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.

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

Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread man!

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

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 ...

Mrs. Ly and Ms. Granger's Grade Ones

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