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Posted: October 8, 2015

Math games!

The district math people sent us some sites for math games - you may want to paly them over the long weekend! http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/preKMath.html The Halloween games section: http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/halloweenMath.swf

Posted: October 8, 2015

Did you ever see a teacher kissing a creature? More rhyming fun!

The children had a great laugh over Raffi's version of Down By The Bay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSxGHve60E Mrs. Henderson shared this link for a frog rhyming game too: http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html Eric Herman also rhymes in this "Ants in your Pants" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWycl8vR5c The children are catching onto rhyme now - thanks for practicing at home too!  

Activities for Improving Fine Motor Control

Posted: October 8, 2015

Looking for some variety to activities that will help your child with their paper and pencil work? Here are some pictures shared by Ashley Agnew, an Occupational Therapist. If you look closely or try the activities, you will see that the children need fine motor strength and control. Most items can...

Turkey Time!

Posted: October 7, 2015

Check out our terrific turkeys! What a great week to be thankful - and to learn about the letter Tt!

Pattern Day!

Posted: October 7, 2015

With all the special days lately some of us forgot to wear a pattern to school today. Can you tell which group is the pattern group? Look closely - some children have a pattern on their socks!  Ask your child if Mrs. Hendry found any pattern items to wear.

We went to the apple farm!

Posted: October 6, 2015

What a perfect day at the apple farm! We learned so much and had lots of fun too! Take a look:

Posted: October 1, 2015

Allie Alligator, Apples and the Letter A!

Allie Alligator came to visit and fill us in about the letter A. Today we learned how to make an upper case A and a lower case a. Check out this link for the song that helps us with Allie's sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tif2a8vXeAA  We liked the Story Bots "Horray for A" song too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3guwWkqlaGc  We are learning about apples so we are ready for our field trip on Tuesday. You may enjoy singing this cute apple song together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmFHRrkFuQ

Posted: September 30, 2015

"Short i" Word family links

Our Grade 1 "Making Words" lessons are including the hard-working vowel "i" now. Here are some links to word families with /i/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReFMtEr3mU Can your child read the words without the sound? The Big Pig song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOu-QkmInKc The "it" family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIXOqvax2Gc

Posted: September 30, 2015

Do you think B is the best letter?

What a lot of words begin with the letter B b!  We heard lots when we read about bears, blew bubbles and chewed bubblegum (don't tell Mr. Henderson!) The Dixie Chicks think there is no better letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRgPrZCLms  You may want to Boogie with the Story Bots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hGFJW3LZ98  Lots of B words in the B b Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdfUMGlyg-c  The children liked watching the bear catching a salmon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lo0b-AciM

The "et" Word Family

Posted: September 25, 2015

Learning new words is easy when you can see the "chunks" hiding in bigger words! Grade 1 has been learning some of the "short e" word families in word work class this week. Here are some videos to reinforce this (some are more fun than others) :...

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