Sept. 12- 16 SECOND WEEK

We have officially survived our first full week of grade one!

The students and I have been busy practising our routines and talking about the importance of respect. We have been discussing reasons why we have rules at school, home and in our community. The students explained that we need to follow rules in order to stay safe and happy.

Throughout the day, students have an opportunity to place pom poms in our "good actions" jar. When they display an act of kindness or when I catch them being helpful, we bring out the jar. At the end of the day, we talk about our good actions, whether it was during recess, lunch or in the classroom.

We have been using our monkey Poko as a talking stick in order to enhance our listening skills. After 9 days of school, we have finally filled up our jar. We had a vote and the students decided to celebrate by having a dance party. We found videos on Gonoodle.com and had fun dancing for 15 minutes.

This was before we filled it up to the top with kindness and respect

The grade ones began the week with their first journal writing. It is always exciting to find out what everyone did on the weekend. A lot of students went to the Taste of Kingsway which opened up a great discussion. We have started building our reading stamina and so far we are able to read silently for just over 2 minutes! We were proud of ourselves because the first time we tried, we made it to a minute and 40 seconds. This opportunity is teaching students to set goals, stay patient and to keep on trying. We can't all be marathon runners overnight but if we practise, it is definitely possible! We also read a story called, The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and we talked about our own mistakes that happen every single day. It is always fun to catch Ms. Furczon make mistakes! The other day, I thought we had physed but Ms. McGee was waiting for us in the library! Oops! The kids had a good laugh :) The class is absolutely in love with Dojo videos which we have been watching in class. These videos can be found on YouTube and they discuss the idea of Growth Mindset. Please take a minute to watch some of these videos with your child. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrtHt3bBmQ

We had our first fire drill practise on Friday morning and the students did ABSOLUTELY amazing. They followed all the steps that we have discussed, stayed quiet and answered with a loud voice when I was doing the attendance. I was so proud of every single one of them!

In Math, we have been playing dice games in order to help students visually recognize groups of dots from 2 to 12. They are learning to quickly recognize the amount while adding the dots together. We have also began playing a group game called, "I have____, who has ____?" in order to practise our number recognition from 1 to 20. Those teen numbers can be tricky!

We had our first reading buddies session with Mr. Iceton's Grade 4 class. The students were all paired up and had a wonderful time playing a "Get to know you" game.


Reminders:

• Picture Day- Sept. 26 (please do not wear green)
• Terry Fox Run- Sept. 29 (volunteers will sign up on signupgenius, please wait for an email from our grade parent)
• Scholastic Orders Representative needed 
• If your child has not brought in a family photo for our family tree, please send it to school
• If your child is participating in any sports before school, please ensure that they have an extra pair of shoes to change into. We have had mud on our carpet and no one likes to sit on a dirty carpet. Thank you for your understanding!
• Please try to pack 2 healthy (easy) snacks for morning and afternoon recess
  
  

  

  Finding tiny sight words

  
   

  

  Counting letters in our names

  

  Wonder Table