Mrs. Ly and Ms. Granger's Grade Ones

We wish all of your families a wonderful holiday and happy new year! Thank you for all of of your wishes and generosity. We are looking forward to seeing you all in the new year.  - Ms. Granger & Mrs. Ly 

**Thursday December 19 is the last day of school before winter break. It is a FULL DAY from 8:25am-3:10pm. It is also PJ day! I can bring a stuffy too but my teachers said that I should be making a good choice because there is a chance that it could get lost or I forget it at school. Please have a conversation with me about this so that I am aware of the risk. I have a small Mathletics login card in my backpack, please remind me to give it to you so it can be put in a safe place. I should be working on my math regularly. Right now, I can work on patterning and number sense. Please let me show you how this works. You can download the app and I can show you! What an exciting week it has been. We have enjoyed working with Mrs. Bredahl's class on our story maps. We have been learning all about how stories work! Ask me to tell you about what "setting" means. We have read the story of the Gingerbread many times to get all of the details in. Today we worked on the setting

Mrs. D our librarian would like all library books returned before the winter break. Please send all library books to school so that they can be returned. We will be getting new books every Wednesday when we get back. Thank you! There will still be Home Reading book exchange tomorrow.

It is the final week before the Winter Break. Wow! We have been counting the days and today is day 69. That means we have been in grade one for 69 days of learning, fun and growing.  This week, our new sight words are: who went what  but  so Our poem is: Our teachers are very proud of us and all the work we have been doing around our reading skills. We have been really good sight word detectives and finding them hidden in other words.  Please click on the poem above and ask me to find the sight words this wee: but, so, went. I am also using the strategy Eagle Eye (looking at pictures for clues) to decode words. Ask me to tell you which word says "Christmas Tree, Reindeer, Santa, Candy Cane." We enjoyed some Festive Singing in the gym today and are working on a story map for the story "The Gingerbread Man". Today we learned what the word characters mean. There are 7 characters in the story we listened to today. Ask me to tell yo

Today students brought something home in their backpacks for their families. It is fragile so please be careful! Snowflake our Elf gave us an Act of Kindness checklist to complete over the weekend! Students will need to bring back their checklist to school on Monday to show Snowflake all the ways they spread kindness and cheer. See the challenges below: 

This week has been busy with our concert practices, performances, art, and busy learning. Thank you for coming to our performances! The students were amazing performers and the cutest sugar plums! In science this week were are learning about hibernation. Ask me what hibernation means, and some animals that do this. We are learning that some animals hibernate and sleep all through the winter, while other animals can still be active when they sleep in the winter. We drew pictures of some animals that do this, and then added "snow" to our pictures to show how animals sleep in dens, caves, or underground. In art we have been making snowflakes, Christmas cards for our buddies, a surprise art project with stamps, paint, and stencils. Tomorrow we will be making some guided drawings with our buddies! The Elf in our classroom (Snowflake) has been giving us Kindness challenges all week to help spread kindness and cheer. Ask me what some of Sno

Maker Space Materials Our school's maker space is a place where student's build, create and design with a variety of materials. Within this space, students regularly utilize materials such as recyclables, craft materials and other "beautiful stuff" to represent their thinking. If you have any items you would like to donate for use in this space, please send them to school with your child.  Example Items include: Mini hot glue sticks Buttons Fabric and ribbon scraps Cardboard boxes Craft supplies (such as foam shapes, pipe cleaners, pom poms, etc.) Glass and Plastic bottles and jars with lids Bottle caps Cardboard rolls (Such as paper towel or wrapping paper) Popsicle/Craft Sticks Other assorted recyclables

We had a very exciting day full of surprises! This morning as we were learning our new poem about the gingerbread man, we discovered that our gingerbread people we made on Friday ran away!! They left us a note, and we went on a gingerbread man hunt around the school! Ask me where we had to look and where we finally found them! This afternoon we went up on stage and practiced our song for our concert this week! We are so excited to show you our Sugar Plum dance. This afternoon a package came for us! It was freezing cold and had snow on it! It came all the way from the North Pole! We opened it up and it was an Elf! We will learn what our Elf's name is tomorrow! Here is our new poem of the week and our new sight words: ran, ate, eat, he, no

**We will not be having a library book exchange on next Wednesday. Mrs. D would like all books returned before the holidays so please send books back next week. We will get a new book after the new year. Home Reading exchange will still happen on Wednesday. Thank you. Some highlights from this week: - Grade 1 rotation - making Christmas ornaments, working with robots, making cards and problem solving for Santa and his elves - Our class has become experts with Ozobots and Dash and Dot. Today we taught our grade 3 buddies how to use them!  - Practicing our songs for the concert  - Learning about hibernation - Learning about snowflakes. Ask me to tell you how snowflakes are formed and what the magic number is for snowflakes! We used markers and water to make some beautiful unique designs.  - Having a guest speaker come and talk to us about Cancer in the classroom (I brought home a keychain that I made this week)  - Decorat

Happy December! We have a short and busy month ahead of us with lots of fun celebrations, learning, singing and excitement. Our new sight words this week are: came be out white brown Our new poem is: This week we will be spending time in another grade 1 class with another grade one teacher each day! Each teacher has a special activity planned. Ask me to tell you which teacher I worked with today and what I did with them. We continue to work on problem solving in math. We are learning to break apart numbers 1-20. Today we looked at a math problem with 12 monkeys. When it rained, some of them went up into a small tree and some went to the big tree. How many combinations could there be. We have been working hard on learning the "partners of 10" these past few weeks. I should have a solid understanding of the many different ways to make 10 using two numbers. Please practice this with me at home. You can say "5 and __???__ make 10?" and ask me to fill in

If your children are scheduled to perform on different nights of the concert, you can choose which night works best for your family to attend. Please let us know which night of the concert your child will be attending. You can email us or let us know in person.  We would like to know who we should be expecting each night. If you are attending the opposite night of your child's class, drop your child off at our classroom before the concert. Either Mrs. Ly or Ms. Granger will be with the students. Thanks so much for helping us organize this! Mrs. Ly & Ms. Granger