Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

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!

Monday, November 13, 2017

RETAKES/SIBLING PHOTOS WED.

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

Sorry for any confusion!

Sunday, November 5, 2017

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.

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