Grade 1 Blog

 Hello Families, We had a great week of learning. In Science , we used paper to explore building a wall, a chair, a table, and a dome to help develop both perseverance and skills for our upcoming building project. Thank you to families for sending in small boxes, toilet paper rolls, and other materials we can use this week. In Math , we explored the number line and how we can picture it in our minds when numbers are missing. We also noted part-part-whole to create fact families using just three digits:  2 + 3 = 5  3 + 2 = 5 5 - 2 = 3 5 - 3 = 2 In Literacy , we continue to work on reading and writing skills. We continued to explore adding juicy adjectives in our writing as well as editing for capitals and end punctuation. We also looked at contractions. Mr. Huppie visited and showed children furs of different animals as well as some skulls. We noted how sharp teeth equate to a meat diet while flatter teeth are found in herbivores. He also presented a slide show on different types of hom

  Hello Families,     Here is an update on our learning here in Grade 1:   Literacy:   We are transitioning away from story-writing  and celebrated our hard work by coming together with both cohorts virtually to share our wonderful stories. It was awesome to hear each other’s stories !   Math:   We spent some time sorting different 3D shapes using their  attributes .  Here are some pictures of our sorting.       Top left: This student sorted the shapes using their number of faces (6).    Top right: This student sorted shapes by their number of vertices or apex  (0).     Centre: This student sorted shapes on  whether or not  they could roll  and  slide.     This was also the last week of our 3D shape learning. Next week, we are going to strengthen our number sense by exploring number lines more deeply.   Social Studies :  We are examining rural and urban communities. We looked closely at different pictures and started to draw conclusions about what we noticed. We noticed that urban pla