Posted: September 25, 2015
Grade 1 is learning to count, make numerals and number words to 20 this year. These videos may be a fun way to review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDiZHMt49E
https://www.youtube.com/...
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Posted: September 25, 2015
We had lots of company on our Terry Fox walk today! Thanks parents and student leaders!
Posted: September 25, 2015
We turned the letter P into Peewee Penguin today!
Peewee Penguin had a mystery P bag in our room! We found lots of P things in it - pennies, a purse, Peter Pan, Pooh Bear, pink paper, a pencil, a pen, a pine cone, and popcorn. Our lips were popping all day!
If you want that popping feeling say the...
Posted: September 23, 2015
What a collection of silly socks! Some are inside out, worn out and mismatched. Can you see patterns on some of them? Sorry I am late posting.
Posted: September 23, 2015
Today we read the book Frog's Lunch. We saw how the patient frog waited until the fly was close and then - SNAP! His sticky tongue caught that fly! Mmmm! Our craft looks just like that frog!
Posted: September 22, 2015
We had a fantastic fun this week finding things that started with the letter F f !
Francy Fish is the Zoophonics animal that starts with /f/. She is "fancy" like Fancy Nancy in our read-aloud.
We noticed that our bodies had things that started with F: fingers, feet and face. We found /f/ foods in...
Posted: September 21, 2015
Kindergarten children are already getting familar with this song that helps learn all the actions for our Zoophinics animals! We will learn our letters and sounds in no time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEfSjc9JIko
Posted: September 17, 2015
Kindergarten has been rhyming while Grade 1 learns that rhyming words are often spelled the same at the end. Here are some rhyming sites to explore with your child:
Professor Garfield:
http://www.professorgarfield.org/phonemics/introcharacters.html
And Reggie The Rhyming Rhino:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/
Posted: September 17, 2015
Kindergarten knows lots about sorting in math class so we will be patterning like our Grade 1 buddies! You may want to check out this You Tube link for a collection of pattern videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HIn3X14inI&index=1&list=PLP-T4lbplP2Pu1Y...
We will be making patterns with sound, pictures and real life objects.
Posted: September 17, 2015
Grade 1 liked Shel Silverstein's poem "The Lost Cat". After we read it we made lots of "at" words - they could even spell the challenge words chat and splat!
We will be looking at these videos too because when Grade 1 figures out how "word families" work they will be able to read and spell lots...
