This week we want our families to know… We are authors! We have continued working on adding some words to our stories! We also began exploring characters. Thanks to one of our classmates who inspired us by bringing in a cardboard puppet for each of us to keep, we started making our own characters out of cardboard on Friday (L.C; G.M)! We have a big cardboard box from a new shelf in…
Sharing Our Learning October 26 – 30
We had a busy week this week! Some parts of our week that we would like to share with our families are… We are artists! This week we made shape art! We used shapes to make spooky Halloween pictures (C. G-M). We are citizens! We continued to work on our class charter (R.A). We have all agreed to…
Sharing Our Learning! October 19 – 22
What we want our families to know about this week… We are artists! “We made pumpkins!” (C.G-M) Students took part in a guided drawing to create pumpkins. We were so excited about our pumpkin art that we decided to take it home to share with our families We are readers and writers! “We are trying to build our reading stamina. Our…
Sharing Our Learning! October 5 – 9
What we want our families to know about this week… Building Our Classroom Community and Emotional Literacy This week we continued to talk about feelings. We focused on being kind and how we can help others, and ourselves, to feel joy (P; A; V). We are Mathematicians “In math we are working on counting” (R)….
Sharing Our Learning! October 5-10, 2020
After reflecting on our week at school, we want our families to know… We can share the things that are important to us. This week we talked about what makes our hearts happy. We then started an art project to capture what makes our hearts happy and what we are grateful for. We will continue our art project next…
Sharing Our Learning
Our Classroom Community This week we began exploring feelings through story. Together, we have come up with some ideas of how we would like to feel in our classroom. This will guide the development of our classroom charter and the way that we are together in our class. Every Child Matters. …
Sharing Our Learning
Here are some moments that students wanted to share with their families from last week: We are scientists! Update on our science experiment: We have been noticing changes in our pieces of bread! We have noticed that the bread that was touched by unwashed hands has the most spots of mold so far and that…
Welcome to The Division 16 Blog!
We have officially completed our first week of Grade 1! I am very impressed by how quickly students have adapted to the new routines and procedures put in place to stay safe while at school. It has been a pleasure getting to know each student this week and to begin watching our classroom community develop….