Our new sight words this week are:
say
there
have
am
like
Our new poem is:
We received some mail today! It was a response to our e-mail from Mrs. Granger in Ontario. Mrs. Granger is Ms. Granger's mom who is a kindergarten teacher. Ask me to tell you some of the things that are the same and different from our school compared to their school. One of the things we learned is that her school has only girls. They asked us lots of questions like, "What is Calgary like? What season is it there? What are your names?...." We decided we should write to them! So we each wrote about ourselves and some of us wrote a little about what Calgary is like. WE will be mailing these letters to them. We cannot wait to hear back from them.
We learned a new math activity today called "mystery number". This will help us with our mental math strategies and problem solving. At this time in Grade One, I should be able to subitize (know how many arranged dots or objects at a glance) and use counting strategies such as counting on from any given number to 20. We are working on adding two numbers together. In mystery math there are dots but some of them are covered and I have to figure out how many are covered. I could do this activity at home with you. For example, There are 5 grapes altogether. I have 3 grapes in my hand, how many are under the bowl? The answer would be 2.
Housekeeping:
Scholastic book orders are due by Thursday, January 16th.
We will be starting our math on measurement tomorrow. All students will need to bring in a stuffed animal for a math task this week. It will stay at school until Friday so please select one that they can be apart from for this time :)
say
there
have
am
like
Our new poem is:
We received some mail today! It was a response to our e-mail from Mrs. Granger in Ontario. Mrs. Granger is Ms. Granger's mom who is a kindergarten teacher. Ask me to tell you some of the things that are the same and different from our school compared to their school. One of the things we learned is that her school has only girls. They asked us lots of questions like, "What is Calgary like? What season is it there? What are your names?...." We decided we should write to them! So we each wrote about ourselves and some of us wrote a little about what Calgary is like. WE will be mailing these letters to them. We cannot wait to hear back from them.
We learned a new math activity today called "mystery number". This will help us with our mental math strategies and problem solving. At this time in Grade One, I should be able to subitize (know how many arranged dots or objects at a glance) and use counting strategies such as counting on from any given number to 20. We are working on adding two numbers together. In mystery math there are dots but some of them are covered and I have to figure out how many are covered. I could do this activity at home with you. For example, There are 5 grapes altogether. I have 3 grapes in my hand, how many are under the bowl? The answer would be 2.
Housekeeping:
Scholastic book orders are due by Thursday, January 16th.
We will be starting our math on measurement tomorrow. All students will need to bring in a stuffed animal for a math task this week. It will stay at school until Friday so please select one that they can be apart from for this time :)