Week 27

- March 23, 2018

REMINDERS

SPRING BREAK from March 26 to March 30th.

NO SCHOOL (EASTER MONDAY) on April 2nd.

EARLY DISMISSAL on April 4th.

GOLDEN GREENHOUSES FIELD TRIP on April 5th. Permission and payment can be found on Powerschool. Parent volunteers are welcome to join us, please let me know if you would like to volunteer! The field trip information sheet was emailed out to parents last week.

CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS on April 12th.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDER due on April 19th.

DENTAL HYGIENIST VISIT on April 19th.

SPRING SEASONAL WALK on April 27th.

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book, to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. When Koala Lou's mother becomes so busy that she targets to tell her firstborn how much she loves her, Koala Lou enters the Bush Olympics, intending to win an event and her mother's love all at one time.

WRITING

1C continues to write opinion pieces. In Writer's Workshop the students learned to create a strong introduction to their opinion writing. They can start their paragraph with an interesting fact, a question or a strong feeling. This week, the students wrote about their favourite toy but focused on writing an amazing introduction.

WORDS THEIR WAY Throughout the week, the students reviewed the consanant blend "pl" with words such as pliers, plus, plant, plum.

DAILY 5 The Grade 1's are working towards staying focused for 15 minutes during each of their centers during Daily 5. During Daily 5, they complete all of their centers including Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listening to Reading and Word Work. Keep up the hard work Grade 1!
While they reading the students are practicing the Tryin' Lion, Skippy Frog, Flip the Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish strategy.

Tryin' Lion Try it again! Re-read the sentence. Try a word that looks and sounds right.
Skippy Frog who skips the word. Reads to the end of the sentence. Hops back and re- reads the sentence.

Flip the Dolphin tries the short vowel. If it doesn't sound right, flip the sound to the long vowel and try it again.

Chunky Monkey looks for hunks and chunks they know inside a word.

Stretchy Snake reminds the students to "S-T-R-E-T-C-H" it out and to say each sound slowly then say it fast.

Eagle Eye serves as a reminder to look at the pictures for clues when reading a book.

Lips the Fish looks at the beginning and ending sound of a word.

HOME READING The books will be exchanged every Friday. You may also read books from home or the library, just make sure you log it! Our classroom goal is to read (or have a book read to us) at least 7 books per week.

LIBRARY Please bring back your child's library book each Monday so they may exchange it for a new one.

MATH

This week, 1C learned that they can count on to add in different ways. They have to remember to start with the bigger number. The students can use pictures, fingers or objects to count on while adding.
The students also learned to add within 10 using a number line and number chart. They figured out that a chart and number line do the counting for them.

SCIENCE

The students learned about the last two senses: smell and taste. They learned about safe smelling procedures:

Only smell things you know
Don't put anything in your nose
Take small sniffs or fan the smell toward your nose with your hand

They carried out a smelling activity where they had to determine what the item was based solely on the smell (i.e. cinnamon). There were 6 fragrant items placed in six unidentified containers. Later on a chart they had to rate how they liked the smell (good, ok, bad).

Later in the week, they learned about taste and what body parts are involved in taste. The tongue is involved directly while the nose is involved indirectly. The students sorted various foods into the appropriate taste bud category (sweet, salty, sour, bitter). They can label the taste buds on the tongue. To test their tasting powers we had a taste testing party! The students received 6 different foods: cracker, marshmallow, pickle, pretzel, lemon, dark chocolate. They had to select the appropriate section of taste buds on the tongue and colour in the face that describes if they like the food or not.