Grade one is great!

Hi Parents!


What a great week!!

We are reviewing our letters and sounds starting with M and S.  It's been good to practice where we hear these letter sounds in certain words.  Do we hear it in the beginning or at the end of a word?  Then we have been practicing proper letter formation and brainstorming words that begin with the letter sound we're working on!  It's been fun trying to figure out the sounds!

Learning how to do new things and get better at them is a big part of grade one.  We started working on setting a goal, things we want to learn or get better at over the year!  We'll put our goal in our time capsule and see if we were able to achieve it!!

Your children are really using our motto "I Can Try".  They have been working on kid spelling independently during our writing times, knowing that it's ok to make mistakes and give it a try.  We are really encouraging the students to take risks outside of their comfort zone!!!

We read the book Stick Man.  He went on quite an adventure and visited many different places, and was chased by many different characters.  We created our own stick men!  Each one was different, doing different things in different places!  We also wrote about it.  Ask me what my stick man was doing!

Thank you parents for coming to our OPEN HOUSE this week.  We enjoyed meeting you and showing you our space.  You children have been working so hard at adjusting to grade one and we hope we were able to give you some suggestions and advice to help them at home.  If you brought a tile home with you, please return it next week with your hope or wish for your child!!

Notes

We will have Home Reading up and running for the beginning of October ideally.

Our sign up genius will have slots for volunteering.  Mostly for book exchange, field trips and large prep items.  Look for the link on our blog shortly!

Please remember that your child has approximately 20 minutes to eat lunch before they go outside to play.  Sending items that are easily consumed will ensure that they get the fuel they need for the rest of the day! 


Have a great weekend!!

Mrs. McIntosh and Mrs. Dei Cont :)