Happy Sunday grade 1 families. What a fun way to start a Monday A day at the race track and fun lunch. The rest of our week did not disappoint, with a fire drill, spring snowstorm and an author's visit.

One of our biggest highlights this week was our Teachers Pet experience. Huge thank you to Andrew Sibbald Parent Council for helping with the cost of this for our kids. Another big thank you to the volunteers who were able to join us on Monday and help make the morning a fun, successful one.

Our learning intentions for this were;

🏎️ ENERGY & MOVEMENT – “I Can” Statements

⚡ Understanding Energy

I can tell that energy makes things move.
I can give examples of things that use energy to move.
I can show how a push or pull can make an object move.

🚗 Building & Exploring (Race Car Focus)

I can build a race car using different materials.
I can test how my race car moves.
I can change my design to make my car move better.

🧪 Investigating & Testing

I can ask questions about how my car will move.
I can make a prediction about what will happen.
I can test my ideas and see what happens.

🏁 Observing Movement

I can describe how my car moves (fast, slow, far, near).
I can compare how different cars move.
I can notice what makes my car move faster or slower.

🔄 Cause & Effect

I can explain how pushes and pulls change movement.
I can tell what happens when I change something on my car.
I can explain what helped my car move better.

💬 Communication

I can talk about my race car and how it works.
I can draw and label my design.
I can share what I learned from testing my car.

🧠 BIG IDEA STATEMENTS

I can be a scientist by testing and improving my ideas.
I can use energy (pushes and pulls) to make things move.
I can learn by trying, testing, and changing my design.

Angela Murphy author visit! We had a ton of fun meeting a real life Author on Friday and had some amazing questions to ask her.

She read to us Listen up, Wonder Pup! We loved it and were super excited to learn more about Draper and Zane. We are so excited to continue to learn more about the Wonder series in our classroom.