unit of measurement, we started exploring non-standard units that we can use to measure. Below are some students in action measuring lengths, heights and widths using unifix cubes.

Skating Reminder

Just a reminder that this Thursday February 4th is our first primary skating morning. Students are to bring their skates in a separate bag to school. All skaters must wear a CSA approved hockey helmet on the ice.

All volunteers will meet the students at the rink at their classes designated time. The times below include time to get skates on and off as well as time on the ice.

The schedule for the morning is:

Grade 3 and 3/4 - 9:30 am - 10:35 am

Grade 2 and 2/3 - 10:10 am - 11:15 am

Grades 1 and 1/2 - 10:50 am - 11:55 am

We are looking forward to a great morning.

February Fun Days!

Every Friday in February will be a different Spirit Day.

Friday February 5th - Crazy hat and hair day
Friday February 12th - Jersey Day
Friday February 19th - Literary Character Day (Dress Up as your favourite character)
Friday February 26th - Backwards Day

Our Winter Fun Day is scheduled for the afternoon of February 26th from 1:05 - 3:50. The inclement date will be March 4th.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Skating Reminders

Our skating dates are fast approaching. Here are a few reminders:

We are skating on Thursday February 4, 11 and 18th from 10:50am - 11:55am.

All students and parents on the ice must wear a CSA approved hockey helmet.

Skates must be brought to the school and rink in a bag.

Volunteers are asked to meet us at the arena.

Thanks for your support!

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