Fall is definitely here. Dare I say that we may even miss it and go straight to winter? Let's hope not! This week our fall story was Fletcher and the Falling Leaves. This is a sweet story about a young fox who sees the season of fall for the first time. He is very concerned for the tree, who is losing his leaves quickly. Fletcher does not understand what is happening and tries his best to console the tree. In the end, he realizes that the tree naturally loses its leaves the in fall and can still be just as beautiful without the leaves. The students contributed their ideas of what they would say to the tree to comfort the tree.
Then, in their first true writing attempt, they wrote a sentence in their writing notebooks. The focus was on:
1) starting with an uppercase letter
2) using fingers spaces between words
3) trying to spell a word by stretching out the sounds OR at least writing the beginning sound
4) putting a period at the end of the sentence.
Some students were able to do this activity on their own and others required one-on-one support. Either way, each student put in a great effort and was able to complete the task.
We learned how to draw a fox!
We put the fox into a layered fall scene.
The students got to experiment with watercolour painting.
We are doing many activities in math that centre around number sense. Our focus has been counting using one-to-one correspondence and "instantly seeing how many" (called subitizing) when shown a picture of dots or in a 10 frame or on a card. To facilitate this, we had four centres that we rotated through:
1) 10 Frame Memory
2) Tally Card Match Up (from last week)
3) Domino Pip Counting & Matching to Cards
4) Clockominoes
We got on the Chromebooks again this week. Students are getting quicker at logging on. We are getting used to where the letters and numbers are on the keyboard by using Typing Club. We also went on the Bookflix site to listen to reading.
You can get familiar with the BGSD Engaging Student website at home with your child, too. If you click on the Grade One icon, you will discover all sorts of great games and activities for each subject area. You can also finding Engaging Students on this blog under the Great Websites tab.
For those of you supporting your child at home with by practicing the Animated Literacy alphabet, this week learned S, R, J, R, K.
Thank you for sending in all the coloured items! We were able to start our colour wheel this week.
Our Terry Fox Walk was a big success, even in the cold weather. Thank you for all your donations!
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