Making a store

Grade1 students have been planning to make their own store this week.
First, they needed to think what kind of store they want to have.
Second, they were thinking what they want to sell at the store.
It was a great chance to review some words about vegetable, fruits,flowers etc.

Week 29

Dear grade 1 parents,

Grade 1 have been working hard for International Children's Day.
I don't want to give anything away so here are some photos of the students working hard.
Make sure you come in on Saturday to see what they have created!

What could it be??? See you on Saturday!

Sara Matthews

Week 28

Dear Grade 1 parents,

This week we have been working very hard for International Children's Day. Students have been making some choices and brainstorming how they would like to help our environment.

We have been collecting any plastic packaging so we can investigate ways to reduce, reuse, recycle.

If you have any materials at home please bring them in for the students to use. Students may inquire as to how their own family is helping recycle waste at home. Please talk to your children about this so they can share it in class.

Kind regards,
Sara Matthews

Making Mottainai poster

This week, Grade1 students have started making a poster for International Children's Day.
It is related to the classroom inquiry about recycling materials.
Mottainai is a Japanese term conveying a sense of regret concerning waste.
This expression can be uttered alone as an exclamation when something useful, such as food or time, is wasted. It means "What a waste!" or "Don't waste!"
Students really liked the sound of this expression and learned what people are wasting in daily life.

Exchange Videos

This term we have been learning about the importance of communication and how it has changed over time.

This week, Grade 1 made videos to share with a school in Arlington Heights, IL USA.
Here they are!

We watched the videos they made about Japan for us this Friday afternoon. We really enjoyed them all!

We made a graph about our favourite Japanese food. The choices were Eel, Octopus, Sushi, Cream Puff, and Onigiri (rice ball)

The following videos are about inventions that we are learning about and have made. They also show our classroom and what we eat for lunch!

Week 26

Dear Grade 1 parents,

Thank you to all the parents who made a visit to see Grade 1 on Parent's Day. It was a great success!
We shared our inventions through a video presentation and then shared them in our classroom to our class and parents. This way we were able to get feedback about how we did and how we can make our invention work better next time.

For Language Time, Grade 1 were read picture books that Grade 4 made for us. They had made books about how to use energy responsibly. This was an important time for us as this will be part of our learning for our next Central Idea.

For math, we finished our graphs and shared them with our parents. We got lots of information for our graphs from our parents!

Have a great week,

Kind regards,
Sara Matthews

Week 25

Dear Grade 1 parents,

I hope you are all having a great week.
This week in math we have been finishing up on our graph work, and we got to make up our own questions and collect the data from other classes.

In language, we have been working on our literacy centres and students have started to implement the writing process into their work on writing station.

In music, we have been working on tempo. Students are playing a choice of three instruments to the song Mr. Sun. They have chosen to play slow, medium, or fast. They shared their performance yesterday and next week will do the final performance for us!

In our how the world works inquiry class, students have been working hard on creating their own invention. They will be sharing this on Thursday at our invention convention for Parents Day after the Celebration of Learning.

We also have done a series of experiments about push and pulls. We learned that push and pulls use muscle as a source of energy. We have been working on predictions in both language and science so we predicted what would happen and then tested it out to see if we were correct!

I hope to see you all at Parents Day and Celebration of Learning next week.

Kind regards,
Sara Matthews.