We've had a busy, and VERY cold week back to school!
This week I had to share with students that one of our hermit crabs, Sheldon, passed away before the winter break. I think he molted and then didn't find a new shell for whatever reason. I didn't want to tell them going into Christmas! This group of students is so invested in the crabs! However, I did pick up a new hermit crab so Jimmy wouldn't be alone. We are deciding between two names - Dewey and Cleo and will do our final vote on Tuesday. He (or she... it's really almost impossible to tell) is quite small compared to Jimmy but seems to be settling in well!
Math
In math this week, we did a bit of a review for patterns! Students were practicing their repeating patterns and grade 2s were practicing increasing and decreasing patterns.
We also continued learning about graphing. We collected data about the winter activities students did over the break (skiing, snowboarding, skating, sledding, etc.) and represented this data in a bar graph. We also learned about pictographs and practiced analyzing information from a pictograph. On Friday, we were going to collect a lot of data from our class but postponed since we only had 11 students.
Please note that the part about multiplying is not in grade 1 or 2 curriculum
- but we can skip count by 5s instead!
Our grade 1 students also started working on some government assessments in both literacy and numeracy this week. Each student will complete two literacy assessments focused on letters and sounds and reading regular, irregular and non-words. They are also working on some math assessments focused on number sense.
Literacy
We learned about the FLOSS(Z) rule this week! Ask your child what this means! We played some games and practiced sounding out words that use this rule. We also brainstormed words from the "-ell" word family and learned a poem using words from the "-all" word family.
We are continuing to learn about the Seven Sacred Teachings. This week we learned more about courage and honesty which are represented by the bear and sabe (or raven). Students wrote about a time they showed courage and decorated a bookmark with pictures and words that represent honesty. We read two stories called "The First Day" and "Misaabe's Stories."
Health & Wellness
We are now sharing our gym time with Ms. Greenhall's grade 1/2 class! This week we have been playing games and getting to know each classes safety rules and expectations in the gym. We're going to be starting a new unit on Tuesday! Our new gym time got switched around a bit so we will now be having gym from 8:45-9:15am Monday through Thursday.
This week we also learned about boundaries and how to set boundaries, including saying no! This is great review for our grade 2 students as we learned about consent and boundaries briefly at the end of last year. The kids LOVE this song and it really helps explain boundaries!
Grade 1
Grade 2
Class Code: RC142429
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Upcoming Dates
Monday, January 15th - PD Day - No School
Thursday, January 25th - Mary Browns Fun Lunch
Thursday, February 8th - Chopped Leaf Fun Lunch
February 15 & 16 - Teachers' Convention - No School
Monday, February 19th - Family Day - No School
Thursday, February 22nd - Edo Fun Lunch
March 21st (PM) & March 22nd (AM) - Student-Led Conferences
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