Mrs. Burguete's Grade One Class Blog

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Book Report Info

Book Report Information went home Thursday. Students are to choose a just right FICTION (story) book for Monday. If you do not have a book at home your child would like to use, students can choose a book from the classroom or our school library. If you write a note in the agenda, I will be happy to help hunt down a book.

Once the book is chosen and brought into school, I will send home the sheets the students will need to complete the report at home. The report is meant to be completed over the next several weeks so students are not overwhelmed at the end.

We will also be completing a report over the next week as a class and practising giving an oral presentation to help prepare.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Indoor Recess Fun

The students had a blast on Wednesday with indoor recess. Here are a few pictures I promised I'd share...

I Can Dance...

We kicked off our dance unit with interpretive dance and creative movement. Students were responding to the music with their bodies to show how different animals move...

Snakes!

Elephants:

Birds:

Giraffes:

Energy Chains

The students have been exploring Energy Chains (Food Chains). They were working with their buddies to create different chains that occur in nature:

2D Geometry

The past few weeks, students have been busy learning about 2D Geometry. We have been busy naming shapes, sorting shapes by their geometric properties (number of sides and vertices), making pictures with 2D shapes and gaining a deeper understanding of symmetry. Take a look at a few of our action shots below...

Sorting 2D shapes:

Creating Symmetry Monsters:

Finding Symmetry in our own shirts!

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Twin Day Thursday

Thursday is Twin Day for Peru. Students are encouraged to dress up with a buddy or a group. If students are struggling to decide what to wear or didn't line up a twin, they can wear St. Philip colours or Spirit Wear to match some other friends throughout the school.

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