Friday 30 November 2012

December News!



Sight Words This Month 

 swim, run, look, said, see, on, not AND up, down, in, out

 

Word Families/Phonics 

ug (ran out of time last week!), cousin ed, old, OA sound

Language arts

The children have been doing a wonderful job on their sight words and word families each week! Keep up the awesome home reading! This month we will be making lists and writing letters! (to guess who?) Our focus continues to be on CAFE reading strategies and  writer's workshop! We are starting rotations where the kids get to choose either Read To Self or Work on Writing during specific time blocks!

Doubles Poem


Here's a peek at our next addition strategy: using doubles!
0+0=0 (Oh! Arms make a circle)
1+1=2 (Ewww-hold your nose)
2+2=4 (More! Hands palms up,)
3+3=6 (Kicks! Kick your leg)
4+4=8 (That's great! Pump arm up as if to cheer)
5+5=10 (Again! Both arms up in the air)
6+6=12 (Dig and delve-digging motion)
7+7=14 (Let's lean)
8+8=16 (You're keen-point with finger )
9+9=18 (Jellybeans-pretend to throw one up and eat it)
10+10=20 (That's plenty-rub tummy)

Math/Computers

We are moving into centres to practise hands on with our counting on strategy and will continue working on numbers to 20. We will soon start tackling subtraction and fact families to help children see the relationship between numbers in addition and subtraction equations.  We are also always working on counting by 2 to 20 and 5, 10 to 100 as well as  counting backwards from 20.   Check out Houghton Mifflin's site: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/g_1.html#

Science/social

We really enjoyed our trip to Helen Schuler to learn more about Seasonal Changes and have started another  unit in science learning about our 5 senses-especially the sense of taste!! (thank you to my special jellybean sorter- you know who you are!) In Social we are continuing My Community, focusing on how people live, work,and play together peacefully. A big part of our discussion will center around Social Responsibility and we will embrace this concept through continuing to collect pull tabs in support of the Ronald McDonald house in Calgary and the Sock it to'em Program for Lethbridge charities.

Health/Art/Gym

In Health we will be learning about feelings and how certain emotions can make us physically tired or hot.  We also have several lessons coming up on personal wellness including more dental health and finding out how much sleep does a grade oner (and a grade one teacher) really need? In Gym we will be starting a new volleyball unit and are hoping to get some beach ball games going! When we are brave enough to go outdoors we will try our hand (or feet in this case) at snowshoeing!  In Art, once again, thanks to our art mom for a wonderful bear project! We've got some special surprises coming up--no sneek peeks this time!
 


Dates to Remember!

December
4,11,18 After school skating at Nicholas Sheran Arena (3:30-4:30)

7 SHOW AND TELL DAY

7,14,21 LIBRARY DAY (We will not be taking out books on 21st)

13 MMH Christmas Gala (6:00-8:00pm) family event

19 Dress Like Christmas assembly (8:30am)

20 Class Christmas party in afternoon

21 Last Day for classes

 
January 7, 2013 is the first day back for classes!

 

Merry Christmas!


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