Good evening 1st grade families,

I hope you all had a lovely long weekend! Although our week was shorter we sure got up to some exciting things in the four days we had together. 

Huge thank you again students remembering to bring their library and decodable home reader books back and forth this week. Reminder to parents students can exchange their decodable books as soon as they have read them at home. I encourage and remind students to choose new books at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day.

Huge thank you the parents at Andrew Sibbald who contributed and made us a DELICIOUS SOUP buffet on Wednesday, how lucky are we! Thank you again for taking such good care of us all.

This week was literacy week some of our learning intentions for this week were:

ELA-L

• I can listen to stories and talk about what they mean.
• I can ask and answer questions about a book. 
• I can make connections between a story and my own life. 
• I can share my favourite part of a book and explain why I like it.
• I can share my ideas during classroom discussion.s
• I can listen carefully when others are sharing.
• I can talk about my favourite book of author.
• I can draw and write about a book I enjoy.
• I can label my pictures to show my thinking.
• I can write a sentence to share my thinking about a story.
• I can add details to my drawing or writing to show understanding.
• I can recognize letters and sounds in words I read.
• I can read familiar words in books.
• I can use what I know about sounds to help me try to read new words.

Thank you to Mrs. Norman for reading one of our friends favourite books we learned a bit about how Airplanes work!

Students brought in their favourite books, some took the chance and read to their peers and teachers! How amazing!

One of our activities the kiddos loved the most was drawing them reading their favourite book in their visual journals this week!

 

See you on Monday my friends!

Ms. Craik

Good evening Grade 1 families,

I hope this message finds you all well. We had another full busy exciting week in Grade 1 filled with lots of hands on learning, snow and even some blue days! Thank you for all the students who returned over due library books, as well as who remembered their library book on Wednesday. Also huge thank you to the parents and kiddos who have been participating in our decodable reading home program to help support out literacy in Grade 1.

Important reminders for next week, students do not have school on January 30th as it is a PD day for teachers. Also as the weather gets cooler again, please make sure you are sending your son or daughter with warm clothes, snow pants, mitts, boots and hats.

Some of our learning intentions from this week were focused in the following areas:

❄️ Science – Winter & Seasons

• I can tell what winter looks like.
• I can tell how winter feels (cold, snowy, icy).
• I can watch snow and ice and talk about what happens.
• I can say how animals live in winter.
• I can learn that winter comes every year.
• I can learn that Indigenous peoples learn about winter by watching nature.

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📚 English Language Arts – Talking, Listening, Drawing & Writing

• I can talk about winter.
• I can listen to others talk about winter.
• I can draw pictures to show what I know about winter.
• I can write words or short sentences about winter.
• I can listen to stories about winter.
• I can learn that Indigenous stories teach lessons about winter and nature.

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🏘️ Social Studies – Community & Belonging

• I can tell how winter changes what we do.
• I can tell how people help each other in winter.
• I can learn that people experience winter in different ways.
• I can learn how First Nations and Métis peoples lived in winter.
• I can show respect for others and the land in winter.

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See you all on Monday morning friends!

Ms. Craik

 

Good evening grade one families, I hope this email finds you well! Happy Sunday to you all. I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend together. We had another busy week of learning in grade 1 this week. Some of our learning intentions this week were focused in Math.

Grade 1 Math – Number Sense to 50

I Can Statements:

• I can count forward to 50.

• I can read and write numbers up to 50.

• I can show numbers up to 50 using objects, pictures, and numbers.

• I can tell how many are in a group up to 50.

• I can compare numbers up to 50 and tell which is more, less, or the same.

• I can explain my thinking about numbers using math words.

• I can show one more and one less than a number up to 50.

• I can make groups of ten and ones to show numbers up to 50.

• I can order numbers up to 50 from smallest to largest and largest to smallest.

• I can use numbers up to 50 to solve simple problems in everyday situations.

Using 10-frames to Represent Numbers

Students will use full 10-frames and one partially full 10-frame to represent numbers that include some tens and some additional ones.

•	For example, they can show 35 as:
•	They can show 27 as:

When a number under 100 has two parts as these do, showing some groups of ten as well as some ones, it is called a two-digit number.

When students represent 28 on a number rack, they can see that 28 is some groups of 5 and 3 more.

Helping Your Child

Provide opportunities for your child to count at home in situations where there are up to 50 items. You can count aloud with your child if your child finds that helpful.

Play a card game. Create two sets of cards, one showing the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the other showing the numbers 0 through 9. Place each set in a pile, face down. Turn over one card from each pile and have your child say the number. (Use the pile containing 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the tens digit of each number.) For example, if you turn over a 2 and a 7, your child should say “27.”

Reminder we have library on Wednesday please return both library books. Also we started sending home our decodable readers when students are done reading their book, please return them daily or weekly for students to choose a new book. They have really enjoyed this thus far, thank you for your at home support with this.

See you all on Monday!

Ms. Craik

Welcome back and Happy New Year Grade 1's what an amazing way to start our week with a field trip to the Sam Center!

Reminder that Wednesdays are our Library days, please make sure to have both your library books and that Tuesday is fun lunch this week.

This week at school we worked hard on building back classroom routines and building back our stamina for full days at school.

One of our learning intentions for the week were integrated around the Sam Center experience.

  

ELA:

• I can talk about what a story teaches me about community.
• I can ask and answer questions about what I see and hear.
• I can use new words to talk about parades, traditions and celebrations.
  

Social Studies:

• I can explain what it means to belong to a community.
• I can describe ways people help others feel included.
• I can show how I feel when I am part of a group.
• I can identify different roles people have in a parade or community.
• I can explain how working together helps a community.

Cross-Curricular

• I can take on a role and act it our respectfully.
• I can work with others to create a shared experience.
• I can follow group expectations during activities and field trips.
• I can reflect on what I learned about at the Sam Center.

“communities are stronger when people share their cultures and work together.”

Some quotes from the students about what they learned or enjoyed at the Sam Center:

"I liked learning all about the Calgary Stampede." Althea

"I like seeing all the Cowboy artifacts at the museum, I really like looking at the real cowboy boots they had and we could touch." Sophie

"I liked playing on the I-pads to create a horse, I made mine really fun." Edie

I" like watching the Stampede movie, the band part was my favourite!." James

"I like learning about the Calgary stampede, because I learned that riding horses is an important part of the stampede." Leif

"I liked watching the movie because it was sort of in 4D." Wesley

"My favourite of the part of the field trip was when we got to make a float and act it out in front of everyone." Dylan

"I learned they put red bows around the cowboy hats because it is a symbol of Canada." Hans

"Calgary is special because we have a Calgary stampede, that lots of people come to visit, cowboys, horses and chuck wagons." Sienna

Huge thank you our parents who joined us for the day! The students did a wonderful job representing Andrew Sibbald and had a wonderful day of fun learning!

See you all on Monday.

Ms. Craik