Highlights of the Week

**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)

- Decorating paper Gingerbread Men. We read a book called "The Gingerbread Boy". Ask me to tell you about this story and what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. We worked hard on making some beautiful creative designs and they are all so unique. We stopped halfway to go to music and were glad that when we got back, they did not run away from us! Next week we will work on writing about our gingerbread people.

What is perseverance?

Here is our first 5 words from our new sight word list! This week's words are: do all under on at This is our poem of the week: This week we are talking all about perseverance. Our poem says "I think I can"! This is a positive mindset that we are trying learn to say to ourselves even when things are hard. We listened to a story called "How to catch a star" which is about a boy who loved stars and wished he could catch his own. We counted that he tried at least 5 different ways to catch a star and did not give up until one of his ways worked! We brained stormed what perseverance is and made a list. Then, we drew pictures of a time that we thought something was hard but had to persevere to accomplish it. We drew before and after pictures of what it looks and feels like to persevere! Some of us drew about learning how to ride a bike, swim, skate, climb monkey bars, and play hockey. REMINDERS: We seem to have a fruit fly problem ...

Welcome!

Welcome to Grade 1! We are so excited to meet you all on our first day of school! Below is our Grade 1 welcome letter that can hopefully answer any questions you may have, along with a link for important forms to be filled out for our school. See you all on Tuesday! Ms. Granger & Mrs. Ly :) Welcome Letter First Day Forms

Little Elf

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...

Mrs. Ly and Ms. Granger's Grade Ones

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