The Grade 1’s were very busy this week at school! As we become more familiar with our classroom routines, its amazing all the different activities we can do. Take a look at some of the fun activities we did this week!

Letter Sound Review & Number Sense 

Terry Fox

Before our Terry Fox Run, students read a book about Terry, watched some video clips and made their own mini book. They had lots of fun running and walking together in the neighbourhood.

Orange Shirt Day

In the classroom, students decorated Orange Shirts to hang outside the classroom for Orange Shirt Day. We also read books to learn more about Residential school. After, students brainstormed words and pictures to describe how students should feel at school. We wrote our ideas on orange hearts and hung them on our classroom tree!

Classroom Picture Calendar

At the beginning of every month, we make a poster together with pictures of activities we did for each month. We brainstormed words that describe our pictures. Our September poster is hanging up in our classroom for us to look at, and we are excited to make another one next month!

Hello Families!

Here are some fun activities we did this week in Grade 1. Look at the pictures with your child and have them tell you more!

Rainbow Rhyme Poem & Rainbow Art

Roll & Build Math Game

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall  Read Aloud & Writing

Hello Families!

We had so much fun this week in Grade 1! Students were very excited to be back at school, and to learn that in Grade 1 they have their own desk to keep things in 🙂

I thought I would share with you some of the activities we did this week in the classroom. I encourage you to look at the pictures with your child and have them share more with you about what they did this week.

On Monday, the Grade 1’s drew a self-portrait of themselves on the first day of school. They wrote their names and took their time to colour in their picture. They were excited to fill our empty bulletin board with their work.

With all the smoke this week, we have been inside for our Body Breaks. The Grade 1’s practiced their dance moves as we did a new Koo Koo Kangaroo video each day. There were lots of laughs as we followed the silly songs!

We played a new Math Game together. This week students learned how to play Roll to 100 to practice their number sense.

The Grade 1’s brainstormed something that they hoped to learn this year. They were very creative and came up with lots of interesting ideas. Everyone also decorated their own name to hang above our Calendar to show visitors who is in our class. Our classroom is very colourful now!

Together as a class we brainstormed different ways that we can solve problems at school. We also talked about how our class is a family similar to the family they have at home. We came up with some important rules we needed to all follow to keep our classroom family safe and a happy place to be. We will put these ideas up in the classroom next week and all sign our names. They did such a fantastic job brainstorming together this week.

Here are some of the books we read together for the first week of school. What book was your favourite?

Thank you for sharing your child with me this year! I had such a fun time this week getting to know them more and seeing them become more comfortable in their new classroom. I look forward to spending more time together next week 🙂

Hello Grade 1’s and Families. Welcome to our Classroom Blog!