We have little buddies this year in our Grade 1 class! Our Grade 1 students have been learning about being a leader and a good role model to younger students at our school. In addition to our big buddies in Mrs. Coletta’s class, we also see our little buddies in Mrs. Chin’s Kindergarten class weekly! Here, we helped them decorate their pumpkins from the pumpkin patch.
We have been working on finding the “core” in patterns this week, which is the part of the pattern that repeats! I used https://toytheater.com/pattern-blocks/ on the projector and created some patterns using the pattern blocks. We then had students come up to circle the “core” of the pattern, and others to write out the “rule” of the pattern (ABB, AABB, AABC)
We played a new team game where we had four minutes and one team was trying to flip all of the cones upside down and the other team was trying to flip all of the cones right side up! It was so much fun!
We had a fun game of number bingo today with our class! Yesterday, we learned some fun rhymes to help us remember how to write the numbers. So far, we have learned numbers 0, 1, and 2.
0: Make an oval like an “O”, now you’ve got a zero!
1: One is fun, go straight down and then you’re done!
2: Around and back on a railroad track. You make a two just like that!
Happy Thanksgiving! We created stories using loose parts about spending time with our families over Thanksgiving. We talked about how important it is to spend time with loved ones and create special memories.
We created a “gratitude wreath” filled with many different things we are grateful for in our lives!
This week, we’ve been learning about leaves and what happens to them in the fall.
We learned a song called “Orange, yellow, red and brown” which are the colours of fall leaves.
When leaves don’t have enough chlorophyll because they aren’t getting enough sunlight, they change colour to different pigments and start to fall.
We also learned about the different parts of a leaf: a blade, stem, edge, and vein!
Here are some pictures from when we collected leaves outside.
We have been working on graphing in math and have so far learned about bar graphs and pictographs. We’ve also been able to learn a lot more about each other through graphing!
Here’s a bar graph we did as a class about what the best cookie is – we only had three options but I know there are WAY more yummy choices!
We also looked at our data and compared our results using subtraction equations.
We filled our party jar again! This called for a special bubble tea celebration where we had a variety of jellies and juices to choose from!
We have been learning about different types of graphs, while also tying into our unit on “all about me”! We have learned how to represent numbers using tally marks, and now we are practicing using bar graphs to record data. It looks like our class is full of cupcake lovers!
